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\ THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. For Stomach Or Liver roubles, Take YER’S Cathartic Pills. Received Highest Awards At World’s Fair. After sickness, take Ayer's Sarsaparilla. 77 and THE BABY IS CUTT tse, that ob and w 8 Soothing Syru; ia, sorte TEETH BE SURE -tried remedy, Mrs. for ebildren teething. na the cum, allays all is the best remedy for 25 cents a bottle. ad seld-ly IN FItOM INDE iT A AND too hearty Is relieved at once by taking one of ttle Liver Pills immediately after @ t this, C AL, WOOD. M. Willis, Propr. Lith st.’ wharves. ail, wholesale and in Satisfaction, es Coa) and Wood for aplS-6m eR ICR , at lowest niar Best goaranteed. family trade. Little Babies Suffer skin, chofing and prickly UM POWDER gives relief tain or perfumed, 10e, box. and retail. = or Straps, Shiv. Butcher Kniv Call “Bells, Aliger Bits. ICE HARDWARE lith and BE nw. 3. ing Browz Bargains In Long Hair Switches. 2.50. Formerly $5.00. 50. erly $6.50. 6.50. Formerly $10.50. a: , ta First attendance In Hair Dressing, 4 Bhampooing, Try our “Curtette. for keeping the balr fo curl. S. HELLER’S, 720 7th Street N.W. fet-2od overs of the dell & only, At all dealers, = = = = = HANDS GROW OLD EARLY. Their Grentest Dexterity is Between Vhirty and Forty. man Exchange. The actual amount of dexterity In the human hand has been measured with more or less accuracy, and its value in mechan- feal employments traced from youth to age. How the hand grows old, gradually losing {ts skill, has been described by Sir James Crichton Browne, the British labor student, who has made a long course of investiga- tions in the English rural towns. The high period of skill and endurance, this author- ity says, is from thirty to forty, the hand after that beginning to lose its muscular delicacy and its suppleness. Between the ages of seventeen and eighteen the nand of the boy grows into the hand of the man, and first becomes valu- able from a commercial point of view. Ifa workman [s temperate and industrious and continues to improve in his trade, his hand's dexterity In s until he is thirty. fter forty the muscles do not respond as readily and certainly to the Jers of the brain, and the quality and of the work done begins to fall off. man in especially fine health ally dextrous can often keep up of skill long past the a a man Is an exception. ‘Thi early ageing the h o} quantity While a his of forty, comparat d suc! of fs an Interesting and remarkable fact, it is after forty, as a rule, that a carefully used brain becomes most valuxble. Practically no Bri Statesmen of the highest rank are under forty; most of them are above fifty, and often ten years older than that. In the trades, on other Pe the highest pa with the id workmen, ardly an exception, are under the age ot two score, The scale of wages in the button trade, for example, is a good indication of this tendency of the hand to grow old so early in life. “At his very best, in his prime, e@ skilled button-turner can make 6,240 ivory buttons a day on his lathe, For this he recelves 45 shillings a week, or about $11.25, At forty-five years of age it is only the exceptional man who can make more than 28 shillings a week, or $0.50. When the workman is sixty-five years of age he can seldom make more than 20 shillings, or about $5, this providing that he still enjoys sound health. Of course this is only the case in the trades where one hand is used continually and systematically. A Sheffield knife forger, for instance, strikes something like 28,000 blows with his hammer datly. An enormous amount of muscular and nervous force is required for this, and it ts no wonder that the strain on the nerve centers and the muscles becomes visible in a few years. In farming or the seafaring life, or gome other vocation in which the energy is more equally distributed over the entire body, the hand does not lose its cunning so early. Oftentimes it retains {ts skfll until the faculties generally commence to give wi re. the sedentary occupation that tells, and the only remedy for it is such exercise as will divert the nerve current from the @iready overtaxed hands. — A Profitable Yankee Notion, From the Chicago Times-Herald. As an example of how a remunerative specialty in bardware forced itself on a receptive and appreciative Yankee, the fol- lowing Incident will be of interest: Among manufacturers small cz tings are often put in revolving cylinders with pick- ers or stars le of cast iron, having ly six points, the extremes of which re about an inch apart, They are also familiar to toy dealers and children as “jackstones.”” The pickers, together with small castings, are put into the tumbling barrels, so that any particles of sand adhering may be removed and a better finsh given to the castings. A large and well-known New England concern, which, in addition to the other lines, manufactures screw wrenches large- ly, formerly used a peculiarly shaped mal- Teable fron ferrule, with irregular openings @t the four sides and circular openings @i the two » weighing about an ounce Some of these ferrules chanced to be a Birt of the contents in one of the tumbling When the barrel was opened the attend- nay & @nt noticed what to him seemed almost in- credible, that the picker, with all its prongs, was Inside the ferrule, the opening of which was comparatively small. The ob- vant mechanic logieally concluded that, It had got i . it could be got out again. brought to the at- 0 decided to apply ‘he phenomenon of tention parties the idea in a puzzle, and th row méeking the two 5 s under contract in ton lo while the first order is said to have ue 4& profit to the promoters of $1,700. This is Known cn the streets as the Trilby puzzle. a Cycling 524 Miles a Day. Brom the New York Pre imost Incredible that a man to cover a distance of 524 miles In lwenty-four consecutive hour: furnishing all the motor power himsi and yet that was what the French bic Glist Rivlere did at Bordeaux Applied tn a straight line that day's motion Would have carried him from th the vicinity of Cleveland. Of made his record on a cement track, but it en't every one of us that can do his wenty-two miles on a track in an hour, bs to mention keeping it up for t It seems should be al four. The French, by the way lon't keep with ng, seem to have evrything their ‘ay in the long ones, the American fwenty-four-hour record Leing so 1K? les lower than theirs. ig in shor WHY HAWAII HOPES Right in the Path of Trans-Pacific Steamers. ALL COMMERCE MUST PAY HER TOLL Legislative Approval Given to Spald- ing's Great Cable Project. THE OPIUM TRAFFIC Speclal Correspondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, August 14, 1895. Nothing has so far been heard of any claims for damages urged by the British government in behalf of persons arrested during the late insurrection. If, as sur- mised, your administration, by presenting the Dureell claim, intenled to set an ex- ample to the former power, it has not yet been imitated. Quite on the contrary, the British foretgn office has, through its commissioner here, signified the withdraw- al of its claim previously made to interpose in the cases of Messrs. Rickard and Walk- er as being British subjects. The proofs presented by this government have becn accepted as entirely satisfactory,that those gentlemen, notwithstanding their affidavits to the contrary, had been for many years naturalized as Hawaiian citizens. Both had held offices under the monarchy. It js due to the British commissioner, Major A. G. Hawes, to state that he makes himself highly acceptable to this government, and that his style of proce- dure is far more satisfact: than that of United States Minister Willis. The tone ot the latter seems to assume in the out- the wrong. In the case of Dureell, he made no preliminary inquiry here into the facts, but accepted the bare affidavit of the poor darkey, and sent it on to Wash- ington to be returned here with clalin for redress. Major Hawes, on the other hand, has received similar applications, cne at t, from a man of some business stand- ing, upon all of which ho has at once con- ferred with Minister Hatch, affording the government immediate opportun to set forth the causes of the arrests, before the cases were referred to London. Rickard and Walker above named were the most deeply and actively involved in the January insurrection of any persons except Gulick, Seward and Nowlein. The last named escaped penalty by turning state’s evidence. The other four are serv- ing long sentences in Oahu prison. Their health has for the most part exempted them from hard labor. It is hoped that the time may come in no distant future, when it may be safe to remit the greater part of their sentences. This can only be when a sufficient period has clapsed of entire acquiescence in the government of the republic to remove all apprehension of further attempts to overturn it. Annex- ation to the United States would, of course, have the same effect of creating absolute stability of government. Pardons conditioned on leaving the coun- try have just been extended to two of the leading insurgents under long nemed W. H. C. Grey and Louis Marshall Both are youthful, the latter a whi| ican, the former a half-white Tabi! They served as officers in the rebel forces. The especial reason for pardon was thoir physical condition, both having been in the Queen's Hospital very low with typhoid fever, and their convalescence apparently retarded by mental depression. Their youti also pleaded in their favor. Mr. Hilbern and Hawail. . There appears to be no disposition here on the part of any dissentients to make further attempts to restore monarchy; nor are there any in. ions of weakness or instability in the government. This ob- servation 1s called out by interviews re- ported In the San Francisco papers with Congressman Hilbora of that city, who re~ cently visited the i and while here d himself very favorably botn as stability of the government and the desirableness of annexition. Mr, Hilborn is now reported as saying that annexation able; that the republic of Hawaii soon collapse, and that the queen will before long be’ restored. Possibly he has been misreported. It is diificuit to believe that a man of the supposed intelli- wence of a member of Congress would have formed such opinions on local politics from anything seen or heard in Honolulu, Only two elements are alleged by the enemy here as adverse to the stability of the republic. One is the fancicdly hostile attitude of the administration in the Dureell The other element of weakness recently harped upon by the royalists press is the firanctal one. In this there is nothing what- ever. The pretext for it is the very candid showing of Finance Minister Damon that owing to the January disturbances and the expenses of suppressing the insurrec- tion the finances fell short $167,000, as compared with the previous year. That was certainly cheap enough for stamping out a formidable attempt to overthrow the government. This falling off is no deficit. The finances are in admirable condition, and the government credit never was bet- ter. There was simply an extra war ex- pense, provided for from ample current receipts of the treasury. In its finances the government is thoroughly strong. It ts equally so otherwise, making allowance for a sullen and incapable hostility of per- haps a majority of the native Hawaiians, who have hot yet had time to accept the very conspicuous fact that under the re- public they have even more freedom and prosperity than they had before. There are mary and various unmistakable sigas that this native oppositicn is fast abating. Travs-Pacitic Commerce. The steamer traffic calling at Honolulu continues steadily to increase. This is the necgssary result of the rapid growth of trans-Pacific commerce. The fact is that this port has good wharf accommodation for no more than two first-class steamers at once, and more must be provided imme- diately. Last Saturday three large steam- ers had to be accommodated, and a fourth was due from Portland on a newly started line, putting our worthy harbor master to his trumps. We can make several large wharves more, however, and there Js Pearl harbor close by, with unlimited room, as soon as the sand on the bar is dredged out. We learn that Japan is likely very soon to put on a strong line of steamers via Hono- lulu, probably to San Diego, for the pur- pose of bringing American cetton to the new factories the nese ate establish- ing. There will also be a heavy trade in Japanese coal to the Pacific coast. A very large fleet of superior steamers is now ly- ing idle in Japan, which were employed as transports in the late war, and are still held in reserve, pending the complete set- tiement of the troubies. Honolulu may very soon expect to have to make room for some of those ships at our wharves. Nothing in the near future is growing more plain than the coming great commer- 1 importence of this port by reason of its unique geographical position. It abso- lutely commands the situation, without a ival. The greater part of the steam traf- fic crossing the Pacifie on the main lines of trade is compelled to pay us toll on the way. The only route exempt from calling at Honolulu is the very northern one be- tween Japan and the Puget sound ports. Most steamers from Japan to Caiifornia find Honolulu a convenient calling port. The immense trade which will cross the Pacific from the Nicaragua canal must nearly all touch here. An a Cuble Center, Intimately related to these facts Is the coming importance of Honolulu as the great telegraphic cable center of the Pa- cifle, We ure so situated that every cable laid westward trem the North American must make its first landing place at islands. There is absolutely no inter- late point. We entirely command the ustralian project, ‘le on purely Br 5, e to make iding on Fanning’s Island, {0 south of Honolult, That, however, i necessitate a single stretch of wire of sthing lik niles. 3 It would require a cable of eight to overcome in¢ ral cost and expense of operating iid Ye formidable difficulties. paying cables must land at Honolulu. All good We set that this government is necessarily in have the inside track in Pacific cable mat- ters. There has been of late very active move- ment in Pacific cable projects. So far these have all been for connection th Austra- lasia. Four such projects have been before the public during the past year, none of them, however, so far maturec and fortitled by capital as to give assurance of early materialization. They serve to indicate a pending movement. It is probable that the completion of a cable as far as Honolulu would be speedily followed by an extension to Japan, whose connection with Atlantic ports is distant and expensive. Of course, every additional line connecting Honolulu with continental ports would vastly en- hance the profit of the first link uniting Honolulu wita San Francisco. That first link could not be speedily self-supporting so long as sommunication terminated at Honolulu. Existing business here cannot support a cable. Government subsidies would be necessary to its existence. But instartly upon extension to either Aus- tralian or Asiatic ports, enormous profits would pile in, as they are now enriching British cables to Australia in the Indian ocean. A_ possible, and not improbable, draw- back to this flattering outlook for profits would be a disposition on the part of the old cables from the westward to cut rates, so as to cramp and distress the new tran: Pacific cables. The great British company now conducting telegraphic communication with Australia has accumulated a reserve fund of several millions with which to crush out possible rivals. The active in- fluence of this company has had much to do in hitherto discouraging cable construc- tion in the Pacific, which would diminish their profits. Spaldir g*s Cable Project. Our community has been much interest- ed—it might be said, agitated—for ten days rast by the arrival of a new and very promising competitor in the Pacific cable enterprise. Col. G. S. Spalding arrived here August 1, at once employed Mr. L. A. Thurston as his attorney and, on the 2d, presented to the government specifications of a cable contract, which he asked them to make with himself. He is one of our millionaire planters, able at his own ex- pense to conduct all preliminary investiga- tions and negotiations. His plans and specifications are all complete, with cost of cable, ship and all appurtenances. He has obtained full and satisfactory assurances in England of the needed supply of capital, in case the required conditions are complied with. He row begins to seek in Hawali a part of the needed guarantees and subsi- dies, Intending to seek the remainder at Washington. Col. Spalding has recetved from the gov- ernment a most hospitable entertainment of his propositions, and they have aiready concluded with him a contract. The only material change in it from what he pro- posed was a reduction of the twenty year: subsidy from $30,000 down to $40,000, $10 000 of Which applies to an interisland cable of one hundred and seventy-five miles in sections, with an equal length of over- land wires. They e conceded his de- mand for twenty years’ exclusive fran- chise, giving his company the sole right to land any cable on Hawaiian soil from the coast of North America for the period ned. This does not excl ment cable not for commer also grant exemption from duties on all materiais used, and from taxation and har- bor dues on cabie-ship, together with use ef and right of way over all government lands as needed. These concessions are tantially like those which have here- tofore been promised applicants for cable franchises, none of which have come to anything. The subsidy promised Is somewhat larger than has been offered hitherto. Col. Spalding on his part deposits as guaranty $25,000 in Hawalian government bonds, undertaking to begin the maaufac- ture of the cables in eighteen months from November 3t next, and to have them in complete operation in eighteen months more, or ovember 31, 1808. This, how- ever, is made dependent upon the very {m- pertant condition that he shall be able during {ts coming session to secure from Congress a subsidy for twenty years of a satisfactory amount. As high as $200,000 a year has been named. Failing suen aid, the contract ends, and the bonds are to be returned. ‘There is no question that this proposi- ticn of Spelding's is a vastly more definite and tangible one than any hitherto pre~ sented. As such, It has been hailed with great satisfaction by the Honoiulu public, and by the government. It appears to offer a genuine prospect of early cable communt~ cation with the outside world. As stated above, the governm mptly became satistied of the de of closing with Spaldine’s proposa, and made a This into contract with him several days ago. contract, however, w not so put finished shape 2s to be presented to legislature for ratification until two da ago, As was natural, a very serious ition arose in the community to % jons of bi the dy and exclusive found ex~ although a ma- d the contract. The evidently favor > appointed a committee of five to confer with the chamber of commerce and btain a full expression of the views of business men. Favored by Hawaii. That conference was held yesterday morn- ing between 9 and 11 o'clock, about twent, five merchants being present. Able discus- sion ensued on both sides. Thurston made a vigorous and lucid statement, which served to dispel many doubts. It was made clear that without an exclesive fran- chise 1t was hopeless to ask any capitalists to advance money; also that large subsidies were essential while Honolulu. was the terminus, and were likely to be needed even after extension of the cable across the ocean, on account of the destructive com- petition to be expected from the wealthy itish lines by way of the Indian oce. made an a Bri Thurston ha: stive study of , the results of are embodied in a pamphlet of over pages. He is no mere hired advocate for Spalding, but genuinely a believer in chants voted to recommend the ratification by the legislature. ‘Their yote vas 19 to 3. The senate in the afternoon ed the resolution to ratify the contract a nearly unanimous yot The lower house voted also for it by a ‘ge majority So Col. Spalding has now the fuil indorse- ment of Hawaii for his project, and 13 ready to enter upon the more arduous labor of a antial aid from the United . He will carry the best wishes, in. the anxious desires of this communlt for his suce For unless your govern- ment does thus render aid our prospects for enjoying cable communication must continue to be indistinct. In the debates on the proposed subsidy much dcubt was expressed whether the £0,600 could te spared from the treasury. It was shown, however, that nearly that amount had formerly been paid for many years to the Oceanic Steamship Company. A prominent senator reccmmended ratsing the amouat by oplum licenses. He repeat. ed the old argument that the attempted prohibition of opium was a farce; a full supply of the drug was constantly import- ed by stealth; it was folly to go on this way; the only sensible course was for the kovernment to detive a reyenue from the drug by a duty of $6 a pound and heavy license fees for selling it. The Opium Trafite. This is an old controversy and a sore one, There have been over thirty years of experience in alternate prohibiting and li- censing of opium. The former item has generally prevailed. The cpposition to li- censing opium arises from two sources. One 1s a philanthropic motive, (o protect especially the native Hawalians from the extremely destroying effects of the drug. Natives inherit weak wills and imperious sensuourn It is quite impossible for (he average native to indulge any strong appetite with moderation. He craves ex- treme intoxication, whether with alcohoi, opium, tolacco or kawa root, the great Polynesian rarcotic. Of these four opium is beyond compare the most enslaving and deadly. I have rersonally known many apable and prom‘rent natives who feil ms to this appetite and perished by it during a brief period of opium licensing. The ubiquitous Chirese peddler finds a special facility In distributing minute pack- ages of opium throughout the hamlets of the natives when the drug is permitied to be sold, Whenever its sale is licensed, a Chinaman found in possession of the arti- ele can plead that he bought it y for his owm use. But when ft Is prohib- ited, as now, the mere po. jon of the allest quantity subjects him to fine and imprisonment. This practically chec! widespread distribution of opium, an its cor sumption mainty to old us on, while the masses of the na- ape the temptation. All who care for the native people and desire to check thelr continued decrease are strongly op- posed to any but a pri bitory policy in this matier. ‘The other ar perhaps the more really decisive motive against Hcensing opiate is the desire of the sugar planters to keep their leborers from being incapacitated by its use. Licensed opium means many of the laborers being frequently disabled from working. The planter 1s an, influential man and has much weight in ‘legislation. If he says no »pium, it will generally be under the ban of the law. Self-interest is apt to go further than philanthrophy in the banning of vices. It is quite improba- ble that this enslaving vice will be here made again a source of government reve- nue. It would soon become very demoral- izing to the Japarese laborers, a class who have far less self-control than the Chinese, as well as less Fapacity for hard, continu- ous labor. TheWapanese are brighter and more versatile, jut lack the Chinese strength and persjstence. And yet consid- erable number of Chiramen fall very wretched victims to the opium appetite. The peculiar emaciation of their forms is often seen on the streets. It is quite certain that the present con- sumption of opfum under prohibitory law is not one-fourth, probably not one-tenth, what it would be if the drug were licensed. Nine years ago Kalakaua was able to ob- tain from a Chinaman for the exclusive monopcly of opium under a $30,000 license an additional private solatium of $75,000. This was in addition to the heavy duties upon tke drug. Of course a small army of agents would have to be employed to cre- ate among young and old that deadly ap- petite which would make them profitable customers to recoup the licensee's immense expenditure. This was the noted Ah Kee bribery case, in which the king pocketed the $75,000 and then assigned the license to Chun Fong, whoé paid only $50,000 bonus, but took care to secure delivery of the goods first Poor Ah Kee died of misery and chagrin at losing his money for noth- ing to the jolly monarch, Kalakaua had also set up as a god, and had had Ah Kee instructed to sacrifice a pig to his divinity, which he did. But King “Calico’s” freaks as a deity constitute another story. KAMEHAMEHA. —_——. CNTARIO’S PROTEAN HILLS. Monster Shifting Sand Dunes on the Canadian Shore of Luke Erie. From the Buffalo Express. An interesting and wonderful feature of the natural scenery of Lake Erie shores are two Immense cenically shaped sand formations, in the township of Houghton, Norfolk county, Ontario, just west of Long Point. These hills are composed of the light sil- very sand peculiar to the shore of the lake, with the ore dissimilarity, that it appears lighter in bulk than the shore sand and drifts more readily with the wind. They are situated about a mile apart, the one to the east being the larger. It measures about tw) hundred feet in height from the water level, one thousand feet in length and three hundred feet in width. When viewed from the surrounding country it appears like a vast symmetrically formed giant's grave, erected on the lofty promon- tory, which lies high above, and whose pre- cipitous cliffs wall In the lake for miles. The perfect and clear-cut outlines and gracefully- rounded summit, which towers nobly high, excite in one a desire to ascend the steep acclivity, notwithstanding the difficulty of a climb upcn an incline of nearly sixty degrees from the horizontal, made even more laborious by the looseness of the sand, which the climber sinks into above his shoe tops at every step. But he is right generously rewarded when the ummit is reached, for the prospect is beautiful, Looking inland, the country un- folds itself, with its delectable meadows and fields of grain, for miles and miles, while in the opposite direction the magnifl~ cent view cf Erie’s broad expanse stretches to the horizon, These hills, besides their present interest, have a strange evolutionary history ascrib- ed to them, as recorded by scme of the ear- ly settlers in the vicinity. At ore time the summit of the large hill presented a cir- cular platesu, with a crater opening into a vast funnel-shaped chasm, with sides nearly vertical, which extended down to a great depth. The bottom of this great am~ phitheater was eighty feet in diameter, and upon this natural arena the pioneer youths of man, years ago played the game of base ball, with the advantage of requir- ing no fielders, for, no macter where the ball was thrcwn or batted, upon striking the sides it would fall to the feet of the players. No trece whatever is now left of the crater. Many are the forms the hill has assumed since then. If itis the 2s the streng south- westerly gale: Su for one hundred and fifty miles have an uninterrupted swoop down the lake, upon the loose sand of the cliff, why are other hills not thus formed ly the same force all along the shore in this locality, where the sand appears the re? There is a sand mound close ze hill, nearly ferty feet high, which has the appearance of growing simi- lar to the others. It is inclosed on three sides with a thick growth of large trees, which it is gradually covering up. > These hills slowly but really change their positions, ever retaining some graceful and strange shape. The old trees that form a dense growth near by are gradually swept ever and compictely buried in sand. In many places their utmost branches only protrude above the surface of the sides cf the ruthless sand monster that smothered and settlei upon them. In time, as the hill moves on, these trees are egain revealed, broken and dead, of course, with whitened trunks ani maimed limbs, Some twenty years ago the summit of the large hill was crowned by the observatory of the United States lake survey. From this observatory, one in the highlands of Pennsylvania and another on Long Point a triangle was formed, and the most ac- curate chart of the lake at that time was issued. At present a beacon is the only structure on the hill, having been erected in conrection with the survey now be- ing made of the lake by the Canadian gov- ernment. oo —____ SUCIAL STATUS OF THE ACTOR. Marked Changes Which Have Taken Place Since Shakespeare's Time. From the Hartford Courant. It was only a shcrt time ago, as history rens, that the actcr was a despised mountebank, a strolling vagabond who wac refused permission to set up his theater within the city limits of London. The knighting of Irving points to the other ex- treme und suggests the great change that has come about in respect of the stage and Its followers. No members of the English-speaking community are more gen- erally respected, as well as admired, than faistinguished actors Ike Irving, Booth and Jefferson. The social position of the player is now within his own hands, dependent, as in other professions, upon his own personal ability ard character. No longer is there a bar sinister on the shield of the smooth- faced son of Momus; indeed, so fast is the old feeling changing that the younger generation can hardly understand or ap- preciate it. Yet it may be found here and there still and will no doubt survive so long as the false idea that the playhouse is essentially a machination of the devil, an enemy of the church and ajl godliness exists anywhere among the children of men. There fs some historical justification for that view,the student of the English drama must confess, and it will die hard. But the signs all show that every day the actor class is being recognized more and more as representative of a great art and a legitimate eocial need. Public cMicial recognition, such as that given Irving hy the queen—something unique in the whole annals of the English stage and hence having an historic significance and importence—does perhaps more than any- thing else (save the well-behavior of the players themselves) to confirm the modern actor's social place. Another such indi- cation was the banquet given in London the other day to Daly and his troupe of comedians, when the lord mayor of that very town which in years agone husiled the munimer into the fields, bade the Amer- ican actors welcome and treated them as honored guests. How the scene would have astonished Shakespeare, honest yeo- man as he was, and shrewd enough to make a comfortable fortune out of the not too reputable trade of play-making and play-acting, and so retire to his native town, there to be quite a gentleman, for- sooth, far from the madding crowd, but always ready to have a glass and a pipe with any of his fellow-dramatists—Ben Jonson or whoever—if they chose to go to Stratford. The position of the actor since the Elizabethan times has changed vastly for the better. Elizabeth would have deemed it an unseemly piece of business to bestow knighthood upon the bard of Avon; Victoria didn't look at it in that way in the case of Irving. And. while the bestowal wouldn’t have addéd one jot or tittle to Shakespcare and hasn't to Irving, it is worth something as a recog- nition of what they stand for and are. It is interesting in this connection to notice that Herbert Spencer, in treating “Pro- fessional Institutions,” in ‘The Popular Science Monthly,” grcups the orator, poct, actor and dramatist together as originating in the same social impulse. ACTUALLY AT WORK Grading Commenced for the Epis- copal Cathedral, IMPOSING GROUP OF BUILDINGS The Hearst School for Girls to Be First Erected. IT WILL BE PUSHED An event of great importance occurred this morning when actual work upon the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral foundation began at the imposing and beautiful site in the most eligible portion of the District west of the Zoological Park and between Woodley and Klingle roads. It will be re- membered that Mrs. Hearst of California donated $175,000 some time ago for the erection of a structure to be known as Hearst School for Girls. A stipulation of the deed of gift provided that work upon the excavation and grading of the site of the building should be commenced in Au- gust and finished before frost. The building committee of the cathedral foundation consists of Rev. Dr. George William Douglass, Colonel John M. Wilson, U.S.A., and Col. A. T. Britton. Dr. Douglass is in Europe and Col. Wilson is absent from the city, and consequently, Col. Britton, perceiving the necessity of meeting Mrs. Hearst's requirements, tcok the responsibility of acting in the matter. Accordingly he called for bids and a number of responses were made. the low- est bidders being the firm of Albert Glea~ son & Co. Several thousand cubic yards of earth are to be excavated and used in filling some Inequalities surrounding the site, and Messrs. Gleason & Co. were awarded the contract at 19 1-2 cents per cubie yard. They began work this morn- ing. Plans Completed. The plans for the Hearst school have been completed, except in some details, and its construction will be commenced early in 1896. The architect, Mr. Ernest Flagg of New York, has conceived a build- ing in‘five parts, to be built upon the con- vent order, with large grounds at the rear inelosed within high walls. The architec- ture will be of the Renaissance style, which will be followed in all the buildings of the cathedral foundation, and the ma- terial will, it is expected now, be of light brick, trimmed with stone. The Hearst school will stand back about 100 feet from Woodley road, which makes a sharp angle at the corner of the cathe- dral grounds, and will be completed to harmonize with the edifices which are to follow. It will consist of a large central building, with a wing on either side, and large projections in the rear of each. Imposing Group. The conception of the entire group of cathedral and the various colleges that are to be combined with it is a grand one, and the result will be one of the most striking pi'es In the world. It is the design of those having the management of the construc- tion in charge to erect the cathedral upon the highest elevation in the site, facing south and overlooking Washington. It is the hope of the trustees and promoters of the vast enterprise that 20th street, which Would strike the cathedral grounds about where the Woodley road now runs to them and turns to the west, will be extended in a straight line, so the edifice might front directly into it. The buildings will be erected on either side of the cathedral in two lines extending south, so that an immense court will be formed in the center. The picture of the front view of St. Peter's at Rome, with imposing buildings in place of the colon- nade on either side of the wide sweep that leads up to it, would give a good idea of how the cathedral is to be treated. ——— A NOTED PUBLISHER DEAD. Henry 0. Houghton Passes Away at His Summer Home. Henry O. Houghton, head of the pub- lishing house of Houghton, Miffin & Co. of Boston, died suddenly at his summer residence, in North Andover, Sunday, of heart disease. A son, associated with him in business, and three daughters survive him. Henry 0. Houghton was born at Sutton, Vt., April 80, 1823. He learned the prin- ter’s trade in the office of the Burlington Free Press. Later he fitted himself for college, and was graduated at the Uni- versity of Vermont, paying his own way by hard work. He went to Boston at the age of twenty-three and entered the empley of the Boston Evening Traveller, in the triple eapacity of typesetter, proot- reader and reporter. In 1840 he purchased the interest of Mr. Freeman of the firm of Freeman & Bolles, then among the leading printers of Bos- ton, and soon afterward the new firm of Bolles & Houghton befan the printing bus- iness at Cambridge. In 1852 Mr. Bolles withdrew from the firm, and the title be- came H. O, Houghton & Co. The business was removed to its present site on the banks of the Charles river, where the Riverside Press assumed its name. The great book press has become famous the world over for the excellence of its typog- raphy and presswork. In 1878 occurred the consolidation of the firms of H. 0. Houghton & Co., the pro- prietors of the Riverside Press; Hurd & Houghton, and James B. Osgood & Co. Through this alliance came _ privileges covering the works of Longfellow, Whit- tier, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Whipple, to say nothing of others equally valuable. In 1880 the valuable copyrights, plates and stock of all the numerous miscellaneous publica- tions of Ticknor & Co. were purchased. ‘The relations of Mr. Houghton with au- thors have been delightfully intimate and pleasant. He was one of the leading ad- vocates of the international copyright law. A New Line to the Isthmus. The San Franciscu Chronicle says that important negotiations are on foot in that city looking to the forma- tion of a@ new steamer line to touch at Central American ports and connect with the Panama railroad. It is the evi- dent intention to enter into direct competi- tion with the Pacific Mail Company on what has been for years its undisputed ground. Matters have progressed far enough to permit the announcement that three passenger and freight steamers will in ali likelihood be on the run to Panama within two months. es Sol. Hughictt’s Sudden Death. Sol. Hughlett, one of the best known men in Missouri, shot and instantly killed Limself yesterday afternoon in Peyion’'s drug store, Wellsville, Mo. He was alone when the revolver was discharged, and it is unknown whether the shooting was pre- meditated or accidental. His friends as- sert it was accidental. If he did com- mit suicide there is no known reason for the act, as Mr. Hughlett was financially well fixed and family relations were pleas- ant. BROCKWAY It Became Known Early in His Native Town. Caricatured a Baptist Minister and Then Left Father's Home—Later Be- came a Clever Counterfeiter. From the Boston Gicbe. There have been many and widely con- flicting stories tgld by the metropolitan press anent the early boyhood days of Wil- liam E. Brockway, the famous counter- felter, who was corraled by United States detectives in Hoboken a few days ago, and his birthplace has been located in nearly every town in the nutmeg state by enterprising but not strictly veracious space writers of the New York dailies. The notorious maker of the “queer” was born in Essex, Conn., a little green and white hamlet on the Jeft bank of the Cennecticut, about two miles from the point where the waters of the river join those of Long Island sound, in an old, weather-beaten, gable-roofed house, still occupied by relatives of his familly. Capt. “Joe” Brockway, who was gath- ered to his fathers some thirty years ago, was the father of the counterfeiter, and was well known up and down the valley as a man of the strictest honesty and in- tegrity. He followed the water for a livelihood ard accumulated a competence by mak- ing successful trading voyages between tris port and New York in a small sloop, of which he was the owner as well as the commander, “Bill” Brockway was the oldest son, and from early childhood exhibited a talent for drawing that was the wonder of his parents and their country ncigh~ bors. He was particularly strong in c4ricature, and as his audacity kept pace with his skill, the front of his father’s old red barn, which faced the old Boston and New York turnpike, was constantly covered with easily recognizable but not always complimentary portraits of worthy villagers. His talent in this direction led to his leaving home while in his early teens, and probably to his choice of the career in crime that ultimately placed him head and shoulders above any other person who has made the reproduction of Uncle Sam's bank notes a profession. Capt. “Joe” was a Baptist of the “hard- shell” variety. but his effort to implant a belief in the rigid theological dectrines of that sect in his eldest son were a dismal failure. “Bill” would have none of them, and finally, owing to his outspoken and disre- spectful comments on Baptists In general, called Gown upon his head the condemna- tion of the pastor of the village church. The next Sunday morning the sides and rear of the “meeting house shed” were cov- ered with chalk profiles of the domi- nie’s Ineaments, and the good Baptis‘s of the village were shocked to see the familiar face of their reverend minister ornamented .with huge and assinine ears, staring them in the face as they drove up to the church. Everybody knew that “BIN” Brockway was the artist, and the matter created a tremendous jocal sensation. Capt. ‘Joe was fairly frantic with rage, and at the conclusion of a stormy interview with his son the latter packed up his few perscnal effects and left home, vowing that he would never return. The next people here knew of the boy Was that he was working in the office of a New Hayen engraver, under an assumed name. The assertion that he studied chem- istry under Prof. SilNman in Yale Coilege is a pure fabrication of the imaginative New York reporter, as Brockway never left the employ of his master until sus- pected of duplicating notes that were being made for a Hartford bank. Then he fled to New York, and at once entered upon that long and successful ca- reer of crime that has made him a terror to the national treasury officials. Late in the 60's Brockway visited his cld home for the first and last time since he started out to make his fortune. He was accompanied by a handsome and dashing woman, whom he introduced as his wife, and the couple fairly made the eyes of the villagers stick out with astonishment by the way they recklessly threw money right and left. To square himself with the Baptists, whose feelings he had so outraged years before, Brockway contributed a neat sum to the treasury of the society, and he also vee large gifts to the members of his family. One day while here he received a cipher dispatch from New York, and that night he and his female companion drove from this place to Middletown, fifteen miles away, and boarded a train for New York. The next day two Unlted States secret service men arrived here. They nad been looking all over the country for Brock- way, and had finally trailed him to his old home. But the bird had flown, and the great counterfeiter was never seen in these parts again. ———_+e-+—_____ Beaten and Whipped by a Snake. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Homer Rodgers of Ocala, Fla., who is about twelve years oid, was bitten and whipped by a snake last night. The boy's father has a sort of private “300,” and among his collection are several large snakes of the “White Oak” variety. These snakes are sald to be non-polsonous, and Mr, Rodgers has allowed them to run at will. Last night, as Homer was entering pthe front gate, he was struck several vio- lent blows in the face by some object that lashed out In the dark. Then the boy felt something twine itself about his arm and begin to lash him fiercely. The boy ran into the house, screaming with pain and fright, and found a monster “White Oak" snake wrapped about his arm. The snake was striking the boy in the face with its fangs and lashing him about the body with its tail. Mrs. Rodgers pulled the snake away from the boy and killed it, The boy had been bitten in several places about the face and neck, and the wounds were bleeding freely. His arm was black and blue where the snake had twined it- self, and the lashes of the reptile’s tail had striped his body. Today the boy's face is horribly swollen, but the doctors say he will recover unless blood poisoning sets FS es was coiled on one of the ate posts and spran eaters sprang on the boy as he —————+e+__. Whiskers in Philadelphia, From the Philadelptia Record. “T've seen some pecullar whiskers In my day,” remarked a 9th street barber yester- day, “but there was a fellow in here the other day who simply beat the deck for mustaches. They were of the long, flowing kind, and when in repose hung gracefully down over his shirt-front. After I had fin- ished shaving him he asked me to dress his mustache, giving me my instructions how to do it. First I gave it a brilliantine bath and combed it out. Then I waxed it-until the points stood out on cach side of his face like bayonets. He scemed very proud of it, and didn’t object when I asked him if I might measure it. In fact, he seemed rather pleased. I took a tape line and found that from tlp to tip that marvelous mustache measured a trifle over twenty- three inches. He next asked me to curl it. This was a difficult operation, but, after exhausting reveral curling irons, t succeeded in heating a section of gas pipe io the proper temperature and finished the ——+e+_____ Shopgirl” Luncheons. From the Jenness-Miller Monthly. Shopgirls’ luncheons are proverblally poor things to support health and strength on, particularly those that are put up in boarding houses. It isn’t a good plan for salespeople ,to eat in the til-ventilated apartments set apart for lunch rooms in the basements of shops. They should get Into the open air during their whole ncon- tablishment of the cheap and lunch rooms in large cities has to both men and women ries; Mkewise to wo- men who a toing a day’s shopping, und are far too apt to consider it economy to get faint from hunger rather than spen the money for a luncheon. A gl: of milk and a cheese sandwich, or a howl of bread and milk, is a much more sensible iunch working for sma than a cup of coffee and a doughnut or a | piece of pie and an eclair—favorite lvnches, these latter combinations. A ‘owl of soup is also cheap and good, if it is good soup. = TALENT SS STUDYING A TRAGEDY The Brown Killing as Described by Eye Witnesses. CORONER'S JURY HOLDS INQUEST The Connection Quarles Had With the Affair. THE FATAL QUARREL A 5-cent piece, lawful money, late yes- terday afternoon was the primary cause of the death of a strong, healthy man in the prime of life, and the subsequent arrest of another on the serious charge of murder. Both parties were colored, with Brown as surname, but were not related to each other. The Browns, James and Henry, were in the employ of the Cranferd Paving Com- pary as laborers, and yesterday were en- geged, with a number of others, in relay- ing the asphalt on Sth street near O street northwest, which had been removed during the construction of the new road bed for the Metropolitan Railroad Company. It seems that shortly before 4 o'clock four of the men, including the two Browns, each contributed 5 cents for the purchase of a bucket of beer, The money was turned over to James Brown, and he started after the beverage, but returned in a few mo- ments and announced that he had decided not to get it. For a short time James de- clined to return the money, but finally handed over that contributed by the two other men, withholding the amount belong- ing to Henry Brown, and then joking with the lutter regarding it. Henry grew angry, and after making seyeral demands for his nickel, it is said, struck James in the face. The Fatal Encounter. The latter walked away without returning the money or tke blow, but after the lapse of a few minutes returned in company with a man named James Quarrels. As James Brown drew near Henry the latter picked up several pleces of broken brick and hurled them at the man who had his money. Before he recovered his balance after throwing the last missile, so wit~ nesses say, Janes rushed upon his adverse sary and stabbed him just over the heart with a small pocket knife. After commit- ting the act he ran up 9th street, and Henry followed for a short distance, then stopped and threw another stone at the other. He attempted to retrace his foot- steps, but suddenly fell to the pavement and expired in two minutes from internal hemorrnage. James Brown was captured by Policeman H. C. Stroman in Glick’s alley and the body of his victim was removed to the morgue. The prisoner denied that he intended to kill Henry, maintain- ing that the latter ran into the knife. Both the Browns were well known to the police, having been behind the bars several times. James is about twenty-five years old, and Henry was about the same age. The for- mer lives on Wilburger street, and the lat- ter’s home was on West street. Coroner Hammett was notified of the oc- currence, ard decided to hold an inquest this afternoon at 1 o'clock at the sixth pre- cinct station house. The Inquest. The jury sworn by Coroner Hammett consisted of John T. Power, Timothy Bo- man, L. A. Latchford, Edward L. Sant- myer, Frank B. Lannan and Alford S. Wil- son. The alleged murderer was present at the hearing, handcuffed to James Quarles. Both prisoners were apparently uncon- cerned, and frequently conversed with each other. They were represented by Attorney M. M. Holland, who took an active part in the inquiry. Dr. B. H. Smart of 600 Q street north- West was the first witness. He stated that he was called to see the dying man. Brown was found lying face downward. He lived but a few moments after the arrival of the witness. Deputy Coroner Glazebrook testified that he made an autopsy on the body this morning. He found a small wound under the chin and another over the fourth rib, - half an inch downward and inward. The weapon had penetrated into the pericardi«l sac, and from there into the aorta. In brief, the instrument cut the aorta about one and one-half Inches above the heart. ‘he immediate cause of death was hem- orrhage. ‘The Tragedy Described. Wm. H. Duffy of 924 G street knew nothing of the beginning of the altercation. He was in Linkins’ stable on 9th street, and hearing a difficulty outside and saw the deceased with a brick in his hand. Henry Brown threw a brick at James, then the latter cut Henry, saying: “I've got you! I've got you!” James ran up 9th street and witness followed him. He dis- Unctly saw the plunge made. The next witness was a fourteen-year- old white boy named Jesse A, Mann, whe lives at 2404 P street. His occupation is to supply a gang of laborers with drinking water. The witnesc told about the making of the pool to purchase beer by the four men. Later he saw the deceased strike James. The latter moved off crying and saying that he was going to kill Henry Brown, or if he couldn't kill him he would get something to kill him with. Witness did not see the stabbing, but testified that Quarles’ cennection with the difficulty was in the capacity of peacemaker. Quarles’ Part, Police Sergeant David G. Dunnigan de- scribed the errest and also the taking of Quarles into custody later, Charles H. Linkins of 2108 I street was present during a part of the fight. His tes- timony was almost identical with that of Mr. Duffy. The witness distinctly saw James Brown plunge a knife into Henry Brown, saying: “I've got yo! Mr, Lin- kins did not see Quarles take any part in the fight. The deceased threw two bricks at the prisoner, but witness did not think either of them hit him. John Wliem Hardell, a storekeeper at 9th and P streets, saw James Brown run down P street and empty his pockets of rocks. A workman passed along and said: “You'd better get away from here; you've Killed that man.” The prisoner then ran off. A young colored man, Charles West, of 489 Franklin street, verified the statements already made to the effect that Henry Brown threw a brick at James Brown and the latter then stabbed him, saying: “I've got you.” William C. Duncan, colored, a plumber, residing at 2150 9th street, gave testimony similar to that of the other witnesses re- garding the stabbing. He ran after James Brown, following him to Wilburger street. —- The Mixsing Mra, Clark Found. Lucretia Clark, the school teacher who mysteriously disappeared from the streets of Plainfield, N. J., Friday, August 9, has been found at Fitchburg, Mass., working as a house maid In the house of ex-Mayor Charles S. Hayden, under the name of Mary Burke. Her mind seems to be temporarily un- balanced, and she says her only remem- brance !s of going on a Fall River boat from New York to Boston, where Mr. Hay- den found her on the lth of August an employment bureau. A detective found her, and she started with relatives for her home in Syracuse. ——- see - Buried in Her Piano. Here is a curious item from a German exchange: Miss Mary Tate, an American girl, and a pianist of considerable merit, died a short time ago, only twenty-one years old. Her last wish was to be laid out upon and buried in her grand plano. She was laid upon the instrument, a choral lieing played upon it, while religious ser- vices were held over her body. After the ceremony the :over was raised, the strings torn from the piano and the body plazsd in it. Then the piano legs were taken off and the body of the piano raised upon the hearse. As she had requested, ker own plano is her last resting place.