Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1897, Page 15

THE EPWORTHLEAGUE ———— Preparations for the Convention to Be Held in Toronto. THIS CIPY 70 BE WELL REPRESENTED Interesting Program Arranged for the Big Meetings. LOCAL COMMITTEE ———— THE A coming event that is arousing a great deal of interest in the world of Methodism 4s the third international convention of the rth League Toronto, Canada, July Be1S, The the inter are F. T. Israe mittee appointed to look after of the Washington delegation chairman; E. S. La Fetra, Fred. E. Woodward, Finney Engle, Prof. agar Fr! . Cissel and Robert I. campaign in Washington will be opened Friday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m. at Metropolitan M. E. Church, 4% and C streets, with the following program: Song service of fifteen minutes, conducted by Prof. Wm. J. Palmer; reading Scripture lesson, Earl P. Hamlin; invocation by Rev. Lucien Clark, D.D., the new pastor of Foundry Church; address, “The Queen City and Its Environments,” with stereopticon views, by Rev. Hugh Johnston, D. D.; a quartet, Pro.Wm. J. Palmer, Messrs. Frank Aukward, Charles vies and C. Edgar Webb. will sing “Get On the Epworth Chariot," composed for the occasion by Prof. Palmer; “The Route,” by Fred. EB. Tasker, ex-president of the District League, after which a piece which has been dedi- cated to the District League by Prof. Wm. J. Palmer as a rallying song will be sung, “Will You Meet Me In Toronto,” to the Prof. Edgar Frisby. tune of “Meet Me at the Fountain.” This will be followee with an address on “What to Take. and How to Take It,” by Rev. J. |. Heisse of Wesley Church. After the usual offering the Doxology will be sung, followed with the benediction by Rev. Page Milburn of North Capitel M. E. Church. A unique souvenir will be presented to each person at the close of the services. international conference of the held in Cleveland, Ohio, in alled ‘ther five thousand cond of these great young pe gatherin n Chattanooga, Tenn., in INS, and about fifteen thousand were present. The third gathering of the league prom to surpass the others in numbers by several thousand. The averag perature in Teronto for the past fifty years has been 67.61 for the month of July. This will be a great inducement to many to go north at this time. The Place of Meeting. ‘The name of Toronto signifies a place of meeting, and is to Canada in this re- spect what Washington is to the United tem- States. It has a population of 200,000, and about 2) miles of streets paved with asphalt, brick and wood. Those who take their wheels will find some of the best roads ir country surrounding Toranto. It is cx among ted to organize a wheeling party re Washington contingent. A large F. E. Woodward. number of parks are easy of access by street cars, and those who wish to view the city will find the cars convenient aids. eamers innumerable running to Niaga St. Catharines, Hamilton, Leng Branch, and other points of inter- est for those who prefer trips on the water. ifty years ago Toronto only had one hodist Church, today she has thirty- . and each one with a seating ca- of 1,500 to 2,500, and boasts of the largest and finest Methodist world. atter for congratulation that 3 will not be held in tents as The Royal Armory has been y placed at the disposal of the e for headquarters. The princt- ence rooms for the sessions will Caledonian Massey Music and the tural pavilion. It jed to have at least two big meet- each afternocr and five or six in Vvening. nyention will open Thursday uly Addresses of w ponses will occupy the first z the prominent persons who are ted to take part in the program are Aberdeen, governor general of Can- Governor Hastings, Governor Atkin- on, Bishops Ninde, Fowler, Newman, Mal- laNeu, Hurst and McCabe, Drs. Buckley, Hamilton, Nord, Hurlbut, Ed- Moore, Jennings, Goucher, Thirkield, peland, Murray and McDowell: Church South will be represented by three of their bishops, Rev. Sam Jones and others. The women will have a promi- nent place cn the program. Among them Robt. L Carr. ere Mrs. Geo. O. Robinson, Mrs. M. G. Piantz, Mrs. W. W. Foster, jr., and Mrs. Smiley. The colored members will be represented by Dr. Bowen, Rev. Frank Gary, Irving G. Penn and others. Prof. E. O. Excell will have charge of one of the three large chorus choirs that will be o1 An orchestra of 100 pieces from the different Sunday schools of the city will greatly add to the musi- cal part of the program. The Program. Street meetings and out-of-door services in the various parks and squares will be a new feature. At the open air demonstra- tion meeting on Saturday afternoon in Queen's Park the three choirs will be united and will be led by a military band. An out- line of the program arranged so far Is as follows: Thursday afternoon, July 15, ad- dresses of welcome and responses; two meetings, Massey Hall and Caledonian Rink; in the evening four great lectures, all free. Friday morning, sunrise prayer Ss. LaFetra. meeting; the remainder of the morning will be devoted to departmental confer- ences: four simultaneous meetings in the afternoon, and evering topic, “Christ for the World,” and “The World for Christ.” Saturday morning, sunrise prayer meet- ing, followed with three denominational ral- Nes. A part of the afternoon will be given to recreation and sight seeing, previous to the open-air mass meeting in Queen's Park. The evenir.g sessions will be devoted to reforms and Christian citizenship. Sunday morning, sermons and attendance upon regular church service. Two junior rallies will be held in the afternoen, also eight meetings for Christian testimony, followed by the communion service. In the evening after regular services evangelistic and fare- well meetings will be held. The local committee in addition to mak- ing arrangements for the members will also secure reduced rates for others de- siring to go. The following subcommittee has been appointed from the several chap- ters to assist in arousing interest in the coming convention: Anacostia, Miss Cora McLean, Geo. King: Bethesda, Miss Pare- pa Walker, Charles Housen; Brookland, R. 8S. Woife, Miss Nannie Hollidge: Doug. Miss Amy L. May, C. E. Roberts; R. E. Layton, Miss Anna ner; Epworth, A. Vernon Gale, Miss Mollie Comer: Fifteenth Street, Miss Anna Crandall, F. J. Metcalf; Fletcher, Mrs, A. V. Allen, M Carrie Reiffe; Foundry, Miss Ella Sthiemetz, W. H. Kerr; Gaith- ersburg, Scott Duvall, Miss Carrie Crawford: Gorsuch, Miss Estelle Crump, Rev. W. H. Richardson; Grace, 8. A. Ter- ry, Miss Jennie Watts; Hamline, Mrs. H. B. Moulton, Miss Ida_ O'Neal; Hunting Hill, Miss ‘Victoria Ward, Mrs. Jennle Buswell; Hyattsville, G. D. Fox, Mrs. R. C. Bowen: Kensington, Rev. R. M. Moore, W. E. Dulin; Metropolitan, Miss M. A. McKee, W. C. Eldridge; McKendree, R. L. Middleton, 8. S. Culbertson; North Cap- J. Finney Engle. itol, Rev. Page Milburn, 8. S. Symons: Ryland, Rev. S. M. Hartsock, W. E. C. ‘Toed; St. Paul’ Miss Louise Duvall, M. N. Richardson; Tenleytown, H. C. Riley, A. E. Shoemaker; Trinity, T. B. Stahl, R. E. kin, J._H. Cook: Twelfth Street, Miss Mollie Lar- Allen; Union, Miss Carrie Mc- A. Bielaski; Waugh, Mrs. M. H. O. Hine; Wesley, J. 3. s Grace Dowling; Oxon Hill, Miss Stella Bonini; Ashton, Miss S. Lizzie Fairall, Edgar Ervin; Alex- andria, Re 1. McDougle, Wm. Pier- point; Cokesbury, Rev. H. C. Smith, Miss Fannie Croggon ngress Heights, Rev. P. C. Dilts, Wm. Gillian; Liberty Grove, E. H. Burten, Rev. H. P. West; White- field, A. A. Hancock, Rev. J. W. Steele; Rockville, Dr. W. R. Andrews. ‘This committee, with the genoral commit- tee, will meet at McKendree M. FE. Church this evening at 7:30 o'clock to consider plans outlined and report on the number expecting to go from their respective chap- ters, and to discuss the route. It is expected to make this trip to To- ronto and return inside of ten days for $12. Those who wish to remain longer can take advantage of the regular convention rate, which will very likely be only a few dol- lars more and good on all roads, with an expected limit to August 31. Entertainment can be secured in Toronto from $1 to $2 per day. The Local Committee. Frank Thomas Israel, chairman of the committee which has charge of all the ar- rangements for the Washington delegation to the convention, has been active in Ep- worth League work for over six years, and is now entering on the fourth year as sec- retary of the District League. He was S. C. Cissel, elected first vice president of the Baltimore Conference Leegue at the conference re- cently held tn Baltimore. Mr. E. 8. La Fetra, secretary of the com- mittee, is a Washington boy, and attended the Washington High School, from which he went to Emerson Institute. From there he went to Princeton, where he graduated with honors in the class of 95. He is serv- ing the second term as president of Met- ropolitan Chapter, of which church he is an active member. For the past year he was president of the Oratorical Association of the District League. Mr. Fred E. Woodward represents the league of the M. E. Church South on thé committee. He was born in Damariscotta, Maine, and has always been closely iden- tified with the work of the church, Sunday school, missions and Y. M. C. A. He has been a member of the Methodist Church for sixteen years, and a resident of Wash- ington thirteen years. Removing to Rich- mond, Va., in 1891, he united with Broad Street M. E. Church South, and since his return to this city, in 1898, has con- nected with Epworth M. E. Church South. Besides being president of Chapter 1408 of Epworth Church, he has been especially active in the work of the Epworth League in the Baltimore conference, under the jurisdiction of the M. B. Church South, and holds the important office of corre- sponding secretary of that body, and also secretary of the District League of that church. Mr. J. Finney Engle was born at Harris- lucated in the burg, Pa, and edi schools of that city. He taught ponte THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL public schools of Lancaster county for seven years, and holds a life state teach- ers certificate He was appointed to a clerkship in the pension, ice in 1890. For three terms as first vice president, and is now serving the second year as president of Waugh Chapter, which has the honor of having the largest membership of any chapter the District. Prof. Edger Frisby is an active officer of Dumbarton Chapter of Dumbarton M. E. Church. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto, was appointed a professor of mathematics in the navy by President Hayes, and is one of the staff of ast omers connected with the United States Naval Observatory. Being well acquainted in Canada his assistance on the committee will be of great value. Mr. S. Cornelius Cissel is one of Washing- ton’s enterprising young business men. He has been connected with Methodism in this city all his life, and especially interested in the young people's societies. He was one of the first presidents of McKendree Ly- ceum, and afterward one of the organizers of Foundry Chapter, Epworth League, and is now entering the second year as presl- dent of the Twelfth Street Chapter, which was made famous by the outdoor meet- ingayonducted last summer in the south- east section of the city. He 1s also first vice president of the Washington Grove Young People’s Association. Being chatr- man of the transportation committee of the District League last year he has heen as- signed that portion of work on the Tor- onto committee, and is doing everything possible to secure the lowest rates and ac- commodations for the contingent from Washington. Mr. Robert I. Carr ts a member of Doug- las Memorial Church, and fs an enthusiastic Epworthian. He has been in attendance at all the conventions of the fourth general conference district, also the first and sec- ond international conventions of the league. For four years he has served as president of Douglas Chapter, and is also president of Douglas Sunday School Temperance So- ciety, and superintendent of Rosedale Mis- sion Sunday School of Douglas Church. eS ae PUZZLED THE LINGUISTS. Him in No One Thought to Addre: English. From the New York World. Schneider, you know, was held up until the immigration people had found Fis bag- gage. But Schneider said nothing, even though they put him in the detention pen with a lot of Slovaks end a handful of Liverpool stowaways. Schneider had arrived on the Majestic, and he was sad. He really objected in- wardly to the loss of his things, because he said so afterward. But that was all subsequent to the fun he had had unwit- tingly with the immigration inspectors. It is a well-known fact that these 1m- migration people speak more languages than you will hear in two months on the entire East Side. Only once have they been stumped, and that was when a Hot- tentot Bushman came along with a few labial gymnastics that set a-guessing every man on the island. While Schneider was moaning in the pen Chief Clerk Lederhilger came along. Chanc- ing to observe the melancholy appear- ance of the man, he turned toward him. Now it happened that Schneider, besides having a sort of Teutonic air, wore clothes of unmistakable German origin. So natur- ally Lederhliger addressed him in German. “Sind Sle Deutsch?” he asked. Schneider humped up his shoulders, spread out his palms and shook his head. “Funny,” murmured the clerk to himself, “I would have sworn to it, too.” And Schreider stood with a curious look upon his face while the chief clerk went after the French interpreter. Presently Mr. Lederkilger returned with the French inspector. Calmly and confidently the in- terpreter strode smiling toward Schneider, and when in range hurled out explosively: “Etes-vous Francais?” Again Schneider shrugged his shoulders and nodded negatively. “Well, well,” said the chief clerk, “I'll just get the Russian interpreter now. He'll fetch him, surely.” So pretty soon the Russian interpreter came along, easy and pop-sure of getting Schneider down to a fine poin “Just you watch,” said he, “I'll get him.” “HI,” said he, walking up to the moody immigrant, ‘‘Zawarte Pa Rusku hay. Red- den Sie Y!ddish?” Schneider moved his seat hastily to an- other part of the room, where he sat vio- lently sheking his head. It was painfully evident that he didn’t understand. It was also evident that he was beginning to be- come alarmed. By this time all the other interpreters had heard something was up, so they came streaming in by ones and twos and squads, and up the stairs and through the doorways, and one climbed over the gate. And all the while Schnet- der’s alarm rose higher and he sat with a look of great apprehension upon his face. “Just let me try him,” sald the Ttalian interpreter: “Hi—Steta Itallano—si?” Schneider bobbed his head negatively ana protested with his kands. Then they sur- rounded him and shot off a bombardment of polyglot questions calculated to con- fuse the senses of a polar bear, which at bestgis always calculated to keep cool. “Habla suted Espanol?” cried the Span- ish interpreter. “Konne tolla Svensk?’ roared the Scan- dinay Inavian. “Thiggin thu Gaeldaedh?” piped a man that had a smattering of Gaelic. “Cmwvir fan ffacken?” was the taffy of the Welsh irspector. he pau muvish po Ruski?” yelled the Polish interpreter. ‘‘Che pau Polish?” By this time Schneider was backed up against the wall with his hands out- stretched to ward off the horde. “Maybe he’s a Hottentot!” some one roared, and a red-faced man leaned over and screamed “Ki bobbiri Walli? Ki bob- biri Walli?” But then some one cried out in English. “That ain't Hottentot, you mud-hen. That’s Hindoostanee!”’ Then Schneider began to yell, too. " he cried, “what is this anyway said Schneider, And he got. “and I want to get ou —+e-— HE HAS MOVED. Acquiring Information Concerning Methods of Collecting a Bill. From the New York Sun. “When we moved into the country,” said Mr. Changeofair, “I almost wondered at the absolute confidence of the boss of the moving party. It was a long haul, two or three vans, and the bill a matter of $40 or $#, but they moved everything out of the vans Into the house, clean, before the boss Griver presented the bill. I wondered what they would do if somebody should say then that he would call at the office and settle, or something of that sort. But then I knew I was going to pay, that it had been perfectly safe to get the stuff in und col- lect the bill afterward of me, and I made up my mind that they were keen men, who knew people when they met them, whom they could trust, and whom not. “Well, after some years we moved back. Same concern moved us in, but they didn't know us at the office any more than if they had never heard of us. Arrived in the city, the men with the vars—it was a different crew from that that took us out—began lugging in the things just as the men who moved us out had done in the country. No- body said anything about pay, and I won- dered again what would happen if they got the stuff all in and then the owner didn’t pay. But they kept on hustling the things in just as if they felt perfectly easy and se- cure about that. “After a while the stuff was pretty much all in; practically all but the piano, and I wondered why they hadn't brought that in before, because I had seen it loaded, and I knew it was one of the last things loaded on at the very rear end of one of the vans. So I went out to see, and there was tne piano, right where I had seen it when it was put aboard, at the extreme rear of the van, while all the stuff in front had been taken out, carried around the end of the plano and into the house; in front of it the van was empty. “Passing through the hall I met the head driver, the boss of the party, and he, just casually meeting me in that way in the hall, handed over the bill for the moving, and I paid it on theepot. Then, everything else having been moved in, the whole gang tallied onto the piano and walked it right imto the house. “Of course, it may have only just hap- pent that the ge wasn’t moved in until had paid the bill; but this didn’t give me quite such @ flattering opinion of myself as the other way had, but it more than confirmed my original opinion of the shrewdness and ability of the van folks. They made few mistakes and took even fewer risks.” ——— a If you want anything, try an ad. in The Star. If anybody has what you wish, you will get an arswer. & BAILEY OF TEXAS I The Leader of ‘the Young Democracy in the House, is os SIGNIFICANCE OF HIS SITUATION He Has Profited by the Favor of a Reed. SOMETHING ‘ABOUT THE MAN Written for The Eveaing Star. ‘The selection of Joseph W. Bailey of Tex- as the democratic candidate for Speaker of the House of Representatives emphasized peculiarly the action of the Chicago con- vention last fall. That convention nomi- nated William J. Bryan, thirty-six years old, as its candidate for the presidency. The nomination fired the hearts of the young democracy in the south and west. They went into the campaign with zest and veal born of @ power almost religious. It was the reflex of the wave in the United States Senate, where young men had come to the front to stay. They are there today, and their number there is increasing. An- tiques in politics are being sent to the back seats. The young element has also discovered its power in the House, and has asserted it without regard to precedent. It takes genuine delight in burying precedent. It is the same element that has astounded the grave and reverend seignors of the Senate for the last four years. It is now showing its strength in the House of Repre- sentatives. This it is that makes the selec- tion of Mr. Bailey significant. The inde- pendent course taken by Dubois, Hans- brough, Allen, Kyle, Mantle, Pritchard, Wilson and others with unsilvered hair in the Senate is finding its echo in the other wing of the Capitol. The democratic mem- bers are the first to respond by choosing Joseph W. Bailey as their candidate for Speaker. The selection carried with it the leadership of the minority on the floor. That Bailey could walk off with the prize, with such veterans as McMillin and Bland in competition, may excite surprise, but it is by no means astonishing. The old mem- bers failed to see the cloud on the horizon. They relied too much upon the streng:h of term of service. General Henderson of Il- linois made the same mistake when a can- didate for clerk in the last House of Jtepre- seniatives. Bailey's friends, with very few exceptions, were men youthful and bright- eyed, without tufts of gray moss on their chins, and without rheumatic pains in their joints. They worked night and jay, while the veterans were asleep. Intuitively feeling their power, they gathcred and used it with irresistible force. An Element of Strength. Bailey is thirty-three years old. His youthful friends pointed to his age with pride. They regarded it as an element of strength, and not as a weakness. They re- called the fact that Napoleon commanded the army of Italy when he was only twen- ty-six, but they seem to have forgotten that Vergneaud, the chief of the Girondists, led his party to ruin and lost his own head when at the same age of Bailey. A veteran Senator, on hearing of Bailey's nomination, said: “Well, the urchins are on top. There are two roads betcre them. One is to Tophet, and the other to a glorious v.c- tory." Which they will take time will develop. The march may be as destructive as the march of the Marseillais to Paris, and it may be as glorious as the march of the battalions headed by Carnot at Wat- tignies. Certain it is that Bailey has aplomb, dig- nity and boldness. He 1s resourceful and tactical. An excellent speaker, polished in manner, logical if not versatile, and of a pleasing presence, he must attract atten- tien, The galleries will be more than ever charmed with him, but the veterans of the House will be apt ta be cynical and skepti- cal as to his judgment. ‘They will hardly follow his leadership, with alacrity. If it fs tempered with good judgment, he may win their affection, ,as, Caesar won the affec- tions of the Tenth Legion by his campaigns in Gaul. There are dangerous defiles from which to debouch and pertlous heights. to climb. Ambuscades are to be feared, and there are unfordable rivers to cross. Some fear that the young leader will be vain and conceited, if not self-opinionated. They say fhat he ts more fitted to play the role of Apollo than that of Mars. His record in the House of Representatives, however, is gcod. He inherits to a great extent the con- ceptions and ideas of that old exemplar of Texas political philosophy, John H. Rea- gan. Indeed, it sometimes looks as though the young Texan had taken Reagan for his mentor. Through whatever canyon he is marching, or over whatever crags in poll- tics he is climbing, he keeps his eye on the Constitution. It is to him the ark of the covenant. Wherever there is the slightest doubt as to the constitutionality of a meas- ure, he vigorously attacks it. For instance, he does not believe that Congress has a constitutional right to charter corporations, and he has inflexibly set his face against such measures. Class legislation Is his abomination. He has introduced resolu- tions abolishing the retired Mst in the navy, and he probably regards the retired list of the army with the same disfavor. If he had it in his power, there is no doubt but what he would wipe out both lists. Speaker Reed's Recognition. A keen and discerning politician, he has won the confidence of his younger associ- ates. Indeed, they regard him with en- thusiasm. They will support him heartily and without reserve. The veierans, how- ever, will be harder to manage. They may try to wrest the leadership from him, when important measures are being considered. It will be difficult, however, for them to do this while Thomas B. Reed is Speaker cf the House. Mr. Reed’s recognition of Batley as the leader of the minority will have great weight in making him the real lead- er. Mr. Reed has treated the young Texan with marked favor. When he announced his committees last year, Mr. Bailey ap- peared as a member of the judiciary and elections committees and also of the com- mittee on revision of the laws. Speaker Reed made him one of the six democra; members of the committee on judiciary. Tkis gave Texas two places on that com- miftee, David B. Culberson of that statc be- ing the leader of the minority, having serv- ed as chairman for many years. A marked evidence of the Speaker's favor as shown on the death of ex-Speaker isp. His death left 2 vacancy in the committee on rules. To the astonishment of the House, Mr. Reed placed Mr. Bailey in the vacancy. This was of ftself either a distinctive mark of the personal confi- dence of Thomas B. Keed, or a recognition on the part of the Speaker of young Bailey as a democratic leader. Bailey had served orly two terms in the House. His selec- tion looked like marked discourtesy to Gen. Thomas C. Catchings of Mississipp!, who had been a member since March 4, 1885, and who had seryed on the committee on rules through Mr, Crisp’s term as Speaker. When Mr. Reed appointed his committee on rules at the’ beginning of the Fifty- fourth Congress ha"put Benton McMillin in the place ocentpied by Gen. Catchings. This was strictly in line with precedent; McMillin having setved sixteen years in the House; but ‘when Crisp died’ he set azide all precedetit bY appointing Mr. Bai- ley. But the most* marked sign of Mr. Reed’s preferment .for Mr. Bailey was shown at the beginfiing of this extra ses- sion. The Texati'had never been a mem- ber of the ways’ @nd means, yet the Speaker placed faimy.at the head of the minority on this committee, jumping Me- Millin and other @demgcrats who had served many years upon Thus Balley’s six years of service have brought him more henor than the eighteen years spent by McMillin in the House. There are men who are so ungenerous as to aver that Speaker Reed made this appointmant with the view of fomenting disturbances in the democratic party. Mr. Bailey is, however, no political.Belzebub, as some of the con- servative democ: sedm to have imag- ined.” The antiques may not be taken into his confidence, and at times he may treat them unceremoniously, but he probably has too much good sense and judgment to worry or to gaff them. - Something of the Man. Mr. Batley is tall, loag-haired, blue-eyed, classic-featured and of a pink and white complexion. His face, like that of Bryan— and, for that matter, including. McKinley 1897—28 PAGES. Sore THE ABOVE PICTURE REPRESENTS THE WIMSHURST HOLTZ INFLUENCE MACHINE, by which can be obta!ned the only true X-RAY, which Was discovered by Prof. William Konrad Roentgen of Wurzburg, Bavaria. The X-Ray is the most wonderful disccvery of the present ag> and of uriversal interest to all. We should be thankful that it was the work of so great a scientist as Roentgen, and that he gave it to the world without: price. A practical demonstration of the Roentgen Rays show the photograph of the hand, which is here represented, taken by Dr. Czarra in his med- ical institute, 619 and 621 Pennsylvania avenue northwest. With this apparatus it is made easy to locate bullets, fractures or any deformity of the human body. Any diagnosis can be made easy and sure. Not only do we have the great benefit of the X-Rays for diagnosing, but it has great heal- ing powers, which has been shown by many prom- inent specialists—Ophthomologists — Genecologists— Neurologists—who have treated the different dis- eases with great benefit and success. By this statle machine Dr. Czarra ts enabled to cure 15 = Neuralgia, Rheuratism, Sciatica, Inflammation and Kidney Trouble. Also treats Blood, Skin and Pri- vate Diseases of both sexes, Vitality restored. Every one {s tnvited by Dr. Czarra to call and see & demonetration of this wonderful X-Ray free of charge. and Reed—is smooth shaven. He ts big- boned and in process of time may reach the proportions of Gov. Hubbard and Gov. Hogg, if not of Speaker Reed. He wears a black sombrero, @ Byronic collar, a black frock coat and a low-cut vest, showing an expansive shirt front with a silk watch guard acrots the bosom. His shoes are always neatly polished, and his trousers of the finest broadcloth. Winter and summer he appears in the dress of a statesman. Indeed, he is by far the neatest dressed man in the Texas delegation. The new leader is sure to attract atten- tion in more ways than one before the ad- journment of the Fifty-fifth Congress. An army of young democrats have their eyes upon him as the representative of the younger element of the party. He voices their aspirations and their desires. He has aspired to the leadership of this clement in the House and has won %t fairly and squarely. If his judgment keeps pace with his ambition and the hopes of his | friends he is destined to far greater po- litical preferment. The people, however, will keep their eyes on the born leader of the minority of the House. He does not hold his place either by the favor of Thomas 8. Reed or the manipulation ef aspiring personal friends. He is a veteran of experience in the field of legislation, and no nov He will wield the meat ax of political philosophy, znd not the crochet needle of cons*itutional sophis- try. He is no lawyer, but has been a miner in the gulches, and is now an hon- est farmer. And his name, it is Richard P. Bland. He is the Coeur de Lion of the democratic party in both the House and Senate, and the people will not be slow to recognize it, despite the action of the Gemocratic caucus. AMOS J. CUMMINGS. ——— It matters little what it is that you want —whether a situation or a servant—a “want” ad. in The Star will reach the person who can fill your need. ee The Campnign of Education. E. L. Godkin in the April Atlantic. The machine und@ftakes the work of pro- viding the voter with candidates and get- ling him to come to the polls, but it does not undertake the previous process of keeping him informed about the rights and wrongs of public questions. It undertakes, ir I may say so, to keep party spirit, but not public spirit, alive. It does not at- tempt any regular work of public instruc- tion. In fact, it discourages discussion and presents for leadership men clever in man- agement rather than men clever in oratory, men skillful in a certain kind of intrigue for the party benefit rather than men skill- ful in propagating ideas of any kind. To this change in the type of the public men I venture to ascribe the frequency of what are called “crazes” of late years; that Is, the sudden seizure of the popular mind by enthusiasm for some extravagant idea, or some scheme oppored to human experience and unwarranted by human knowledge. This disappears after a while before what is called ‘a campaign of education.” Now a “campaign of education,” such as we nave had to carry on against the green- back movement of 1875, or the silver craze of 1896, is in reality an attempt to do in a few months, under stress of some press- ing danger, the work of persuasion or in- struction which should be constantly going on. This persuasion or instruction must be a condition of all safe and successful de- mocracy, and to be carried on fruitfully should be carried on by public men. In the English democracy, one of the most whole- some signs of the times is the incessant appearance, both before and during the meeting of parliament, of public men on the stump. In fact, addressing his constituents on all the leading questions of the day, home and foreign, is as much a part of an English politician’s functions as sitting in his place in the legislature during the ses- sion. It is part, and a most important part, of popular education, The disappear- ance of this practice among us is one of the bad signs of our times. There are but few of our public men who ever address an audience except during some exciting canvass, and they then deal mainly in generalities, such as praise of their own country or denunciations of another. Thor- cough discussions of distinct measures or events from all points of view, such as the discussions of the currency question which took place during the “campaign of edu- cation,” in 1896, are very rare, almost un- known. Sir Walter Scott’s First Brief. From the Westminster Gazette. Sir Walter Scott had his share of curious experiences in the same connection shortly after being called to the bar. His first ap- pearance as counsel in a criminal court was at Jedburgh Assizes in 1793, when he successfully defended a veteran poacher. “You're a lucky scoundrel,” Scott whis- pered to his client when the verdict was given. “I’m just o’ your mind,” returned the latter, “and I'll send you maukin (namely,'@ hare) the morn, man.” Lock- ‘t, who narrates the incident, omits to add whether the “maukin” duly reached Scott, but no doubt it did. On another occasion Scott was less suc- cessful in his defense of a housebreaker, but the culprit, grateful for his counsel's exertions, gave him, in lieu of the orthodox fee, which he was unable to pay, this piece of advice, to the value of which he, the housebreaker, could professionally attest: First, never to have a large watchdog out of doors, but to keep a little yelping ter- rier within; and secondly, to put no trust in nice, clever, gimcrack locks, but to pin his faith to a huge old heavy one with a rusty key. Scott long remembered this in- cident, and thirty years later, at a judges’ dinner at Jedburgh, he recalled it in this impromptu rhyme: * Yelping terrier, rusty Was Walter Scott's key, best Jeddart fee. ALL SHE COULD. The Pathetic Story of a Bra man’s Struggle. From the Youth's Companion. Scme years ago a clergyman moved from New England to the northern part of Iowa and settled upon a farm. Many people said that he was foolish to do this; that he was throwing his life away. He left behind him a comfortable home, pleas- ant associations, libraries, schools and congenial neighbors. Besides, he was old and beginning to be feeble. But he felt that there was awaiting him a broad field, unplowed and ready for spiritual cul- tivation. 2 He had meant to go into this home mis- sionary work years before, but his wife had persuaded him to wait until their daughier had finished her education in an ‘ow the opportunity had eagerness like that of youth he left a community that, as he ex- pressed it, en “for generations preached to death,” in order to go to a people begging to be preached to life. There in the middle west the family built a small cabin of three rooms and a “lean-to” for the kitchen. No trees pro- tected them from the burning sun in sum- mer or from the fierce hurricane of win- ter. The country was new. There were no roads. Their nearest neighbor was six miles away across the prairie, and one Sunday the good man, after preaching to an audierce of twelve persons several miles away frem his home, was lost in a_biiz- zard in endeavoring to return to it. From the eftects of tnis exposure he died, and his wife soon followed him. The daughter, twenty years of age, was left alone. What was she to do? Should she pack up and return to the comfortable east, or stay and fight it out in the pioneer west? She decided to stay and continue her father’s work. She went out upon the vast prairie to teach. Most of the settlers there were Norwegians, and in a little two-roomed house, occupied by a large family, she went to board so that she might learn the language. But the food was so poor that she became Ill. Finally she secured the po- sition of principal in a small, struggling college. Here her surroundings were pleas- ant, but the trustees could not pay her salary, and after three years she went back to the prairie. This time she boarded with a kind but ignorant Irish family. During the winter the mother died, leaving two young girls to care for a household of men. Here the teacher found her mission in life. She taught the girls how to work. She helped them to cook, to sew, to make their own clothes, to make the heme cheer- ful and sweet. She made herself an elder sister to the two. She shared with them, made butter with them, milked with them, and endured the hay field with them. Soon the two sisters became noted for their gentleness, consideration and excellent home qualities. Wherever they went they carried a spirit of helpfulness and an elec- trie ray of cheerfulpess. But the world never knew of the sacri- fice of the minister's daughter, who spent some of the best years of her life in dreary hardship in order to make the lives of two other girls worth living. The story of this noble sacrifice came recently to the writer, from the west. What can be said of her who could have had the sweet, but chose the bitter for humanity’s and for Christ's sake? There are many bright, educated eastern girls in the west, endur- ing poverty and hardship as good soldiers of the Master, that they may do all they can for Him.’ Such unreserved giving up of self ought to shame us out of our easy, self-satisfied Hves of nominal Christian service. ———— FAMOUS GRETNA GREEN. The Goal of Eloping English Couples in the Last Century. From Leslie's Weekly. The London papers announce the death, at the age of ninety-elght, of William Lang of Springfield, Scotland. Perhaps neither the name nor thé lo- cality excites any responsive thrill in your memory. But when you are reminded that Springfield is virtually Gretna Green, and that William Lang was the son of Simon, the son of David, the grandson by mar- riage of Joseph Paisley, ail famous “black- smiths” of Gretna @reen, you will realize that Scotland has lost the last connecting link with that romantic era in her matri- monial history (between 1754 and 1856) when the very name of Gretna Green con- jured up images of fond lovers and of stern fathers, of hurried flight and of hot pur- suit, of marriages celebrated in the very teeth of furious parental arrivals. The e begin in 1754, because it was then that the English law put its foot down on ail unions not celebrated by min- isters of the Church of England. Prior to that time there was no need for an elop- ing couple to resort to Scotland. The so- called chaplains of the Fleet in London were doing a roaring business in non-ca- norical marriages. Gut the English mar- triage act of 1734 abolished these semi- clerical frauds. Nevertheless, England still recognized as legal a marriage celebrated in Scotland according to the Scotch law. And the Scotch law only required that a couple should stand up in the presence of two witnesses and di themselves man and wife. So there was a _ whirling of coackes and 2 clattering of horses across the border, and eloping couples who could not afford the delay of banns and regis- tration were hastily joined together at the little village of Springfield, which stood on the great highway just across the river We have not the space to e more than one testimoutal of the hundreds we receive daily House of Representatives, This is to certify that I have been suffering from Catarrh affecting the nose, thraat and ears, resulting from a severe attack of La Grippe (® six years ago, and been treated by different physicians of eminence, but without obtaining @ permanent cure. For the past six weeks I have been treated for the abowe, also for General Weak- ness, produced by overwork, by Dr. S.A, Cearra of this city, with the most beneficial results to myself. His medical pent ts most thorough and painstaking, and I found hin «lectrical ing and generally bene Y results impel me upon my own motion to return my thanks to Dr. Czarra im the shape of this testimonial, and to add furthor that I was agreeably rised at the moderation of his fees as compared with his great services, I am, Very tru House of Representatives, U.S. Note.—The original . with signature, cam be seen at my and 621 Pennsylvania avenue vorthwest. axe one, at contracting parties in Scotlar thereof id for twenty-one days previous. So William Lang's trade during the last third of his life was limited to mere pe- destriars. tch lads and lassies of hum- > and slender purses, attracted the romantic associations of lace. He no longer gathered in the lordly carriage runaways, prodigal of cash and liquor,whom alone his ancestors would have condescended to join together. He senk so low, indeed, that he had to eke out a lvelitood by mails. J. M. Barrie eript of him as he ap; in 1854: “A poste empty letter bag on his back and a ing drop trembling from he picked bis way through the pudd his lips pursed into a portentous frown, and his gray head bowed professionally in con- templation of a pair of knock-knecd but serv'ceable shank: arrying “For nigh Says the same authority, “Ss has marked time by the Langs, still finds ‘in David Lang’s days’ Plaucus was ible a phrase as ‘when Many illustrious names appear in the regssters which are still carefully pre- served’ by the heirs of the Lintons and the Langs. Royalty in the person of a Bourton prince of Naples, English aristoc racy in the shape of earls and viscour celebrities like Richard Brinsley Sherid. all made what was known as an “o'er-the- march” wedding. see THE WILD HORSE. Only Genuine Specimens Now Are Roaming Through Western China. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. The horse has become so thoroughly domesticated in all parts of the worid that really wild representatives of the cies are extremely rare. There still exist in parts of Hungary partially wild horses, but these when captured young may be broken in and put to harness with as much readiress as horses reared on a farmstead, It is, however, far differsnt with the wild horses of the Tartars, which are untame- able, and will not live in captivity. During his journey through western China, G. E. Grum Grizmatlo met with a wild horse in the Dzungurian desert, and, after much trouble, succeeded in securing two specimens, though neither of them were taken alive. The herds are extremely cautious, and it was only by the utmosg patience and cunning that the explorer® were able to conceal themselves neat enough to a small salt lake where the horses came to drink to shoot a couple of them. The wild horse has something in common with the Altai, “aucasian and Finnish ponies. It is of short stature—14@ meter high—has a broad chest and back, a short massive neck, and fine legs, af elegant as those of a race horse, ending with broad hoofs. The head is rather heavy in comparison to the body, but the wide forehead is hand- some, the line from the forehead to the nose straight, and the upper lip covers the lower one. The upper part of the tail has the color of the body, but black at the point, and, lke that of the wild ass, is not entirely covered with hair. The mane begins in front cf the ears, the longest hairs being tn its middle part; it is black in color, and hangs over to the left. In the scantiness of hair about the body the wild horse rather resembles the Tekke Turcomane horse, but the killed specimens had a strange looking pair of whiskers, about four centimeters long, running from the ears to the chin. Its color is sandy in summer and light brown in winter, with nearly white parts on the abdomen. The forehead and checks are rather darker than the rest of the body, while the end of the snout is whitish. The legs are black, the spinal mark hardly exists, and entirely disappears in winter. In its manners and mode of life the wild horse differs from the wild asses—the Ojighetais and the Kulans. They stay in preference in the desert, while the asses prefer the mountains. The wild horses march in Indian file when they scent dan- ger, and leave in the desert their track in the shape of well defined paths as they march from their abodes amidst the desert hillocks to their drinking places. They neigh exactly Ike, and have the charac- teristic grvwling of our horses. The Mon- gols sometimes succeed in catching young foals alive, but so far they have never been able to tame them, nor do the foals lve for any length of time when kept in captivity. They are very fleet of foot, and a herd when startled rushes away with the velocity of race horses. An It Seemed to Him. From the Philadelphia Press, “Do you think Othello had any right to kill Desdemona?” “Certainly. Any woman who sobs in bed ought to be killed.” If it’s Wilbur’s it’s all right. If you drink it you'll be all right. Good for sick ana well, old and young. Z