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EYE OF THE SESSION.

PREPARATIONS FOR THE MEETING OF CONGRESS IN WASHINGTON.

A Variety of Views Concerning the Recent Elections Government Vnpm'rs. .,i Wonders of the Modern War Y«esel.

Chance For Trouble.

[Spocial Correspondence.]

WASHINGTON, NOV. 26.—The city is all a-uuzz with preparations for the short session of congress. At each department the WuiJ lo that tho secretary can seo no one, as he is preparing his report. The chief clerks and heads of divisions are scarcely less busy, and even the lowest class clerks put on nn air of profound absorption in labor. At the capitola small regiment of

'•. the Washington darkies have shaken off their summer Ustlcssness and taken on v-y that easily recognized but indescribable look which shows an expectation of jobs a: he.ral lips. Nearly all tho lately defeated congressmen are here and singularly free spoken in explaining their respective defeats. The fact that they differ as widely as Bob Ingersoll and the late Dr.

McCosh makes their talk none the less Interesting, but two points are of peculiar Interest Tho cuckoos and eastern Democrnts agree that the failure of the party to support the president and stand up for sound money caused it, while nearly all the others m.uiitiiin that, the party wt-nr too far in that direction, especially in hostiliry to silver.

The Stay at Homes Did It. On one point all ere acrreed—that tho stay at homes did it. In Michigan, Texas auu ^\orth Carolina the complaint is identical. No section can reproach another, and the beauty of it is that every fellow finds in this conclusive proof of the correctness of his own explanation. Some of tho figures are indeed startling. In one Micmgan district, lor instance, the Demo- ... crats polled but 8.5SM votes against 10,0:38 two yearn ago and in another 4.2-15 against

ury is pronoun is law l. ,i in Iur Ie:-s ace, bountv s!'-? bo -A went it:in J.irca til l] tio:\ Withon it is a have standing the ein:-k

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men aro at work renovating everything, and all tho hotels and boarding houses the sinner whom floating Noah found up havo a general air of expectancy. Even a tree, that the Republicans may "go on

It is already apparent also tliac

there will bo more contested seats in tho next licuso than in any previous one, as eomo fcO notices are already filed, and at Republican headquarters they expect at

Jeast ihj more. In fact, whole state delegations in the south will probably he con....tested. Mr. 1" redi-r'e. C. W ait" KM '-d .aft. ctiarj-e of the statistics of true wealrh tor the eleventh eensns. has made. lam" :•»•.*! analy&is of our ekx-Uuiis iur o0 yenrd, and his conclusion is that in lS02at least ], oOit.O'-' Ki publicans .si.ili! :.y i'loti: lif jjfills, \»iiile this year one-third of all the legal voters refrained, his general conclusion being that nobody knows the present real strength of the parties, and neither is there any v.ay to arrive at it from the returns p'nee 18X8.

Government Financed.

Allium. the main far!s in Hit ha- hie-:: of each denartment are published monthly, yet there are continual changes of soino intercut, and most of all the treasury .department, especially In the personnel. There are today even 4.100 persons employed in the treasury, of whom 1.82a are lauhs Of t'e total, 8t»J arj in tin: ciassifiou service, and only H8 were disabled by sickness at the closc of l"st wek (if the ladies, tiuly SO arc not in the classified service, and therefore subject. r» reir.-tvai, WliK.li is a beautiful illustration of how rapidly tho civil service system is cr -fr.lliziii t.it- peioonnei of tho departments, or, ns some would sav, pniluir- it

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trulv I :s. op. ati,»i Dock*,Ty bill the number of em .hn the eurivnt year will he reduced a 200 avd the amouf.' p:. 'd sale Lit $285,000. Salaries of eJ1 ?-.i. of divisions removable al $ti:.'0 to S.I..SU0. roni citizen ca frain some job it is to run t'no tinaiu ern merit.

will ran-re from ill of tho .ea if how bit? a •ess rf a big gov-

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appropriation. Just at present in tills ''S'aneh are enjoym/(

a rest, but in a short time all of them will go on the income tax work, and more will bo needed. In tho department of state the •force less ncit her incr asi-d nor diminish'd ...Eincu and the Dockery bill does not ^"affect tins department in any way whatever. As foreign ministers, consuls and commercial agents are not considered cmploj'Ts ot this d' Mart'iu-i',., i.-..- -,\1 number, lroni Secretary Gresham down to tlio spilleun cleaner, is only 81, and of all thoso only five are subject to appointment and removal by tho president at will. Tho •number so appointed and removable was 15 down to Oct. 25, when the president's last ord.-r put messengers and watchmen and so? .o others under civil service rules.

In adonion to the five, however, six othors ,are subject to tho will of their immediate chiefs. In tho forco of 53 clerks there is now one vacancy, which is soon to be filled under civil Eervioe rules. If any man thinkn that wo havo a very expensive •state partment, ho ought tooxemino tho list of hese clerks and lieir duties and salaries. Here aro men who can road two •or thrco languages and aro familiar with the details of some branch of our diplomacy, and yet aro working for from •'-•fOO.to per year, and thero aro minor places V\ hero the salaries are muoh less, though it ecrtan.'ly seems to an outsidor if unupi'i:! (|i!iekness and business ability Wore required.

I'rii-o of an j:!"octivc Xavy.

The na\v departmt nt always abounds In inteif -D, and evi-ry :.y brings soniething i,. v.. At, this v.-rM.nig the tihed Stati I a'- 71 v.arships in commissio-n and active set\ice, 17 uiid.r construotion aetl 18 in vj, or loaned to the naval J. ':itla of tiio siu-tes. Of the 18, some ar-o laid up for hie af the full consjjlcmoiH -f men,

and ill case of necessity cf,- p,f r. in coniinisrtioii at once, auu a »,• be• ,nne thcy need repairs. One-third r.l the IS aro just now in tho James rivei* llirh,.Esmond, bio far as tacts and fign, es tire al-A-jlowcd to go out in advance of tae regular *«port, the indioations aro that Messrs.

JBoutelie and Cummlngs will have a deal :s of fresh and interesting matter for their •nnual speeches on tho navy. Perhaps the most startling ntatement will be on tho

Increased and rapidly Increasing necessltlm for repairs. In view of tho figures tho popular opinion that anew ship Is to need HO repairs for several years Is about as Vrlde of the truth as any current opinion jjritout government. In truth, tho motlont

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war vessel is, despite the difference In size I of the parts, about 40 times as delicate a mechanism as a watch and at least seven times as hard to take care of as a baby.

Tho deterioration Is so rapid, and, what with alternating salt and fresh water, warm climates and cold, rust, barnacles and other enemies too numerous to mention, it is certainly true thai, eternal vigilance Is iiiu i«-io6 of an efleoilve warsmp.

Pessimism and Optimism.

The director of the mint finds now proof every day of his favorite tenet that the gold supply is rapidly increasing, and the commissioner of labor can pr^ve that tho number of unemployed is very small indeed, scarcely morn than usual at this season. To all these optimistic statements I the lately defeated listen with looks of sour skepticism. There is a heap of human nature in a man, and most of them are inclined to think that the country is in a bad way. There arc many delightful I exceptions, however, such as Lafe Pence, Champ Clark and others, who say, like

with their dumed old scow, as it's only a big freshet anyhow." A jocular Indiana Democrat says wo should imitate Whitcomb Riley's famous deacon, who, when everything went wrong on the farm and in the house, could nevertheless

Kneel right down in nil this muss And thank the Lord it ain't no wuas. J. B. PARKE.

A FREAK OF NATURE.

1 Cnrioug Fish on the Pacific Coast Which Is Viviparous. [Special Correspondence.]

SAN FIJAXCI'SCO, Nov SJ:. Very few reople ore aware that upon the Pacific coast of tho United States there exists a I species of fish which is entirely different from all other fishes In its modoof continuing the species, but so few people have I any knowledge of how fishes propagate it will bo expedient first to briefly explain how the multitudes of fishes that swim I the seas and rivers are brought into existonce.

It is unnecessary here to go into tho initial embryological stapes, so I shall begin at that point where the female fish is "full of roe," as the fish dealers and housewives say.

When the fishes are in this condition, they swim to their spawning or breeding ground. Here tho females deposit their roe (eggs), and the male fishes then swim over it and discharge the milt (soft roe). Any of the e^gs—among tho thousands, ,.:k1 in so ..j oasts hundroi:.- of thousands —that are touched by this milt are thereby fertilized and become little fishes and in a short time "'shako their tails" and take care of themselves. lor :EO purposes of this short article it is unnecessary to enter more fully into the embryology of the ordinary fish, but of the Cymatogastcr aggregatus, which is tho scicnt iflc name of the strange but ordinary looking fish to which I have referred at the beginning, I shall give what may bo relied on as an authentic account.

The differeuco between tins lish and those of its species and all other fishes is that the cymatogastor (and all of tho einbiotocidoe family, to which it belongs)

malians, whereas all other fishes deposit "I™,

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like a bream or one of tho perch family, and the scientists who first found them •'••wd them to be either breams or peichon, but when thi'.y slit them open with a knife they were amazed to find a (lo/fi. oi ha^c. youii.,-, lully developed fishes pop out. At first it was believed th:it tho large fish had swallowed the little ones, but when an investigation was made it was discovered that this fish, to which Mr. Gibbons gave tho name of Cymatogastcr aggregatus, was viviparous.

Then began the investigation into this curious anomaly of fish propagation, and

Perhaps the most curious thing about tho viviparity of these llshes, apart from tho anomaly of tho conditions, is tho fact that, although tho fish itself is only about 11 inches long and from 4 to 5 Inches deep, it gives birth to 10 to 20 living youngsters 2 to 3 inches long by threequarters to an inch deep, but this is explainable by tho peculiar as well as Ingenious method which nature has firranged. Tho little ones are contained in a little sac or pouch, doubled upon itself, after tho fashion of a lady's accordion plaited dress. Within each fold or plait one little fish is neatly packed. They do not all lio heads toward ono point, but "heads and tails," this economizing space and at tho same tlmo being allowed to take advantago of the plan for tlieir sustenance which nature has so ingeniously devised. to bo found during all

These fishes aro tho summer months in the markets of San Francisco and other western seaports They seldom find their way east, but they aro very toothsome, and, apart from their value for tho table, It would be not uninteresting to housewives and others who purchase them to examine the numbers of little ones which they find upon opening them. If they put those little youngsters In water, they w411 see that they aro as brisk and lively as possible if tho mother Is not too long dead, and It wiU be curious Information for them to know that thq little one were not swallowed, but aro the aotual live progeny of the flah they purchaso as bream or peroh.

It should not be omitted that the young, which, as I have observed, are often found alive In tho dead mother, make a oapltal— In fact, rochcrche—dish If oooked after the fajhlon of whitebait.

brings forth its young alive, as do mam- shine of the day. Cut the stems as long as possible, and then, before tho mois-

fertilised In the manner

oviparous, and those which tg forth the young alive are termed viviparous. The cj inatogastcr was first discovered in 1S52 simultaneously at San Diego, San Francisco and Vancouver. It is shaped

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it was not until recently, with tho valua- I and when cold ble assistance of the United States fish commission, that satisfactory and conclusive data were obtained about this embryological freak. It is now positively ascertained that not only does this little fish bring forth its young alivo, but that, contrary to tho habits of all other fishes, even*' of its own species, an actual copulation takes place in the month of June or

July in each year. Five months later the eggs in the female begin to show signs of life, and in another Ave months the mother gives birth to from 10 to 20 young fish, which swim around and take care of themselves a moment later, as if they had been a year in tho water.

ROB. F. WALSH.

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HOW TO DEAL WJTH/WGdS.

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Remedy Is In the Power of Troops, bnt Is Moat Terrible. Tho new tictios of the crmy navy oontaiu a very rsouiplote grn*r» drilL One of the most serious difflonltfan with which an armnd

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The commanding officer bas thepower to send cut scont-s in citizcns' clothcs, who may be provided with signaling apparatus. These men may oocupy housetops or other vantage ground and keep the commander informed of the points at which rioters are massed. Troops need not be brought to the scene in column, nor is there any necessity of making a fniile effort to deploy as skirmishers. Tho unit of formation for the street riot drill is the hollow square, and it may be employed in company, battalion or even brigade. The advantage of the hollow square is that it provides for an all around fire.

The front line attends to the street ahead of it. The right flank of the square directs its fire at the windows fend tops of houses on the left side of I the street, and tho left flank at those on the right. The rear line acta as a roar guard, throwing out in rear of tho advancing column a semicircle of men, who direct their fire to the rear and sidos an it may bo needed. The hollow square can be marched by either flank or to the rear, just as a column can be.

Tlio ofr.ccrs are inside the square. If the advancing columu is harassed by mobs in tLie cross streets, there is a simple and elfcctivo way of dealing with such obstructions. The platoons or sections of the leading company wheel to the right and left, and the rear rank extends in double time to tho right of the front rank. This will make a line long enough to extend across a very broad street. The commander may then order these sections to open fire or to charge bayonets, and thus the cross

streets can be cleared. In the meantime the remainder of the columu continues its march along the original street, and the leading company, having finished its work in the cross street, reforms us the rear company of tho body.

Artillery is of course advantageously employed by placing it inside the square and unmasking it where needed by opening out the front or rear line or the flaukers. Following these tactics would entail a frightful loss of life, so they aio kept as a last resort. They have never yet been entirely followed.

IIow to Pack Flowers Por the Mail. Delicate opening sprays can bo packed so that they will remain quito fresh two days and two nights. They should always be mailed in tho evening and cut in the dark when free from the sun-

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v\inch J.havo described. In science the roe j,m„ ,, the end oi each stem dted w:ix. depositing or ordinary nshos called I and

Then wrap tho b*..x in paper and tie. With a thin cracker box and a little cotton the work of packing is nothing, for the tin Icoeps out the air, so that neither tin foil nor pasting is necessary.

How to Trepare Chickcn Cutlets. When the wlii to meat of chickens has been used for .salads or for some company dish, the legs will make a delightful dish of cutlets. Separate the first and second joints and simmer until tender in water flavored with soup vegetables. Put the joints in press between two fiat dishes, with a weight on top, trim them neatly into the shape of outlets. Dip in egg and bread crumbs and fry a golden brown. A really handsome dish may bo made of these by placing balls of mashed and fried potatoes, cauliflower boiled and broken into florets or canned j^easin tho center, tho cutlets around and a cream sauce poured over all.

How to Make Chocolate Meringue. Use 8 pints of milk, a quarter of a cake of ohocolate grated and wot in a little cold milk, a cup of sugar, 4 tablespoonfuls of cornstarch, a little butter and salt and the yolks of 8 eggs. Flavor With vanilla. Bake half an hour. Beat the whites of the eggs to" a stiff froth. Add a small cup of powdered sugar. Spread over the pudding and color it a light brown.

How to Make Javelle Water. To make javelle water put 4 pounds of bicarbonate of soda and 4 quarts of hot water into a largo porcclain lined saucepan. Stir frequently with a wooden stick until the soda is dissolved then add a pound of chloride of lime and stir occasionally until nearly all tho solids aro dissolved. IJOC tho liquid cool in the kettle then strain tho clear part through a piece of cheesecloth into wide mouthed bottles. Put in tho stoppers and set away for tiso. Tho part that is not clear can be put into separate bottles and used for cleaning white floors and tables also for cleaning tho gink.

In making this preparation be careful not to spatter it on your clothing or the paint. Half a pint of this water can bo put into a tub with about a dozen pails of warm suds and the soiled white

Kfts How to SraM Oreas* From Cloth. .' Equal parts of benzine, alcohol and ether and mix them together. Lay under tho spot a piece of blotting paper, new. Wet a sponge in the mixture, gaturate the spot lay on another piece of blotting paper and iron with a hot iron.

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Wet somo cotton wadding and wrap it in a big wet mass around the stems, letting only 3 thin layer cover tho flowers themselves. I Around tho cotton wrap a big piooo of tin foil, tailing cn.ro that it does not press upon tho flowers. Lino the box with some crumpled newspaper, well moistened. When the nosegay is in and tho cover on, take as stiff a piece of brown paper as you ean find and paste strips of it around the box wherever the air is liable to get in, for tho flowers to carry well must bo kept airtight.

clothes bo soaked in them. Muoh of the morning I, in company with about a dirt can be removed by this mo'thod.

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A CUNNING REPTILE.

The Vaxious Clever Devious He Used to T)eceivu His'Discoverer. A oorrespondont of The Popular Science News tells the following strange story:

Whilo searching for snails I turned over an old log and disturbed a snake, called by our negroes a "spreading arrow. Tho tactics pursued by this snako wero curious.

Eirst he erected his head and neck and flattened them out, till they wc::,no thicker than cardboard, thus increasing his apparent size, as ho took care not to bo seen edgewise. The shape of his head changed. It took a pronounced triangular form—similar to tho heads of our most venomous snakes. Then his tail, with tho aid of a dry loaf, was proclaiming that it was tho tail of a rattlesnake.

All this, coupled with an ominous hiss, was calculated to strike terror to the heart of his disturber, as for a moment it did. I regained my courage, however, anil began to poke tho serpent gently wJ'h a stick, when, finding "bluster" of no avail, ho sought safety in flight

Repeated "headings off" showed him how futilo wero hia efforts in that line, and he altered his tactics again. He turned on his back and remained motionless. I threw him six feet from the ground, and so quickly did he turn over that he seemed to strike on his back.

OIK O on his back, nothing could induce liiiM to move. Tapping, prodding, twisting his tail—all were in vain. Then I suspended him from the limb of a tree, retreated a little and watched. At the end .I.-E two minutes the reptile moved. Slowly ho turned on his spinal column as on tin axis, surveyed tho premises, and so tug nothing dangerous dropped to tho ground and was making off.

At my approach ho died again. After Bundry proddings, which failed to mohim, I rcw'.rned him for his cleverness by giving him the liberty that ho certainly had earned.

SEALS ARE FOND OF MUSIC.

And nunterft Use Sweet Sounds to Cicl Theiu Within Keach. "Seals aro very fond of music, paid I G. L. Tompkins of New Bedford, Mass., "and tiiohuuters whopursuo them most successfully usually make use of somo musical instrument to attract them. 1 have distinct recollection of the fir.Tt

seal bunt I ever went on. Early one

dozen others, set out in a row boat for a spot where the seals were said to be plentifaL The boatmen dipped their oars slowly in the water and sung in nnlson a weird, wild song in a peculiar undertone. To me, being uuini dated in the sport, this seemed to be a curious accompaniment to a seal hunt, but I was still more Kurpriscd when pne of tho

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men produo-'d a flute n?id played o:i it a quaint, sympathetic air. "The cof the music was soon evident, as dozens of seals poked tli :r heads up, somo remaining basking on tiio water, VMile others clambered up on i: the ledges or' rock, cnarnsed almost to unconsciousness by tho music, l^topving the boat to tho shnro, the musician ail tho white keeping up the plaintive air, I ono of the itimn- out. wrr'cd with ij:m a ii:ge cmb and a long sharp knife. Noiselessly creeping to whfrn I I soiiio OA un al.s wcr-a lying o-.i Uia roJts I listeniii'- i.'i*"nf.!y to the music, ho dealt ono ct tliein t.,r.i.ble Liov: on the head I with the club, slunniug it, and then I made sJ.'Ort work of the j.'oor anini with his knife. In tho same manner we secured 11 fiuo seals before night."—

St. Louis (J ube-Democrat.

Snooting In I«'rai!cu.-

Shooting is probably the moot universally popular spore in France. Almost every man is, has been or will be a "chasseur." It is a healthy exercise, inexpensive, since 20 persons can unite to liire l'ie -v.ifc.'j n1 u-3 many acres, and is unattended with risk of disappointment, as the unlucky sportsman can always buy a rabbit at the dealer's to bring homo to his wife. The French government annually issues 850,000 licenses, which bring in about £400,000. Tho largest number of these permits is delivered in tho departments of Gironde, Bordeaux, Bouches du Rhone, Marseilles and Seine et Oise, on account of their nearness to Paris, about 18,000 in each. The department of tho Seine, in which Paris is situated, is responsible only fo~ 9,000 licences, there being very little real country in it.—London News.

xs'-ii-s IIi.t 33riming Illustrated. A lawyer was cross questioning negro witness in one of tiio justice courts tho other day raid wu. getting along fairly well until lv s-..4:od the witness what his ocoup iti' •. v, "I'zo a ii,. x, i-ir. "What L' :d a carpenter?" "They eaiis e.u a jack leg caveator, sail." "Whac is :i jack legcarponter?" "I:lo is a carpenter who is not a lirst class csrpeft'.T, fall. "W"l!, o\: 'ain !V,!'y what dcrstuisd a r-"k leg cnnje-utei insisted t. .o "Boss, splain an

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do same diii'itnco 'twixt you and er fust class lawyer. "—Macon Telegraph.

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worked up,'' said tho messenger boy, who wa3 coming up stairs backward

as not to miss anything. "They're callin names threaten to do ono another. 'V 'What is it?" asked the bookkeeper. "AJllhtd"

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'1\ aw I I thought they wus fighters, but I guess they're only pugilists. Vr'ashinimi r-'tar.

It Is Often the Case.

"Mrs. Bolton is looking extremely frell. What do you attribute it to?" "The dressmaker, of course, dear." '-Chicago Inter Ucean.

in tiortrs Ciiiiffhl.

A LUPOUS, O., Dec. 7.—Frank Bos:•.,i (jju Wilson, wTho murdered Uihe iVUdtrson and shot and mortally wounded Iiarry Martin, were captured yesterday by Giiioor Edward Martin. They refuse to make any statement, but Gld Man Bosler says he wasn't drunk when he killed Anderson. They made lio resistance when arrested.

i'ell Down a Shaft.

JACKSON, O., Dec. 7.—Andrew Long, a prominent young man of this city, met death, yesterday by falling into the Lmma coal shaft. This shaft is the deepest in the county, being 120 feet.

I "British Subjects fll-Treated. LONDON, Dec. 7.—The Chronicle has mail advices from Delago bay showing that tho son of Mr. Mcintosh, the

American consul, recently rooeived an ugly gash the cheek by a saber 6troke by a Portuguese policeman. Mcintosh was subsequently arrested and bail was refused. A bitter feeling exists because of the ill-treatment of British subjects.

Always ride with a brake, but never use it, excepting in eases of absolute necessity. Dead, dead, dead, is the giraffe typo of safety, which a year ago was so much talked of.

An ingenious rider now claims to have repaired a small tire puncture by an injection of cream.

Tho forward position of saddles is now very marked. It is a great mistake tc have the sadd'o too far back.

When returning from a hard ride, do not sit in a draft. If you do, the doctor will in all probability bo tho ono to cash it.

Many of tho supposed high geared safeties on the road aro often, on examination, several inches lower in gear than stated.

Holhorn Viaduct, where most of the Loudon cycle stores are grouped, has been dubbed "tho Port Said of the cycling World."

Before startingon a ride on a wet day it is advisable to slightly slacken tho chain, if a naked one. It sometimes saves a broken chain.

With tho more sensible practice of sitting in a vertical position we anticipate that more sensible handle bars will bo in vogue next season.—Sporting Life.

What He WM.

"Ma," asked Willie, "why was old Mr. Moneybags, who throw the young man out of his hciso last night, llko the person who influences a king?" "Indeed I don't know," said mamma. ''Because he was the power behind the thrown."—Philadelphia Times.