Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1895, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1895-TWENTY IRIDESCENT KANSAN A Pair Chance That Ingalls Will Return to the Senate. ‘HOW MAKING THE FIGHT OF HIS LIFE How He Looks, Acts and Talks at Sixty-two. DEFEATED BY PEFFER ——— ns (Copyrighted, 1805, by Frank G. Carpenter.) OEN J. INGALLS is making the fight of his life to get back to the United States Senate. There is a fair chance that he will succeed. If he does sd, he will be a greater man than ever in the eyes of the American people. He has been taught a lesson by his de- feat. He has had a chance to study him- self ani his possibilities, and if he is re- turned he wi'l play Ingalls and Ingallsism for allit‘s worth. He has given up all de- sire for the prominence which blinded him when he was President of the Senate, and he will take his place on the floor as one of the brightest, coolest and bitterest fight- ers that that body has ever known. We need him. The United States Senate is de- terioating. The giants of the past—KEd- munds, Trurman and Evarts—have gone. Butler of South Carolina has been rele- gated to obscurity, and John Sherman speaks now only when necessity demands it. Ingalls in 1695. Ingalls is now in the prime of his intel- lectual and physical existence. It is true he is sixty-two, but every atom of his thin, angular fran.e is as tough as malleable iron, and his vitriolic brain is a dynamo of intellectua! activity. He has more ideas to the square inch than many of his fellow- politicians have to the square mile, and his vocabulary ts equal to Worcester and Web- ster boiled down ard filtered through Car- lyle’s Sartor Resartus. I have known him for years, and my acquaintance with him has been a succcssien of surprises. He has as many colors as a chameleon, and he John J. Ingalis. puts on a new one every hour. His private conversaticn is full of meat, and when he talks every sentence makes you think and every word weighs a pound. He is a man of bread reading, and he draws his illustraticns from the antedilu- vian periods of geology in one sentence, takes 4 metaphor from a famous English ncvelist for a s2cond, and in the third, like as not, gives you a bit of the latest slang from the slums. At first you are dazzled by his-flow of words and ideas. You are blinded by his pyrotechnic phrases, and you give him no credit for his genius other than that to the God who made him. As you go on, however, you find that he is one of the hardest workers of public Ufe, and that the vast mental capital which he has today has been largely made up by the saving of the intellectual pennies. For the past twenty years he has been making speeches and witty remarks in his study in order that he may deliver them in pri- vate conversation or on the stump. Every bright thought and every expression that he has come in contact with has been re- ground and repolished between the mill- stones of his brain until it has left its original shape and become a new creation, that of Ingalls alone. He has a peculiar memory in that when he once writes a thing he pens it, as It were, on the tablets of his mind, to be left there until occasion shall call it forth. The books he reads are always interlined and filled with marginal Notes, and these notes are often finished sentences which he makes thus and lays away for future use. He is a great student of the dictionary. He knows Rogers’ Thesaurus of English words by heart, and is happiest when he is studying Crabbe’s Synonyms. He likes odd words, and is always looking for them, and in the making of his speeches some of his sentences, or- dinary at the start, are changed and re- changed until they become oratorical sur- prises which go ringing round the world. How He Fights. Senator Ingalls, in speaking of his regrets at being out of the Senate, lately said: “Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.’ There was more satire than meekness in the remark, and when he comes back to the United States Senate it will be with his knife out and with a desire for the blood of his enemies. He has received but little charity from his fellow Senators, and especially from those on the other side of the house. He will settle many an old score when he returns and delight his soul in the agonieseof his fellows. He would rather fight than eat, and he is at his best in a quarrel. He has always courted trouble in the United States Senate, and he has been 3appiest when in the midst of it. You re- qember the biiter battle which he waged @ith Joe Brown of Georgia. Ingalls had charged Brown with mutilating the Con- gressional Record, and Brown, after a Venomous specch, had intimated that In- galls would not have dared to make such remarks about him outside of the senatorial chamber. To this Ingalls replied that Brown could take his remarks in any sense he chose, and that he did not desire to shield himself in any way whatsoever. He then went on to carve up Brown under the title of “the Senator from Alaska,” char- acterizing him as the Uriah Heap of the Senate, as a political Pecksniff, and as the fosepn Surface of American ‘politics. A uel was expected as the result of this, but Brown did not reply, and the matter was dropped. Ingalls and His Sealp Lock. It was the day after this affray that I called upon Ingalls, and I found that Brown's cutting criticisms had not been without effect. The Kansas Senator con- fided to me that Brown was no mean an- tagonist, and as he did so, I picked up a piece of what seemed to be a disk of leather the siz. of a dollar, with a brush of long, black hair hanging to it. As I did this, In- galls siopped talking of Brown, and told me that what I had in my hand was an In- dian scalp lock. He then described the operation of scalping. He told how the In- dian grabs the lock of hair on the crown of the head, how he grasps it firmly and twists it about his knuckles, how he whirls his scalping knife about the disk in a blaze of light, and then how, bracing his feet inst the shoulders of the dying man, he it away with a smack like that made by pulling a piece of wet leather with a string from a flat stone. Senator Ingalls gestured graphically as he gave this de- scription, and as he did so it seemed to me that he was thinking of Brown, and I ven- ture were he an Indian there is nothing that he would more delight in than in the Iping of his enemies. aking at the Point of the Pistol. There will undoubtedly be much opposi- tion to Ingalls during his present cam- baign. His speeches will be full of bitter St b things against the populists, and he may have a chance to re-enact some of the ex- Perfences of his youth. He came to Kan- sas, you know, as a boy, with little more than the goat on his back and a volume of Blackstone under his arm. He had been brought in Massachusetts, and he jumped at Qnce into politics. He was a free soiler, and the pro-slavery men attacked bim at every point. During one of his first campaigns he was billed to make a speech at Atchison, ‘where he now lives. A party of border ns called upon him and warned him dot to speak. They had pis- tols in their belts and a rope in their hands, and they swore they would hang him if he said anything against them. In- galls looked them in the eye and told them to hang. He said that he was billed for a speech, and he was going to make it. He did make it, and that in no measured terms. I don’t krow why it was, but for some reason or other hé was not disturbed. Still, this same crowd who threatened him had alfeady committed a number of outrages— among other things, tarring and feather- ing a preacher named Butler, and then putting him stark naked on a raft and sending him, with néthing but a Bible and his feathers, to float down the Missouri river. A Cowboy Encounter. At another time Ingalls was sitting one day, eating his dinner at a hotel in Atchi- son. It was the days of early Kansas, when every one carried revolvers. A drunken ruffian entered the room. He saw Ingalls, and, pointing a revolver at him, said: “See here, my boy, they say you are the best speaker in all Kansas. These gentle- men here are my friends, and we want a speech. Now, you get up on that chair and give us a speech, or I'll shoot —— out of you.” The future Senator lodked the man straight in the eye, and coolly replied that he did not intend to make a speech for any drunkard. He continued to look as the man flourished the pistol and jumped up and down, threatening to kill him. He may have been pale, and his heart must have jumped to his throat, but he did not move. Finally the man happened to hit the pistol against his boot as he jumped up and down in his rage. it went off, and the ball struck his leg, filling the boot with blood. This sobered him somewhat, and he left the dining room. Ingalls then went up- stairs, brought down his pistol, and laying it beside his plate, went on with his eating. The drunken man was killed that after- noon in an affray which he had on the street. How Ingalls Became Senator. It was not Icng after this that Ingalls was sent to the United States Senate. His elec- tion was one of the most remarkable that has ever occurred in the history of the country. It created a great sensation at the time, and made him a national char- acter at once. He succeeded, you know, 8. C. Pomeroy. How .He Refused Peffer’s Plnce. It is not generally known that Ingalls threw away a chance of succeeding Peffer. The story was told me by a Kan- sas Congressman last night. It puts the Senator in a good light and shows how he resisted temptation when he would have given half of his soul to have been retained in the Senate if he could have dcne so honorably. Said this man: “Ingalls, you know, has plenty of friends in Kansas and lots of rich ones. The peo- ple out there know that he is conservative and that he is never going to espouse any eranky or crazy idea of a socialistic or anarchistic nature. Some of his friends had made all arrangements for fixing the legislature. They had the promise of four- teen of the populists—I won't say how they got them, but they had them, and these fourteen men had agreed to go back on their party and vote for Ingalls. would have carried the election. At the very last moment Ingalls was told ‘hat these men were to vote for him. He sus- pected at once as to how they had been gotten, and when he learned the trith he refused to accept a re-election that way. He said he would expose the whole plot if the attempt was made to corrupt any of the legislature, and in the fifty-ninth min- ute of the last hour before the election he spoiled the whole game. What we should have done was to have gone on and fin. ished the election before telling him any- thing about it. He could not have gong back on us after he was elected.” “Had he any idea that the state would go against him?” I asked. How Ingalls Fell. “No,” was the reply. “His defeat was the surprise of his life. Ingalls had no idea of the change which was going on in Kansas during his last days inthe Senate. Had he accepted our advice he might have carried the election and killed populism. For seven months before the election we told him that the state was going to the dogs, and that the populists would surely carry it if he did not do something. He could not realize that it was true. He was president of the Sen- ate. He knew that he was a great national figure and he did not believe that Kansas would go back on him. He paid but little attention to the state, and remained in Washington until almost the time of the election. Then he went out home home and found that we had been telling the truth. But it was too late to remedy the situation. He saw he was going to be defeated, and the fact hung over him like a pall. For "several weeks he lived at Atchison, seeing no one, brooding over the possibilities. Then he brightened up a little and fought to the close. After the .election, when he came back to the Senate, he was still despondent, and he did not get to be himself until some months after he left the United States Sen- ate. He was only seen when he was pre- siding over the Senate, and he spent all the remaining time either at his home or shut up in the committee room. I have called many times at his rooms. when I knew he was tn, only to find the door locked. When 1 met him he had but little to say, and he seemed to shun the society of men. You cannot appreciate the blow his defeat was to him. He had, you must remember, for eighteen years been one of the leading char- acters of the United States. He had sup- Posed that his position was secure for the future, and rather prided himself oh his disregard for the feelings and opinions of other men. When he was cut off in the midst of his fame without a word it stun- ned him. All the ight seemed to have gone out, and he did not know which way to turn. He soon recovered after he left Washington, however,ard he is now brighter, braver and brainier than he has been in the past. He has learned a good deal in the last few years, and when he comes back he will be a bigger man than ever.” “Has he made much out of his lectures?” “No, 1 think not. Nothing like what was expected. He has gotten big prices, and has had a larzxe number of engagements, but they have not been regular, and he does not like the work. His sphere is not that of the platform entertainer. He is a bigger man than that. He is an oratorical gladiator, and he has to have opposition to bring him out.” Is Not a Rich Mi "Is Senator Ingalls a rich man?" I asked. “Yes and no,” was the reply. “He is a rich man for Atchison, but not a rich man for New York. He is worth, I judge, about $150,000, and has this so invested that it brings him in quite a good income. He is not a money-maker nor a speculator. I don’t think he cares much for money, though he is luxurious in his tastes, and would not object to a new suit of clothes for every day of the year. He has had to spend considerable, too. He has a large family, and his personal expenses must be quite heavy. He lives, you know, at Atch- ison, where he has a beautiful home, com- manding a magnificent view of the Mis- souri river. He has a 500-acre farm near the city, which he is turning into a stock ranch, and he owns thirty acres just across the road from his residence, a large part of which is given up to garden truck. He has never purchased any property in Washington, and if he comes back to the Senate he will probably live here as he did in tho past, in a boarding house near the Capitol; will pay little attention to Wash- ington society, and will devote himself to Kansas and the nation.” FRANK G. CARPENTER. —_——— A Story of Mystery. Do you know what a “Story of Mystery is? It 1s a continued story of which all but the last chapter is printed, and then guesses are made as to the solution, then the final installment is printed. Early in Octover a most interesting mystery story, “When the War Was Over,” will be started in The Star, and five hundred dollars will be given for the first absolutely correct solution. In case no guess is abso- lutely correct the amount will be divided among those nearest to a correct solution. The guesses will be confined to women read- ers. Fuller particulars later. SKIES IN OCTOBER Fascinating Study of the Constella- tions Flashing in the Heavens, WHEN AND HOW 10 FIND THEM Brilliant Display of Meteors During This Month. ABOUT THE PLANETS Written for The Evening Star. IVE STARS OF be above horizon at 9 o'clock tomorrow nizht.They are Fomalhaut, low fm the south; Vega and Altair, in mid- heavens in the west, the former on our right, the latter on our left, as we face in that direction; Ca- pella, in the north- east, at about the same alti: -3 Fomaihaut, and Aideba- ran, bare.y «ove the hcrizon, a little north of east. The most ‘interesting of the constellations now above the horizon at the hour named will be found east of the meridian. The central figure, as we face the east, is An- dromeda; beneath her is Aries; to the left and well up toward the zenith in the north- east is Cassiopeia; below this constellation and at the feet of Andromeda is Perseus; still lower is Auriga, only in part above the horizon. Beneath Ar‘es is Taurus; to the right of Aries, occupying nearly the whole of the lower portion of the southeastern quarter of the heavens, is Cetus, the Sea Monster. To the right of Andromeda and at a greater altitude is the winged horse Pegasus; be- tween Pegasus and Cetus is the constella- The Position of the Planets. tion Pisces, the Fishes; in midheavens ex- actly on the meridian is the Waterman, Aquarius; below Aquarius is the Southern Fish, marked by the star Fomalhaut. To locate these constellations a little more precisely we will go over the list and point cut taeir principal stars. Cassiopeia, known also as the Lady in Her Chair, or simply the chair, ts easily recognized from the arrangement of its five brighter stars in the form of a some- what broad letter W. This fair queen of taythology now sits nearly erect in her chair. The position of her head is marked by a star of the fourth magnitude above the second star (Alpha) of the group, reck- oning from the right-hand corner of the W, and the lowermost of these five stars is at her feet. Auriga, the Wagoner, may be located by the star Carella, which n.arks the position of the Gout upon the Wagoner’s left shoul- der. This rather interestirg constellation can be stucied better a month or two later. Perseus and Its Locality. Midway Letween Capella and the lowest star in Cassicpeia, to the right of a straight line drawn between the two stars, is Alpha Persel, a star of the second magnitude in the breast of Perseus. This old hero of mythology now stards erect, his left foot marked py a star of the third magnitude, being some six or eight degrees above the horizon, ard his right hand, in which he brandishes an invisible sword, about mid- way between the star Alpha and the center of Cassiopeia. The body of Perseus is marked by a scattered group of stars of the lower magnitudes, which an_ opera glass brings out very effectively. In the handle of the sword of Perseus is the fa- mous star cluster, which, although it re- quires a gcod telescope to see it well, is also a fine object for an opera glass or field lass. oren degrees to the right of Alpha Persei and (at this hour) at the same altitude is Algol, the Blinking Demon of the Arabs. It marks the Medusa head, which Perseus carries in his left hand. Algol ts a very interesting variable star, and the beginner in star gazing should early form its acquaintance. Ordinarily it is of the sezond magnitude, but after shin- ing thus for a period of about two and a half days its light begins to wane and in the course of about four hours it fades to a star of the fourth magnitude. In this condition it remains fifteen or twenty min- utes and then begins to brighten, and in another four hours it recovers its ordinary splendor, thus to shine for another period of two and a half days. This singular be- havior of the star can be explained satis- factorily upon the supposition that-the star is attended by a dark satellite,which circles around it in a period, to give it exactly, of two days, twenty hours and forty-nine minutes, the satellite periodically passing between the bright star and us and cutting off a portion of its light. This view has recently been confirmed by means of photo- spectroscopy, and is considered as estab- shed beyond a reasonablé doubt—one of many instances of the discovery of the in- visible by this new means of research. Landmarks of the Sky. On two evenings of October Algol will go through its changes at hours favorable for obseryation. On the 14th it will begin to wane at about 9 o'clock, and will reach a minimum about half an hour after midnight. On the 17th it will be at a minimum at 9 o'clock, and on this evening, therefore, both its loss and recovery of brilliancy can be observed at seasonable hours. Alpha Persei is the first in a line of five stars of about the same brilliancy and at about the same distance apart, which curves upward to the right and terminates in a large rectangular figure, completed by the addition of two other stars still farther to the right. These seven stars form a striking dipper-shaped figure of about twice the length of the Great Dipper in the Ursa Major. The second, third and fourth of these stars, reckoning from Alpha Persei, telong to Andromeda. The lowermost of the three, Gamma, is in her loft foot; the uppermost, Alpha, known also as Alpheratz, is in her head. This star forms one corner of the rectangular figure before referred to. The remaining three stars in the quadri- lateral belong to Pegasus. The whole four are, however, commonly grouped together in a single asterism known as the Square of Pegasus. This figure is one of the grand landmarks of the sky, and it should be noted carefully. Above the middle star in Andromeda are two fainter stars, which, together with the bright star, form the belt of the maiden. Very close to the upper of these three stars —directly above it—is the great nebula, lately rendered popularly interesting by the magnificent photograph of it by Mr. Isaac Roterts of Ltverpool. The nebula is visible to ‘he naked eye as a peculiar looking star, and it is brought out unmistakably with an opera glass. The star Gamma, in Andromeda, is a splendid colored double, one of the finest in the heavens, and not difficult for a smali telescope. Its component stars are orange and green. Note that Algol forms with this star and Alpha Persei a nearly right- angled triangle. : Tf we will run a straight line from the head of Andromeda diagonally across the Square and continue it beyond to an equal distance, we shall strike Alpha Aquarii, a third-magnitude star, in the right shoulder of the Waterman. Still farther to the right, at a distance about two-thirds as great, is Eeta Aquaril, a star of the same magnitude, in the left shoulder. Above these two stars, making with them a right- angied triangle with two equal sides, is another star of the’ third magnitude, Epsi- lon Pegasl, in the’nose of Pegasus. This triangie is a quite; conspicuovs figure, and it will serve to focate Aquarius unmis- takably. Aquarius’ contains a number of stars of the fourth and lower magnitudes, but it is not particularly striking as a constellation. It is tepresented on the chart by a man in a rather cramped position pouring water fromfa pitcher or urn, held in his right hand. “Phe urn is formed: by a small and very pyetty Y-shaped group of faint stars a ttle’ to the left (the ob- server's left) of the Star Alpha, in the right shoulder. The stredm which issues from it descends to thé mouth of the Southern Fish. Tali of Capricorn. Below Beta Aquaril, at a distange about equal to its distance from Alpha, is a close pair of stars, one of the third and one of the fourth magnitade, which are in the coil of the tail of Capricorn. The head of this monster, half a goat and half a fish, 1s marked by another and rather wider pair of stars, one of the second and one ef the third magnitwle, at some Ittle distance to the right. They irectiy in line with the shoulder stars of Aquarius, and they are about equally distant from’ Alpha Aquarii and Altair, for vith these two stars, a triangle, of wh:ch two sides are equal. The upper and smaller star of the pair is a wide double—wide enough to be well separated with an opera glass, for which it forms an exceedingly pretty object. We haye wandered to the south; we will turn Back to the east. Directly in’ front of us, as,we face in this direction, at about two-fifths of the distance from the horizon to the zenith, we see a conspicuous palr of stars, about the same distance apart as the pointers in the Dipper, that is, about five Gegrees. These stars are in the head of Aries. That on our left is of the second magnitude, and is known as Alpha Arietis, or si Arietis; the other, Sheretan, is of only the third magnitude. Near this latter star, below and to the right—is Lambda Arietis, of the fourth magnitude. This is a very pretty double star, and is a choice ob- ject for a small telescope. The Pleiades, in the shoulder of Taurus, may now be seen below and to the left of the Ram's Head. At about the same dis- ight, is Menkar, a star of the aecond magnitude, in the sngut of Cetus. Menkar, the Pleiades and e pair ot stars in Aries form a triangle of three ‘equal sides, @ fact useful to remem- r. At about two-thirds of the distance from Menka: to Fomalhaut ts another star of the second magnitude, Deneb Kaitos, which serves to locate the tail of the Sea Monster. We can thus see at a glance its enormous length, which is about all there is to see. Although as a constellation Ce- tus presents nothing striking, it contains one of the most interesting of the stars— the variable star Omicron, betier known as | Mira, the Wonderful This star lies at about one-third of the distance from Men- kar to Deaeb, a Hitle below the straight | line joining them. At the present time it is invisible to the naked cye, but in a couple ef months from now it will have become an object of egpecial interest. The Ofionids. The 19th of October is the date for the appearance of the system of meteors known as the Orionids, their radiant—the point in the heaveng from which they will ap- pear to proceed—being in the constellation Orion, This constellation will rise on that date at about 10’p.m. exactly in the east. The streaks or tracks of meteors belonging tc this group, seen before that hour, will all diverge from @-palnt below the horizon in thé east. Thig system usually gives us a fairly brifiant Qpigy, and it will be well to bear the date }y*mind. THE Planets. The playets ar® new all below the hori- zon at $p.m., and, with the exception of Neptune and Jupiter, are bunched about the sun. Mars will be in conjunction with the sun on the 11th, 2nd Saturn will reach the same position on the Ist of next month. Mercuzy ‘i an evening star, reach- ing its greatest efongation east on the Ist of the month. Iv:muy be seen a half hour | or so after sumsét.-almost exactly in the | west. It will bo! in inferior conjunction | With the sun, fatsing between us and the sun on the 25th, ts Venus is a morning star, sufficiently out of the sun’s rays to be visible before sun- rise. ‘he Jupiter is @ morning star, rising about 1 a.m. It'will be in quadrature with the sun, that is, ninety degrees distant trom it, on the 31st. Neptune {is in the constellation Taurus, very closb-t0 the’star Zeta, which tips the Bull's more southerly horn. It therefore now rises shortly after 9 o'clock, but it is utterly beyond the reach of the naked eye. SS THE PRODIGAL SON. How He Was Uncovered When the Terror of Kaw Valley Was Grabbed. the Kansas City Times. He arrived in the city Saturday morning and spent the entire day parading about the | Union depot, to the intense amusement of | the older peopie and to the indefinable ter- | ror of the childrer. He was a man below | the medium height and very slender. His features were promjnent under the crimson | bivsh wich ony discriminate use of | bad whisky can bring to the cheeks—and | nese. He wore geutcel clothes, and there were no diamonds in sigit,but in a belt that | was strapped around his small body were several long bowie knives—at least, that’s | what men who have seen and handied such weapons said they were—and two or three hig revolvers, the steel of which glittered like diamonds. His face was clean shaven, except for a long, savage-looking mustache which adorned the upper lip; his head was j adcrned'by an unnatural growth of shaggy | black hair, which hung below his stooped | shouider: from under the broad som- brero iwo little eyes peeped out upon the world. This individual evidently knew some of the travelers at the depot steered clear of him, and that they were afraid of him. He krew they were the children. He tried sev- | eral times to frighten the grown people, but they would not be scared. He was gruff in his ‘conversation, and he ordered the tenders of the various stands in the depot th a bravado that was ing. Every time he would pass a child Lis hand would go to the hilt of a bowie knife, and he would glare savagely at the little one. No wonder the child would run at his approach and tremblingi¥ snuggle up to its parent for protection. “I am Kawkee Dick,” said the individual to those who asked nis name, “‘and they say I'm the terror of the Kaw Valley.” But “Kawkee Dick” lost his terrorizing identity Saturday night immediately after the Santa Fe train came in from Kansas peirts. An elderly gentleman alighted from the train, and there was anxiety upon his face as he glanced hurriedly about. Kaw- kee Dick hoVe in sight, and the elderly gen- tleman saw him. At the same moment Kawkee Dick sagi{the elderly gentleman. ‘The recognition w tual. Kawkee Dick turred about and started out of the depot on the run. The elderly gentleman took after him and caught him just outside. “You rascal,” said the elderly gentleman, “take that off,” and with his own hands Kawkee Dick unbuckled the belt around his waist and meeklyyhanded it over to the el- derly gentleman. Then followed a ttghtning and most markable transformation of Kawkee Dick’s al-pearance. SESE With one tug aj thy long hair the elderly gentleman relieved Kawkee Dick's head of it, With another, jenk the old gentleman got possession of Kawkee Dick’s savage- looking mustacha, Isjwas false, also. This trimming left standing before the el- derly tlemanynot.Kawkee Dick, but a trembling youth f about eighteen years. “This is my sou,” spid the elderly gentle- man to his amysed spectators. “He ran away from home and I have just located him. “Now, young man,” said the old gen- tleman to the Loy, “this is the third time you have played ihis trick on me. You come home with mi you attempt any more pranks I'll thr you until your hide raises,” and the humiliated terror of the Kaw Valley disappeared up the street with the elderly gentleman. ———-+0+— Wedding and Funeral Together. From the Cleveland Leader. John A. Chittenden of Ashley, Mich., on bis death bed, requested that his sister, Louise, and her betrothed, Charles A. Holmdon, be narried over his coffin. The wedding originally was to have taken place September 25, but the date was changed to corply with the wish of the dying man, and while he lay in his coftin last week his sister and her sweetheart joined hands over the coffin while the Rev. John Glase per- fcrmed the marriage ceremony. Then he delivered the funeral eration, and the new- ly married couple occupied the first car- riage behind the hearse. ORTLER IN REAR. ON ALPINE HEIGHTS A Trip to the Highest Peak in the Eastern Alps. OF WEATHER Climbing Over Glaciers and Crosse ing Deep Ravines. THREE DAYS PRISON, GRAND SCENERY Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. OR MANY YEARS RF: was maintained by the Tyrolese that the Ortler, which has been found to be the highest peak in the eastern Alps,was the loftiest summit in Europe. That dis- tinction was also claimed by the. Swiss for the Matterhorn, by the Austrians for the Gross Giockner and by the French for Mont Plane. None of these mountains having been ascended previous to the nine- teenth century, the real height of the re- spective peaks was not known, and hence the question of supremacy in altitude was only an assertion, ircapable of proof, the claim advarced by one country being as | good as that of its neighbor. But with their ascent and the invention of the aneroid, as well as other scientific instruments, the altitude was definitely de- termined. Mont Blanc towered above all European mountains, the Matterhorn was higher than the Ortler and the latter higher than the Gross Gicckner. Nevertheless, the Tyroleans may justly be proud of their mountain, which, if not the highest peak of the Alps, is certainly one of the grandest. Viewed from St. Gertrude it is indeed more imposing than the summit of Mont Blanc, as beheld from Chamounix or the top of La Flegere. it is an isolated mountain, and not, as erroneously stated in the guide books, the highest peak of the Ortier group, from whick range it is separated by surrounding valleys. Its broad base of slate and gneiss formation rising abruptly from inamera- ble grassy dales is visible for miles and miles. Its snowy hood, which gracefully loses itself at the line of rocks and boul- ders, separates the peak into two distinct halves, causing it to look from a distance as though an artist with one sweep of the brush had painted the upper part white. Many glaciers projecting from every side divide the mountain into large and small segments, which are pleasing to the eye on account o: their symmetrical contour. The Earliest Ascent. idountain torrents and streams pouring forth volumes of fozming water still more enhance its beauty, but the enormity of its size when cor.trasted with the adjacent mountains is its most distinguishing fea- ture. On the 27th of September, in 1804, Joseph Pichler, a chamois hunte1, the grandfather of one of our guides bearing the same name, after many ineffectual attempts, as- cended the Ortier for the first time. The following year the noted botanist, Gebhart, succeeded in re:ching the summit on three different occasions, after which no further attempt was made until twenty-two years later, when Pichler again reached the top. Since then the ascent has been made al- most annually by the members of the Aus- trian Alpine Club, who have erected a ref- uge at the commencement of the giaciers, where the journey to the summit is inter- | rupted by a night's rest. At Gomagoi, the second station upon the | Stelvio, the highest as well as the most beautiful carriage road in Europe, 1 re- solved to ascend the Ortler, not without opposition, however, on the part of my v.ife, who looked upon the undertaking as dangerous and attended with peril. It was useless to reason—she would posi- tively not consent to my going alone. Be- tween the two convictions, that it was the Proper thing to ascend the mountain, and | also my duty to yield to the wishes of my companion and remain below, I was on the point of abandoning the expedition when it occurred to me that possibly I could induce my wife to accompany me upon the ascent. I made the proposition, which met with immediate refusal—the Dechstein was all the experience of that kind that she desired, but finally, when she became convinced that I was determin- ed to go at all hazards, she yielded and we Started off together. With the Guides Leading. We left the Steivio to our right and walked in the direction of the setting sun to St. Gertrude in the lovely Sulden valley. At St. Gertrude, after having dined at the hostelry under the charge of an aged priest, who was such a genial soul that we left his abode with regret, we met our guides and immediately commenced our ascent. Sturdy fellows they were, too, es- pecially Joseph Pichler, whose heavy frame, not to speak of his Tyrolean hat and feathers, caused him to loom above all The Station Gomagot. others. We started off at a quick pace, leaving our guides with our packs far in the rear. There being no danger and no necessity for ropes until the glaciers were approached, we ‘waited to see if we could reach the Payer hut first. ‘We soon left the grassy slopes to find ourselves encircling the extensive moraine where the path is almost entirely obliter- ated by constantly falling masses of rock. Here fragments of siate giide noiselessly and swiftly over the steep incline, and if not continuously upon the watch the tourist is often struck by a sliding boulder. After this part of the mountain is passed the Taboretta wall is reached, which is a huge ledge of black rock, terminating at the stow line, nearly 2,000 feet above its ori- gin. This part of the trail is dangerous to an inexperienced climber, for a fall or a misstep would mean a fractured limb If not more. But as a whole the path from St. Ger- trude to the Payer hut is a fair one, and th ordinary care and the assistance af- forded by the wire rope stretched along its side the sure-footed tourist will en- counter no difficulty—barring, of course, the snow and ice of the early summer and the late fall. Four hours are consumed in climbing before the refuge is reached, but the time passes very rapidly on account of the many forms of climbing indulged in, which, as a rule, do not tire. The view from the hut is undoubtedly next to that from the summit of the Ortler itself, the most beautiful in the Tyrol. Only on one side is it obstructed, but the grandeur of the enormous barrier in the form of layers of snow and ice 1,900 feet thick is so imposing that it leaves an im- préssion never to be forgotten. “‘As beau- tiful as the Jung-frau,” said a Swiss tour- ist, while standing at my side gazing at the mass of ice and srrow, glimmering like so much silver in the sun. He was mis taken, however, for the enthusiasm which the Helvetians entertain for their moun- tain would not allow the son of the Ber- nese Highiands to throw aside his’ preju- dice and, like myself, use the comparative —more. A Mountain Read. 5 The thirty-eight windings upon the Aus- trian side of the Stelvio may be traced from the beginning of the pass at Spon- dini in Tyrol to its summit of over ten thousand feet in Italy. As one gazes down upon this much-traveled mountain thor- oughfare the serpentine road, with its dark background, looks exactly like the tracings made by a school boy upon his | slate when he takes his pencil and sweeps it from the bottom back and forth until it has reached the top. The hut, an ever welcome sight to the tourist who seeks the higher altitudes of The Stelvio Pass. the Alps, is extremely cheerful in outward appearance, but infinitely more so upon entering. We liked it better than many others at which we had stopped in Switz- erland, the Salzkanmergut and other parts of the Tyrol. It was so cBzy, so nicely ar- ranged, and neat to the extreme, which is something unusual in these mountain re- treats. The reason for this was plain to be seen. It was in the hands of two women, and not men, as is usually the case. Built in the rocks, and sheltered on two sides by huge ledges of slate, it differed in con- struction but little from its companions, but its interior arrangements were the very best. Everything was in its proper place and there was no overcrowding. On the ground floor was the kitchen, con- taining, in addition to the stove and the cooking utensils, two long tables, with their benches, upon which the meals were served. The second story, reached from the outside by means of stairs cut into rock, contained the sleeping apartments, in which there were no beds nor cots, but shelf-like bunks, raised a foot from the ground. A part of this dormitory was so arranged that, by drawing a curtain, It could be separated from the rest, and thus be used by the ladies. Beneath the gable, reached by a ladder, were the quarters for the guides and the two women that took charge of the place. Detained by the Storm. We were the first to enter the hut, but it was not long before a party returning from the summit joined us. One by one the party left, and at 6 in the evening wa were again alone. But by 9 our number had been augmented to eight, among whom were a Spanish sea captain and a Hollander, both experienced moun- taineers, who thrilled us with tales of their varied experiences in the mountains of India. At 10 at night the Spaniard, the Hol- lander and myself went out of doors to consult the weather. It was a dark, dis- mal night, not a star being visible, and so cold that it chilled us to our very bones. A storm was brewing, and at 11 it reached us, causing the timbers of the hut to creak and tremble in a way that my wife, unaccustomed to these gales of .the mountains, became greatly alarmed. Ter- rific gusts of wind would strike the un- protected side of the hut with such tre- mendous force that it seemed at times as though the refuge end the inmates would be swept away. It was a fearful night and the severest storm the writer ever experi- enced. At 1 o'clock, at 2, at 3 and 4 the guides arose to go out of doors to observe the condition of the weather. At 5 all hope of ascending the slopes of the summit was abandoned, and by 9 in the morning all had left for the valleys below with the exception of ourselves. We concluded to remain and to make a second attempt on the next day, but rain setting in the final ascent was again delayed. Thus three days were spent {n the hut, but they were not so dreary as one might imagine, for there was much with which we whiled away the time—letter writing, dominoes, checkers, cards, bound volumes of the Fliegenda Blaetter and the register in which were recorded the names of those who had reached the hut. The Ascent Began. Although the gale continued, during the night the skies became clear, and on the following day at 3 o'clock in the morning, after partaking of a cup of coffee and bread, we emerged from the hut, unbe- known to the others, determined to make a last and final attempt to reach the sum- mit. Anxious to keep the lead, I quickly roped my wife to Pichler and started the two upon their journey, following with the other guide at a distamce of a hundred yards. After descending a rocky defile of several hundred feet we stepped upon that huge knob of snow, the picture of which is to be seen everywhere in the Tyrol. This snowy arete looks formidable when viewed from the hut, but its appearance from a distance is deceiving. It is worse than it looks, and when mounted—harrow- ing in the extreme. It must be crossed in an erect position, as there are no walls for support on either side. Ice picks and staffs count for nothing, as they do not take hold, and even if they did, it would sull be necessary to walk along without swaying. To be sure, there is consolation in the fact that one is roped to a guide— ‘ut what if he should slip. After crossing this snowy prominence we descended again in order to reach another glacier. Climbing along these rocky ledges—a fall from which meant instant death—was delt- cate work, but by watching each step as it was placed upon the slippery rocks, and by clutchir.g against the walls with fingers and nails, and by balancing the body as we leaped over defiles and crevices, and by ein- ploying the ice axes to cut footholds into the ice, we managed to reach the Trafoi glacier. Here it was necessary to cross a deep ravine upon a bridge of ice and snow not much more than a foot wide and half a foot thick. The Perils of the Way. 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Strength, booyant spirits 1nd freedem from pain comes with its use. ——= only @ question of time and endurance Avalanches are quite frequent along this bart of the trail, aud it must be crossed and recrcssed before noon, so that it be- came necessary tor us to quicken our pace. At times we were almost running. We en- countered one mountain of snow, which, being mounted, was succeeded by another, steeper and still higher. Many of these snowy inclines were almost perpendicuiar, and we oftea wondered how we would as- cend them. But ascend them we did, and we descended them, too, with lightning-like rapidity. Finally we saw the summit in all its majesty; but two hours elapsed before we scaied it, and those two hours were the longest and perhaps the most trying I ever experienced in mountain climbing; for it commenced to blow, and a penetrating blast of ice and snow chilled me through and through and plugged my eyes, mouth and nostriis with bits of ice as sharp knives, My wife stood the crdeal well. It may have been on account of her shawl and veil and the shelter which Pichler offered by walking in front; but her endurance was, nevertheless, wonderful. As for myself, I was blinded and bewildered, and, t» make matters worse, my strength was failing me rapidly. A strange feeling, as though my threat was being compressed in an iron vise, came over me, and an excruciating pain over the heart and chest began to be felt, I coughed and gagged, and just about when I was on the point of toppling over I experienced the tightening of the rope about my waist and felt myself being drawn up a snowy wall to the summit of the Ortler. When I recovered from my bewilderment I noticed that the wind had suddenly sub- sided and that the sun was shining bright and clear. Pichler had spread the blankets upon tho ice, and my wife was seated upon the same, while the faithful guide was rub- bing her feet with snow. The view from the summit was the grandest conceivable. Such beautiful mountain scenery is te be beheld nowhere. One beholds almost thous- ands of peaks, lakes upon lakes, glaciers of every kind and countless forests. We were above the clouds, and looked down upon them as they moved gracefully toward the east, like moving hills and dales, or the waves of the sea, if it were possible for them to be arrested when in an undulated state. Our descent to the hut was rapid. We covered the distance in less than the allot- ted time; but when we reached Trafoi upon the Stel we were well nigh exhausted. JOHN H. METZEROTT. —.—__. A Little Economy. From Womankind. - Biddy strutting proudly in the yard is unconscious how little valued is the fluffy plumage she is so vain of. The generality of busy housewives prefer to scald poor Biddy until her feathers are an unsavory mess. Having removed all wing and tail feathers, cut any sharp points off the re- mainder. Have ready a bag the size of cushion you desire to fill, with one end open. In this place the scalded feathers and iet water fiow freely from pump or hydrant, straining through the bag. Hang up and dry, then beat vp until fluffy. To this first collection you can add until you have sufficient. It is very little work, and you will be surprised at the number of nice cushions you cen make. = “Wid a little red paint I'll see if I can’? win dat grub.” _—™ “Boss, would yer help a poor feller what's just out from de smallpox hospital?” aS “And dey say game is scarce dis year."—~ Life.