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THE INDIANAPOLIS . JOURNAL, SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1889 TWELVE PAGES. THE , SUNDAY, JOURNAL. ! : SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1880. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. r. 8. Hxath. Correspondent. JCEW TORK OFFICB204 Tempi Court, Corner Beekman and Nuna Streets. ' TE1UIS OF SUBSCKIPTION. DAXLT. Creresr, Moat Fanday One year, with 8onLy 5ut month, without sunrtajr.. ........... fc-Lx month, with Satirtjiy ........ Three month, without isanday ..... Three mrmtLf with Saix!ay One month, without Sunday..... ..... One mmth, with bamUy ....fllM ......... 14 00 e oo ......... 700 , 3.00 ...... . 3..V) ......... 1.00 . 1.2) WEEKLY. . - a Redueed Rates to Clubs. Snhsrrlh with any of oar namerons agents, or ynd ubcxlpUoii to THE JOURNALNEWSPAPER COMPANY, IXPULXAPOLXS. IXD. - - - mrv TvTivivnria .TAirwviT. Can be fonnd at the f oCowiog places: LONDON-sAmxican Exchange la Europe, 449 Strand. PJ BIS American Exchange In Paris, 25 Boulevard dee Capnclnes. 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Both of these decisions are important steps toward defining and establishing-the dividing lines between different departments of the State government, and both will become lead ing cases. LrTESATUEII. One of tho questions for discussion at the last meeting of the Indianapolis "Woman's Club was "Is Ephemeral Lit erature Worth Readingr' The question railed out a variety of opinions, and raused an animated discussion. Very Wurally, the first question that arose was, what is ephemeral literature! The leader of tho conversation defined it as ''light fiction." Others thought it in cluded short-lived scientific treatises. Tho president suggested that purely . . ' ii imaginary characters iounu ineir proper idacb in ephemeral literature, rather than Characters drawn from life, like those of ; Dickens and other novelists of j his school. The conversation then drifted intoa discussion of the merits of lightfic iion and short stories. All this had somo relation to tho frob- Jec, bttV not a very close one, jind the question seems to have been left unanswered. Perhaps it is rather a dclicato one for the Journal to touch upon, for, of all ephemeral liter ature, a daily paper is tho most so. It f literally mhcmeral. for the word is . ' , - - - - - - g - - derived from tho Greek ephemeros, which means daily, or lasting but a day. The daily paper exactly fills the defini tion, but, by a figure of speech or slight modification of meaning, the word is ap- Dlied to anything very short-lived. A -TiVli ration that is literallv eohemeral. x " - for the day only, can hardly be expected to have an -unbiased opinion on the question whether ephemeral literature is worth reading. Of course, we think tho Daily Journal, including the Sun day, is worth reading, and we have reason to believe that a great many other people are of tho same opinion. Therefore, we could not, with any proper sense of self-respect, admit that 'kA onfiatnnrot Ufrfitnr t worth Tprwl- . A i J Ilia Taittti e 1 is prejudiced in favoi of tho affirmative pide of tho question. And yet, like an intelligent juryman who does not ' allow a newspaper to control his judg ment, or his conscience, the Journal thinks it is capable of forming an honest opinion in a case of this kind. The members of the club were right in first seeking a definition of what AncKtna T!Tvirrnl 1? rrrntrir Vmf they do not 6eem to have been quite accurate in their answer to the question. Certainly the definition offered by tho leader of the conversation was not a Imppy one... "Light fiction" is not necessarily ephemeral literature. Be sides, that raises tho question as to what vnc;tnns lifhf. flrtinn. WIipta Rrmll ' we draw the line! That which a critical and profound reader would call light iiction might be considered by another ' almost heavy. Perhaps the term light, as applied to literature, is as uncertain find indefinite as tho term "digesti ble," as applied to foods. Virhat is easily digestible for one person may bo impossible for another. Tho poorest fiction is light compared with the "best, and the best is light compared with ox's Book of Martyrs or Tupper's Pro Terbial Philosophy. Besides, fiction in cludes poetry as well as prose, and if all "light fiction" is to be classed as ephem eral, many famous poems as well as proso compositions would be included. Our literature abounds with gems of this Bort essentially b'ght but safely im mortal. "The Vicar of Wakefield" is a short story and very light, but it will bo a classic as long as the English language is read. It is anything but ephemeral. In fact, the world is full of light fiction in prose and verso that it would not will . ingly let die almost as full as it is of ; heavy, controversial stuff which it would bb better off without. Wo "conclude -therefore, that ephemeral literature does not mean light fiction nor any kind of i' fiction exclusively, any more than it means exclusively biography, works of travel or so-called history. Any of these may be ephemeral, as a very large part of what is published under those names is and deserves to be. : :: Perhaps the best definition of ephem -nl literature is, not the literal one of X living for a day only, which would in clude only daily newspapers, but the somewhat freer definition of "short lived. Then the question would be, is short-lived literature worth reading! But here again there must 'be a division of the question, for of short-lived liter ature there i3 good, bad and indifferent. It is certain that not all short-lived liter ature is worth reading, and equally cer tain that much of it is.. Under the head of ephemeral literature are properly classed not only all the newspapers, but all the quarterlies and monthly maga zines, such as the North British Review, London Quarterly, Edinburgh Review, Westminster Review, Contemporary Re view, Nineteenth Century, Fortnightly Review, Blackwood's Magazine and other British publications, and such American periodicals as tho North American Re view, the Forum, the Popular Science Monthly, the New Princeton Review, Harper's Monthly, the, Century, the Atlantic Magazine and many others of different degrees of merit. All these conio undcr;the head of ephemeral lit erature, yet who would say they do not contain much that is worth reading! As a matter of fact, not to speak of the daily papers, which contain a great deal of excellent literary work, the British and American periodicals of tho ''day contain the very cream of the best thought of the age, the best wine of the nineteenth century vintage. In a proper sense all this 13 ephemeral literature, and in its periodical form it is short-lived, but it forms an inexhaustible mine of intellectual wealth, which future work ers will explore with infinite profit. On tho whole, perhaps tho best answer to the question discussed by the Woman's Club is to 6ay that ephemeral literature, like other literature, is worth reading if it merits perusal. A COffffECTICUT SCHOOL SCANDAL. According to an investigation and re port made by the Connecticut State Board of Education a remarkablo condi tion of affairs exists among the schools of that commonwealth. Connecticut has always had great educational promi nencedeservedly so, doubtless, so far as city schools are concerned and this makes the facts Ret forth tho more startling1. Investigation haa been con- fined mainly to New London county, in which tho cities of Norwich and New London are situated. Outside of these towns every child was examined, tho teaching capacity of tho teachers ob served, and data relating to progress of the children gained from other sources. It was found that in these townships no less than two-fifths of the children above ten years of age were unable to write, none of them having been at school for less than three years, and many of them for seven or eight years. In one school, in a wealthy neighbor hood, it is stated that "out of thirty-five children, twenty-two could not write enough even to make an attempt at ex amination." In another school in tho same vicinity were six scholars over ten years old, and of these "one girl, aged thirteen, and a boy aged fourteen were able to write, though poorly. Four oth ers, aged respectively ten, eleven, twelve and thirteen, could not make a single letter." In spelling there were 1,827 pupils examined, and of these "787 mis spelled 'which,1 009 misspelled 'whose,' and 403 could not spell the name of the town in which they lived." In arithmetic tho same astonishing deficiencies were shown. In one school where there were thirteen scholars, seven of whom had been under instruction for from three to six years, only one could add correctly six simple numbers whoso sum was 1,71)3 yet some of these youngsters were studying interest. The teachers of these schools, as might be supposed, are them selves amazingly ignorant and wholly unfit to hold their positions. Tho ex planation given for this almost incredi ble state of things is that, by the policy of the country school committees, teach ers salaries are kept too low to tempt well-qualified instructors, and the best teachers go elsewhere. Many teachers receive but $20 a month, and hundreds are on the list at $25. Appointments are made without preliminary examinations or tests, and girls of sixteen are often given places from mere favoritism. The disclosure hascreated quite a sen sation in Connecticut, and a thorough overhauling and reform of the public school methods will undoubtedly folio w. It will require some further explana tions, however, before tho rest of tho country can understand how such a sys tem could prevail for so long a time without protest from or discovery by the parents of the children. What were the intelligent people of Connecticut do ing that they neglected to inquire into the failure of their children to learn the rudiments of education after years of attendance at school! COUSTEY LIFE AND CRIME. To many, probably to most, minds the rural districts are, theoretically, places of peace, and free from the crimes and villainy that abound where crowds of men and women, with their myriad op posing interests, come in contact and conflict. People who know little of the country, save as they view in passing the fair fields and snnny hills whero turbu lent passions seem to have no place, are not more strongly possessed with the idea that rural simplicity means rural innocence and freedom from gross out breaks of sin and crime than are those whose homes are in those quiet regions. The latter, though aware that dreadful things often occur among them, argue, with tho exaggerated belief of the coun tryman in the wickedness of the city,' that the happenings of their own neigh borhoods bear no comparison with the iniquities of urban life. In only one sens are they right. More crimes are committed in cities than in country districts. for the reason that more people are in the one place than the other. It is a pretty theory that nature, meaning woods, and rills, and flowers, mountains and vales, exercise a soothing, refining influence upon man, but, as a matter of fact, hu man nature is more powerful than its en vironment, and when ripened will not be restrained by the most peaceful sur roundings. Given other influences of inherent gentleness, education and fiue breeding, the effect of rural life must be to strengthen tho fine qualities; without them the refining effect is not to be depended on. Pastoral innocence is a good deal of a myth. The tired, worn-out city resident may flee far from the madding crowd, and enjoy tempo rary felicity; but the idyl of Corydonand Phyllis will not inevitably come under his observation. Instead may bo a tragedy of the horrible order, such as that for which a man was hanged on Friday at Vincennes the murder of a sweetheart by an enraged and brutal lover. It is not the mere theorists and sentimentalists, nor yet rural citi zens themselves who are proper judges of the relative peacefnlness of city and country, but those who study the rec ords of crime. In these records it is found, curiously enough, that the most atrocious, unprovoked and brutal crimes are apt to occur in these same quiet, seemingly peaceful and piety-provoking regions of which the poets sing. Wheth er the isolation of the individual leads to the growth of uncontrollable passions, to a return to savage instincts and an impatience of legal authority; whether the criminal of tho city is swayed, even in his desperate moments.by the closer re straints of civilization and law these are questions for social philosophers to an swer. Whatever may be the explana tion of the phenomena, it is plain that the modern tiller of tho soil is not inevi tably absorbed in placid contemplation of his surroundings nor in the study of "books in running brooks, sermons in stones," neither does ho find "good in every thing." 0UE IEEE mDEE0ABTEN8 One of the most unpretentious and at tho same time most effective charities of the city is the Free Kindergarten Soci ety. The public schools are not open to children under six years of age, but tho streets arc, and even babies may learn many things that it is better they should not know. The desirability of provid ing some instruction for these little ones, taking them off the street, and at the same time fitting them for entrance to the regular schools, impressed itself upon the minds of a number of benevo lent ladies several years since. To think, with them, was to do. One kin dergarten ras first opened, as an exper iment, in a part of town where hard working fathers and mothers could do no more than provide food and clothing for their offspring, and had littlo per sonal care to bestow on them. The ex periment was an immediate suc cess so far as attendance was concerned. The children themselves were ready and willing to come, and the parents themselves, when they once learned the benefits of the simple train ing, were grateful. One school was fol lowed by another until now 6ix are es tablished with an enrollment for tho past year, as the report shows, of twelve hundred. This means, primarily, twelve hundred children taken out of the way of mischief, twelve hundred with new ideas in their, heads and their hands made skillful in many ways ready, per haps, for the more practical industrial training to come later. What it means more than this is less patent but no less sure. Early impressions are strongest, and theso little ones, with the memories of their first sweet lessons, are far less likely to fall into evil ways in after life than if they had been permitted to "run wild" for the first six years of their lives. The effect of the training is recognized at once when the kindergarten pupils enter the public schools, and they are eagerly welcomed by the teachers be cause of their quickness and tractability. But all these schools cost money, and it has been only by tho most unremitting exertions and careful management that the ladies in charge of the enterprise have been enabled to meet expenses. It is time tho importance of their work was more generally recognized and more liberal aid extended them. The educa tion of the rising generation of citizens is a matter in which all are concerned, and tho "bending of tho twigs" being not the least part of that education, all interested should do their part. An Indianapolis family who have just returned from spending the winter in San Antonio, Tex., relate a singular experience of Southern liberality. They stopped at the only hotel in San Antonio, the charges being very high, the pretensions great and the faro abominable. The first bill that was presented embraced a big round total, with an additional $1.50 for extras. The head of the family was curious enough to ask his wife what extras they had had. She could not tell, and inquiry elicited the fact that the charge was for eggs. On six different occasions, when there was very little on the table, one or the other of them had ordered two boiled eggs, and for each order a charge of 25 cents was made, making $1.50 for one dozen boiled eggs, and this when eggs were only 10 cents a dozen in market. The thrifty Southerner who kept the hotel visited the North the past year, and was entertained for some time free of cost at a hotel in Waukesha. This winter the proprietor of the Waukesha hotel who had entertained hira visited San Antonio and stopped a short time at the hotel kept by his former guest. When he asked for his bill at the end of his stay it was presented at full daily rates, and with the customary charge of 25 cents for two eggs. It is needless to say the San Antonio man is getting rich. The right of joyous American childhood to disport itself as it pleases being so gen erally insisted upon, it is with some hesita tion that a protest against one favorito amusement is ventured. It must be agreed, however, by those persons who are not the parents of hoys and who have some regard for their own safety, that a Flobert ride is really not a proper toy to put into the hands of ten-year-old Johnny and twelve-year-old Tommy. Aside from the possibil ity that a ball from the noiseless gun may accidentally penetrate Johnny's or Tommy's own brain, there is the imminent risk, which more . nearly , concerns the public, that innocent passers-hy and unsuspecting occupants of dwellings may be winged, in stead of tho sparrows, of which the boys . are . in supposed pursuit. A bullet whizzing through a window or by a pedestrian's ear is no uncommon thing in certain parts-of the city. Sparrows may have no rights, but unoflending citi zens certainly have, and one of these is protection from lire-arms on the public streets. Jloya and men should be forbidden to use guns of any description within the city limits, but especially these rifles, 1 doubly dangerous becauso noiseless and their neighborhood less easily avoided. If an ordinance covering the offense already exists, it should be strictly enforced. TnE announcement that Dakota is suffer ing from a superfluity of mice and a scarcity of cats may lead to interesting results. Some parts of the country, and especially some communities and neighborhoods, have long been suffering from a superfluity of cats. The situation has been growing worse rather than better, and the question, what to do with the surplus cats has be come a serious one. The discovery that Dakota is short of cats may furnish a happy solution by opening a field for the perma nent absorption of the surplus in other parts of the country, and furnishing a new career for cats which would otherwise de generate into nuisances and tramps. Al ready shipments are being made from Iowa to Dakota, and the demand for cats has caused a sharp advance in prices. The only difficulty in the matter that occurs to us is the facility with which cats find their way back over long distances to their old homes. It is one thing to send a cat to a new coun try and quite another to make it stay there. It would be very discouraging to a com munity,' after shipping a car-load of cats to Dakota and congratulating itself on the ac complishment of a great reform, to discover some line morning that they had all re-' turned and were ready to resume business at the old stand. i . i jm Mr. T. C. Crawford, a well-known" American newspaper man who spent sev eral years abroad, has published a book, in which he says that while some things are cheaper in Londou than New York, the actual cost of living is much higher in the English city. Rents are nearly as high, taxes higher and the general expenses of housekeeping greater. Clothing and furni ture are cheaper. As to hotels and restau ants, Mr. Crawford says: The hotels are more expensive than with us, and do not begin to give the same accommoda tions. The smaller the hotel the higher the prices. Inthetirfct place, there is not a small hotel in London that does not charge as much for its rooms as any of the fashionable European-plan hotels on Broadway. The restaurant charges will average much higher, while the fees for at tendance and the like make up a bill which is far outside of the charge of the nrstclass hotels in Js'ew York. The restaurants do not compare with the New York restaurants In the quality or variety of their food. The only thing that I have seen which is better In the English restaurants is the mutton chops. The mutton chop with us Is greasy and coarne. The English mutton chop is sweeter and more delicate than our lamb chot. The Entrlish bread Is abominable. You wlU hardly find a good piece of bread in any of the restaurants of London unless you give a special order for a special dinner. Miss Kate Field cannot conceive how men, made in the image of . their Creator, can stand the idiotic custom of treating, and wants treating and "perpendicular drinking" made an offense. Whatever may come of the custom of treating. Miss Field will have to remake the American citizen before the habit of perpendicular drinking is done away with. The average man has not time, or thinks he has not, which is all the same, to sit down to a table and sip his glass of beer, or wine, or whatever the beverage may be with which he would quench his thirst. lie is in a per petual hurry, and to his mind it would be a waste of time to. take in: two swallows what he can gulp in one, so he gulps it. It is with the same feeling that he eats his dinner in ten minutes when he should take half an hour. In another generation or two Americans will know better how to care for themselves, and by taking proper time to eat and drink, will avoid dying or breaking down at forty. Tub death of ex-Postmaster Fearson, of New York, was undoubtedly hastened, if not mainly caused, by close confinement, overwork and failure to take needed rec reation. An absence ( from, his office of only five weeks in eleven years and work ing sixteen hours a day for months at a time tells the story. Mr. Pearson made a good record, but he did it at the cost of his life. BREAKFAST-TAnTiE CHAT. Secrktary Tracy, of the Navy, is a man of wide reading and fond of quotation. lie has a line library and has a special par tiality to English classics. George Wiixiam Curtis has been a prisoner in his Staten island residence since last summer, when ho sprained his lee. lie is improving, and expects to be able to w alk in a month or so. A Philadelphia clothing store is adver tising a novel bait to catch 'customers. Each person buying a suit is photographed in his new clothes tree of charge, and tho scheme is proving a paying one. Qceen Victoria will attain the age of three score and ten May 134. The state ban quets in-honor of 'the event will not bo given until next day. She has been enjoy mg unusually good health lately. Ex-Gov. Proctor Knott, of Kentncky, whose fame largely rests upon his Duluth speech, has aged rapidly in the last few years and his long locks are getting thin. uui 110 is as jovial ana energetic as ever. JonN" Bright was the only Cabinet Min ister who had never knelt to the Queen, his reason being that he could not render to an earthly potentate the homage which he owea 10 tne supreme ueing aione. At the beginning of his present illness the King of the Netherlands wanted his wife with him all the time. His madness has now assumed another phase, and ho mani fests a violent antipathy toward her. Ax association just organized in London proposes to set up disabled or provertv- stricken war veterans in the business of flower selling on the streets. The veterans are to be provided with glass-covered bar rows, like green-houses, ou wheels. Alan Arthur, son of the late ex-Presi dent, is not desirous of any political office. He intends to devote his time to business. and will settle permanently in New York. He is not engaged to be married, and his intimate friends are his former classmates at Princeton. A man in New York makes a living by cutting electric-light wires at fires. He is employed by the Brush Electric-light Com pany, and has attended two thousand tires within the last live years. He stays day andnicht in tho main office of the com pany, where there is a gong on which all alarms are sounded. A new invention to pervent collisions at sea, consisting of a small plate fixed at tho side of the vessel, has been very succesfully tried on the Thames. Electricity is the active agent The approach of another vessel within two miles causes a bell to sound, and an indicating arrow shows the direction whence it comes. Mr. Mutsu, the Japanese embassador to the United States, is one of the best edu cated diploma tcs of his time. He speaks a half-dozen languages fluently, and reads and writes several more. His wife is ouite a musician, having a pure alto voice, and being especially skillful on a Japanese in strument resembling the mandolin. Bishop Perry, of Iowa, proposes to re produce in tho cathedral at Davenport, April SO, tho service in which Washington and the devout Congressmen took nart on inauguration day 100 years ago. As Bishop Perry is an historical untboritv of wide reputation, the reproduction will doubtless be as accurate as the changed surroundings win permit. Empress Augusta Victoria, of Germany, docs not think it unbecoming to her dignity to personally superintend her nursery, and she occasionally persuades the Emperor to pass half an hour alone with herself and the royal children, and on such occasions dismisses everybody else from thechambcr. bince his accession to tne crown, the h.m peror has been the most devoted and affec tionate of husbands; at least, such is the news contained in a private letter from a lady in the suite of the Kaiserin. Jonx G. WnirriER occasionally drops into prose, not only gracefully, but with much good sense. On the subject of woman suffrage he says: "It is her right as truly as mine, and when she asks for it it is some thing less than manhood to withhold it. lint, unsupported by a more practical edu cation, higher aims, and a deeper sense of the responsibilities of life and dutv. it is not likely to prove a blessing in her hands any more tnan in man s. A personal friend of Tamberlik, the famous tenor, tells the following story of an incident which happened at Madrid, where the artist lived for the last twelve or thirteen years: "One morning we were walking through the bird market, when suddenly he drew a bank note for a thou sand francs from bis pocket, bought up all the little creatures, opened the cages, and shouted, laughingly, as the birds liew up into the air, "Go and be free, my brothers." Ward McAlister thought he had dis covered that the. cream of the cream of New York society was all comprised in four hundred persons. It must be much more than that. In Paris it is estimated at twenty-two hundred, in London at about three thousand, and in each capital there is a second and a third category of people who get invitations, and who consider themselves quite as good as those in the first, but who do not live on the 6ame mag nificent scale. . . Ira TRirp, a millionaire coal operator, of Scranton, Pa., who is now eighty, was an inveterate smoker till he was sixty, when he was told by his physician that he must quit the habit or die. Ho has not had a cigar or a pine between his lips since, but has indulged his love for tobacco smoke by inhaling it from cigars smoked by others. He finally resolved to hire a man to .accom pany him wherever he went, the man's only duty being to smoke a choice cigar as often as one was furnished him, and to blow the smoke in his enip'er's face. His present smoker is a colored man. who has been with him for several years. MAJ. JonN COPDINGTON KlNNEY, of Hartford, commander of the Governor's Foot Guards of Connecticut, and the com missioner from Connecticut to the Centen nial, has a unique war record. He was a lieutenant in the Thirteenth Connecticut. He was the first to learn flag signaling. and was specially detailed to Admiral Far ragut's fleet in its operations around Mo bile, in the action during which Farragut was lashed to the mast Lieutenant Kinhev was also lashed to the mast far above the deck and the Admiral's head. To him Ad miral Farragut issued his orders, and in the midst of whistling bullets and explod ing shells. Lieutenant Kinney waved his flags, conveying the Admiral's orders to all parts of the fleet. Miss Pauncefote, the daughter of tho new British minister. Sir Julian Paunce fote, is said to be a very popular young lady abroad, and her entree into the social life of Washington will no doubt prove an attractive addition to the ranks of favorites at the capital. Sir Julian Pauncefote. with his wife and daughter, is expected to arrive in Washington on the 21st instant, when they will take possession of the private apartments at the legation building, where, for the present, their meals will be furnished bv a caterer, for which arrange ments have already been made. Elaborate improvements will be made this summer in the refurnishing and repairing of the hand some apartments, which present a very bleak and barren look since the departure of the late Minister West and daughters, and the consequent sale of so much that made up tho attraction of their surround ings. A "Beauty Corapetion', in Berlin the other day came to a very ugly end. In or der that it should be thoroughly respect able, and that the competing beauties should be no mere professionals, the jury was composed exclusively of yonng married men and bachelors known to be betrothed. This mode of selecting the judges turned out to be disastrous. Every husband thought his own wife deserved a prize, and each engaged young man held an equally firm view of the supreme claims of his sweetheart. Some of tho men who were not on the jury insisted that a new 6et of judges should be sworn. The ladies who were not on the list of prize-winners naturally took part with the masculine malcontents. From words the gentlemen of the iurv and the gentlemen not of the jnrv got to blows. The ladies rushed off in terror, leaving tneir cnampions xo settle their respective merits by their fists until the police entered and put an end to the tournament. Eighteen champions were wounded in the tray. You'll find It true, if you'll observe, Although the finding out may pain ye. Tin sometimes hard to draw the line 'Twlxt larceny and kleptomania. Merchant Traveler. There was a black man named Hereaux, Who was boss of fan Domingeaux; lie sent out a yacht That fired a shacht And it may cause an lmbroglieaux. New York Telegram. NEW MEXICO'S FAMOUS OUTLAW. The Truth About "BlUy the Kid, Who Fig ured In so Many "Fenny Dreadfuls. Santa Fe Letter In New York Herald. Of all the characters in the great South west the most unique and interesting, at a distance, was Billy the Kid." Where he came from no one kuew; where ho went to after Sheriff Pat Garrett's lucky shot put his life out no one caced. lie was the product of a hundred years, and the people in this section of the country hope it will be a full century ere his like is seen again. There has been more written, probably. about "The Kid" than an v other murderer who ranged the vast plains of New Mexico, and yet practically nothing was ever known about him before he came to this Territory. It is said that he was once em ployed at the Palmer House, in Chicago, as 11 1 1 1 r . -1 a waiter or oeu ooy, wnere no ingmenea a guest into fits who had ventured to remon strate with his 6tyle of doing things. The memory of "Billy, the Rid" will never be eftaced in New Mexico. He was the embodiment of malignant cruelty, tho despoilerof homes, a murderer by nature and a foe to law, order and society. At the same time the possessor of these traits was a singularly handsome youth he was but twenty-three years 01 age when he was killed eight years ago with an open, pleas ing countenance anu mild bine eyes. His hair was as soft as a girl's, his form slight and well knit and his voice agree able. But one feature suggested the ani mal, and that was his mouth. His lips never closed over as beautiful white teeth as were ever seen in a human head, and when he was angry this characteristic gave him a tigerish expression. Few men have lived who were entirely devoid of mercy. "The Kid" was one of them. He had no love of home or of human kind. He deliberately chose to bo an out law, and held the friendship of men as lighter than the pressure of his finger upon the trigger of his Winchester. It was his ambition to become the leader of a band of outlaws, and this ambition was attained. He ravaged sections of this Territory, and for years escaped arrest. When at last he was apprehended the authorities were as tounded to 6ce a beautiful youth in tho person of the fiend upon whose head so heavy a price had been set. In jail his ferocity asserted itself. By means of a well-laid plot two of his men succeeded in gaining entrance to the place where their leader was confined. A re volver was given him and the three marched out to freedom. But the "Kid's ' appetite for blood must needs be appeased: he was thirsty for revenge as well, and on the way out he shot and killed both of the guards. His aim was unerring and he rarelv shot twice at a man. except in a spirit of wantonness, for . the first bullet usually did deadly work. The famous Lincoln countv war was "The KidV ouDortunitv ' and he did not. fail to profit by it This was a fend of the most deadly description, and when the Kid'' concluded to take a hand in it blood flowed in good earnest. It did not matter so much to this young outlaw as to who was killed, just so it was some one. He had no friends he desired to protect. How many men he killed with his own hand none of our historians will pretend to say. The number doesn't matter particularly. They were killed in all sorts of ways, borne were shot in "fights, others were slaught ered in cattle-stealintr raids, and vet others were wantonly murdered, with no sort of provocation whatever to justify them, even in a country and at a time whei tri killed each other for a cross word. On a horse, dressed in Mexicad varb. with trousers richly embroidered and coat of richest material, "TheK' was the idol of the girls and the ei f tho men. Beneath his wide brimra .mbrero his handsome face, fringed Wi ,urling hair. was a pleasant sight to k . A fearless horseman, he was at home on his animal and never seemed, to know fatigue. He would cover any number of miles for the privilege of killing an enemy, and once he made up his nynd to kill a man that man s life was worthless unless he chose to save it by leaving the country. "The Kid a" safety lay in the immensity of the region. His rendezvous was so well guarded that no stranger could get within a milo of it without being seen by some member of the band. If the young leader felt inclined the intruder was warned away: if not so mercifully disposed tho stranger was killed from ambush. This stvle of doing business, however, be came monotonous, and it was determined to rid tho Territory of the youthful desperado and his followers. Prices wero put upon the heads of The Kid" and his gang, and the war of extermination was begun in earnest WThen a man was strongly sus pected of being a follower of "The Kid," he was given an opportunity to prove an alibi. If he failed to do so. he was shot or hanged on the spot. Those who were known to be members of the gang were shot on sight. like mad dogs, with no ceremony or formal ity whatever. It was not long, under this condition of things, until "The Kid" was without a following, and then the search for him began. Men of every sort and conditioniomed in the hunt, and nearly every pursuer had a grievance. There was not a crime in the catalogue of which "The Kid" was not guilty. The relatives of some of those who were after him had been the victims of his revolver; others had female relatives who had been led astray or forcibly carried off: some had lost cattle, and others property of various kinds; many were actuated by a desire to get the reward and achievo tho notoriety of havinaf slain the most remark able criminal of which the Southwest could boast. The territory was alive with mau- hnnters, and "The Kid" was kept busy avoiding them. W ith the members of his gang dead, his old haunt closcjy watched, and no human being willing to'befriend him, the outlaw turned his face toward Mexico, the homo of the renegade. Wherever he stopped for rest or refreshment the inmates were solemnly warned that instant death would bo their reward should they rtare give an intimation of his whereabouts. But even at such a trying time his jauntiness did not leave him. Ho was as fastidious in his dress as before, and his manner was that of a gay, light-hearted wanderer, who had not a care on his mind. He knew death was on his trail, and was always prepared. He knew, also, that be would be shot irom am bush, for there were none of his rursuers brave enonch to face him in oren iight- Thero was every chance against nim, and his only hope was to reach the Mexican bor der. Then a strange fancy seized him. A half- breed ranchman had a beautiful daughter, of whom "the Kid" was very found, and so sure were tne autnorities tiiat tne nigitive would, sooner or later, round up there that they made an arranffement with the ranch man, who hated "the Kid" cordially. He was to give notice when the outlaw ar rived, and his reward was to he great. True to bis agreement, he. notified. Sheriff uarrett that "the Kid" was at his ranch, and the intrepid officer made preparations to kill the man he had so long sought. It was not a question of capture, for the out law had sworn he would never be taken alive. The day of his death "The Kid'' Tas strangely uneasy. He felt something was to happen, and two or three tiras gave his host notice that he would kill him, for he felt he had betrayed him. The old ranch man was frightened almost to death, but swore he had given no notice to tho author ities. Garrett had arrived the night before and was concealed in a room waiting for a favorable opportunity. "The Kid" in spected every room in the house until he came to this one. He opened tho door, a revolver in one hand and' a knife in the other, and as he . crossed the threshold asked, in Spanish. "Who's there!" The reply was a pistol shot, and "The Kid" fell dead. Garrett was liberally rewarded and has been the lion of the Territory ever 6ince. t 1 . Lively TraveUng on the Plains. Ean Francisco Examiner. The Golden Gate special, which arrived' two nours laie last nignt, naa on Doara a. J. H. Carhill, a neted banker and financier of London, and Lonng Bushby. a wealthy merchant who has for many years been en gaged in business in Jb oochow. These were the Englishmen who were mentioned in the Examiner dispatches as having chartered a special train at Omaha to enable them to catch the Golden Gate special at Cheyenne. The latter, however, waited two hours for them. The English men paid $600 for their , special, and the track was cleared for them. . The race over the plains was a very wild one. "We made." said Mr. Carhill, "the phe nomenally fast time of 123 miles in 125 min utes. This was in the vicinity of North Platte and Sidney, Neb. The track there is as level as a Boor. There is no notice able rise, and we ran 60 fast that it fairly made our heads swim. The telegraph poles lookedlike the teeth of a fine-toothed comb. Zounds, I thought I would lose my breath. Oh, yes, it was, of course, on account of im- fortant matters You 6ee, we have some arge business interests that demand our attentron, and we wanted to catch the steamer Arabic, which sails for Hong Kong to-morrow. Had we missed her we would have had to remain over for three weeks more. "We would have beaten the American record for fast running had not the north wind been blowing dead against us. As it was, we were given an insight into fast riding on the plains that was a decided novelty." The Largest Pair of Black Bass. Pittsburg- Dispatch. The largest pair of black bass ever caught in Missouri waters, or in any waters of the United States, in fact, were caught by J. W. Peters and son, of St. Louis, in Peters's Lake, Pemiscot county, Missouri, on March 8 last. They weighed eleven pounds and twelve ounces and eleven pounds and ten ounces, respectively, seven days after they were taken from the water. The larger fish was twenty-eight and three-fourths inches in length from the lower lip tc the extreme end of the tail, and eighteen and three-fourths inches in circumference at the largest portion of the body. It was at least threo pounds heavier than any one specimen of black bass ever caught in the bnited States before. The heads of these monsters of the black bass school have been beautifully mounted in elegant frames and were given to Capt. H. C. West, the Fish Commissioner of Missouri, who in turn will present ono to President Harrison and the other to ex-President Cleveland. They will be exhibited in a Broad wav show window for three weeks. Two Kinds of Cranks. Chicago rierald. A dog crank is about asbad as a bane-ball crank. He can bore a man more with dog talk than the ball crank can with his chat about base hits, chances accepted, general averages. The man who owns a prize dog can think of nothing else can talk of noth ing else. The trainer of the celebrated mastiff Minting, down at the dog show, shows what he thinks of dogs in his oft-repeated remark: "Minting is among dogs what Daniel Webster is amone statesmen the greatest who ever lived." The man who is the proud owner of a blooded dog, with a pedigree, will stand you np wher ever he chances to meet you, and fill you full of canine genealogy. "He lives in his dog, and when ho strikes a man who an- ears to take no interest in his dog stories ie thinks that man has lived in vain. Junt at present the dog crank is in hich feather. Ho goes to the dog show and finds other cranks to talk doc with," and ho is happy Next month he will givo way for the bal crank. Madame Diaz Generosity. Ssn Francisco Chronicle. There is a pretty story being told about the wife of President Diaz, of Mexico, which is worth telling. Ihe Spanish Opera Com nan v. although it drew a (rood deal of monev in this city, did not make cnouch to square us oiu ueois anr carry on ns nirtner career. The principals had enough money to get .back to Mexico, but the musicians and the chorus people were stTanded. It fceems that one of the musicians was something of a poet, and he had dedicated some vcics once or twice to 'Madame Diaz. She was very much pleaned with the roinnliment. and told him if she could ever serv e him in any ditlicnltv 6lie would be hannv to do it. He recalled her Promise in the straits bo was in, and ho telegraphed the facts to the President's wife. He asked her if she could assist the poor opera people to go back to Mexico. Immediately a telegram, came from the kind lady authorizing them to be sent home at her expense, sain to be some $3,000. ' Eropren Eugenie's Stolen Wealth. London Flgraro. . . - - Besides the large sums of money remitted to England by the late Emperor Napoleon dnring his reign and duly invested on his behalf by Messrs. Coutts, the Empress Eu genie has also the capital sum which was handed over to her on account of the sale of such possessions in France as were proved, to the satisfaction of the French courts, to be the private property of the Emperor. A third source of her large an nual income is in Spain, where she had sev eral valuable estates in the neighborhood of Granada. It will be to visit this Span ish property that theex-Eiapress will short ly leave England, and he will probably stay on the most beautiful of her estates during the spring months. Her abode will be a chateau en espagne of the most sub stantial kind, which sho has not previously visited since she left it to become Empress of France,. thirty-seven years ago. A Fad of the Four Tlundred. New York Graphic. The latest fad in connection with the Mc Allister Centennial festival comes to notice just now. A number of ladies, more or less socially distinguished, are being photo graphed life size, cabinet, and in groups, in the costnme cho;en for the ball. Some of them have and some of them have not the required ras?nort attendant documents and other oflicial papers connected with the uuuriiaMiig. 1 nose w no nave not, so xne photographer savs. sends their pictures to McAllister for his approval, with stamps enclosed for reply. Ho merely takes an ordinary editorial blue pencil and writea "Canceled." or nuts a number on the back. which means "accepted." The studio that has been chosen for this delicate work, be cause it is far np town, is on Madison avenue, and IS out OI the v.av of the mad dened rush of the mighty millions. The Moral Side of the Chinese. A Chinaman, writing to the Paris Figaro in defense of lady celestials, says that besides the China as depicted by travelers, there is "a China which is not sren, becauso it hides itself modestly, but which is not the less worth while for Europeans to study." Woman is not an illiterate slave, as has been represented, but quietly fulfills her duties as wife and mother, and help her husband and her son with her counsel. The government often recompenses her by giving her titles and honors, and by even allowing her to wear a uniform. Moreover. in urgent cases, and during the absence of her husband, the wife of the Chinese func tionary has the right to take cases into her own hands, and to decide upon them as aha thinks fit. OstricTaes at Waltxers. San Francisco Call. "Ostriches, like cattle, are liable to stam pede," said a Cape Town man now at the Palace Hotel, "but the funniest thing they do is to waltz." Ifow. pray, is that donet "The leader of the heard, generally an old male ostrich, evidently thinks that his fol lowers should, have come diversion on a long march from one pasture to another, so he begins by slowly but gracefully turning round and round. In live minutes tho whole flock is doing the same, and it is ouite a sight their lone plnmes waving in I the wind until they conclude to quit and. co on their way. music, of course. hn nothing to do with their dancing." Advice to Itollo. Brooklyn Eagle. i was he; "why do yon ask 6uch a foolish questionT" Because," said Rollo, "this: morning the choir sang a'missionaryhymn, and one verso said, 'The heathen, in hi! blindness, bows down to wooden 6tonv " "My son," said Mr. Holliday, Kindly, "don't try to formulate your creed from what you think the choir seems to say, or you will get the religious of this world into such an inexplicable and incomprehensible tangle that 'Paracelsus' will read like a child's history of Anyplace in words of one sy liable." The Ethics of Journalism. FockvlUe Republican. A newspaper may tell the truth techni cally but not tell the whole truth. If in doing this it proceeds further and draws unfair inferences and conclusions from its technically stated truth it may wellreceivo hard kicks therefor. The paper is not kicked for telling the unalloyed truth but its unfair presentation of the truth. There is in this town a paper that habitually takes an isolated case of truth and makes a general application of it to all things of its kind. Nothing is more unfair and tin-J reasonable than this. If for this the paper 1 is Kicnea it ougni not KicKaoouiit. Two Kinds of Newspapers. Washington Poet. Newspapers that make an object of re cording the goodness of men, their heroism, their wise ambitions and enterprises, will become moral agents in society. Those which hire men and women to lead dailr lives of falsehood and deceit in tracking-) out other people s falsehoods and deceit are misled in their notion of morality and public service. The details of criminal lives and practices is neither news nor literature. A man or woman who spends his or her life in tricking secrets from other Eeople is a poor teacher for humanity, uch journalism is shocking. Adepts at Applying Theories. , Philadelphia Telegraph. ' Seventy-five Belgian glass-blowers in Tiffin. O., have gone ou a stnke becauso one of their number was not permitted to murder his employer without hindrance!) This is abont the most logical application I ot the Knights of Labor theories that has fallen under our observation of late. Thv rights of workingmen are. indeed, in perir when one of them is jailed for the trilling! offense of attempting to murder an obnox- ious capitalist ; The Decrease In Matrimony Kx plained. PitUhnrg Dispatch. The fashion papers, which now havede-. partments exclusively devoted to pet dogs, j announce that dogs will be worn larger; next week than this, including setters, grey hounds and collies. Nothing is said about the fashion in husbands, which, perhaps, may suggest an explanation for the de crease of matrimony. The ladies must find great difficulty in getting husbands to match their dogs. The Literary Man Who Gets Rich. Washington Post. We see a great deal in the papers these days about the poverty of literary men in this age. Nonsense! f hero never was an other age that offered to the literary man bo many opportunities to acquire wealth as this one does. Where else, for instance, is the age in which a literary man couldmake $10,000 a year writing poems to advertise soap and baking powder. Why He Changed Ills Dress. Chictgo Times. When old Red Cloud visited President Cleveland he came in his gaudiest colors and his eagle feathers. Whn he called on President Harrison, Thursday, he was dressed in citiien's clothes and an old slouch hat. Wanted to look like an In dianian. - When to Take the Oklahoma Census. SprlDgfleld (I1L) JonruaL If it isdefcircd to bring Oklahoma into the Union as a State, its census should be taken promptly on the evening of the2d. Its population is likely to be greater then than it will be live years later. Will Let .Miss Daisy's Claim Alone. Washlupton lost. Miss Daisy, of Kentucky, who has taken up a claim m Oklahoma, is prepared to de fend it. No one w ho is not anxious to turn . up his tots to the daisies - will interferu with her pre-emption. The Buttle Will Stay. ' Tort Worth Giirtt A Memphis woman fell thirty fect down an elevator shaft, andlightingou her bustle escaped unhurt. The bustle has now met and vanquished every danger, except an at tack from a billy goat. They Get Left. Philadelphia Time. Some of the fellows who were claiming A little while ago to have discovered Harrison are now kicking themselves because they didn't take him into the woods and lo4 him. , "Father," asked Rollo, looking up from his Sunday-school paper, "are ail the idols petrifiedr "No." replied his father, for it