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18 NO RIGHT TO FAIL In Either Your Business or Your Health! A Shattered Nervous Sys- tem Means Failure—You Can Secure Absolute Vigor. In nine cascs out of ten you have no right to fail in business; in ninety cases out of one hun- dred you have ‘no right to fail in kealih. If proper attertion was given to business or health there would be far fewer failures ta either, it pur nerro muscular system , your nervous or mone many tes- iven by a nt railway ht Depart Chieazo, Jan. 30, 1896. was a ‘sufferer ‘from 3 accom- ponied by Imomnia. 1 tried a number of reme- “$ with J uscd a third of one box of th » pec bex (one month's tr areot’s kame on box. Ail draggists or sent direct. y A ICAL AND MEG. CO., La Crosse, , aud Boston, Mass. THE FIGHTING ZOUAVES. Picturesque Attire Disnppeared After the First Years of the War. From the Youth's Companion. Perhaps the most famous body of sol- diers of modern times has been the French corps called the zouaves. This body of ring and picturesquely attired fighters ached the height of its reputation in the Crimean war, in 1855, which was fought between the Russians on one side and the Turks, French, English and Italians on the other. The zovave corps at that time was supposed to consist of Frenchmen, but was really quite international. Many daring young foreign adventurers had join- ed it, and it was known to include in its ranks graduates of Oxford, Paris, Gottin- gen and meny other universities. It is probable that a majority cf its members were in it more for love of fighting than for love of country. Under such circumstances it is not strange tnat its feme as a fighting body should have spread all over the world. When the civil war broke out in the United States several corps of zouaves, who wore the glittermg oriental uniform of the French corps, or a modification of it. were formed on both sides of the con- flict. Generally this uniform consisted of bag- By red trousers, short blue-braided jacket, gaiters and close-fitting cap, with a sort of a tail hanging down behind the head. One of the most famous of these small corps uf zouaves was that commanded by Elmer Ellsworth, a young New Yorker. He was the first officer killed on the Union side in the war, and for that reason his name has lived as a popular hero. On the confederate side the “Louisiana Tigers” Were a famous corps of zouave fighters. As the war went on, and hard work, per- sistent endurance, bravery In merely stand- ing up to be shot, and suppression of self became tne cardinal virtues of a soldier, rather than mere “dash” or picturesque au 'y, the zouave uniform disappeared, and the name, so far as America was con- cerned, became almost forgotten. In France. however, the zouave name and still survive. Only lately the government kas ordered home from 2 single company from each of the several zouave battalions, to be stationed ched parts of France and used as of new zouave corps in case of war with any foreign country. The way in which the French military men induce emulation among the diverse corps of their army is illusirated by a his- tory of the second zouaves, a corps serving in Africa, which was lately told in Pari: During a long and terrible march in 3 geria, under a blistering sun. this corps had been following all day a battalion of famous a ‘s, the eighth chasseurs a pied, or ‘ged “foot cavalry." Both corps were tired, hungry, faint and Inclined to 1. The zovaves averaged much and squattier men than the foot urs. Toward evening the expedition arrived ra town. The commandant of the eurs halted them, and made a speech, couched in slangy terms such as would please the men, asking them if they wished to make an entry Into this town worthy of the best marchers in the army. “Yes! the charsseurs answered. So eformed them in parade order, and with bugles blowing they marched into the town though every man was half dead, at a springing quickstep. The zouav: who were clese behind, saw this with indignation. Their colonel halted them, too, and made them a speech in French which would translate in English abcut as follows Look at that, you rascals! Are you go- ing to take the bivff of a set of gawks like those?" “Never!” the zouaves screamed. So their colonel had the roll sounded. These zouaves, like all others, nave a sort of “gymnastic drill,” in which they do a sreat deal of running and some very ac- tive manipulation of their muskets. The drill was given. . whd but a moment be- fore had been ready to sink, entered the town at 4 prancing run, swinging their suns about fantastically. And the chas- seurs were duly humiliated. see Vaccinated His Fingers. From the New York World. A young New Orleans man named Taylor recently learned a lesson, the moral of which is, “Do not touch anything you may see in a doctor's office.” Taylor was waiting for his physician, and while doing so took occasion to mani- cure his nails with an ivory instrument that lay on the table. A few days later his finger tips became so sore that he was ebliged to consult the doctor, who found that the sores were those caused by vac- cination, which Taylor had inadvertently Practiced upon himself by using a vaccine point as a nail cleaner. ——_ e+ The Senate Chaplain. 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MUSCULINE, For Gout and Rhew matism. ‘Two sizes: Six ounces, and two drachms (con- @ensed). Ail ists. Write to the Company for circulars and FREE ADVICE. WASHINGTON CHEMICAL COMPANY, Washington, D. C. {SH NATROLITHIC SALTS FOR CONSTIPATION. THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. GRANT STATUE AND RAILROAD. STATUE OF GRANT Some New Methods Adopted by the Sculptor, Mr. Partridge. MODELING FROM LIVE HORSES A Specially Constructed Railway and Its Use. A GREAT MISFORTUNE. EW OF THE MUL- titude tbat will gather in Brookiyn on the 27th instant to cheer and admire the equestrian siatue of Gen. Grant, to be unveiled that day, and just completed by William Ordway Partridge, will real- ize what it has cost in time, in study and in life force to pro- . duce this crystal- lized memery and interpretation of a great man. It has been my pleesure, in several talks with Mr. Partridge, to learn somer thing of the infinite pains that were taken in making the horse alene, of castings taken from the living animal, of horses brought into the studio.and taught to pose there, of a special railroad constructed to carry the statue back and forth from.the studio—in short, of rew methods in the art of sculpture. When he received his commission Mr. Partridge was in Paris firishng his Shake- speare statue for Chicago. At once he be- gan to put in practice plans he had long had in mind for doing an equestrian statue on lines of artistic realism never before at- tempted. Getting permission from the min- ister of war and from the military gov- ernor of Paris, he made many. visits to the barracks of the famous French Cuirassiers, and day after day he watched and studied them in and out of the saddle, pntil the various peses ahd movements of horse and rider were perfectly familiar to him. Then, having in mind his general concep- tion of the statue of Grant and his charger, the chief effects he wished to produce, the sculptor began working cn a small four- foot model. This preliminary but essential part of his work occupied many weeks. In doing it he made casts from dead horses, sometimes flayed, sometimes with the hide on, and insthis he followed the best meth- ods of the great animal sculptors of Paris. As he worked this thought came to him many times: “What a pity always to make casts from dead animals and to get our guiding sug- gestions from stiffened, distorted muscles. Would it not be a fine thirg to take casts from the living horse?” But such a thing had never been attempt- ed. and, therefore, was prepounced impos- sible. “Nevertheless, I shall try it some day,” said Mr. Partridge; and the follow- ing yeor, when he returned to America with his finished and accepted model, he proceeded to carry out the idea. ‘Taking Casts of Live Horses. “You will get your brains kicked out,” said an artist friend, “if you try to cast the leg of a live horse.” But with his devoted helper, Giovanni Rapetti, who is at once plaster maker, skilled caster and cheery philosopher, with Italy’s sunshine in heart and face, Mr. Par- tridge withirew to his studio among the elms of Milton, Mass. There live rich men with great estates and scores, sometimes hundreds of horses in their stables. Here may be seen the peerless Sunol, Nancy Hanks and other animals of price, owned by the sculptor’s neighbor friends and readily placed at his disposal. “Work was begun with Dante, a coal black saddle horse of perfect lines, almost an ideal charger, that Mr. Partridge had bought in Kentucky for a model. “He's just like Grant's Cincinnatus,” was Gen. Horace Pcrter’s comment when he saw Dante. The gentlest, most intelligent of horses he was, and fortunately so, or It might have fared ill with Giovanni and his sculptor employer. For weeks they worked at the horse with the wet plaster, and many were their dis- couragements at the start. Dante literally lived in the studio, a stall for him being built at one side of the large room, with only a plank to keep him in his place, and the plank was dropped about half -the time, leaving the horse free to wander about as he pleased among the busts and easels. He grew so accustomed to this constant posing that he rarely made trouble, only occa- sionally, in mischievous mood, going up to some cast and licking it, as if to show his appreciation of art. For weeks and months Dante and Giovanni and the sculptor pass- ed both days and nights together in the combination studio and stable, and many times Mr. Partridge, weary after a long stretch of work, would doze in his easy chair with Dante before him in his stall, his head reaching out into the studio, doz- ing also. A Task Requiring Great Patience. Whoever attempts to make plaster casts from a living horse will find that {tis a work requiring almost infinite patience. It is hardly necessary to say that the animal must be trained to stand’ perfectly still or everything is spoiled. Many were the de- vices Mr. Partridge hifi to employ; many were the ingenious schemes invented by Giovanni to keep Dante growing rest- Jess as the plaster .about.one part or the other of his hody.., en the left leg was being mokied, spe jpataneerGiavenet would hold up the right foreleg while his master took the imp) the result be~ ing that Dante, finding himself poised on three legs, could scarcely move the front one that supported his weight. But, finding even this plas te vent little nervous movements, such as a. ae = shivering “oft rn ‘skin, Mr. rtridge upon @ ruse occupying Dante's attention whieh worked. admirably. He had Gtovanni hammer upon the hoof. he. insufficient to pre- | was supporting as if he were a blacksmith putting on a shee. Of course Dante had grown accustomed to this operation, and the hammering on his uplifted foot kept him from thinking about the leg that was being molded. The sculptor and Giovanni went from one part of the horse to another, meeting rew difficulties as they advanced and overcoming them by nove! means and abundant patience, until finally they had sectional castings of the whol horse. And wonderful, beautiful castings they were— ie oe from the ones taken from dead lesh. Every tendon, every small line, almost every hair was thus brought out with ab- solute distinctiess and fidehty to life, not death. Nor did Mr. Partridge limit himself to studies made from Dante; he used other horses loaned him by his friends, Halool among the rest, an Arab steed grown to ideal proportions in the desert under the iadow of some sheik’s tent and present in merica after a serles of tragic happenings iat would make a story in itself. Mr. Part- 1dge does not favor the idea of making an €questrian statue from a single model, how- éver fine it may be, but gets his results by blerding the parts of many horses, putting each where it will-be most effective when the statue is seen on its pedestal. Mr. Partridge’s Unique Railroad. He knew that if the statue was to be a success he must always work with reference to the appearance of the bronze horse and rider, not in the favoring light of his studio, but in the place they are destined to occupy for years, perhaps centuries, with the broad light of day streaming over them from all sides, and not downward only from a cun- ningly devised northern exposure. Some sculptors have made statues for the studio and not for the public street or square, and such have generally been disappointed. In- deed, it is most difficult for an artist rightly to judge his work with only the walls of a little room about it, and none of the tower- ing buildings or exterior surroundings that will later dwarf it and greatly modify its effect. A bit of plaster that seems colossal in a bed chamber may easily become insig- nificant when removed to a public park. It was to help himself in this matter that Mr. Partridge, after finishing his castings and preliminary studies, had his statue-rail- road constructed. It is one of the most in- teresting features of modern statue-making. It runs from the studio into the open grounds, and by its use the sculptor at any time may see how the statue upon which he is at work will look among the big trees, against the changing sky, and under the shadows of surrounding buildings. When he pleases and the weather sults, he can work in the open air, making such changes in the clay as seem best, and having the enormous advantage of being able to judge his work, while doing it, under the very con- ditions that will surround it when the work is finally judged on its pedestal. A Great Misfortune. A large equestrian statue (this one of Grant is double life size) weighs many tons even in the clay, so that in building the railroad great care had to be exercised to secure at once sufficient strength and ease of control. The statue rests upon a nicely poised turn-table, which in its turn was supported by a four-wheeled truck. So perfect was the adjustment of the turn- table that even when loaded with ten tons of clay (the weight of the completed statue) Mr. Partridge could turn it smoothly with @ movement of his hand, whereas by the old methods the strength of three or four men would have been required. Of course, it is understood that the life castings taken from Dante and other horses were only used by Mr. Partridge as studies and adjuncta, in no way taking the place of that feeling for form and line which is the sculptor's gift and without which all else would be valueless. Similar life cast- ings were taken from men models and were used in perfecting the general's pose; but it was not by the use of these alone that the sculptor rendered the soul and person- ality of the man. That came from native insight, from years of labor, and was real- ized only by the exercise of almost incon- ceivable patiente. One morning after Mr. Partridge had been working on the clay for nearly a year and a half, and the statue stood all but finished, there came one of those misfor- tunes that tear the sculptor’s heart. In the silence of the night, while Partridge and bis men and his horses and his dogs were sleeping, there came a noise like a thunder clap and the whole studio was shaken. Four tons and a half of the modeled clay bad fallen from the horse, the whole back Portion, as if the statue had been cut in two just behind the rider. It was a calamity like that which befell Carlisle when the manuscript of the first volume of the “French Revolution” was destroyed. The work had to be done over again, at least the shattered portion; and months passed before the statue was again near comple- tion. In all more than three years elapsed between the time Mr. Partridge recetved the commission for the statue and its’ final ccmpletion. CLEVELAND MOFFETT. ——.__ He Needed Aid. From the Woonsocket (R. I.) Reporter. Johnnie Chaffie has been told to always Fut his hand before his mouth when he yawned. The other day he said: “Grandma, put your hand over my mouth, I’ve got a piece of cake in one hand and something else in the other.” Old Lady—“Giad to see you always s0 in- dustrious, Murphy.:’ Murphy—“Yis, mum: sure I'm always gardenin’ whin I'm doin’ nothin’,’ FAVORITE SON Lease ares Pen Pictures of ‘Some Who Are in in the U, 8, Senate. PREY ARE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDAT Characteristics of Men Who Are Much Talked About. BY X-RAY. CAMERA ee (Copyrighted, 1806, by Frank G. Carpenter.) ERE are some snap shots at the presi- dential candidates of the United States Senate. I am taking them with a cathode ray camera from the press gallery. Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson sits just below me, the snowy expanse of his bald head shining like fvory and almost tempting me to shake the ink from the end of my pen down upon it, What a commo- tion it would create if I did so, and what a blot It would make on the pate of the lead- ing democratic presidential candidate of the Capitol! But let me throw my X ray camera on Adlai! ‘What an immense man he is! He ts more than six feet tall and he tips the beam at 200 pounds. You can almost hear the vice presidential chair groan with his weight as he sits upon it. Look at that right arm with which he wields the gavel in calling the Senate to order! It is bigger around than the thigh of Senator William E. Chand- ler, who is hopping about ever there on the republican side, trying to get the Vice Presi- dent's attention. Vice President Stevenson has a big chest. He measures two feet across the shoulders, and his blonde head is so massive that you could hardly squeeze it into a peck measure. His face Is as fair as that of a newly washed baby, and his eyes are of that clear bine which you find on old English china. Note the dome of his head! It looks much Hke Bismarck’s, and those heavy brows remind you of Webster. How somber he locks! He is dressed in black, his long frock coat buttoned tightly over his big chest, and a standing collar framing his head until it makes you think of that of John the Baptist, when it was brought in to Herodias on a charger. I wonder how the Vice President feels as he sits there, holding the second office of the Union! I wonder if he remembers how he worked on a farm in Kentucky, plowing cern on his father’s plantation with a one- eyed mule! I wonder if he reviews his career as a school teacher at $25 a month, and as a struggling young lawyer, when he was glad to get a $4-fee:- Now he Is receiv- ing $8,000 a year, and has his eye on Presi- dent Cleveland and his $50,000 job. Looks Like Lincoln. Let us move the carftfa! See that fellow stam@ing at the back of the Senate chambeq under the clock! I mean that-tall man with his hands in his pockets. He is dr in black, and his long ccat hangs fro: is square shoulders as though it were ong}wire frame in front of a second-hand cloft##g store. H's arms are long,and you can } jost see knats at the- elbows and shoulders. His thin, bony hands extend out below his guffs. Now he puts his hands in his pocket§, throwing back his coat and making himsétf look more gaunt and angular than a how his face comes out on the ound glass of the camera! It is strong, Mut-dt-hasia rugged strength, and its features are almost as angular as those of th®¥€at of his body. ‘The cheek bones are as high as those of an Indian. He wears no mustache, and stiff, short black hair mixed with gray forms a bristly beard around his angular chin. His eyes are sunken. His forehead is high and full. Hig nose is large and atrong. It is so prominent that he rests his gold eye- glasses on the bridge at least an inch below the point used by the spectacles of the ordi- nary man. AsT look one of his fellow Sena- tors comes np. The angular man greets him cordialiy and gives him a pump-handle shake of the hand. The two chat and laugh together, and it is evident that the tall, angular, rough-featured man is telling a story. That man is Shelby M. Cullom, United States Senator from illinois, and the man whom that state will present to the St. Louis convention for the presidency. Cullom is a typical scn of Illinois. Born in Kentucky, hauled in a canvas-covered Wagon through the woods and over the stumps to Illinois when he was still a baby just cutting kis first teeth, he was raised in @ log cabin and got his schooling at a coun- try school. His early life was much like that of Lincoln—who, by the way, he strikingly resembles. Wcrking on the farm, he shot up tall and elender—an angular boy, who later on developed into an angu- lar man. His education was Meager. He went to school at a little seminary, and by burning the midnight oil within a couple of years found himself on the edge of the grave. He had, I think, a hemorrhage or two, and for a time thought that a farmer's career was the only one that would keep bim alive. He went back to his father and walked behind the plow in his bare feet un- til the life-breathing properties of the soil and the pure air gave him the muscle which enabled him to go back to his studies. After a hard struggle with his health, he succeeded at the law, got into politics, be came governor of the state, was elected to Congress, then to the Senate, and is now one of the candidates for the nomination of the republican party as Presidert. He Wears a Big Collar. ° In front of Senator Cullom sits another presidential cz:ndidate. He is not as tall as Cullom, but he weighs, I venture, twice as much. He has a square-shaped head, bright, twinkling brown eyes, a complexion as fair as that of a girl, and a collar as white as the marble statues in. the rotunda of the Capitol. This collar is of the old-fashioned kind. It is the biggest collar worn in the United States Senate, and if you could turn it down you would find on its back written the name of its owner, W. B. Allison. Senator Allison is so near Senator Cul- lom that Cullom could lean over and stick a@ wisp of straw into Allison’s ear, where- upon Allisen would jump, but would look about and laugh. He js.a remarkably even tempered man. He rever gets excited and never loss his head. .Now he gets up and moves across the chamber. Notice how quietly he goes, and still there is an air about him that shows you he means to get there. Allison always,dpes get there, and though he looks lazy. and seems to take things very easily, he-is.one of the hardest workers in the Senate,, He does not look to Fe sixty-eight years -of age, and his u- gestion is probabiy perfect. Now he writes a letter, He holds his pen like that of a school,boy, and he pens his words in true Spencerjan style, making every curve of the proper shape. As he writes a long-bearded,man, with a head not much bigger than a baseball, comes up and sits down beside Allison. He puts his hand on Allison’s shoulder, .and Allison turns around. He greets the long-bearded man cordially aad chats with him, bands on the man’s knees, he loved him. Still, there is no love lost be- tween these two men. That little man with the base ball head and long beard is Peffer, and I venture that away dcwn in his soul Allison despises him; but Allison is a diplo- mat, and there is no need of showing it. ‘There are some curious things about Alli- son and Cullom. Both were born the same He was deputy county clerk at the same time Judge Stewart, John Sherman's fath- er-in-law, was judge. Fond of Books, But who is that old woman whose figure shows out through the lens between us and Allison? It is merely a silhouette on the ground glass and we need a new focus, As we turn the screw the old woman's figure changes into that of a man. We can see its bald head and we note that its ey2s droop, as did those of Ben Butler. It is dressed in black, and its double- breasted frock coat is unbuttoned and hangs out somewhat like a skirt. Now the figure turns about face, and we see the form and features of one of the best-known men of the great northwest, the great law- yer of St. Paul, and a man who can make, it is said, from $25,000 to $50,000 a year at his practice. His name is Cushman K. Davis, and though he has withdrawn from the presidential race his name may yet be mentioned among those which come up at St. Louis. Cush Davis is a curious-looking man. He is very tall. His shoulders are slightly bent, and his little semi-bald head is fastened to them by a short neck. He is cne of the most studious men of the Senate, and one of the best read. He has one of the finest private libraries of the country. He is a great lover of books, and when he wants to rest from his studies he drops what he is at and takes up some work in a different Mterary line. When he is tired of thinking of politics he translates a lot of Virgil or Horace for a change, and when he finds— as he does sometimes, I venture, for he is a trifle lazy—his ambitions flagging, he bol- sters himself up by reading the life of Alex- ander the Great or that of Julius Caesar. To him the greatest man who ever lived was Napoleon. He was an admirer of Bona- parte lorg before the present craze concern- ing him broke out. He has already about four hundred Napoleonic books in his library, and he is always picking up more. Began as a Poor Bey. As I compare Davis with Cullom and Alli- son I think of the three great men who have molded the lives af these presidential can- didates. Davis is a worshiper of Napoleon. Allison was brovght up on Henry. Clay. Cullom modeled his life after that of Abra- bam Lincoln, and over there, so near Cul- Jom that he cou!d hit him with a paper wad if he chose to throw it, is another Senator— @ young man—of some presidential ambi- tion, who all his life has worshiped at the shrine of James G. Blaine. That man is Stephen B. Elkins. Note how he sits there behind his mahogany desk, perfectly at ease in the Senate of the United States! He is one of the youngest of the prospective candidates, and perhaps the richest. He owns miles of railroads, thousands upon thousands of acres of timber and millions of carloads of coal. He has towns and vi!l- lages on his estate, and his Principality in West Virginia is unsurpassed by that of any man east of the Mississippi. And still Elkins began his life as a poor y- He went across the plains in a can- vas-covered wagon to New Mexico, study- ing Spanish on the way. He settled in San- ta Fe as a lawyer, and made money out of both the Mexicans and the Spaniards. One of his first good jobs was in connection with the Maxwell grant. Maxwell paid him a salary of $7,000 a year for defend- ing his interests, id at one time he got $10,000 from Maxwell for a single hour's work. He first came to Congress as a dele- gate from New Mexico, and after leaving the House of Representatives he made $50,- 000 a year here at Washington practicing law. From Washington he took the dol- lars he had saved to New York, and they there bred for him more ¢ollars, increasing their yield almost as fast as Australian rabbits, which are said to be the fastest breeders of the world. The result was that he soon had a big fortune, and by [est this with that of his father-in-law, ex-Senator Henry G. Davis, he became pos- sessed of his wonderful estate in West Virginia. Senator Elkins is not lying awake at night waiting for the presidency. He told me once that if it came his way, and got near enough to him so that he could put his hands on it, he would take ft, but he added that he did not think his chances were very good. He is a healthy-looking man, and dces not lose sleep over his po- litical ambitions. He is a good organizer, and knows all about practical politics. He is, however, a more cultured man than Many suppose. He is well educated and has the studious bent. He likes Browning, quotes Tennyson frequently and reads Greek, Latin and Hebrew in the original. He is a great walker, and keeps his sys- tem in good order by exercise. He dresses in business clothes, but his linen is always of the whitest. His skin is as rosy as that of a country girl's after she has taken a scouring at the pump, and his short, white tecth are strong, sharp and exceedingly clean. As I look, Senator Hoar of Massachu- setts waddles up to Elkins and whispers in his ear. Hoar fs a dry joker, and he is Probably makifig one of his sarcastic re- marks, for Elkins bursts into a laugh. Hoar sits down, and the two chat together, smiling like school boys, rather than se- date United States Senators. Goes a Fishing. As they do so, a dark-faced man in front of them turns about and almost scowls. That man is also a presidential candidate, but he is not a candidate who smiles. He seems to sit and brocd. He reminds you of Cassius, though he has not the lean and hungry look of Shakespeare's thinker. He is, however, a plotter, and he is one of the strongest of our political managers. His name is Matthew Stanley Quay. He is the man who carries Pennsylvania in his pock- et, and who has been chosen by that state as its candidate for the presidency. Quay is a natural fighter. He would rather fight than eat. When he was in the army, you remember, he was sick, and he in- sisted on going to the battlefield. The sur- geons and his superiors told him he was a fool for making the attempt, and he re- plied: “I would rather die a fool than live a coward.” Quay is now in his prime. He is tall, well rounded and_ healthy-looking. He keeps himself in trim by taking fishing excursions. His chief exercise at Wash- ington is in political work. He goes but little in society. You never see him about the hotels, and there is nothing of the hail-fellow-well-met about his character. Still, I am told he ts a man of more than ordinary culture. He is well educated, has literary tastes, and his house at Beaver, Pa., is packed with books. A. Natural Fighter. On the other side of the Senate chamber there is a democratic candidate who is much like Quay In character. This is David B. Hill. Look'at him as he sits there, with one hand in his pockets, leaning back in his chair, with his glasses on his eyes. Note how his jaws are fastened together! ‘They are as tight as a sprung rat trap. See the determination in his countenance. How he grips the arms of his chair with his hands. He fs evidently planning out some political scheme, and you can almost see the light darting out of his eyes from under his heavy brows as he sits there, like a sphinx, and thinks,and thinks and thinks. As you look at him now he seems to be almost statuesque. You would hardly im- agine he had life. Stir him up, however, and you will see. He is a natural fighter. le goes about with a chip on his shoulder, and he ts ready for a quarrel at the drop of a hat. Let us get a better focus. What a queer-looking man Hill is. His head is as bald at the top as a new drum head, and quite as white. A heavy black mustache covers his mouth, and at the lower edge of his forehead there are heavy dark eyebrows. Now he look up at the gallery. How sharp his eyes are! They seem to look right through you, and it fs said that Hill can tell a man at a glance. How aggressive they are, and how full of determination! The soul back of those eyes has faith in itself and depends on it- seif. Hill confides in no one. He has many acquaintances, but few friends. His soul is wrapped up in his ambitions. He plots his own campaigns and uses other men to car- ry them out. He is one of the hardest of workers, and still he has neither wife nor family to work for. He has never married, and he kezps bachelor’s hall here in a big house on Lafayette Square, out of the win- dows of which he can look at the White House and have the goal of his ambitions before him while he plots how he may reach it. Senator Hill keeps himself in prime physical condition. He ts simple {a his tastes, eating Httle and drinking less. He is said to be a good boxer, and he knows the use of the pulley weights,punch- ing bags and dumb bells te as well as wi a his labor. There comes a page mail. The letters a down on the desk before him. Note how he opens them! He sticks hia finger under the flap of each tears it apart. He out the letter within and unfolds it deliberate- |” ly, reading it while he still keeps the en- ‘elope in hig hand. Then refolding the let- ter he puts the envelope and the letter to- , and with one tear rends them tn two and throws the pieces into the scrap basket. There is not one waste motion, and if we are to judge by his actions a| The hansom cab of the future.—St. Paul's. . Like a Statue. Just one more snap shot! Note that clean-cut man to the left of Hill. His features are classic, and his head is that of a statesman. How well groomed he is. He is the smoothest man in the United States Senate. He has smooth clothes, a smooth face, and a smooth man- ner. His face is that of a statue. The eyes are steel blue. They smile, but they are scheming and calculating. His ccmpiexion is almost rosy, but his well-shuven face is cold—oh, so cold! That man hopes to be President some day. Probably not in 1896, but nevertheless some day. His name is Arthur P. Gorman, and he has until lately been the supreme boss of Maryland, and one of the strongest thinkers of the demo- cratic party. His whole life he has spent in the school of pobtics, and he is now one of the best organizers of the United States. He began his political studies when he was a page in the United States Senate. He continued them year after year, and in Office after office, until he became a United States Senator, and now he is in his fifties, he is one of the ablest of his kind. He has educated himself during the intervals of his pohtical work. He makes a good speech, and he fs a man of more than or- dinary ability. He has made a fortune as Well as fame, and he now owns a big farm in Maryland, not far froni Washington, and has a magnificent home here within a stone’s throw of the White House. FRANK G. CARPENTER. ——~——_ GLAD HE WAS IN TROUBLE. Indignation That 2 Man Should Dare to Sell His Wife. From the Chicago Post. “I do not believe in gloating over the misfortunes of others, but I am glad that man is in trouble,” she said, as she threw down the paper she had been reading. “Who is it, and what has he been doing?” he asked. “I don’t know who it is,” ghe replied, “but he sold his wife for $10.” le did?” “Yes, he did.” “The scoundrel.” She looked at him in surprise. “Are you glad that he is in trouble, too?” she asked. “I hope that he is sent up for life,” he returned, emphatically. “Why, John, I didn’t suppese that you felt that way akcut it,” she sa‘d. “I rather thought you would laugh at it as a good jcke, or make some unkind remark.” ‘t's no joking matter,” he answered. “It's a crime; that’s what it Is. It's a crime that appeals forcefully to every true and honest man, and ft should be punished as such.” “Oh, I'm so glad that you feel that way about it,” she exclaimed. “That's what I think, but I was afraid that you wouldn't look upon it as a matter of any importance. I'm glad to find that I did you an injustice. What would you do with him, if his pun- ishr it were left to you?” “I'd make it severe enough so that it sid be a warring to all others,” he re- pl “I don’t think I wouid be satisfied with a mere term of imprisonment.” “But surely you wouldn't hang him?’ “No, I wouldn't do that. But I tell you, Mary, any man who will deliberately de- fraud his fellow man in svch a conscience- Jess way ought to be made to suffer, and I would be in favor of compelling him to live with the wife he had sold for the rest of his n ral life. It is not a case for mercy se. HE HAD A SINBCURE. At the Same Time He Evidently Did Net Appreciate it. From the Boston Transcript, . “It beats all,” exclaimed Mrs, Clovertop, who had §ust teturre’ from a visit to the city; “it beats all hew some fotks git along in this world! There’s Harry Stavers, for irstance. You krow Harry. When he was to home here he never was no good at real work. He'd go dawdlin’ about all day long starin’ into a book, and when he wasn't readin’ he’d be scribblin’ stuff for the papers and magazines. I never saw the like of him, and I always said he'd never amount to nothin’. ¥ “But, laws $t does seem ‘as though the lezier and the good-for-nothin’er some folks are the easier they slide through the world. When I was in the ¢lty I called on Harry. I always kinder liked Harry, in spite of his shiftlessness, Well, what do you think! Harry's editor of a paper down there, and ees do say he gets pretty good wages, 00. “But, for my part, I can’t see how folks can pay a man for doin’ jest nothin’ at all. “Harry has a nice room full o’ books and things anda big-desk with aig krinkly kiver that shuts up as cute as you please en he ain’t usin’ it, and there he sets all day as grand as a lord, receivin’ callers. “Folks are all the time comin’ in to tell bim what's goin’ on, and they tell him What side to take on all kind o’ questions, and what ought to go into the paper and what oughtn’t; ard, more than that, they bring in stuff already written—enough in ene day, sometimes, to fill his paper for a week. “And they tell him just how to run his paper; so you see he don’t have to bother his head a bit abcut it. “I never did see such luck. I told Harry he ought to bless his stars, for I never did see anybody who got a Hvin" ‘half so easy. “Harry jest smiled dnd said: ‘Think so, Mrs. Clovertop?’ Jest in his quiet way, you know. ‘Think so! said I; ‘well, I should think I did.” “But, do you know, I don’t b'lieve he half appreciates his good fortune. Some folks, you know, never are satisfied.” A Lacid Explanation. From the Chicago Times-Herald. The corone> of a rural town in Georgia was examining witnesses in a case of sud- den death. “Did you ever hear the de- ceased complain of any ailment?” he ask- ed of one. “The who, suh?” “The deceased.” The old fellow scratched his head, look- ed thoughtful, then called his wife, daugh- ter and son-in-law aside and held a whis- pered consultation. Then he faced the cor- ener again. “I never knowed no ‘decease,’ suh,” he said, “"ceppin’ you means dem folks what done cease ter plant cotton?” “The ‘deceased’ is the man lying dead there,” explained the coroner. “Gh!” exclaimed the witness, “ef you means de dead man I'm right ‘long wid you! En now, ef I don’t disremember, I did heah dat he had ratilin’ er de brain!” ‘Rattling of the brain?” ‘Yes, suh.” “And what's that?” ‘Well, suh, hit tain’t "xac'ly a misery er de stummick, but hit ain't fur frum ft, en hit’s des "bout ez painful ez fiintin’ at de heart, or ketchin’ er de J‘Ints, or settlin’ er de bones; en ef I makes no mistakes, hit ain’t so powerful fur frum ringin’ in de yea’s en twitchin’ er de skwil, en dat’s all I knows ‘bout it!’ The Infallible Test. From the Indianapolis Journal, Watts—“How can a man tell which is the best bicycle, I'd like to know?” Potts—“Buy one. After you have had it a week it will be the best wheel in the mar- ket. It always works that way.” Sie as Against -His Principles. From Puck. First Citizen—‘Don't you think pugilism should be suppressed?” Second Citizen—“Oh, not I'm in favor of free speech and, all it impifes.” HEART DISEASE, _ Some Facts Regarding the Rapid Increase of Heart Troubles. Do Not Be Alarmed, but Look for the Cause. Heart troubles, at least among Americans, are certainly increasing, and while this may be largely due to the worry and excitement of American bus- iness Ufe, it 1s more often the result of weak stomachs, of poor digestion. Real, organic beart disease ts incurable; but mot ‘one case In a hundred of heart trouble is organic. ‘The close relation between heart trouble and poor digestion is because both organs are controlled by branches of th: same great nerves, the Sympathetic and Poeumogasiric. Inanother way, also, the heart if affected by that form of poor digestion which causes gas and fer- mentation from half digested food; there is a feel- ing of oppression and heaviness in the chest caused Uy pressure of the distended stomach on the beart and lungs, interfering with their action; hence arises palpitation and short breath. Poor digestion alse polscns the blood, makes it thin and watery, which irritates and weakens the heart. The most sensible treatment for heart trontiles is to Improve the digestion and to Insure the prompt assimilation of food. This can best be done by the regular use, after of some safe, pleasant and effective di- gestive preparation, like Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab- Tete, which may We’ found at most drag stores and which contain valuable, barmless digestive ele- ments, ina pleasant, couvenient form. It {8 safe to sy that the regular, persistent use of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets at meal time will cure any form of stomach trouble except cancer of the stomach. Full size packages of the Tablets sold by most mail from Stuart Co., apSkit druggists at 50 cents or by Marshall, Mich. HE DIDN'T INTERFERE. Senator Brown-Didn’t Care to Take Any Part in the Religious Exercises. From the Chicago Times-Herald. Senator Brown of one of the interior dis- tricts of Kentucky was my seat mate one day on the Cincinnati Southern. A‘ a way stetion some Salvation Army soldiers teok the train. “There has been a great change in re- ligious methods within my remembrance,” said the senator refisctively. “Befo' the difficulty ‘twixt the no'th and south there were great religious gatherin’s as regular as harvest. Niggers and white folks flock- ed to ‘em in droves. You couldn’t stop "em. _ It looked like tne preachers brought the ‘power’ with them—that’s what we called the rcligious feelin’—power—an’ then they'd work up the excitement until the people in the crowd caught It. I've seen a plump hundred folks at one of these camp meetin’s, all havin’ the power at once, a-hollerin’ an’ a-singin’ ull yo" eculdn’t rest. It’s very excitin’. I recall one camp gatherin’ over at Foxtown, cn the Lexington an’ Richmond pike. They had the power hard there. 1 never did know befo’ or since such strongly marked cases. “One was that of a most beautiful young woman—one of the most beautiful young women, I reckon, sir, that Kaintucky ever produced. She come a-r’arin’ an’ a char; in’ down the open space to the preacher's platform, for all the world iike a two-year- old thoroughbred turned out to grass. On she comes a-jumpin’ an’ hollerin’ an’ hei eyes blazin’ like young suns. It was a most noble sight, the way she cavorted. 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