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FAMILY OF STORY TELLERS, re is reach to interest the stadent of inBr-William Wright’s “Brontes L M The alternative title of this book, "Facts Stranger Than ’is not exaggeration. No matter Her the reader cares greatly for the ^tba Bronte sisters or not, this book cnrions manifestations of genius i family to which these gifted women , and it is of interest without rela»them. There could be nothing more } than these glimpses of their Irish kinsmen, who. amid poverty and without advantages, stiH possessed the art of storytelling as it was known and practiced by the ancients. They were a lighting stock, and snch opinions as they entertained they were well able tb defend by the fist or the blackthorn. Da. Wright may have drawn ttneonsoiously on his imagination to •apply the missing links in the Bronte history, btat he has evidently been a painstaking stadent, not only of books but of liriiur witnesses and of the territory described. When we remember how greatly topography influences the character of peoples itisbetter to appreciate the relation of mind to its environment, and this fact Dr. Wright has bad in mind in preparing this volume. In Mrs. Oaskell’s "Life of Charlotte Bronte” she remarked that the dreary moorlands and dismal surroundings of the Bronte girls bore an important relation U . to their mental development. But the } spark of genius which burned so brightly in the Yorkshire vicarage had a dim counterpart amid the squalor of Irish hovels, and its glimmer has been the guide of the narrator of this talc. BMHHB | V J; No better romance’ could be imagined than that of the life of Hugh Bronte, the grandfather of the novelists. By his Ubcoant Hugh Bronte belonged to a large family in the south of Ireland. About the middle of the last century he was adopted by an uncle, whose place in the history is also of a story-book character. The greatgrandfather of the Bronte sisters lived on the banks of the Boyne, somewhere about Drogheda; and he was not only a farmer, but a cattle-trader, crossing over often to Liverpool with shiploads of' beef. On one of these trips there was smuggled into the bold of the vessel a swarthy infant. This stowaway the Brontes took to their own home, principally because they did not know what else to do with it Owing to its dark complexion the child was thought to be Welsh, and Welsh became its name. -He grew up with the large Bronte brood, took their name, and presently mairied one of

the daughters of the family.

It was Welsh who adopted the boy Hugh, who was his nephew. Welsh Bronte is the dark shadow in the family history. He was a man without conscience, scheming, vicious and daring to a degree. It is not known where he lived ut the time he adopted Hugh, and Dr. Wright’s careful explorations have failed to discover it. But Hugh did not long remain the slave of his brutal uncle. At the first opportunity he fled from the place, and after getting well out of the way of pursuit he found employment In a brick-kiln. He began to prosper here, makitig fair wages and saving from his income. His work, usually in the open air, Suited him, And in two years he had become a large, handsome man, with a fondness for " good clothes. He was of an impetuous nature, and when, clad in fine raiment,Tie went back into the country for a Christmas visit with a youtog friend named MeClory, V be immediately fell in love with Alice, the daughter of the bouse, and was engaged to piarry her before the end of a fortnight. Young Bronte had not yet discovered the deep And wide gulf that ya*nd between Protestant* and Cathhlics, but he was quickly given a taste of the religious spirit of the neighborI when objection was made to the maron the ground that he was a Protestant As a matter of fact, Hugh b&d no religious belief whatever, hod given ho thought to his ■ welfare, and at the Welsh home there had naturally been little attention paid to such matters. The whole county took a hand in the affair, and soon Bronte found himself the center of a controversy Which involved all the MeClory family and their neighbors. As a further interference with its prosperity and hnppiHugh lost his position at the lime-kiln was obliged to become a farm laborer

family named Harshaw.

.. is more than probable that Bronte repaid his young masters and mistresses here lor many kindnesses by telling them stories. Under the Harshaw roof lie found not only work and shelter, but home comforts; and It is inconceivable that under those oirettrastaoces he allowed the gift that was in hisi of charming by vivid narration ‘- •M! dormant Dr. Wright says: “In the r part Of the lost century the rafmtUnv ed the place in Ireland now taken by modern novelist, and 1 beHugh Bronte dropped doctrine the minds of the young Harshaws produced far-reaching results.”

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•nd sister had given up the thought Of Bronte, whom they believed to have left [ their part of the country. Whereas, he was vary near at hand and destined tojjive them a bad quarter of an hour when they least expected to hear from him. They arranged J lor the marriage of Mis# MeClory to a rich farmer. The guests had assembled and all was In readiness lor the tuar1 riage when it was discovered that the prospective bride had disappeared, fehe had piUekily-galloped away on one of her father’s horses; and while the McOlorys - w«re still dated by her disappearance a boy came back on the borrowed animal with report that the daring Alice had been married to Hugh Bronte in the nearest Protes1 tant church. The young people began housekeeping in a cottage of two rooms at Kmdkl* in the parish of Drumballyroney. County Down. Bronte now became proprietor of a corn-kiln, and at this business, in 1776, he began to earn the daily bread of himself and wife by roasting his neighbor*’ oat*. Mrs. Bronte was a famous spinner, and she handed down the art to heg daughters. She bad always a couple of sheep graying on her brothers’ land. She corded and spun the wool, her i^iinnine-wheei siagiha ail day beside her

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•pinning-wheel singing a bus band's kiln. Then, dark evening*, with no oi

awful that both he and his hearers were afraid to part con neigh bora c. after one o» . ■ upon the seeds Ull day dawned. The sous of the whole neighborhood used together round Bronte at night to bear his narratives, and he continued to manniacturo stories of all descriptions as long as he lived. 1 have always understood that Hugh Bronte’s stories, though sometimes rough in texture, and interspersed with emphatic expletives, after the manner of his time, bad always a healthy, moral bearing. As a genuine Irishman, he never used an im-

• .<r V>uu of romance; but he bad the art of giving an artistic touch to everything he said, which added a charm to the narration independent of the facts which he narrated. The story of his early lit# * * * was delivered in the rhapsodic style of the ancient bards, but simple enough to be understood oy the most unlettered ploughboy. And I have understood that none of Bronte’s stories was so acceptable as the plain record of his early

hardships.

It is interesting to know that incidents in Hugh Bronte’s life, notably of the period of bis vassejage under Welsh Bronte, were made use of by the Bronte sisters, rirho heard them years afterward in England from the lips of their father. Patrick Bronte, the father of Charlotte and Emily, was one of Hugh’s ten children. They were known as “a dangerous and outlandish family.” They were notorious fighters. and in their own family they indulged in dances and outdoor concerts fr€m which their neighbors were excluded. There were ghosts in those day« r and the Broutes were believed to know more about them than comported with Christian dignity. Ghosthunting was as common a dissipation as "slumming” has become in the great cities. Poverty did not tend to destroy their high spirit, and there are still afloat in Ireland legends of this proud and eccentric clan. Patrick learned the trade of a weaver. He early manifested a taste for reading, and he became so expert at managing the loom that he could weave and read at the same time. This division Anally led him into trouble, for so great would become his absorptfon that he would make sad work of the cloth he was weaving. A friendly Presbyterian preacher finally took him in hand and encouraged him to be more diligent in his business, to the end that he might save enough money U> carry him to the university. Thus inspired the boy would study by night and labor industriously by day, and presently he was equipped fdr teaching. The fact that his mother had been of Roman Catholic antecedents was, however, not forgotten ; but the opposition was weakened by the inability of the school managers to find any one so competent for the place. He was a most successful teacher, studying the indiridnal needs of the students and encouraging them in every possible way. He had the bad grace to carry on a flirtation with one of his pnpils, which, when discovered, cost him a whipping at the hands of her brother, and the loss of the school. With a Catholic mother and a father who had no belief, Patrick Bronte’s position had been difficult from the beginning. In the antumn of 1798 he left the Presbyterians and entered Upon his duties as teacher in the Episcopal school at Drumballyroney. There again he was markedly successful, and the friendship of the rector of the loeal church, . under whose auspices the school was conducted, led him to renew his hope for a university education. He entered St John’s College, Cambridge, October 1, 1802. By his savings and earnings as a coach, and presently by taking advantage of a scholarship, he was able to complete the course, and he was finally launched, in the world as a priest in the established church. * The Irish Brontes never lost interest in the doings of the English branch of the family. When the Quarterly Review made its fierce onslaught on “Jane Eyre” their wrath knew no bounds. The reviewers bad mercilessly attacked the work of “Currey Bell,” and “Carrey Bell’a” Irish uncles decided that the scoundrel must be punished. Hugh Bronte registered an oath that he would avenge the insult, and he set about preparing for a visit to London to find his niece’s traducon Dr. Wright tells the story with spirit and hurnor. Hugh had for many years been watching over the growth of a young blackthorn sapling, as if it had been an only child. |t had arrived at maturity at about the time of the Quarterly’s onslaught. The hour and the tree hkd developed together. When the Rhillalah had been made ready the irate uncle made his will and arrayed himself in broadcloth. Of course he never found the reviewer, but he bad a good time in London and his persistent calls at the Quarterly office probably caused no little Uneasiness to the individual who had maligned the author of “Jane Eyre.” Dr. Wlight’i book ia rather clumsily put together, but it abounds in facts and cominept, and is rich in delightful Irish lore of a kind which it is not always possible to find in books. There are a number of illustrations and portraits, ' (New York: DAppleton & Co. Indianapolis: Cathcart, ClelandACo.) “Apprentices to Destiny.” The story with this name, which Lily A. Long hus written, touches on American socialism. The author is daeidediy opposed to socialistic ideas, although she permits her characters to declaim them with great earnestness. The daughter of ab artist, Joyce Mabie, is inflamed with a desire to reform the existing order of things. She writes articles for a socialistic newspaper, but her career doses when, insuired by one of her editorials, a company of strikers destroy a manufactory owned by her lover, who has been doing the best he could for his employes. This is a new and interesting situation and the author handles it very well, so that finally everybody is happy aud the lover is rather glad after all that he was relieved of his burden. There are pretty things in Miss Long’s book and some of her Characters are tamiliar types. /New York: Merrill & Baker. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrili Company.) ' < Books tteeeiveit. Can Such Things Be. By Ambrose Bierce. (New York: The Cassell Publishing Com-,

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Riley sandwiched between the immaterial opinions of Mr. Garland on a variety of other subjecta Arthur Warren contributes a character study of P. D. Armour, which is well illustrated. Ida M. Tarbell describes the observatory on top of Mi. Blanc, and Edward Wakefield writes of "Nervousness: The National Disease of America.” Robert Barr and Mrs. E. V. Wilson contribnte short stones. Literary Motes. Mr. Edmund ClarenceSteadman speaks of Miss Woolson as “one of the leading women in the American literature of the century.” Henry ViseteUy, one of the pioneers of illustrated literature in England, died at Heatheriands, F&rnham, on New Year’s morning. He assisted many on the road to fortune, but died penniless. A chair to be known as the Emily Sanford professorship of English literature is to be established at Yale College with the $70,000 left for that purpose by the late Judge Edward Coke Billings. The two daughters of Alma-Tadema, the artist, have united in preparing a pretty love story for a future number of Harper’s, one of them having been the writer of the story, while the other is the illustrator. The Illustrated Domestic Monthly, a magazine of fashions, contains copious illustrations for February- The fashion patterns are of the latest and prettiest styles and the suggestions in its home department are very practical. The speeches and addresses of Newton Booth, who was Governor of California, and bore an important part in the labors by which the State was saved for the Union, have been edited by Lauren E. Crane, and will be published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons. -[New York Times. Godey’s Magazine for February appears in a handsome new cover. Great improvements have been made in it during the last few months and it now takes front rank among the family magazines. Besides its well-known department of fashions it contains articles on the interesting topics of the day, handsomely illustrated. Mrs. E. C. Lewis, librarian at the free public library, states that many very peculiar applications for books are handed over the counter there. The other day a very pretty young lady came in and asked for “Rider Haggard’s latest book, ‘The Prince of India.’ ” Another reader wanted: “The Man Without Any Land” for Edward Everett Hale’s popular hook. One man recently thought “The Old Ma’msello’s Secret” referred in some way to the Sells family, and asked for “Old Man Sell’s Secret.” "He Wanted to Love His Wife” was the name given by another caller to "He Fell in Love With His Wife.”-[Topeka Capital. Francis Parkman is the theme of the poem which the venerable Dr. Holmes contributes to the February "Atlantic.” Holmes loved the historian well, and lovfes to recount his deeds: He told the red man’s story; far and wide He searched the unwritten records of his race: He sat a listener at the Sachem’s side; He tracked the hunter through his wildwood chase. High o’er his head the soaring eagle screamed; The wolf's long howl rang nightly; through the vale Tramped the lone bear; the panther’s eyeballs gleamed; The bison’s gallop thundered on the gale. VENUS VISIBLE.

LIEDT. DAYENPORT’S CASE.

ONE NAVAL OFFICER ACCUSES ANOTHER OF COWARDICE.

Tho Finding of tbe “Court of Honor** and Secretary Whitney — A Peculiar Case Arising Out of the Disaster at Apia.

Washington, D. C., January 31.—Secretary Herbert has made public the findings of the court of inquiry and his views thereon in tbe case of Lieut Richard G. Davenport, U. S. N., who asked for a “court of honor” to pass upon his conduct while acting as navigating officer of the United States steamer Nipsic when that vessel was wrecked in the great Samoan hurricane in March, 1889. Lieutenant Davenport asked for fhe court because there had been a great deal of criticism of his action in leaving the Nipsic. At the inquiry officers testified that he had set a bad example to the crew in a time of danger by stripping oB' his clothes and jumping overboard and swimming to shore. The court of inquiry found no imputation upon Lieutenant Davenport’s conduct prior to the stranding of the Nipsic, and that during that time he performed his whole duty as navigator in an eminently satisfactory and praiseworthy manner; that no fault can be found with his conduct as an officer, but, on the contrary, that he behaved 1 J 8 — time the ed, and was greatest TSPB On the point as to the time and manner when Lieutenant Davenport left the ship, which involved serious imputations against him, the court decides adversely, but finds a number of circumstances which, it says, must bear very strongly in mitigation oi his conduct. Some of these circumstances were that Lieutenant Davenport was in no bodily tear, that the order to abandon the ship had been given, and that the Captain testified that officers and men were free to leave the ship in any manner they saw fit. THE COURT’S FINDING. The •ourt says: These mitigating circumstances, together with the excellent conduct of the applicant up to tho time of the ship’s taking ground, must, in the opinion of the court, modify to a considerable extent its adverse opinion on the question, which is really the main issue of the

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The Planet Can Be Dlstingulshad In a Clear Sky With the Naked Eye. [New Brunswick (N. J.) special Si. Louis GlobeDemocrat.] R. W. Prentiss, professor of astronomy in Rutgers College, talked to-day to a reporter yf the unusual spectacle which the twilight sky now afiords, owing to the exceeding brightness of Jupiter and Venus. He said; "The phenomenon occurs at intervals of eight years, whenever the planet is at or near its greatest north latitude, and about four or five weeks before inferior conjunction, at* wnich Venus is between us and the sun. Venus is now 38,000,000 miles distant from the earth, button February 16, at inferior conjunction, this will have diminished to 25,440,000. Venus will then present to us a face entirely unilluminated, and will be lost in the brighter rays of the sun. Even now in the telescope it is seen to exhibit the form of a delicate Crescent, like the nCw moon, with one-quarter of its disk In the shadow, so that the brightness seems the more wonderful. After Febrtiary 16 it will pass to the outer aide of the sun, being visible in the early dawn as the morning star, and by November 29 its distance will have increased to 159,000^000 miles, when its brightness will be five times less than it is

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At present it is our nearest neighbor among the planets, and its nearness and high reflecting powers combine to make it most conspicuous. In fact, it is so brilliant that it may be seen in a clear sky with the naked eye throughout the entire day by any one who knows just where to look for it. It is a little more than two hours behind the sun And a few degrees higher, and, therefore, mav be found at any time a little above the place the sun occupied in the sky 4wo hours before. A few momenta after 2 o’clock every day this week it will be on the meridian, half way up the sky, between the zenith and the south point of the horizon. In the morning hours, from 10 to 12, it is in the southeast, at an altitude of

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"It is related by Arago that Napoleon Bonaparte, upon repairing to the Luxembourg when the Directory was about to give him a fete, was very much Surprised at seeing the multitude which Was collected in the Rue de Touron pay more attention to the region of the heavens situated Above the palace than to his person or the brilliant stafl whichaccompanied him. He inquired the cause and learning that the curious persons were observing with astonishment, although it was noon, a star, which they supposed to be that of the conqueror of Italy, an illusion to which the illustrious General did not seem indifferent when he himself remarked the radiant body. The star was Venus. Other instances o( its observation in the daytime are reo >rded, some at very early periods, la 398, 984, 1008, 1014, 1715,

1750.”

How Our Representatives Legislate.

IWoabfrgtia Post]

The Corbett-Mitchell fight, while it lasted, was the topic of paramount interest at the Capitol yesterday afternoon. Information was sought for in every quarter by Congressmen and outsiders. The southern end of the main lobby, where the two telegraph offices are located, was for a while crowded with people, craning their necks to read the bulletins and straining their ears to catch the words of those near enough to make out tbe import of the little slips of paper. Even the dignity of the Senate was not proof against the infeetioh. The proceedings in the chamber were of a highly solemn and decorous character. Mr. Vilas was delivering a eulogy ih sonorous and solemnly impressive periods on the late Representative Chipman. Upstairs, in the lobby of the press gallery, the instruments

navy. In this oninion the court is emphatic. It can not swerve Irom the broad principle on which the morale of naval discipline rests. An officer must at all times show In himself an example which his inferiors may emulate, and even in periods of dire stress order and discipline must be preserved to the very last. In abandoning the ship the third senior officer on board should be among the iast to leave. In this case the evidence is perlectly clear that the applicant was the first to land from among all those remaining on board after tbe cutter had been dispatohed with tbe sick. His duty was clearly to remain by the side of the Captain, and nothing could relieve him of that obligation except the explicit command ot the Captain himself. The court also dismisses the imputations on Lieutenant Davenport’s conduct subsequent to his leaving the Nipsic. Secretary Herbert, in approving the proceedings and findings of the Court of Inquiry, reviews the circumstance of the whole case exhaustively, and sums up his views in the following concluding para- ^ r T?e Department is of opinion, however, that Lieutenant Davenport would have set a much better example to the men of the orew and contributed more to good order and military discipline if he bad not stripped hifnself as soon as he did. Further than this, the Department finds no unbecoming conduct on the part of this officer, and it is always to be remembered that the concurrent testimony qi bis superior officers, Rear Admiral Kimberly, Commander Mullen and Lieutenant Hawley, who were

He would sit tin tbe logic-hoi* ■ lling of rapt listeners who o. Mrs. Bronte piled outer darkne*# of the ' was no light excent from Of the kiln, which lighted’ » he bttktd the kiln and spun Dr. Wright continues: ■ > have had the rare fac-

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(New Yortt: Merrill A Biker.) Essays About Men, Women and By Augusune Birreil. (New York:

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“W’hat are yon doing there?” shouted some one behind the railing. "Taking the news of the prize-fight to the Senate,” shouted the boy. “There’s a circle of Senators in tbe cloak-rooms waiting for bulletinA,” “ He awhttff open the door and disappeared in tbe upper lobby. A glance at the chamber an instant after showed that it was almost deserted. Wii- » il ' 'I ■ - Suck Fever.

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The frontispiece of McClure’s for February Is a portrait Of Robert Louis Stevenson. "A Conversation Between James Whitcomb Rilay and Hamlin Garland” contains some interesting facts about Mr.

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LIEUTENANT PUBCRLL CENSURED. One interesting feature of the Davenport case is that relating to the refusal of the New York Yacht Club to admit Leiutenant Davenport to membership. When Lieutenant Davenport ascertained that his defeat was due to charges against his conduct At Apia, preferred by some unknown person, he asked for the “court of honor” to investigate the covert allegations. The inquiry developed that Lieut. John L. Purcell, who was'Attached to the Nipsic during the hurricahe. Avas the accuser, and in his indorsement of tbe findings Secretary Herbert reproves the latter for displaying malice against a brother officer. He says: Lieutenant Purcell had become the accuser of Lieutenant Davenport m a manner which seems to the Department, to say the least, quite irregular and highly improper. If he witnessed conduct on the part of Lieutenant Davenport at Apia during the hurricane which was unbecoming an officer of the navy, and cowardly, it became his duty to use his utmost exertions to bring to punishment the ottender against military discipline. He had opportunity to do this when ns was invited by Admiral Kimberly to make a written report ot what he saw. He testified that he thinks he did mention Lieutenant Davenport’s conduct in his report to Admiral Kimberly, but this evidence is contradicted by the testimony of the Admiral, to the effect that no charges against Lieutenant Davenport had been brought officially to his notice. If Lieutenant Purcell waa under the impresaion that he had made charges in writing to Admiral Kimberly against Lieutenant Davenport, and that the Admiral failed to notice them, it was still open to him then, or alter he was detached from the command of Admiral Kimberly, to wit, on October It, 1890, to prefer such charges to the Navy Department. This course he ought to have pursued, if he was determ:ned to have these accusations investigated. Instead of this, he allowed the matter to slumber tor four years, and then, when the opportunity offered, pre- ! erred his charges to the New York Yacht Club, a social organization composed largely of civilian*. The New York Yacht Clun was not the proper tribunal before which an officer of the navy could properly lay allegations of official misconduct against a brother officer. All the circumstances connected with this case show that Lieutenant Purcell was actuated in the course be took, rather by malice against one who had been his superior officer while on board the Nipsic. than by any desire to entorce military discipline in a proper manner. Such conduct is strongly reprobated by the Department. Nevada’s Traveling Stones. S«ven of the famous “traveling stones” of Nevada were recently displayed in a Denver hotel. When placed on a table, within two or three feet of each other, they commenced approaching until they all met at a common center. A single stone, having been removed four feet from the other six, which were left in a clutter, returned to the bunch. Taken to a distance of five feet, it remained motionless. A Kangaroo’s Leap. As a leaper the kangaroo is ahead of all. It readily jumps from sixty to Seventy feet. A horse bos jumped thirty-seven feet, and a man 25 feet inches.

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