Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 June 1887 — Page 9

HONORS TO A NOVELIST.

WALTER BESANT SEES ONE OF HIS ROMANCES MADE REAL.

The People's Palace A Philanthropic Institution Which Originated in an .! Author's Brain—What Besant Said of

His Late Partner, James Kice.

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The novelist's art is, indeed, a noble one when it is used to awaken the indignation of the pubiic against legal or social wrongs, against folly and tyrannical usage, or oppre&r sion of any kind. Think of the tremendous work done by "Uncle Tom's Cabin." And was there ever such a sermon preached against inhumanity, as it existed in English prisons, as in Charles Reade's "Never Too Late to Mend?' It was the agitating cause of a mighty prison reform throughout the king* 4om. And Dickens showed the stupidity, the folly, the cruelty of the debtor's prison, until even English justice turned against it. And it is to the novelist that we owe our knowledge of serfdom in Russia, of the heroic struggles of our western pioneers, of life among the lowly, of life everywhere,in fact FI I V\ He opens the doors

WALTER BESANT. of the poor and the rich, and allows us to see the interiors of homes, and even of minds. He shows us the internal as well as the external lives of the people near us and far from us. He reveals to us-the human heart, its strength, its weaknesses and its mysteries.

Just now there is one novelist who is enjoying the glory of his own reformatory works Usually that is a posthumous possession. Walter Besant is the author who comes thus early into his kingdom of honor. In conjunction with James Rice he has written a long list of novels which are quite as well, perhaps better, known on this side of the water as his own. One of his stories, "AH Sorts and Conditions of Men," dealt with the question of recreation for the poor. It showed that London swarmed with honest working people, in no sense akin to the criminal, who had not on inviting or decent place to put their head$ into when their stint of toil was done. Naturally, they had the same longings for diversions that other more fortunate, persons have, but could no more gratify them tljan they could investigate the planet Jupiter In person.

From this novel sprang the People's palace, which was recently opened in fine style by he .queen herself and numerous less mighty, ut still very lofty, beings. This palace is 'an institution of tr\« philanthropy, at Mile jBnd, the east of London, where a poor man lian warm himself without being preached at, iind where he can even get his beer and listen to music with no distribution of tracts to nake him unhappy."

Mr. Besant had a place of honor in the pening ceremony, and was presented to the [ueen, which in England is glory, enough for ine lifetime, or even for two or three. All Jong the route traveled by the royal procesion the .decorations were profuse. The day vas glorious as to weather, the wind tilting J1 the flogs and banners out joyously. Gne if the most original of the mottoes was that •f a firm of Scotch dyers in New Oxford treet, who put forth the apparently ultra oyal inscription: "We wad dye for ve."

The Queen's hall, of which an illustration is iven, is the only part of the People's palace luilding yet constructed. It has no external eauty, as it is intended to be surrounded by ther buildings. It is ISO feet long and 75 ride, and is very lofty. It will comfortably ccommodate a sitting audience of 2,000. It to be used for concerts and other entertainments or assemblies, but will be open to the eople daily. To these concerts sixpence on Vednesdays and threepence on other days 'ill give admission. The People's palace, /hen finished, is to comprise a large, well Dund reference library, with comfortable

QUEEN'S HALL, PEOPLE'S PALACE. ading rooms, large and small rooms for cial gatherings and indoor games, and for eetings of provident and other local associions a covered winter garden and promeide an open air recreation ground and garswimming baths and gymnasiums for th sexes schools of cookery, schools of -essmaking und other means of recreation id instruction. In Mr. Besant's novel the People's palace is described. A few philanthropic personr cided to convert this romance into a reality, the novel it was called the "Palace of Deht" It was the scheme of a woman. One the contributions to the fund which estabhed the People's palace was J. R. Jennings, lister of the drapers' company, and in recogjion of his generosity the queen has ighted him. ANew York journal, speakof the palace, says: Che opening of the People's palace in the eastpart of London must be regarded as an inciit of much importance in the forward march civilization. It Is an admission that a mere ing—enough to eat and drink, a place to sleep 1 something to wear—is not all that the mass mankind have aright to expect Recreation heirs by right also and recreation the strugig poor in East London are certain to have, that a huge institution devoted to free usements has been established in their stched neighborhood.

Ys a novelist Walter Besant is extremely ralar. His stories, though always interestare never flnshily sensational. A sim­

plicity of style and a purity of matter characterize them. Some of them are written in the first person, and read like a tale that is told with the lips. The titles of them are familiar to most readers. There are "Uncle Jack," "The World Went Very Well Then," "The Captain's Room," "Self or Bearer," "Life of Coligny," "Dorothy Forster," "Children of Gibeon," "All in a Garden Pair," and many others. His choice of titles resembles that of the late Charles Reade, and his style is not unlike his, though with less humor and brilliant cynicism.

James Rice, Mr. Besant's partner in the novel writing business, died in 1882. The following is Besant's tribute to his memory:

The ten years' partnership of myself and my late friend Mr. James Rice has been terminated by death. I am persuaded that nothing short of death would have put an end to a partnership which was conducted throughout with perfect accord, and without the least difference of opinion. The ioug illness, which terminated fatally oa April 25 of this year, began in January lart year. There were intervals during which he seemed to be recovering and gaining strength he was, indeed, well enough in the autumn to try change of air by a visit to Holland but he broke down again very shortly after his return. Though he did not himself suspect it, he was under sentence of death, and for the last six months of his life bis downward course was steady and continuous.

Almost the last act of his in our partnership was the arrangement, with certain country papers and elsewhere, for the serial publication of Miis novel ["All Sorts and Conditions of Men"}, the subject and writing of which were necessarily left entirely to myself.

The many wanderings, therefore, which I undertook last summer in Stepney, Whitechapel, Poplar, St. Qeorge's-in-the-East, Limebouse, Bow, Stratford, Shad well, aud all that great and marvelous unknown country which we call East London, were undertaken, for the first time for ten years, alone. They would have been undertaken in great sadness had one foreseen the ond. In one of these wanderings I had the happiness to discover Rotherhithe, which I afterward explored with carefulness in another I lit upon a certain Haven of Rest for aged sea captains, among whom I found Capt. Serensen in others I found many wonderful things and conversed with many wonderful people. The "single handedness," so to speak, of this book would have been a mere episode in the history of the firm, a matter of no concern or interest to the general public, had my friend recovered. But he is dead and it therefore devolves upon me to assume the sole responsibility of the work, for good or bad. The same responsibility is, of course, assumed for the two short stories, "The Captain's Room," published at Christmas last, and "So They Were Married," published as the summer number of The Illustrated London News. The last story was, in fact, written after the death of my partner but, as it had already been announced, it was thought best, under the circumstances, to make no change in the title.

I have been told by certain friendly advisers that this story is impossible. I have, therefore, stated the foot on the title page, so that no one may complain of being taken in or deceived. But I have never been able to understand wby it is impossible. WALTER BKSANT.

United Universities' Club, Aug. 19,18?"

I HON. EUGENE SEMPLE.

Jast Appointed Governor of Washington Territory bjr President Cleveland. For twenty years the people of the territories have been resolving in conventions that the United States officials among them should be appointed from their own residents, and the Mormons especially have complained that Utah was made "the Botany Bay of worn out politicians." President Cleveland has gratified the last request from Washington territory by appointing as governor the Hon. Eugene Semple, whose active life has been spent in that territory and the adjoining state. The appointment is all the more gratifying because the new governor's father, Gen. James

Semple, took an active and prominent part in securing the Oregon country (including what is now Oregon,Washington and Idaho) to the United States. While senator from Illinois in the years the Oregon question ||was discussed, he was a strong advocate of the course then called in poli-

HON. EUGENE SEMPLE. tics "Fifty-four Forty or Fight," and though that extravagant claim was abandoned, the vigorous assertion saved us Oregon. The father's speeches on that subject and his minute knowledge of that country induced the son to locate in Oregon, which he did soon after graduating in 1863.

Eugene Semple was born June 12,1840, in the city of Bogota, capital of New Granada, while his father was United States minister to that country. He spent his youth, however, in Madison and Jersey counties, His., finished his collegiate education at the University of St Louis in 1858 and graduated from the Cincinnati Law school in 1863. Late that year he located in the practice of law at Portland, Ore., but in 1870 quit the law and became editor of The Oregon Herald. His associates in publishing that journal were Sylvester Pennoyer, now governor of Oregon, and Dr. A. A. Ames, who lacked but a few votes of being elected governor of Minnesota last year. It is scarcely necessary to add that The Herald was a pronounced Democratic paper.

VASSAR BROTHERS' HOSPITAL

A Model Institution at the Seat of

Vac

sar College.

We present herewith a view of a new hospital designed to be a sort of model for this class of buildings. It is called the Vassar Brothers' hospital, and is located at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., the seat of the famous Vassar college for young ladies. It is comparatively small, according to the new idea of construct ing several detached hospitals rather than one large one, so that any one may bo torn down if there be good cause to believe it unfit for use. Indeed, some hospital authorities now maintain that such structures should be entirely of wood and torn down at the end of a few years' use but experience has not yet proved this view correct

The Poughkeepsie hospital is of brick, and in a complex style of architecture, as the picture shows, with towers, turrets, gabled roofs and arched doors and windows. The grounds cover fifteen acres. The building consists cf a central corridor and two wings of exactly 6QU&1 make: each wijiu tuod the vf

TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JUNE 10,1887.—TWO PARTS —PART SECOND.

ionguiion tue center terminates in towers the center projects to the front, and the entire arrangement is calculated to secure the best possible arrangement of wards, bath room, operating room and offices. The structure is designed not only for these purposes, but to secure thorough ventilation and this Hist is ingeniously secured by a system of pipes through the building, by which all the

VASSAR BROTHERS' HOSPITAL.

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foui oaors are conducted to one of the towers for escape. The interior finish of all the rooms is smooth and hard, with no moldings or elaborate work to increase the labor of cleaning. The uses of the hospital are, first, for the unfortunates of Pdbghkeepsie second, for those of Dutchess county, and third, for those of New York. Its chief interest to the general public, however, consists in the fact that it is built upon a plan conceived in accordance with the latest conclusions of medical science, and success there in securing perfect ventilation and preventing gangrene will be of vast benefit in building hospitals hereafter.

COL. ROBERT KINGHHARMAN/

Portrait and Sketch of the New Under Secretary for Ireland. Everything from Ireland is of interest not?, and the appointment of a tolerably liberal Irishman to the important post of under secretary for that kingdom excites much comment in London. Col. Edward Robert KingHarman, the new appointee, whose portrait we present, was in early life a very pronounced home ruler, and so continued till the late schism or revolt' against Gladstone, which gave rise to the new party or faction called Liberal Conservative that is, men who are by conviction

Whigs or Liberals, but cannot go with & Mr. .Gladstone in

COL. KING-HARM AN. hfa advocacy of exremely liberal measures for Ireland. The younger division of this party is officially recognized by the appointment of Col. KingHarman as under secretary the Conservatives, of course, think the appointment eminently fitting, while the radical Home Rulers denounce him as "traitor,h etc.

The appointee is a son of Hon. Laurence King-Harman, was born in 1838, educated at Eton college and married in 1861 to Emma Frances, daughter of Sir William Worsley. He holds many honorary titles and some active offices in Ireland, being lord lieutenant and custos rotutorum of County Roscommon, honorary colonel in the Connaught Rangers, justice of the peace for three counties (as the Irish law custom is) and privy councilor for Ireland. All the same he is now a member of parliament representing the Isle of Thanet, a division of the English county of Kent—a rather odd representation to Americans, who are not familiar with the custom of choosing a member to represent some other district from that in which he lives, though as a matter of strict law the constitution allows it As the office of under secretary has no salary attached, Col. Harm an can still hold his seat as member of parliament In his office his duties will be advisory to a great extent, and as he will naturally have much power in determining the Tory policy for his section of Ireland, his political history and the bent of his mind are of some importance.

In his boyhood and school days the great Daniel O'Connell's influence molded the patriot opinion of Ireland, and it was all for "repeal"—that is, for a repeal of the action of 1799-1800, which destroyed the Irish parliament A little later this movement took on other features and the party took the name of Home Rulers, but the rebellion of 1848 and the subsequent troubles postponed all political reform for a while. In 1852-54 the party of "Young Ireland" arose to agitate for a peaceful reform and restoration of home rule. This party had wonderful success at the elections, but was" ruined beyond hope by the treachery of several of its chosen leaders and the impetuosity of others. With these liberal movements the King-Harmans sympathized, and when Hon. Isaac Butt organized the "Home Rule League" the present under secretary was among his most enthusiastic supporters. In 1874 this party swept Ireland at the elections. Sixty noblemen and gentlemen were elected there pledged to home rule, and twenty-eight in England. Premier Disraeli followed the election by "warning" the national journal in Dublin, whereupon Mr. Shaw moved and CoL King-Harman seconded a resolution for an inquiry into the home rule subject Soon after, however, his teal was observed to cool, and in 1878 Mr. Disraeli appointed him lord lieutenant of County Roscommon, to the amazement of all^ observers, and soon after his change of parties was complete.

It Is Generally Tim#.

The Rev. Mr. Highflyer—I delivered that sermon offhand. I hadn't given it a moment's thought HQW did yon like it? Frank Hearer—I cant say. You see, I didn't give it a moment's thought, either.—Unidentified.

California Wines.

The Palace hotel, of San Francisco, is trying to popularize California wines by putting them in the place of honor on its wine list and by supplying the best and soundest vintages at veiy reasonable prices.

The Tide of Travel.

It is said the tide of travel across the Atlantic has set in so strongly toward Europe that some of the steamships have been forced to Expend the isms of wsward ticket*

SHIPS BEFORE STEAM.

FRONT THE SERPENTS' OF THE NILE TO NELSON'S LINE SHIPS.

Incomplete Records Which Leave the Character of the Ships of Antiquity Somewhat in Doubt—The Use of Oars

Singly and Combined with Sails.

Primitive man must have very early found out that as wood would float, all he had to do to enjoy a .ride on the water wrs to place himself on a piece of ftjating wood large enough to bear his weight Whoever made this discovery and put it to practical use was the first navigator. It could not have been long before it was discovered that floating logs could be propelled by poling in shallow water and by sculling in greater depths. Then followed, no doubt, the raft, the canoe and more finished craft

But as to who made any of these' discoveries, or as to who first used the oar or the sail, there is no record. It is certain that very early in the world's history mankind navigated the rivers and lakes and the edges of the seas, and as almost all commercial relations were sustained by means of navigation, the sailors of the early ages, as sailors have ever been, were held in high repute as to bravery and hardiness and manliness.

Among the earliest.craft of which we have any record are the boats of the river Nile, and our knowledge of them is gained from the representations thereof to be found on Egyptian monuments. A reproduction is here given, from which it is apparent that oars, each worked by a single man, were used, but no sails. The steering apparatus was a huge oar fixed in the stern. Many boats of a much more ornamental character are figured on the old Egyptian monuments, and some of them, especially the war boats, were propelled by oars each manned by two men. some by oars in two banks instead of one, etc. Later in Egypt's history sails were* also used, but

"A SEgtPENT OF OLD NILE."

they were of a very simple cut It was centuries, probably, before the, galley form of vessel, of which the Nile "serpents" were a primitive form, was abandoned for purposes of war, and we hear of galleys as fighting boats as late as 1587, when' the Englishman, Drake, destroyed so many of ^hem off Cadiz. They were used by the Norsemen as well as on the Mediterranean, but the Norsemen used sails very extensively, too. The only advantage possessed by galleys as fighting boats over sailing vessels was the ability to work against the wind. But this was more than counterbalanced by the unseaworthiness of the galley and the manifest superiority of the sailer when there was a bit of a breeze.

Merchant vessels earlyabandoned oars save as auxiliaries to their sails, and in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries great progress was made. The Dutch were a great maritime nation in those days, and an

"A FLYING DUTCHMAN."

example of their style of ships is given. The Spaniards, too, built fine ships both for commercial and fighting purposes, and the ill fated Spanish Armada was the wonder of the age. It was about this time that the English, island bred, began to excel 'as sailors and ship builders, and they were most influential in the abolition of the clumsy, heavy wooden castles at each end of the ship a peculiarity of construction to which the Spaniards clung till a comparatively late date.

The cut of the "Flying Dutchman" given with this presents a very fair idea of the better class of ships of about this period, though it does not show the wooden castles spoken of in anything like their most extravagant development They were not handsome ships, judged by modern standard of maritime taste. But they were not uaseaworthy, and were often used for very long voyages. In fact, Christopher Colon, whom we usually speak of as Christopher Columbus,

Bailed

far

enough when he made the voyage that gave this continent to mankind, bat he was along time about it

There is an immense contrast between the ships of the Flying Dutchman pattern and those of the Eighteenth century. Perhaps the best examples of the style of the naval architecture of that period may be found in Nelson's "first raters," or ships of the line of the "English navy, of one of which a cut is given, and which differs almost as much from the ships of 300 years before as from the modern ocean steamers.

A NELSON "FIRST RATER."

It will be noticed that in the ship o$ the line there is a decided tendency toward simplification of cordage and an approach toward the beautiful lines of the modern sailing vessel. For say what you will, the handsomest craft that perils the seas over is the full rigged ship. But the full rigged sailing ship is a rarity in these days of steam and iron plates, and what few ships we moderns have are not built on the scale of the old war ships of the Eighteenth century.

In this brief sketch no attention hag been paid to the development of sailing vessels in the orient The evolution of navigation there was quite different from that of the western world and far more picturesque but it reached its climax much earlier, and the Bailors of that part of the world are still using vessels of the same pattern as did their forefathers centuries ago. ^.

HON. SAMUEL PAS&&'*

Portrait of the New Senator from the State of Florida. Hon Samuel Pasco, the new senator from Florida, has several claims for distinction one, that he secures to Florida what she has not had since the erratic Senator Jones located at Detroit, namely, full representation in the senate 'another, that he served through the war" as a Confederate private and a private gnly. This is, we believe, the first instance where the private soldier has carried off a congressional prize.

Samuel Pasco is about 48 years old, and a native of London, England. When he was 10 years old his parents emigrated thence to Canada, and after a short stay there to Massachusetts. He was early noted for scholarship, and was graduated from Harvard college in 1858, going soon after to teach college at Waukeenab, Fla. 'When the war broke out he enlisted in the Third

Florida volunteers, and did a ||great deal of fight-

•-I^Jing, though emir: ployed in the inItervfls as clerk at regimental or brigade headquarters.

At Jackson, Miss., in 1863, he performed- an act of,

HON. SAMUEL PASCO. heroism which gained him great applause, rescuing a wounded companion and carrying him off the field. At Missionary Ridge he was captured, and remained a prisoner at Camp Morton, Indianapolis, till the close of the war. Returning to Florida as soon as released, he began the practice of law in Monticello, and for ten years devoted himself exclusively to his profession, taking only local action in politics but in the campaign of 1876 he took a very active part as Chairman of the Democratic state executive committee. In 1880 he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, but withdrew in favor of Governor Bloxham. In 1884 he repeated that movement, this time in favor of Governor Perry, the result being in both instances that he made many warm friends and strengthened "his claims upon the party. Curiously enough both these gentlemen were his opponents in the canvass for senator and he again withdrew but a few days thereafter a stampede, as politicians call it, took place and Mr. Pasco received the unanimous Democratic vote of the legislature, which made him* senator till March 4, 1893. His previous legislative experience has been brief but highly honorable. Elected to the state constitutional convention, he was chosen its presiding officer and having been elected a member of the last legislature, he was made speaker of the house. Both these responsible positions ho filled with credit, and. from the latter he now goes to the United States senate. He has some prominence in various orders, being the grand master of the Masons and past grand master of the Odd Fellows. He is also active in school and social affairs. His own domestic life is described as pleasant In 1869 he married Miss Jessie Denham and they have six children. He has two brothers still living in Massachusetts, and a third is teacher of the high school at Jacksonville, Fl&i .*•*

NEW YORK'S EXECUTIVE MANSION.

The HODIB in Which the Governor of New York State Will lteside. The state of New York, during Tilden's administration, adopted the precedent set by the national government in providing a mansion for the executive, purchasing for that purpose an old Knickerbocker residence in the southern part of Albany. Five governors, including Tilden and Cleveland, have already occupied the old mansion, and it possesses some historic interest, but as it is thirty, years old and antiquated in style the legislature a year ago appropriated $104,000 for a new residence, to which the recent legislature added $37,000, making the total cost $141,000. The work has been pushed rapidly and Governor Hill expects to occupy the new mansion within the month. President Cleveland and his wife, it is expected, will be his guests there on their return from the north woods.

NEW YORK'S EXECUTIVE MANSION. The rectangular lot includes four acres the mansion stands near the center, well back from the street and on a slight rise. The lawn is beautifully adorned with trees and native shrubbery. The mansion is of brick, with terra cotta and brown stone finish, and the architecture includes a combination of styles—a steep roof, projecting towers and tall chimneys giving a bold and pleasing aspect .In the rear ape hothouses, to the left a conservatory, while within is a large billiard room, reception room, library, guest chambers, parlors and the ordinary living rooms, the whole elegantly finished for their several uses. The great hall, which the visitor first enters, is finished in quartered white oak, with fireplace of Tennessee marble. At one end of this is the state or reception room, at the other the dining room by withdrawing the folding doors the three become one magnificent hall 110 feet long. The dining room has a buffet of finely carved cherry and furniture of mahogany. The .breakfast room, library, sitting room and parlor open upon these, and consequently into the large halt when they are thrown into one. The stairway is of oak, with broad landings and carved balustrades. The finest articles from

the old mansion win DO removed to Che new, including a large pier glass, which was a noted ornament of the old. One thousand persons can attend a reception in the new mansion without inconvenience.

The building is to be lighted throughout with electricity furnished from the Capitol, with electric bells to each chamber. The large guest chamber is thirty-five feet long and twenty feet wide, furnished in mahogany. The view from the mansion is very fine, the Catskills, Helderbergs and a ten mile stretch of the Hudson being in sight, besides broad stretches of plain and woodland. Not very much "democratic simplicity" about this establishment, which is much more elegant and comfortable than the White House. jP-

Lost by Emigration.

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So far as can be ascertained, there are lest than 500,000 native French out of France, whereas there are 4,200,000 Tgngiiah and Irish born subjects residing abroad, and 2,600,000 Germans by birth who have left the fatherland. "Even Italy has lost by emigration more than twice as many subjects as Franca, foreigners also think well. of republican France, for over 4,000.000 Europeans born outside its limits have taken up their abode with them, the number being greater than the combined foreign born population. of England, Germany, Russia and Italy.—Mew Orleans Times-Democrat.

THE LATE BEN: PERLEY POORE.

The Oldest Washington Correspondent in Point of Service. The following is from the pen of a personal acquaintance of Ben: Perley Poo re, the veteran correspondent who died in Washington but recently. The writer is himself a Washington correspondent of several years' standing:

Dear Ben: Perley Poorel He, it may be said, grew up in the shadow of the Capitol, and had seen more days of service as a newspaper worker there than any one else. Hi3 life at Washington was almost continuous for the past fifty years (his age at decease was 67), and he probably bad a far wider acquaintance with public men, especially of

S •S' this country, than any literary man of the generation.

For some years his principal business was editing the Congressional Directory, though The Boston Budget and Providence Journal have had contributions from

BEN PER|ET POORE. jjim regularly, and he recently brought out a life of Gen. Grant. Mr. Poore was for years an encyclopedia of information to Washington newspaper workers. He was full of "points" on every subject and about every public .man, and his death destroys much of the material upon which some of the boys here relied upon from which to make their weekly letters. Although a newspaper worker himself, strange to say, the major aever seemed annoyed when asked for information. Almost invariably, indeed, he would stop work and give the inquirer more points than he bad asked for. "Washington newspaper work is very different from what it once was," Mr. Poore said to me one day a few years ago. "In the old days our news could not go by telegraph, of course, but there were great differences aside from that The personality of the correspondent was valued more then than it is noyr. His opinion as an individual carried weight with it, and on the subjects he treated it was expected his information was more .complete than that of the editor at home. The methods of reporting were different, too. The" old school of correspondents told their readers not only what a speaker said on the floor, but described his appearance, dress and manner, told the effect produced and results of his conclusions it put in practice. We went into minutes in matters of detail, and relied more upon acquaintance and personal influence in getting news from public men than. in buying information or turning detective." :V

This genial correspondent told me something once which has not been printed, I think, unless by myself. "It is singular," Mr. Poore said, "that the first blood of the. war was that lost by a colored man. A Pennsylvania regiment, one of the first at Washington, was attacked by a mob at Baltimore, and a large and intensely black colored man was struck on the head by a brick. He hastily wound a handkerchief about his head, which was undisturbed until the troops passed into the rotunda of the Capitol, when, on adjusting the handkerchief, blood spurted out and made quite a trail on the floor. I chanced to tell Governor Curtin of the incident, and the war governor traced the TH out He lived at Pottsville, Pa., and I think is there yet"

To cubs in newspaper knowledge at the national capital I think Mr. Poore Was unusually kind. Perhaps his own early days there led him to appreciate the difficulties encountered by a beginner and left him disposed to help aspiring young fellows. To all such hjs help was ever free, at any rate.

Miss Danvray'a Cop.

Til ere has never been greater or more widespread interest in baseball than this year. Miss Helen Dauvray, the actress, is an enthusiast and sees every game in New York,

THE LEAGUE BASEBALL CUT.

where she resides at present She has 'doiie ti good thing for the game and exhibited shrewd advertising perceptions at the same time by offering a silver cup to be contested for by the league and association. A cot of this cup is given here.