Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1892 — Page 3

A WOMAN'S INFLUENCE

BY LULU JAMISON

Chapter vr. SOME VJEWB OF POVERTY. When Brian descended to the breakfast room next morsing; he found Margaret alone. J She was standing near the open window, and so intent upon arranging some lilies in a Bowl tjist.she did;, not notice Ms presence until he was close beside her. • ■ "i.: i His voice recalled her absent thoughts, And, looking .ifbvrjttt start, the warm blood mounted to her brow, notwith- * tending her effort to control the momentary weakness. “I did not expect to see you so soon.” ehe said, in answer to his “Good morning.” “And I did not expect to see you alone. We are both disappointed—l most agreeably. Will you allow me to assist you? No? Perhaps you doubt my ability. I shall improve it by watching you; Or, better still, I shall taire advantage of this opportunity to tell you that I am sorry I ever came here. ” “That is a poor compliment to Miss Hilton and me,” replied Margaret, with an attempt at lightness, and an absorbing interest in Her task. "You know what I mean,” he returned, with some warmth. “You know why the very sight of you is painful forme. You seem happy enough, but I am utterly miserable. ” “Hid you sleep well last night?” she broke in, with questionable irrelevancy, placing the flowers, which she could make no further pretext of fixing, in the middle of the table. “No, I didn’t sleep at all,” was the rather short reply; “I was haunted.” “Haunted! How unpleasant! I wonder why they don’t bring in breakfast • Will you ring that beil by you, please?” “No, no! Walt orie moment, Margaret. I dare say the coffee isn’t ready, or the Steak isn’t cooked, or something. I don’t like my, breakfast half done; besides, I’m not hungry.” “But I am; I’ve had a long ride this morning.” “■4’ou didn’t use to ride at S’conset. Confound that hole! How I wish it had been swallowed Up before 1 ever saw It! Why did you deceive me, Margaret? You told me your name was Smith. ” “And so it was while I was there. Others knew me as Miss Smith, why shouldn’t you?” She colored in spite of herself. “You’might have told me afterward,” he continued, reproachfully. “What a difference it would have made!” “I understand,” she replied, with not a little scorn, and Brian,, feeling that he had committed himself again, was about to say something in his own vindication, when the door opened and Miss Hilton entered, thus putting an end to the tete-a-tete. He saw Margaret’s expression of relief, and his heart sank accordingly. But during breakfast she talked to him so pleasantly and naturally that he began to feel less depressed. He was,even planning a quiet hour -with her .during the morning, when she arose from the table,'with the words: “I think I shall rids over to The Cedars, Miss Hilton. I haven’t seeh Aii.ce sinoe my return, you know- • I am sure, you and cousin Brian, will have .lots to talk over, so I’ll leave him in your hands,’’ Miss Hilton noticed the change that fa sid over .Brian’s countenance, but she answered quite cheerfully: . “Very well, my dear.. You mustn’t neglect your friends. Brian and I will have a nice, quiet morning together. Don’t let. the Colonel keep you toolong.” > 4 t •. “After., your remark about the quiet morning, I think I’ll spend the day,” was Margaret’s quiet rejoinder, as she passed through the door which Brian held open for her. Twenty minutes later she had mounted her horse, and was following the well-kept road through the busy little town. But though she was nodding every" few minutes to the people she passed, her thoughts were far from her present surroundings. Certain ideas had obtained lodgment in her mind and refused to be displaced For The first time, the possibility that her uncle had looked forward to a union betwetn her. cousin and herself came to her with a certainty that was absolute pain, Bho recalled many incidents and allusions,many half-forgotten conversations, which received a deeper meaning from this new possibility. She remembored that often, in speaking of Brian, her uncle had said a good wife would be his salvation, that home ties would bind him to a more useful life, and that his most earnest desire was to see his wayward son well and happily married. But she remembered, above all, that when her uncle lay dying he had awakened, after many hours of unconsciousness, to say, in accents which only her ear could catch: “ God will bless and guard you, Margaret. Don’t forget Brian, and be good to him for my sake. ” The request had sounded oddly then, but now it had a new meaning. Was her uncle looking into the future even then, or d;d he in his dying moments enjoy the happy delusion that his hopes were realized.' Margaret was trying to answer this paipfui question when she reached her destination—a handsome, moderh-look-ing house, surrounded by stately cedars. Bunning up the broad staircase, with the air of one familiar with the surroundings, she paused before a halfopened door, with the words: “May I come in, Alice?” For answer, there was a glad cry; the sound of a chair falling, followed by rapid footsteps, and a pretty girl of a brunette type rii3hed into Margaret’s arms and kissed her with affectionate impetuosity. “Oh, I aan so glad to see you,” she cried between her spasmodic caresses. “You dear child, you’ve been away an age. You look pale, too, or perhaps it’s this black dress. .Come right in. Everything’s mussed as usual. There, take my big chair, : and consider yourself quite privileged. So that wretched place didn’t quite kill you?” “No,” laughed Margaret, allowing herself to be placed In the chair in question. “I am very much alive, as you see,,.. You and Miss Hilton really amuse m-; your ideas of S’conset are as different from the reality as night from day. It is a whole host of delights in itself. I am really not an object of sympathy, so your pity has all been thrown away.” “So it has, you bad girl. Why didn’t you tell me before. I might have saved some- Still I’m glad to see you back. 'Uncle will be delighted. He has been positively unbearable, and I do hope your presence will improve hiis temper.

Oh, I had quite forgotten. Your cousin is with you, isn’t he? Is he nice? How does he like things, and how do you like him?” Alice moved nearer to Margaret, and taking her hand, laughingly gazed into her faoe. “Yes, he is home. He came yesterday afternoon, and Well, it is simply unendurable. Fancy the position of playing hostess to a man who feels you have .taken his birthright. Yet, there are people in this place who think me fortunate. Some persons never see beyond the surface." “Well, don’t think about it, my dear,” said Alice, consolingly. “It isn’t your fault. lam anxious to see your cousin. His return is all over the neighborhood, of course. I’m afraid it won’t please Mrs. Downs. She may think poor dear Aify’s chances lessened thereby.' He has pined to a mere skeleton during your absence, Margaret.” A contemptuous expression passed over Margaret’s face. “I do wish some one would marry him and carry him off to another neighborhood,” she said. “I am so thoroughly tired of seeing him around. He may be the paragon his mother thinks him. I daresay he is. He hasn’t brains enough to be otherwise. But I prefer a little wickedness to want of sense.” “Don’t be sarcastio discussing Alfy, my dear. He is a very nice, girlish young man, and his bank account will reach from here to the Gulf of Mexioo." “Perhaps if it were shorter he might be better," commented Margaret. “Money causes all the trouble in the world. ” “The want of it, you mean,” suggested Alice, sagely. “It Is a wonderful power, no doubt. It makes beauty more beautiful, virtue more virtuous, and greatness more great. The very thought of it makes me wax eloquent. Seriously, my dear, poverty is the meanest thing under the sun. Nell agrees with me there. I had a letter from her this morning, and to cheer you I will read it." “How is Nell?” asked Margaret, smiling at a thought her mind conjured up. “I don’t see that plaque she painted. Have you become unappreciative of her genius?” “No,” returned Alioe frpm the depths of her desk, where she was hunting for her letter. “But uncle gave me that tovply li|sls landscape on the ; left there, by-Alice's plague, the contrast between It and her indigo lane and impossible trees was startling, even to my inartistic eye. I stood it for a few days, but at last nature would Mar no more, and the plaque now reposes in my trunk, where the sun can not fade or the dust injure. Here’s her letter. “My Dear Alice: At last I am sitting down to answer your letter, and acknowledge its welcome inclosure. My head is buzzing the things I have to say, but I’ll begin at the beginning. Gratitude before everything in my category, I will therefore thank you for your Check. I spell it with a capital, you Observe. I don't know that it is correct according to the rules of orthography, but under the laws which make us important or insignificant in proportion as we are rich or poor, it is perfectly in order. Henceforward I shall adopt it as showing my deep and abiding respect for money. “This particular money came in quite apropos. We had been getting our summer wardrobe (I use this word advisedly, as it sounds more imposing than enumerating details), and you will not have to strain your imagination much to bring to-mind the painfully emaciated condition of the family purse. It looked extremely humble, .1 assure you, despite the fact that poverty is always proud. But the moment your check arrived, what a change! It immediately swelled with pride, like the fabled frog whose picture I used to admire so extraV,agantly, and though it has been considerably depleted since, it still remains fat, .■ > ■

“Now, Alice, a word of advice. Keep in with the old bear and make him leave you some money; for, horrible thought,the Beynoldses seem to be growing poorer. I think it a decided mistake on the part of mamma and papa to have had so many children. But I have noticed that this mistake is common among poor people. I suppose they want numbers somewhere, so they make up in babies what they lack in dollars. If matters don’t mend with us, shall go to writing stories; I always did think I had a talent. “In your last letter you mildly inquired if we liked our new flat. My dear child, the question was superfluous. Flats weren’t made to be liked; hot the cheap flats, at least, and those are the only kind we indulge in. Our present one is a narrow tunnel, probably a trifle broader than the road which is popularly supposed to. lead to eternal bliss. We have daylight at each end and varying degrees of twilight in the middle, and our bed-rooms are so small that Bess, being a girl of resources, kneels upon the bed to say her prayers and prevent me from tumbling over her feet, which, to say the least, are not in proportion to our apartment. “Speaking of Bess, I’m dying to know if she ever mentions Mr. Spencer in her letters to you. That man is my abomination, and I shiver at the possibility of such a brother-in-law. He likes her, I know, for he comes here nearly, every night, sits in our best chair, which he has nearly worn out, and talks through the biggest nose it has been my fortune to see. Altogether he is odious, and if Bess marries him, she is no sister of mine. “Allusions to marriage and such giddy subjects remind me of what I consider a most important piece of news. I have a devoted follower, a painfully verdant, callow, youth, with brains so few as to be scarcely worth noticing, and a bank sccount so long that—well, that, like charity, it covereth a multitude of sins. He is so enraptured with me, that my red hair is golden in his eyes, from which fact you may estimate the extent of his imagination. “ ‘lf he only had a little more sense,’ I find myself saying morning, noon and night, but with all the possibilities that cluster around that‘if,’ the unwelcome fact still obtrudes itself. HiS mind is a vacuum, and I, like nature, abhor a vacuum. “Sometimes I wonder if his pocketbook can fill the place where His brain ought to be. As the question Is a momentous one, pray give me the benefit of your advice. Meantime, I continue : to be the sun of his existence, the star of his night, and a few other luminaries. And as, also, you must be thoroughly tired of me by this time, I will say good-by, for the present. Everybody joins me in love to you. More in my next Nell.” “P. S. Being a woman, my letter wouldn’t be complete, without a postscript. So here it is: Give my love to Miss Margaret when you see her. I suppose she is as sweet and as pretty as ever, for I know her good fortune hasn’t spoiled her. ” Margaret flushed and smiled at this allusion to herself. “Just as bad as ever,” she commented. “Nell will never be staid nor dignified.” “That is what mamma says. We are

all a lively set. I dare say they think my nest is feathered, but ” Alioe shook her head doubtfully. “Uncle la so overbearing at times, and I was never noted for mildness of temper. Sometimes I get perfectly raving, and then there's a grand scene. Indeed, you wouldn’t laugh if you were In my place. “There is his bell now. He is awake, and I suppose he wants me. Evidently he’s in a bad humor. Gome with me, Margaret. He will want to see you, and besides your presence may be as oil upon the troubled waters.” Alice hurried' off, while Margaret waited to get her hat and gloves. When she reached the head'of the stairs she heard the Colonel’s high-pitched voice, evidently answering some proposition from Alice. 1 “Go back? I’ll go back when I choose. Miss. I’ll not be dictated to. I’ll— Bless my soul! if there isn’t Margaret. When did you get here, ohild? Just now? Well, well! I’m so pestered and bothered. I can hardly see you. Come here and let me have a good look at you. ■ At this in vitation Margaret came down the steps, and the old gentleman, despite her blushing remonstrance, took her face between his hands and kissed her 6n each cheek. “So you’ve been away, and come back as pale as ever, ” he added, holding her from him and looking at her earnestly, “I believe we could have done better for you here. I’m glad to qee you, ohild, mighty glad. Missed you like the devil. By the way, I hear you’ve got that young scamp with you. ' I doubt If he had one foot off the train before some of these confounded tattling women published it to the neighborhood. If I were the husband of some of them, I’d hang or shoot ’em. What are you giggling at, Alice? Nothing? Well, have more sense. Come over and take dinner with' us, Margaret. No company, you,.know. Only yourself and Brian, if you choose to bring him. I want to see the boy. I suppose he’s grown , out of my recognition.” • The old gentleman disappeared in the library as he made this last remark, and Margaret turned to Alice with, a smile. “I must be going,” she said. “I’veleft my cousin, you know, and I must nqt be inhospitable. Please come pyey soon, Alice. Miss Hilton sent her lave and a special invitation. ” Alioe stood on the ppreh for some minutes after Margaret was gone. “If I should turn prophetess,” she said, half aloud, I would say ” She did not complete her sentence, but, smiling to herself, went into the house, [TO BE CONTINUED, l

■,, ’ v 'v-'. imS ’'■•'■■4^ r ; A Duel to the Death. A most vindictive duel was fought during the reign of Louis XVI. by a colonel of the French Guards. This; gentleman was boasting of his good fortune of never having been obliged to fight a duel. Another officer expressed his surprise with some indirect allusions to the lack of courage, ob-. serving: “How do you avoid fighting when insulted?”. The colonel answered that he had never given offense, and that no one had ever presumed to insult -him. Moreover, that on such an occasion he would consider the character of the person who had wantonly insulted him ere he demanded satisfaction. Upon this statement his interlocutor, in the most insolent mauuer, struck him in the face with his glove, saying: “Perhaps, sir, you will not consider this an insult.” • ■ The colonel calmly put on his hat and walked out of the room. Thei following morning he sent a challenge to his aggressor. When they came to the ground the colonel wore a patch of court plaster of the size of a crown-piece on the cheek which had received the blow. At the very first lunge he wounded his antagonist in the sword > arm, when, taking off the plaster, he cut off an edge of it with a pair of scissors, and, replacing it on his face, took leave of his adversary, very politely requesting he would do him the honor of letting him know when he recovered from his wound. So soon as he heard he was able to hold a sword the colonel called him out again and wounded him a second time, cutting off another portion oi t ie patch. In like manner he called him out, fought and wounded him until th« plaster was reduced to the sizeof a shilling when the colonel yet once more challenged him and ran him through the body. Then, calmly contem plating the corpse, he observed: “I now may take off my plaster.

On the Care of False Hair.

In a brochure on the toilet “by a professional beauty,” a short chaptei is devoted to false hair, the care and use of it. Probably few women who are obliged to wear false hair give it any thought after it is laid on the dressing-table. This authority asserts, however, that it should be aa carefully brushed and combed every night as natural hair; only in thia way can it be kept clean and fresh. It is also suggested that it be put in a covered box of sandal wood whenever it is not on the head. In a New York woman’s dressing-room is a small box table with a lid. It is ol soft wood painted with pink enamel paint inside and out. To a curious visitor its owner disclosed the interior, which is divided into several compartments of irregular lengths, at the bottom of each of which is a silken sachet filled with Florentine prris and violet powder. Switches, cuffs, and curls rested lightly in theii proper nests. “A notion of my maid,” explained the woman, whose hail matched that in the box, with a laugh, “to preserve and perfume mad* ame’s coiffures.”

Something About Lady Mary Cordon.

Lady Mary Gordon, to whom “Th« Sisters” is dedicated by her affectionate nephew, Algernon Charles Swinburne, is the youngest of the twelve children of the third Earl of Ashburnham, being seven years junior to the poet’s mother, Lady Jane Swinburne. She married in 1839 the onlj son of Gen. Sir. .Tames Willoughbj Gordon, and possibly from this gallant soldier have filtered down some of the military traditions embodied in the tragedy.- Sir-Henry Percy Goo don succeeded his father in 1851,-but sought distinction in a different line, took honors at Cambridge, and became aF.R. S. At his death in 1876 the baronetcy lapsed for want of an heir, and his widow, Lady Mary, was left in possession of North Court, their pleasant seastde home near Niton, in the Isle of Wight

TWO NOTED OFFICIALS.

MARKED DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TWO SPEAKERS? ~ The Right Honor nble Arthur Wrllenioy P«1 »n«i Sptaktr Crisp—Wherein They Are Alike eixt 'Wherein They DifferAn Interesting Contrast in Public hull ' Private Lift. The English Speaker.''

> HEN thfi story of iW the n i n«tec nth llljßl century in the popular branch of \J. \l,v the British ParliaVCit men.t shall have been’ written the name of Peel will Xmtfg be found in bold V type Lesiclo those i ' Gladstone, DisTM fi/vJ rae li, O’Connor, ‘ijlW&bXst Parnell and other great parliamengrft 4a© /tarians who have 2? JL a £ therein figured. In first half of this century one

of the commanding figures in' the House of Commons was that of Sir Robert Peel, and in the second half a central and equally commanding figure is that of his youngest son, the Right Hoh. Arthur Wellesley Peel, 'the present Speaker, whose portrait, from a recent photograph, is here given. , For many years before his election to the Speakership in 1884, during Mr. Gladstone’s second administration, Mr. Peel was one of the best known men in the House of Commons. For twenty-seven years ho has uninterruptedly represented Warwick at Westminister. Three years after his admission to the “Assembly of Great Thinkers,” as-the Anglo-Saxons called the Parliament of their day, Mr. became Parliamentary Secretary to the Board*' of Trade. In 1873 he was appointed Patronage Secretary to the Treqafiry,

SPEAKER OF-THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

and for nine months In 1880 he' waq Under Secretary to the Home Department. To the reader unfamiliar with English Institutions it may be necessary to state 4 that a seat . .in the House of Commons, instead Of being inconsistent with the holding of tbege positions, is necessary to them, a.s ! 'ih the, cage of cabinet officers. Attached to the Speakership Is a salary of $25,000 a year and,an.,Official residence. Detached from fjty but shining in the distance, is the luster of a patent of nobility and a seat in the house of lords, besides a retiring pension of $20,000 a year. During his term of office the Speaker is thfe first commoner of the land,, taking precedence of others by custom and legislative enactment. The political Influence of the English Speaker is infinitesimal -coin* pared to that wielded by the Speaker of the United States Congress, Here the presiding officer never, or hardly ever, seeks, to divert the course of legislation, nor does he name the committees of the Htiuse. His'duty is mainly to insist on a strict observance of the rules, and to keep a close eye on all those things which involve the “dignity of the House,” to which Englishmen attach such immense importance. For his peculiar duties Mr. Peel is well equipped. He possesses a fine business aptitude, a full knowledge of parliamentary usages, and a disposition that can be serene or severe, urbane or austere, as occasion demauds the exercise of those essential qualities. He has also the physical qualifications of a sonorous voice and a commanding presence. His desk is not gavel-battered like our Speaker’s, for, as a rule, he easily controls the House. He sits with Jove-like serenity in his rich robes,

SPEAKER CRISP.

and when, be rises it would be considered a gross breach of' parliamentary good manners if any other mymbar remained standing. As Speaker Mr. Peel is the principal trustee of the British Museum. He is also Chairman of the Caledonian Canal Trust. In the early part of the century the government advanced a sum of money toward the expense of the canal, and in order that it might be represented on the trust a statute was passed making the Speaker of the day chairman cxofflcio of the undertaking. He is also trustee for the Duke of Wellington Of the famous Strathtleldsaye estate in Hampshire., Tbe American Speaker. Speaker Crisp does not get haX as much pay for presiding over the noisy branch of Congress as is given the Speaker of the House of Commons in England; But he does not have to wear the curly wig. His head is not upholstered. That is one compensiition for the difference in salary. Though the Speaker of the American House wears less hair and draws, less pay than the corresponding official of the British Government, he occupies immensely greater influence in legislative affairs, and his - relative rank In. the government Is higher. The Speaker of the Abuse is properly next in rank to thd^eaj-

dent. The Vice President is great chiefly in the fact of his nearness in succession to the President and the possibility that h®may become President hut as ' long as ho remains merely Vice President he is an alternate tty pa nk and a comparatively unimportant personage In the government The Speaker of the House, however, has the appointment of committees who shall take Charge of tlifr business of the House, and ho practically dictates the policy of the House. There have, perhaps, been some Speakers of small Influence, but they have been exceptions. .Speakers Reed, Blaine, Randall, and Carlisle each in his tiiue exercised'a powerful influence upon legislation. • In appealanoc there is a striking contrast between Speaker Crisp and .Speaker Peel, even leaving,, offt< of consideration the difference iq, their dress while exercising their official functions. >

The only other office the Speaker holds by reason of his'position in the House is that of Chairman of the Committee on Rules, to which Committee is referred all questions of the order of business. The Speaker usually dominates that committee, though, of course, he may be voted down by a majority of his four associates. He has no perquisites of power beyond his salary of SIO,OOO a year, can hold no other office under the government during his Incumbency as Speaker, and has neither title nor pension after retirement from the office. It is an omco won through popularity and ability and hold only by those qualities which give a man a commanding position In his party. It ,1s In the power of the Speaker to reward his friends and punish his enemies in many ways, but though the contest which resulted in Mr. Crisp's election was a hot one; thero have been no punishments for those who preferred another to him, and the rewards have been measured out tc ability and trustworthiness almost without regard to faction.

Story of a MUitlng Dlainom). One uight a pewly engaged couple wore going to g bull. In the carrlltge he asked hey to ipt, him see her ring for. a some peculiarity Us stride having caught ills eye, although why she Should have had; hei glove off no one can teH. She gave him the ring and he oxamiued It for shpie timc'ln the light of the carriage window When the carriage stopped shp asked him for the ring. /‘But I gave it back to you and you tooktlt. *; ‘ v*rj»v mc . -1 ’ “No, yon did not. I have not had It since 1 gave It to ydu/’ Lights werq brought, search was made, clothes, 1 were shaken—every place whore a. diamond ring could possibly die* cbtiOeftlod was unoovered. The ring could jiot’ be found. Each persisted, ho that bo gave the ring back, she that she did not,roepivo it. Assertion- became argument? argument changed from heat to ice; communication was interrupted and finally ceased; the engagement was They wept thoir ways and each . marjried another. One day several years later tho woman, ripping up an old ball dress, found in the heading of one of the raffles a diamond ring. It was the lost engagement ring. She wrote to her former lover a letter of apology and explanation, but the incident had turned the current of both their lives. This Is a true story.—New York Sun. ,

Popular, but Erroiißoun. “'/"he dramatic manner in which newspaper reports of railroad wrecks frequently refer to the heroic engineer who died with his hand on.the throttle is amusing,” said the General Superintendent of a Chicago Mne. “Of course nothing too good efth be said about a man who loses hie( life at his post of duty, but the plain fjtc't is that an engineer who ‘dies hand on the throttle’ does so because he has nothing else to take hold of. I have made a few runs my time and 1 speak by the card. It Is generally admitted by experienced locomotive engineers that the safest thing to do when a collision is about to occur is to drop down behind the boiler head and grasp the throttle regulator with both hands. This may prevent the engineer from being hurled out of the cab, and the boiler head protects him to a certain extent from being crushed when the cab is telescoped from the front. Of course if the tender is thrown upon the cab he will be caught from the rear, but lie takes his chances at the best. If he jumps he is very liable to strike a stone pile or to have the engine fall over on him before he can get away, and 1 think the records will show that fully as many engineers are killed by jumping as by sticking to their cabs and holding to. the throttle regulator, which is the most convenient and substantial means of support.”

How KapWlly We Think. Helmholtz showed that a wave of thought would require about a minute to traverse a mile of nerve, and Hirsch found that a touch on tile face was recognized by the brain and responded to by a manual sigital In the seventh of a second. He also found that the speed of sense differed for different organs, the sense of hearing being responded to in the sixth of a second, while that of sight required only one-tlfth of a second to be felt aud signaled. In all these cases the distance traversed was about the same, so the Inference is that images travel more slowly than sounds or touch. It still remained, however, to show the portion, of this interval^ taken up by the jetton* of the brain. ’ Professor Dodders, by very delicate apparatus, has demonstrated th/s to, be about seventyfive thousandths of, a second.. Of the whole internal forty 1 thousandths' a£a occupied in the simple act of.recognition,, and thlrty-tfve thousandths'for the act of willing response.—-House and Home. N . v. A most scurrilous cartoon was issued by the tories in Ehgland, picturing Gladstone bethg carried off by Satan, and yet England sometimes presumes to 'criticise American politics! A piece of wood one inch long and one-half inch thick was removed from the cheek of a Reading, Pa., young man.. The splinter entered his cheek six years ago in a coasting accident. % Jfjf. • ’■**.

THOMAS H. CARTER. Chairman of the Republican National Committee. The choice ot a chairman for the Republican National Committee has fallen upon Thomas 11. Carter, of Montana. Thomas Henry Carter is of Irish ancestry, and will be 38 yearn old on October 30 next. Ho was born in Junior Branch, Scioto County, Ohio, and in 1865 went with his parents to Puna, 111. His people were farmers, and young Carter hoed corn and made himself handy at the chores. In 1875 he went into business in Burlington, lowa, and studied law. From there, in 1882, he went to Helena, Mon., and he is still a resident of that, city and a practicing lawyer. He was a Territorial Delegate to Congress in 1888, and when Montana, in

THOMAS H. CARTER.

Novomber, 1889, was admitted as a State he was elected Congressman. Ho was defeated In his second fight. In Congress he voted for Reed for Speaker. As Chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining ho was instrumental In having a protective duty put on the silver-lead ores of Mexico. He supported the silver bill of 1890, and was a stout advocate of the free coinage of silver. At the close of tho long session in 1890 Mr. Carter accepted tfle secretaryship of tho Rephhlldari Cpngrftssjkrnal'?- Committee, Congressman Jafhes .1. Bolden was Chairman of the committee. On March 30, 1890, Mr. Carter was appointed Commissioner of the Qeperal Land Office. Mr. Carter married in Helena, and his sister married Thoa Cruse, the wealthy mine owner.

UUniaruk a* h Sohoulhny.

Prlnee Bismarck, the great Gorman statesman, though new in retirement, is regarded by his fellow-coun-trymen as their greatest man. Not long since ho passed his seventyseventh birthday; and on this occasion 12,000 people visited Friedrich* ruhe to congratulate him, and 3,000 telegraphic messages were brought In by hard-working messengers. Prince Bismarck Is an cxamplo of tho effect of scholarship and high education in shaping character and helping a career. "Not a few great qien havt; triumphed in spite of lack of education; many others have realized their greatness by its aid. Prince Bismarck was an excellent scholar In his boyhood. He was not yet seventeen when he completed his studies preparatory for the university; and that these studies were not of a trilling sort, Judgod by any standard, Is proved by the certificate which he locelvedon passing his examination. This paper which boars date Easter, 1832, runs as follows; “The written examination comprised Ancient History: 1 ‘Bella Romanorum udversus Macedohuiu lieges, Yu Latin essay. Secondly,,Modern History: ‘On tho political conditions of the leading States of Europe at tho boginning of the Eighteenth century.* Thirdly, Mathematics: To find the area of a figure limited at will by a parabolic curve and several straight lines. Fourthly, a German eesay: ‘How Europe accqulred and maintained superiority over the other continents of the world.’ Fifthly, Greek: Translation and crucial comments on the passage In tho ‘Ajax’ of Sophocles from line 910 to line 970, and a Greek exercise. “Otto von Bismarck received the following certificates In the viva voce examination: —Latin, good and fluent; Greek, good; Ancient History, very good; Modern History, good; Mathematics, generally good, Philosophy, good.” The general ccrtl flcate Is as follows: “Ills knowledge of Latin is good, both In his comprehension of-*tlteWmltiors and In facility of composition. His knowledge of Greek is pretty good. He has a very satisfactory skill in tho use of German; and a fair knowledge of mathematics, history, and geography. Of the modern languages, ho has studied French and‘Jßnglish with special success.” The touchers close their certificate of the boy who was to become of the most powerful man la Europe, with these words, “We dismiss thre able and well-equipped youth with our peat wishes, and the hope that he ( will pursue his further education with renewed energy.” Bismarck’s university course did not fall short of the promise of his preparatory studies; and in his subsequent career as a statesman continual evidences are fjund of bh scholastic training. , She Walt* for Her Daughter. * “How late do you stay out?” asked a New York Commercial Advertiser reporter of au old and crippled wopian who grinds a small and wheezy handorgan nightly on Third avenue, sometimes on one corner and sometimes on another, above Fifty-ninth street "About an hour longer,” she replied in a voice even more wheezy thar* the organ. It was after midnight then; the moon shone brightly and the air was close after the heat of the‘day. "Go home now and I’ll give you a quarter,” urged the reporter. “I can’t; I’m lame,” she replied, “and roust wait for my daughter.” It was evident that the poor creature was only too willing to start homeward, so the reporter and a companion picked’ the organ upand supported the old wopian home. On the doorstep lay the figure of a woman. She was. tin: daughter, and intoxicated. *O4, sometimes, she forgets me,” explained tfle old. woman, “and I’m out all night, but it does not happen very often.”"’'

PASSED THE FAIR BILL.

THE HOUSE DISPOSES OF THE MATTER EFFECTUALLY. A Motion to Reconsider Made and Easily Defeated— Colonel Fellows Talks for the Exposition—The Vote Stood 131 Teas, 83 Nays. Voted the 83.500.000. Tho House has passed the amended Durborow World’s Fair bill by a vote ol 131 yeas to 83 nays. The bill was signed by the Speaker as soon as the result was announced aud was Immediately sent over to tho Senate. -As'passed the bill gives outright to the Columbian Exposition $2,500,000 on condition that the doors bo closed on Sundays. The pledges made to .the friends ol the Fair were kept In every instance.' 1 At noon Friday the House resumed, in committee of the’ whole, the consideration of the bill. Mr. Cummings, of Now York, opened tho opposition with a bitter speech against a proposition which ho characterized as one which was intended to loot tho Treasury. - The World’s Fair proposition had so mixed itself up with the Government that it was difficult' to tell which was the World’s Fair and which was the Government. The remnants of former Congresses had covered the floor so that it could hardly be told whether the present Congress or the heel-taps of former Congrosses ran the House. It was a matter of pride with him that he had filibustered against this looting appropriation. Mr. Fellows of New York eloquently supported the bill. The work, he said, was a Governmental one. The idea of the fair had been born in Congress; it had its inception here. From the start to the finish it was a Governmental work. Tho debate continued until 1 o’olook. Much of it was entirely foreign to the question pending and referred to the Commissioner of Tensions. Precisely at 1 o'clock the Chairman of the committee of the whole stated that under the order of the House the committee must rise. Having arisen, tho Burboro w bill was reported lo the House. Tho ponding amendment (and the only one) was a substitute offered by Mr. De Armoncl, of Missouri, for the first section of the bill. It provides that if tho World’s Columbian Exposition shall deposit at a mint of the United States u sufficient quantity of silver bullion it shall bo coined and, delivered to the exposition in half dollar coins in amount not. exceeding -$5,0(10,009. The substitute was rejected; ye*#,.: tall I*l% The roll was then called for tHe, vote on the final passage of {he DurboroW bill and tbo rosult was—yeas, 114; nays, 75. A second e#lj was ordered and tho bill was passed by a voto of 131 to 83. A motion to reconsider was laid on the tablo after a futile effort to filibuster was made by Mr. Bailey of Texas. This passes the bill finally in the House.

NEW CURE FOR PNEUMONIA. Rlood of a Convalescent Injected Into the Huffferer's System. A novel operation was performed at the Philadelphia hospital by Visiting Physloian W. E. Hughes la thi presence of the resident staff and nurses, and tho result has been so favorablo that It is now the opinion of the medical men interested that a new and immediate cure for pneumonia has been discovered, - The operation consisted in, a patient who was recovering from the disease being bled, and his blood being infused into the arm of the sufferer. The patient on whom the operation was performed was a white man who had been brought in by the district surgeons The convalescent from whom blood was extracted was a colored man. An incision was made in tho white man’s uppor arm,.and one of the veins was Isolated for about half an inoh. After It bad been bound and the natural flow of blood stooped, a slit was made in it and a glass tube with a wide aperture was Inserted. Then about a pint of .blood, extracted from the arm of the colored man. was poured In. Gravity carried it into tho veins, and Soon tho blood was coursing through the man’s body. Ip order that the body should not be supercharged with blood a similar amount was extracted previous to the operation. This was black and un-healthy-looking, while the blood infused was of a bright-red color. After the operation the man's temperature rose, and symptoms similar to those that wero noticed after the Koch lymph lnjeotions followed. In a few hours, however, a change for the better sot in, and the next morning tho man’s temperature was normal, and apparently he Is a well man. According to the theory aoted upon, the system of a eouvales -ent is lull of the pneumonia bacteria antidote, and when the blood charged with this is infused into a sufferer It works a cure immediately. FIGHT FOR LIFE. A I'olleemuii'* Struggle with a Man Who Tried to Kill Hi* Wife and Step. daughter. Charles Daley, a baker 27 years old, Who lived with his family at 433 Twelfth struat, Detroit, is locked up at the police station in that olty on a charge of attempting to murder his wife and the latter's daughter. Mrs. Daley luckily and almost miraculously escaped with h*T life, but the stepdaughter llts very low at Harper hospital. The shooting attracted the attention of Patrolman Snooks, a neighbor of the Daleys. As soon as Daley saw him he started to run. Snooks followed. Tho officer was slowly gaining on ids man, when the latter whirled «Afpund and sent a bullet in close proximity to Snooks' head. The next iustant the men met arid.clinched. It was a fight lor life. As Daley saw ho was being worsted, he pressed the weapon to the officer's breast and was about to pull the trigger when Snoi ks succeeded in shoving the weapon down, A terrific struggle followed. Snooks wrested the weapon from Daley and pounded him Into submission. He then marched him into the station. Mr. and Mrs. Daley had had frequent quarrels, and the shooting was tho result of ono of them. DEPOSITORS DISGUSTED. DUi-ouragtng Result of the Examination or tho Bank of El Reno. The committee appointed by C. L. Severy, assignee of the defunct Bank of El Keno, O. T.. has jfist mode a partial statement of the condition of the bank’s bOoks and the financial standing of the president of the concern, S. W. Sawyer. The deposits Of the bank, as far as the lommlttee has progressed, are shown .to be a little over $7,000, but such vehement protests were made by the citizens, that tbe expert accountants have refused to act further as examiners. Bawyer figured his assets on the books at $20,00P, but this amount represents city property, which is nearly all contested and is really of no value at aIL The partial statements of the committee have intensified the feeling against Sawyer, and one of the most prominent attorneys in the city said that unless Sawyer or his wife made a speedy settlement with his depositors he would be proseouted for larceny.