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iStslSiBSTSvSS - .-mf jJ; AV iMtf- THE WASHTffGrTOX TIMES, FRIDAY, APEIL 13, 1894. The Washington Times (Every Day In the Year) OWNED AND ISSUED BY The Washington Times Publishing Company Editor: MARSHALL CUSHLNG; City Editor: EMORT FOSTER. Office: HUTCHINS BUILDING, COKXEit Tenth and D Streets Northwest. Telephone Editorial Rooms, 337-3. Business Office, 337-2. Price, Dally Edition OneCenL Sunday Edition Five Cents. Ily carriers, by the week Ten Cents. WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 13, 18D1. The Weather To-day. For the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia; Fair; northerly winds; slightly warmer. 9 9 ! Canvass for 9 9 9 9 9 The Times! 9 There are numerous easy y ways to do it. ft Show copies to your friends, q and let it work; Talk about it everywhere, it V is an interesting topic; 0 Ask the merchants, all of ft them, big and small, if J they advertise in it; Y Send news to it that might 0 bo printed. n t ? 9 f Take an Interest 9 9 in It Every Way. 9 (0(-06-'C'4' TIMES ADVERTISING PAYS. Some papers aro large, but there is such a thing as too much advertising, and sometimes they have been known to have too much. Some circulations aro large, but some large circulations nre not profitable for tho adver tiser; the paper doesn't go to the right place; it doesn't go to the home. The women spend nine-tenths of our money, and they are the persons, bless them, whom we ought to adver tiso to always, no matter what our business, whether the sale of shirt waists, or carpet tacks, or newspapers. The Times has a home circulation; the women aro interested in it. So nre all the members of the family. They poro it over from beginning to end. They preserve it. Hence its value a3 an ad vertising medium. It brings results. OX OCR HAND'S; AN ELEPHANT. Two brief items of news recall the present situation of one ol Hon. Collis P. Hunting ton's enterprises. Ho would much desire the refunding of the debts of Pacific railroads. He would make a few millions by tho opera tion; consequently it is easy for him much to desire tho refunding. Gen. Wado Hampton, the Commissioner of ltailroads, announces that he is opposed to the foreclosure of the lien on these roads; and it would seem that there is nothing for Congress to do but to do ex actly as Mr. Huntington wishes, which is very ngreeablo and pretty all around. One of the news items of yesterday also brought to pub lic notico the fact that Mr. Huntington is will ing to give $100 to help the industrials, so called, proceed East. It is a large sum for Mr. Huntington, but if his refunding bills go through he can probably afford to pay it. .METHODS DEVIOL'S ENOUGH. It will be well for tho advocates of postal telegraphy to understand what they are fight ing. Possibly they know already; but the methods of the Western Union monopoly, which arethe practice and perfection of lobby ing in Congress, in state legislatures, and in congressional districts for a score ot years, are almost beyond comprehension. They are frequently beyond finding out. This monop oly not only familiarizes itself with every motive and condition of Senators and mem bers, and of the friends of Senators and mem bers, but it is prepared, with the expenditure ot almost no end of money It occasion should require, to defeat in convention or at the polls any man who dares really to oppose its wishes. All this ha3 been understood but vaguely in the past. The Times proposes that it shall all be understood clearly, in detail, elabora tely, continuously, every da-, if necessary. It proposes that the friends of postal tele graphy shall know who their friends are, if if they have any; and who their enemies are will also appear from time to time, and these must tako tho consequences, Perhaps the consequences will not be serious, for the special interest, the monopoly requiring fa vors at tho hands of Congress, knows how to protect its friends as well as defeat its ene mies. But at least the news shall bejprinted this time. It is a new kind of postal telegraph fight, this one. WHAT IS A GOVERNMENT OF THE PEO PLE? When good people differ as widely, as undoubtedly Btji Leading Womix good people differ, concern ing woman suffrage, it is an infallible indication that pro SCFJTUGIST. found misunderstanding of tho question pre vails somewhere; and as the question of woman suffrage is a question vitally affecting the welfaro of tho whole people, it is the duty of every male and female citizen of the United 8tates to give it a dispassionate, unprejudiced hearing. Truth is brought out only by hear ing every argument that can bo urged either for or against any proposed public measure. Nothing so plainly indicates an ignorant, crude mind in a man or a woman as refusal to listen to new or unfamiliar Ideas. That the newspapers of this country are now willing to publish arguments concerning woman suf frage is proof that tho people of tho United States aro now willing to read these argu ments, and that the people are at last willing to read is one of the strongest possible marks of growing intelligence in public opinion. It is, therefore, with pleasure that I comply with the request of the editor of The Times to say a few words regarding the probable effect upon tho country of the success of the woman suffrage amendment in New York state. To understand tho ultimate result of the enfranchisement ot all the adult, sane, non criminal, non-pauper, tax-paying female cit izens of New York, it is necessary, flrst, to understand what is the American principle o" government Strangely enough, very few Americans seem to havi tho faintest concep- .( U. .1.1. -It.... ...J 1- T 11 uuu ui wiiui. mi3 pocuiiur principle ts. x etui i it a peculiar principle, for, as It Is expressed I in the American Declaration of Independence, it Is absolutely unique. No such '.published basis for government ever before appeared in the history of human experience.'-1' ' Therehave been many governments before Which rejected tho divine right of kings or emperors, but here wo have nn entirely new foundation, In the declaration that "govern ments derive their just powers from the con sent of the governed: that, whenever any form, of government becomes destructive of these ends, it Is tho right ot tho people to alter or abolish it." Now any logical person need but ask him self or herselt what is the only method by which consent to government can be mani fested In order to see at a glance tho full sig nificance ot the Amorican ballot It Is, in it self, simply asymbol of justice, asign of recog nition of tho individual's right to express consent or dissent in regard to governmental affairs. It is a standing recognition that "taxation without representation is tyranny," and that all who aro taxed are entitled to at least .a voice in regurd to tho choice of their representatives. It Is an acknowledgment of tho sovereignty of the individual. To confer this badgo of sovereignty is to bestow upen tho Individual a national honor, a mark of national dignity. Its bestowal signifies that tho individual upon whom this honor is con ferred is not only to bo recognized the world over as capable of self-government, but also as a worthy assistant in the sacred duty of promoting and preserving tho public good. Thus it will be readily seen by ovcry thoughtful person that the possession of titleto exercise the American franchise is the highest honor the United States can bestow, and, conversely, to withhold such right, duty, or privilege is proof that those, from whom it is withheld aro deemed neither capable of self government nor lit assistants in tho task of securing political order, peace, happiness, nnd prosperity. Hence, the possession and non-possession of the ballot inevitably divides tho peoplo of tho United States into two classes, namely, tho people who aro publicly honored and tho people who are publicly dis honored. Now if thoso who were thus honored were a caste composed wholly ot the educated, the thoughtful, tho wise, tho industrious, the temperate, the honest, the moral, kind, and good; in a word, if it were a caste of character there would be no fault found with such dis crimination on general principles, though even such on establishment of caste is uncon stitutional. But what is the dividing line in the United States? Who are sovereigns and who subjects? What is necessary that one may consent to one's own government and have a voice in the affairs for which all are taxed and in which all men are equally in terested? Incredible as it must seem to every reason ing person, the chief qualification the only, qualification agreed upon by all states and territories without exception demanded of the individual upon whom the United States confer the highest honors Is, to be a male person! Some states discriminate more and some less, some do and some do not exclude the vicious, the pauper and the idiot male person, but with one small, one new, nnd ono partial exception every state nnd territory in this reputedly civilized country excludes women! Behold the class catalogued as un fit for self-government published in the Tribuno Almanac of 1803: Persons under guardianship, aliens, minors, bigamists, polygamists. Indians, Chinamen, felons, robbers, forgers, counterfeiters, per jurers, embezzlers, illiterates, lunatics, con victs, infamous criminals, traitors, idiots and nil women! Herewn have a published list of all the dishonored, into whose category are forced the mothers, the sisters, tho wives, tho daugh ters of every household In this republic. And yet men hold women responsible for lack of influence for good over their sons! tho in fluence of mothers whose sons know that the whole body of American men refuse to count tho opinions of women! She must, indeed, bo a rarely gifted woman who can exert good influence under such enormous disadvantage placed upon her by her state or country! The flrst result of the enfranchisement of women in New York will be the added self respect which must come to any state which lilts its mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters out of the criminal and idiot class and recog nizes them as a part ot tho self-governing peopl . The second result will be the in creased intelligence of women which must accrue from the knowledge that they are ex pected to know something about public wel fare. The third result will bo tho growing com radeship, the Increasing mutual respect be tween men nnd women, as women increase in breadth of knowledge and thus become more truly helpful to themselves nnd to all others. And the ultimate result will be the same increase of public good which attends every substitution of honesty for dishonesty, of truth and sincerity for falsehood nnd hypoc risy. Every celebration of the American Declaration of Independence is, at present, an actof national hypocrisy. The enfranchise ment of tho women the female people ot New York will be a crnnd move toward re storing harmony between American profes sions and American practice. Scsan B. AXTnoxr. H1TS-OR MISSES. It is suggested that Judge Caldwell, before leaving the bench to coquette with Presi dential nominations, should keep steadily before bim the example of one Grcsham, lately of Chicago. Senator Mill is out of politics out of income-tax politics, that is to say. It now remains for Carl Browne to discover that all gall i divided into three parts. Spring is founi in the almanacs all right Make no mistn to about it, I am a Democrat just as much as ev -.. D. B. Hill. Hon. Billy Mason is ambitious to succeed Mr. Cullom, and he is organizing debating clubs in Chicago for tho purpose. Thus far Gen. Lew Wallace has secured but ono member for his band of forty American immortals. It has been observed that Judgo Bradley will be entitled to tho damages if ever the case is ended. It cannot truthfully besaid that the swelling in the President's foot is due to his extensive use of it in kicking out hold-over Republicans. Have another one with us, Governor Till man; things are getting dull again down your way. Mr. St Gaudens might design a few decol lette mermaids for tho Navy Department while he Is about it It would be just liko us all to come out of this trial sympathizing with the man. Comptroller Eckels is in Boston helping Secretary Morton exterminate the gypsy moth. The' Democratic, party is disappointing to Hon. Frank Lawler as well as to Hon. Carl Schurz. As Mr. nolman seems likely to be returned to Congress, he is rather sorry that he began to advocate $4,000 salaries for Congressmen. Cot McCluro takes his desk in the Phila delphia Times office alter on absence of seven months. And how things will hum in the Philadelphia Times office now. It is said that poker players are "looking to Europe;" but many of our local celebrities want to know what is tho matter with Cham berlln'a. Carl Browne, tho marshal ot the Coxey army, will pale into Insignificance as a talker after he is onco brought in contrast with the Senate. No local humorist has vet thought to re mark that it there is not a new Coon in the Columbia Athletic Club there ought to be. Most of the New Jersey towns seem to have gone Republican; but, then, New Jersey Is a foreign country. James J. Corbett bought a house, sailed for Europe, and was mentioned as the co-respondent in a divorce suit all in a single day. Hon. William Dudley Foulke will probably not succeed In securing an office from this ad ministration. Advices from the Third Congressional district of Ohio aro that Major Rattibone, lacking a large sized barrel, is still drawing heavily on bis brains. On tho whole, I am rather pleased with tho way my speech lias took. D. B. Hill. Tho condition of tho Democratic party is very much improved at tho close ot Don Dick inson's third day in Washington It is inferred that Col. Perry Heath will succeed as editor of tho Cincinnati Commer cial Gazette. Ho has not yet announced that ho will hew to thn line. If Hirsch Harris, confirmed by tho Senate as melter and refiner nt the mint at Canon, Nebr., is tho ton of Senator Harris, of Tenne see, all right Col. Breckfnridgo would like to know whether thcro are not somo members of the Union League Club of Chicago who live in glas3 houses themselves. It required ncrvo on the part of tho brave littlo actress to break her engagement with Howard Gould. Tho Columbia Athletic Club has long wanted Alexander Grant for its president. CLOAK ROOM AXI) GALLERY. Senator Stewart expressed no surprise at the refusal ot tho Mexican government in ad vance to accept tho Woleott resolution pro viding for tho coinage of Mexican silver dol lorsat onrmints. It was to have been expected, he thought, and neither Senator Woleott, the other silver Senators, or himself were sur prised at the declaration. Of course, as there was money in the coin ago of silver dollurs for the Mexican mint, it was natural that they should desire to retain the monopoly for themselves. The resolution was sentimental largely, and at little had been expected from it there was little disap pointment nt the result. The Democratic members of Congress from Now Jersey aro not very cheerful over the late elections in their stntc, although most ot them claim that if the Wilson bill is pa3ed in time it may produce very different results in the Tall congressional elections. Mr. Dunn, of tho Elizabeth district, which went heavily against his party, claims that the result is attributable to Republican and protectionist terrorizing over the Industrial situation. It was what we would anticipate in any community where a number of people had been out of work nnd the party in power rightly or wrongly, get the blame lor It. Mr.Geissenhalner. of Freehold, which dis trict held Democratic, was inclined to ascribe the results in Newark, Jersey City and Eliza beth to local causes, and thought it indicated nothing as to tho Tall. John O'Neill, tho contesting Missourian, who finally succeeded in having his claims In the Joy district recognized by the suffrage ot of the House after several weeks of campaign ing by his friends nnd buttonholing and tele graphing by himself, has gone straight off and gotten photographed with his most win ning smile and statesmanlike expression. If you go along photographic row on Pennsyl vania avenue below thn Metropolitan hotel you will find O'Neill's picture in at least one of them, in tho very center of the group of about three hundred of his colleagues, and unlike the rest signed with an autograph so ambitious that it covers nearly one-half the portrait Apparently Mr. O'Neill is making the most of the honor which was not .appa rently "thrown upon him." m m A southern Democrat said bitterly yester day in speaking of tho northern defection in this party: "Well, I'm glad of it. Let them go where they belong. Perhaps I ou'ght not to bo so severe on my northern brethren. They aro flno fellows, but they nre never with us. "Their motto is certainly "Rule or Ruin.'" Hon. Richard Parks, Bland wants free coin age of silver bullion and absolutely nothing else. Ho is tired with compromises, with substitutes, with sentimental expressions of opinion, with resolutions informing Mexico that if she is tired of making a good seignior age or other profit out of the manufacture ot Mexican silver dollars we will help her. and, in short, against everything that does not give the owner of a certain amount of silver tho privilege of having it coined into legal tender money. He expressed himself also yesterday as being opposed to the Meyer bill, which prac tically accedes to the suggestion in the last two paragraphs of the veto of the seigniorage bill, and authorizes a bond issue to protect the reserves if the silver seigniorage is coined as earned. -- Three from Ton n Topics. Dax There's a greai man who hits me for a tenner every week. Max God, how much greater he'd be if he got it. Editor-in-Chief Whom have you sent to criticise th art exhibition? City Editor The Turkish tath reporter. Dixon How do you remember what your wife wants you to bring home? Tie a siring around your finger? Perkins No; I eat a brace of her amateur waffles. 4-4 Nothing Else on Earth. Old do Whiskers I havo had my life ic sured for 550.000 in your favor. Is there any thing clan I can !o to pleas you?" Mrs. do Whiskers (his young wife) Nothing on earth, dear. Judge. 4 l AT YOUR GATE. Mydarllncl My darling! My darling! Do you kn-iw how I want you tc-nbrbt? Tho wind passes, moaning and snarling, Liko some ovil ghost on its flight; On the wet street your lamp's gleam shines redly. You are sitting alone did you start As I spoke? Did ycu guess at this deadly Chill pain In my heart? Out here where tho dull rain is falling, Just once Just a moment 1 wait; Did you hear the sad voice that was calling Your name as I paused by tho gate? It was ust a mere breath ah! I know, dear, Not even Love's ears could have heard; But, oh! I was huncering so, dear, For ono little word. , Do you think I am ever without you? Ever lose for an Instanco your face? Or the spell that breathes always about you, Of your subtle, ineffable grace? Why, even to-night, put away, dear. From tho light of your eyes though I stand, I feel as I linger and pray, dear. The touch of your hand. Onco again with its wonted caressing It soothes my deep wound like a balm; Once again with an exquisite blessing It hushes my grief into calm;' And all the dear charm of your presence. My darling, is with me again. And takes, like some mystical essence, The sting from my pain. Ah, me! for a word that could move yon Like a whisper of magical art! Ilovoyou! I love you! I love you! There is no other word In a heart. Will your eyes that were loving still love mo? Will your heart, once so tender, forgive.' Ah, darling! stoop down from above me And tell me to live. Barton Grey In Commercial Advertiser. AS THE CROWDS COME OUT. Barrett's Hamlet Is at limes the strongest thing thithedoes. It is, as the critics havo said, a new Hamlet in certain scenes, although bis conception of the character is not different in essentials from the others of men who be lieve the prince's insanity feigned. He shows this belief more clearly in his action, and has added business to aid in showing it His mocking of Polonius is made more effective, than by others. Ho has his concealed listeners to the conversation between Hamlet and Ophelia show them- Bcitre visiuiy 10 uamiet ana to me audience. These are more or less matters of opinion, and aro not the acting of the man. No ono should dispute that at times he reaches vpry nearly a perfect rendering of the lines. It is studied, entirely restrained, and yet forcible, and it is poetic. But wo may say nil these things nnd yet not pronounce him a great namlet I do not think ho Ls that His entire ability to restrain himself at all times, nnd tho lack of any one moment where ho, as Hamlet, feels Hamlet's temporary passions, prevent his action 'rom nt any time rousing strong enthusiasm. In the minor mntters of stage business, or the mntters which ought to bo minor I be lieve he makes gravo mistakes. Hamlet, if it is anything, is sufficient unto itself. It is sublime tragedy. Now Mr. Barrett adds touches which savor unpleasantly of melo drama. For instance, in tho last scene Hor ratlo gives tho dying prince his father's pic ture to look at. In the scone between the prince nnd the queen the picture of the dead king is round his neck. The other picture is a small cnbinet-sizo picture, nlmost I had said a photograph. Ho compares tho two und throws tho new king's likeness onto the floor .iml ctiimnsnn It Wltnn hn nsimno t again in a few moments he stamps on it uKaiu. ,wft-, is inui uivino irageuyr YHY MARRIAGE "HAPPENS NOT TO BE IN FAVOR. Marriage docs not nt present enjoy tho uni versal favor which so ancient and admirnble an institution merits. Every sensible young fellow knows that the bct capital to start life with is a discreet und amiable wife. Young men of intelligence and acibitious purpose regard marriage as a prudent investment as well as a matter of romance. Young women, however (according to the New York Press), are not always actuated by such economic principles in matrimony. It would seem that they havo a fixed and romantic standard whereby they measure men and reject those unfortunates who do not come up to its re quirements. This is a system that is certain to meet with disappointment The ideal man hood that is taught by tho novelist and preached by the playwright exists only In faucy. "Wo havo not progressed." says the Press, "in tho rapid pace at which our sisters ad vanced within the Inst century. Since she gained educational emancipation, woman has developed with a celerity that was quito unex pected. Sho is no longer satisfied with whiskers and gallantry in one who aspires to her companionship. Men nre doing their ut most with what powers heaven has inven them; but, try as they may, it Is often difil ?u t to keep tho pace to which the now and lively intelligence of women has set lor them. It is possibly for this reason that vounc women 1 who do not perceive in matrimony tnat acnievement ol ambition wnicti was formerly the object of feminine hopes have recently adopted the habit ot beginning an Indefron'i ent career. They no longer wait patiently und dully tor the arrival of a Sir Lancelot, who may nei-ercome. but regard marriage cs nn incident, not a necessity of life. They havo discovered in the various professions a certain employment for the instincts of senti ment and perseverance that used to 1m less suceessfullyeugnged in needle-work and do mestic cares. "In this new phaso of nffairs women can wait for the corning suitors who are worthy to wear their favors. They aro not compelled to mntrimony as a means ot getting a home, but by their own industry and skill can estab lish the lares nnd penntcs for themselves. Thn reason why they do not get marriolisnot through liny unusual lack ot tol anee in them, but because men do not always come up to their requirements. In their recent de velopment, women havo not surrendered ro mance, but they havo gained common sense, nnd in the great majority of cases they are wisely determined to marry no one who is not a man as well as a gentleman." SUCCESSFUL IN tVERY YAY. The Printers' Co-orcrntlve Paper at Omnhn, Ncbr. To the Editor of TnE TIMES: The advent upon one of our daily papers of type-casting machines was the direct cause of the present co-operators working upon tho Even ing News of tho city of Omaha. When the ma chines came it threw upon our city about forty men to live as best th y intent in a community where work at th-ir trade was then clruost at a standstill. Something hid to be done to relieve the actual necessities of these men. Some few left the city, but others were forced to remain. From the latter a nucleus was obtained, hich became a basis for the birth cf the Evening News. We had no capital, but so apparent was the opportunity that we had Htr'o difficulty in rent in ts a small plant upon our future prospects. un the 7th ot March we Issued our first paper, and the way i: has gained In circulation and ad vertising patrouao gives us abundant assur ance of cur ultimate success. lo be true to our Interests and the great wort lngman's or people's party, of vM'.b all cf us have the honor to be members, the nine men who started our pal er formed themselves into a co-operative company, to share nlite In the success or failure of our enterprise. 'I here are two dally papers In Omaha besides ours, one ltepubllcanand the other Democrat:: in politics, and so great is their personal untacoaisni that a "long suUerln::" people have gladly welcomed the advent of a third party daily, which is free from personal antagonism. 1 ne pe.-sonne. or the livening Newscompiny is as follows. Grant Kenuey (the only mem ber of tho company not a primer) is a Knlzut ol Labor and a delegue to our Central Labor Union from tho rssembly tovhich he belongs. Mr. Keunoy is a telegraph operator and a linn advocate of :he rt'fcrm which re!o;n:s a:n D. Ncdry, our managing editor. Is well known throughout tho Webt. n is the president cf the Ncbiaska Mate Federation cf 1 a: or. The other membcisof the .en'np News Co ope: atlve Company, who are als 'llsdlrc?: -rs.are O. A. lirl tol. F. S. l-ortun, .'corr W. llatvel. V. 11. Ktnuey. P. Fnwrijht, and l. D. Hemming. Your correspondent has the honor to be the loal editor. Vo propose to isuo a daily paper for tho masses, ot whlh we area pin. ani we further propose to fill a posUlon In western Journilis-n which has been the dream for yoars cf the 70.1JOO Populist resident inXeb!:ic&a Never 1 efore until now in the history of this city has there been a time when a fearless advocate of tho principle i.f equal rights could expect to live against the antarenlsm of tho two well-established old party papers located here 1 te tele graph Iranchlses oeinc controlle-I by others, alt competition has teen shut out The other d.-.iiy papers, ordinarily nt enmity, aro a unit in keep iLg out competition. K. F. Gildeu. -- Wants to Know. To tho Editor of TnE Times: Sll Please explain why the entire edition of tho annual report of the Smithsonian Institute will have to bo expurgated before the retort sees the sight of day. A Header ok Yorr. Pai'SB. Because the reports of two professors con tained matter which was of an agnostic char acter Ed. Should Charge 2 Cents. To tho Editor of Tnn Times: I wish your paper godspeed, but candidly 1 think you should charge,' 2 cents for it and let there be a chanco to pay the printer. However, if you hold to the penny wo trill have to take two papers and mail ono out as a missionary. Yours, truly, J. B. Jacesox. m Tishball Fights. "Tho littlo mermaids and merboys never have any saow under the ocean, do they, mamma?" said Jacky. "No dear." I sup pose instead of snowball fights they have flshball fights, eh?" said Jacky. Harper's Young People. m m One Favor to Ask. She "No, it can never bo. I do not lovo you enough to bo your wtfe. But. before you go. I want to ask one favor." Ho (deject edly) "Well, what?" She "Please do not marry any one else." New York Weekly. The Case in Washington Society. It is hard for us here, says the Now Y'ork Press, to understand tho absorbing interest in the Breckinridge trial which all classes of so ciety in" Washington manifest A lady who has just returned from a month's visit in Washington said to me yesterday: "We were drinking tea, half a dozen of us, up' on Connecticut avenue, when the butler brought in the evening paper. Of course, everybody reads every word that Is printed, but tho ease Is not generally discussed In society. As Eoon as that paper come in our hostess tried hard to hide how badly she wanted to get rid of us. She couldn't read the paper before us, don't you know, but sho didn't want any other member of tho family to ttet hold ot it until she had read it So she deliberately concealed it under a sofa pillow. Then she became so absent-minded that we all went away directly. Of course, it was a very ill-bred proceeding, and I've crossed her oil my list, but I thought it very indicative." A PICTURE OF THE GREED FOR GOLD . "He saw I was a mean-looking fellow, but he trusted me." I said this to myself while I held the gentle man's horse. Tho cart was full of peaches. Presently some of the boys hailed me. They wanted some peaches. "Stand back!" I said. "The man told me to tako caro of 'em. He trusted me. I should liko to havo some of 'em as bad as you, but they can't be touched. He give 'em in my charge, and you can't have a peach." With that they begnn to yell nnd hustle mo; but I hit right and loft and drove them off. 'You have good pluck, my boy," said the owner or the enrt. "I saw how well you be haved, and hero's a dollar for you." My eyes stood out "A whole dollar!" says I. "Yes; do what you please with it." "I'll make another dollar with it," said I. The man had been looking at me intently. "If you want a home," ho said. "I think I cangivu you one. Jump in the wagon. I want a spunky, clover boy who can learn to make money nnd look alter his employer's interests." I went with him, and from that day was like a son to tho man who had so strangely become my benefactor. When I was 21 ho died and left me 510,000. With that I traded, speculated, grew rich rich enough. I thought, by the time I was 23 to marry sweet Lilly West If Lilly had been my only love! Gold was the rival of my wife. I wanted money, money, money! Lilly loved me, but I was engrossed in business and had no time for home. At times I almont forgot I had a wife. I began to grow avaricious. I was haunted for fear Lilly wn3 wasteful and extravagant I looked at her purchases with snspicion. I cut down the expenses of the houshold. "Do you really noedtwo servants?" I asked her ono day. "I don't know that I really do," she answered, for she was always anxious to please me. "I am afraid I cannot afford it," I said. "Then I will dismiss my housemaid," she replied. Mter awhllo I begrudged her the cook. How slyly this passion steals upon the soul! It is like a deadly frost that benumbs all the faculties but one the craving, the utter long ing for money. Y'enr by yt ar I grew more saving. God for givo me! Sometimes there was no food in tho house. Lilly grew like tho flower for which sho was named white and waxen. She seemed a burden to me. If I were only alone. I thought, how much richer I could get. Finally. I told her that she wa a bur den. She learned to fly from my presence, and nt last craved the protection of a relative Mv wish was granted. Now I could save! I shut up all tho house but one room. Peo ple looked askance at me. At last I W03 taken ill. Heaven must have seen something in me to save, for I recovered. I wandered round the cheerless rooms, and ono day, all of a sudden, like a ray of light from the upper world, it Cashed upon me what had made them so. I remembered my benemctor's happy home and now lie had first trusted me. though I had fallen among thieves Was thi3 the way to repay bis generous confidence? And Lilly; she had been the child of his dearest friend, and I had, alter making her my wife, driven her away. The recollection ot her sweet, rale beauty flred my heart. "And yet she is mine," I said. "Shall I send for her? What to abuse, mistrust and starve her? Never! I called for my money and had it laid upon the table before me, and then came a mighty struggle. I rolled the bill together and then threw them across the floor. "Lie there, curse of my oul!" I cried. "Lie there till I havo conquered mvself; aye, if the victory H not won till yon are rotten!" I shut that room and sealed it up. For one year I toiled like a penniless man. By con stant exertion I placed my business on "a suc cessful footing and begnnfife a new man: It was only another pliasi of tin malady, my friends said, but I know what I was doing. I wrote to Lilly onco or twice before I had laid bare my heart. I dared not. even now, trust mvself. I asked if she wonldeome back if I proved myself a changed man: and, woman-like, angel-like, she said, yes. Well, sho came. On the day of her return I opened the sealed door The bank notes lay where I bad flung them. I took them up with the pride of n conqueror, and placing them in her bands, said: "They nre no longer my tyrants. Use them as you will." Now I am a man, redeemed from the tbrali dom of covetousness. I can look on my wife without a pang of regret, save that I should havn caused her to suffer. I think of my good benefactor without shame. I am redeemed! Jonx M. Deposai. BERING SEA DECISIONS .Made By a Tribunal of England and Amer ica ncd n Third Politician. There was no necessity lor the adoption by the British Columbia legislature yesterday of the resolution praying the Queen to withhold her eensrat to the seal legislation until some arrangement bad teen made with the United States for a settlement of the claims of tho sallng vessels captured by the United States prior to the modus Vivendi. As n matter of fact, the United States gov ernment lias already agreed to the creation of a commission that shall adjudicate these elurus. The subject cnsio bc.ore the Paris Tribunal of Arbitration as the result of one of the tteatv articles. The ctipulation was that if the tribunal found that the United States had no authority to exercie jurisdiction over Berjig sea. r.nd "consequently had no right to make seizure prior to that time, the tribunal s .ould ,niesli.a!e the circumstances of each s.'izuro of a British vessel. It was not to assess damages. r.or even to pass upon tho question of the liability of the United States to the.owners of tho vessels, but simply to report what is known legally as findings of lact. such as the locat.on ot a ves sel at the time of seizure relative to the three mile limit, the value of her cargo, and such details. This was done, and the result was the ag gregation of claims against tho United States for about S2,OOJ,000. ' While the United States government was not technically bound to pay these claims, it has been desirous from tho beginning to give effect to the spirit as well as the letter of the arbitration, and. there fore, as alrcalystated.it has agreed to sub mit these clnims to the adjudication of a special commission, which will be com pusod of rcpn sentatives of tho United States nnd Great Britain, with a third nation hold ing the balance of power in the decision. -t "I Am 5orry." Buffalo, N. Y, April 12. When sentence was pronounced this corning upon William H. Griffith, of Tonawanda, convicted of man slaughter, tho prisoner created a sensation in the courtroom by walking across th3 room to where the widow of the murdered man sat weeping, and kneeling before her, said: "Mrs. Emerson. I am sorry I killed your husband," in a broken voice. For n Quarantine. Omaha, Neb.. April 12. Tho Omaha Board of Health to-day made arrangements to quar antine Gen. Kelly's army outside tbe city and vaccinate every man. Several cases of small pox have been brought to Omaha by tramps In the last few days. m .McKanc Having a Hard Time. New Yobk, April 12. ror the second time within a few weeks Judge Lacombe, in the United States circuit court, has denied a mo tion for a writ ot habeas corpus on behalf of John 1. McKane. Compensation of .Mnrshals. Representative McRae. of Arkansas, has Intro duced in the nouse a bill to regulate the com pensation of marshals, attorneys and commis" sioners of the United States. It Axes the compen sation of surh officers nt $1,000 per annum, while the clerks of courts are to be paid by fee, as now. United States marshals are to receli e In addition the fees hi civil cases brought before thorn. FOUND VERY GUILTY. Jack the Slasher Convicted on Four Counts nnd Remanded for Sentence. District Attorney Birney yesterday morn ing concluded tbe caso against George Tay lor, alias George Jones, who as "Jack tho Slasher," amused himself during the past Winter in keeping feminine and, if the truth be acknowledged, masculine hearts in tremu lous vibration. When brought into court, "Jack" dropped into a chair and assumed an attitude as list less as It was picturesque, and this graceful posture was maintained throughout tho court proceedings. The courtroom was crowded with sensation-seekers, and It was observed that the feminine department of life was well represented. In hU argument before tho jury, Mr. Birney conceded that tho defendant was not ot sound mind, nnd that the question at issue was as to tho capacity of the man to distin guish right from wrong. Mr. Birney then briefly discussed the testimony rendered, and contended that "Jack" knew ho was commit ting wrong in entering Mr. Holland's house. At tho conclusion of the District Attorney's argument, Judge Colo delivered a liberal and comprehensive charge to tho jury, in which he explained tho charge in the indictment, for housebreaking, and asserted that the only question to bo determined was as to whether tho prisoner had mind enough at the time of tbe crime to form the intent to steal. The judge held that partial insanity was no excuse for crime, unless the criminal act held the relation thereto of cause and effect, and in this connection ho real the instructions given the jury by Judge Cox In the Guitean case. In conclusion Judge Colo considered that the wanton destruction by tbe prisoner of captured goods in his possession tended to the theory that he was conscious of commit ting wrong. A further question to be considered wa3 a3 to the motive that actuated tho "Slasher;" whether tho destruction was tbe result of an insane impulse or tbe act of a wicked mind. The jury retired at 11.43, and thirty-five minutes later returned a verdict of guilty as indicted on tho second count of the indict ment, that is, breaking into Mr. Holland's house at night Tbe verdict was heard by "Jack" with seeming indifference, but en route to the pris oners' pen bis features brightened with a smile as ot relief. The maximum penalty to which "Jack" is Hsble is ten years at hard labor in the peni tentiary, and as four other indictments con front the unfortunate, it is safe to predict that he will not be seen in the theater of hl3 mis deeds for another decade. The four indictments which have been con solidated by Mr. Rirney jor convenience of trial, charge the "slasher" with breaking Into and robbing the houses of James C. Malcolm, Amanda A. Wall, Robert H. Y'oung, and Floyd T. Frost on the 27th of August, 1993, January 28, 1894, October 15, 1893, and November 5, 1893, respectively. Mr. Maleomb, Mrs. Wall, Mr. Y'oung, and Mr. and Mrs. Frost testified as to the break ing into and robbing of their houses, and to Identifying their property, which Detectives Weedon nnd Burrows and Officers Easby and Low testified bad been recovered from the prisoner, who admitted taking the same from tbe various houses. No evidence was submitted In defense, but Mr. Taylor moved that all the cases except that of Mr. Frott be taken from the jury, as serting that no entry by the defendant bad been shown. This motion was overruled by the court. Judge Cole then instructed tho jury as to each case seDaratel v, and at 2.25 the jury re tired. At 4.30 the jury returned a verdict of guilty on nil four of the indictments. He was re manded for sentence. WALTER PARKER DROYNED. He and Three (tompanions Were Rowing and the Boat Capsized. James Walter Parker was drowned at 4 o'clock yesterday evening near the south end of tho Aqueduct bridge while out rowing with Louis F. Clipper. F. G. Foxwell, and Boderick A. McDonald. Early in the nfteruoon the four young men hired a boat from the boathouse o f Frank B. Passeno, on Water street, in Georgetown, and rowed quite a distance up the river. On their way back Parker offered to take the place of Clipper, who was rowing, and as the two went to change places the boat a narrow, double-seated outrigger, cap sized, throwing all four men into the water. Parker, being a good swimmer, immedi ately struck out for tne shore, while the otber three held on to tho boat and called for their companion to return. He replied: "I'm swimming for my life for the shore." He was not seen afterward, and it U supposed he was seized with cramp. Charles Simmons, a fisherman on the shore, heard the calls for help and rescued the three men on the boat, but Parker's body has not yet been found. Parker was a clerk, 21 years of age, and lived at No. 1103 Howard avenue, in lit. Pleasant Charitable Entertainment. An exceptionally brilliant musical and lit erary entertainment was given last night at the Typographical Temple, under tho au spices of the ladies of the G. A. B. Grout Cir cle, No. 1, and Encampment 23, of the Union Veteran Legion There was a host of young and old present, and danc ing and refreshments were freely partaken of. The success of tho affair is largely due to the efforts of Mrs. Boyce, Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Keogb, Mrs. Avery. Mrs. Cordelia. Mrs. George. Mrs. O'Conncll, Mrs. Houghtaling. Mrs. Kelly. Mrs. Perkins. Mrs. Graham, Mrs. Hughes. Mrs. Engle, and Mrs. Pine, Messrs. Bvron W. Bonnev. Andrew Geddis, Silas S. Lincoln, John T."Brady. Joseph W. Shively, Thomas J. Spencer, and Oryillo D. Thatcher, and Prof. Cardelia and his orchestra. McKnnc in the Supreme Court. Robert II. Griffin, of counsel for John Y. McKane. the convicted Gravesend politician, has Died in tne Supreme Court a brief in op position to tbe motion made on behalf of Warden Durston to advance the hearing on McKano's appeal from Judge Lacombe's de cision, refusing him a writ of habeas corpus pecdius an appeal from the court which con victed him. - New Y'ork and New Jersey Bridge. Tho Senate Committee on Commerce granted a bearing yesterday to persons inter ested for and against the New Y'ork nnd New Jersey bridge bill. Mr. Thurbcr, ot the New York chamber of commerce, and Mr. h.irken dahl, of the Mariiime Association, spoke in opposition to tho bill, and Col. Phil Thomp son appeared tor its promoters. u Fell Down n Shaft. Willie Johnson, a white boy, 13 years old, living at No. 2C21 Bell street, Georgetown, fell down the elevator shaft in the building at No. 3209 M street northwest yesterday, and was taken to the Emergency hospital. Be sides several cuts on the head he wa3 injured internally. Captain Brewer Injured. J. B. Brewer, captain of the watch at the Government Printing Office, fell from a car on II street at 11.15 o'clock last night, sus taining serious injuries to his head and fracturing his left arm. He was taken to the Emergency hospital for treatment . Gold for Europe. The Secretary ot the Treasury yesterday received notice that about 52,000,000 in gold coin would be required for export next Sat urday, about half of which would bo drawn from the Treasury and an equal amount from the New York banks. Coinage Committee. It Is the present expectation ot Chairman Bland to call a meeting of the Houso Commit tee on Coinage for next Wednesday, to con sider the free coinage bil.3 pending. Ho ex pects that the members ot the committee now aosent will bo hero by that time. Another Abandoned Infant. About 9.S0 o'clock last night a colored fe male Infant was found in the vestibule of the house at 10 K street southeast, and was taicci to St. Ann's infant asylum. - Celebrated At Boston. Bostos, April 12. The Young Men's Dem ocratic Club of Massachusetts observed the anniversary ot the birth of the patriarch of the party, Thomas Jefferson, by giving a rousing banquet at the Quincy house to-day. SPEND THEIR MONEY FREELY o The Western Union Is Compelled, in Order to Beat Postal Telegraphy. $100,000 BEAT HILL OF COLORADO Congressman Sumner Suffered Similarly In California How a Woman Prevented a Favorable Biport by Seeping a Member away jrnenos of Eeform "Watching. j" rrt... nnnnnKn .. -l. .... ular agitation, are beginning to scent their danger, and their usual train of lobbyists and retainers, who are customarily on the spot here, have cxhihited new life and are more ihan customarily watchful lest any move looking to a favorable report ot any ot the postal telegraph bills or, least of all, the pas sage of any one of tho bills, shall be mado succussfully. The advocates of tho bill will have daring this session, as in ail former sessions, a hard fight before them. They realizo that, how? ever, and are preptring for it But it Is doubtful If they realize to what extent the op position goes, and to what devlou3 resorts It will apply itself whenever It becomes neces sary. Apparently the only antagonism of the Western Union Telegraph Com pany to the postal telegraph bill arises from tho appearance ot counsel, like Judge Dillon or old Dr. Green in his day, before one or the other ot tho com mittees. Now and then some lobbyist, high or ' low, does n little work on the outside of the "J committee room. But apparently the chie antagonism is merely In the well-prepared speeches which counsel or officer of the com pany deliver to the committee. The real and active work goes on underneath, however. The bill doesn't usually get oat of committee. This is true for various reasons. Many Senators and members are affiliated with corporations. Some of them are retained by the Western Union in their various localities, and many others are in the employ of corpora- uonscioseiyauinatejivriintne western onion, and consequently theinfluenceoftnetelegraph monopoly is almost omnipresent and omnipo tent Of course, these Senators and members have no Interest In forwarding any postal telegraph bill, and it Is sometimes easy for them without being observed to Impede Its being reported .tnd certainly Its being passed. This Is the chief reason why so many postal telegraph bills have never really seen the . light ot day, and this is the reason why it ha3 never been known just how Congress stood upon the question. Tbe matter ha3 really never come to a vote. There is thi3 other tact, and it seems all potent in the caso of Senators and members who might be Inclined to favor a postal tele graph propoltion It Is the fear of the West ern Union. Thsre Is ground for this fear. Years ago when Hon. Charles A. Sumner, a memDer irom California, lougnt lor a postal telegraph bill as hard as anybody ha3 ever fought for one sines, bo' was promptly kept at home the next time, he .ran; and it was unquestionably by the expenditure of large amounts of Western Union money. Some have thought the sum as high as 51.000,- -000. In the Senate similarly, Mr. Hill, of Colorado, was several years ago a warm ad vocate of the postal telegraph. A very bitter fight was made on him for renomination, and be was finally beaten. It was 100.000 of Jay Gould's money that did it; for Charles Franci3 Adams, then president of the Union Pacific, wa3 known to say that it was not Western Union money, the j'3100.009 that wa3 known to have been placed in a Denver bonk and to have been checked out to the members of the Colorado legislature for the purpose ot beating Hill, but it was Jay Gould's money. These are the customary expedients re sorted to bv the Western Union, not merelv to prevent any postal telegraph bill from com- f ingto nvote but to see pat it3 advoci'.d1 who really fight for it,'nre.Teft at home. Now and then it seems hard to prevent a favorable report A story commonly in use in the lost Congress and universally believed because it emanated from one ot the Western Union lobbyists, was to the effect that the telegraph company, in order to make sure that a favor able report was not made- by the committee (and there'wss great danger of it. if nil the members were presenl),t3fc pains to have a woman, in whom one of the members was interested, invite him away to some interest ing occasion just at the' time when tho posts, telegraph bill was coming up for n favorable report. So the report was beaten, and II tne woman did not secure a good sum ot money from the telegraph company, which the West ern Union lobbyist took some pains to be un derstood as saying that she did at the time, it was probably her own fault Tho present bills have a very large follow-V ing and many warm defenders, as it is a re-' form demanded by the great mass of people as for many years before. But it has also been found so easy for the special interest to defeat the general that some way is always found by which the postal telegraph bills have been delayed or beaten altogether. It is rumored, however, that those interested in the bill are intending to watch tho progress of this legislation this sessjoa and to see who are the friend of the measure and who its enemies. e Nicaragua Canal Question. The Nicaraguan canal question is receiving some attention at the hands of the House Committee on Railways and Canals. It has ueeii uiscusaeu u) lue cumumieu ul us iusi. f two meetings and the opinion was expressed T that the subject was properly within its juris diction. A bill giving the government a hand in tbe control of tbe affairs ot the canal is now before tho Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, and a resolution will be presented In the House by Representative Hudson, with the sanction ot the committee, asking that the bill bo taken from the Com merce Committee nnd referred to the Commit teo on Railways and Canals. Two Bicycle Accidents. Brent Trumblo, living at No. 1121 South iuo uyucma ui me pcstai telegrapn, I Which is now SO much a tODie of irenernl norw 'I Caroline avenue southeast, while riding a I I bicycle near Twenty-seventh and L streets ri northwest at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, was run over by a delivery wagon of Little field & Alvord, driven by a colored man. His right leg was broken. At 4 o'clock yesterday evening as Charles Hutchison was riding down the hill on Four-and-a-half street just above Pennsylvania avenue he collided with a hcrdic at the bot tom of the hill and sustained serious injuries of tho bead, which were treated at tho Emer gency hospitaL Robert ParRe Back Again. For somo reason unexplained at tbe time or since Mr. Robert A. Parke, passenger agent of the Pennsylvania railroad at Washington, 1 was replaced by Mr. Colin btudds, of Sir. flonrrra TC Ttntr.Va ctnff Thn nrrnm-pmpnt ' was only temporary, as it is announced that Mr. Parke has been reinstated in his old posi tion. Thi3 well-known gentleman was con gratulated by hundreds ot friends yesterday. They expressed their delight at seeing him back ngain because ot their belief that it was a mistake that he should ever have been away even for a month or two. - Many Post Office Arrests. Tho highest record of arrest3 mado by post office inspectors in any one month was almoit reached lost month. A statement prepared at the Post Office Department shows hat the total number of arrests made in March was 137, three less than any monthly number yet attained. The arrests included eleven post masters, four assistant postmasters, three letter carriers, one mail carrier, one railway postal clerk, twenty-five burglars, and ninety two other offenders. t In Honor of Spcatcr Crisp. Representative Straits, of New York, gave a dinner at the Arlington last night in honor ot Speaker Crisp. Those present besides Mr. Straus and Judge Crisp were Vice President Stevenson, secretary uresnam, senator fat rlck Waisb, Senator Arthur P. Gorman. Rep resentatives C. K.Breckinridge, T. C. Cateh ings, Benton McMillan. A. B. Montgomery, E. J. Dunphy, W. D. Bynum. Charles Tracey, und Mr. Don M. Dickinson, of Michigan. r.rtUzMiv-,- j5r3Kgai jSjgdaagsaaagg i,t.?j,saferv.jH..j JHOfji jfeajjeyji8s, &