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i'(4v .. !x .'• &• mi1' $gp mm mm? Personal feuds have played their part, and a fateful one, in the his tory of the presidency. Had not Alex ander Hamilton been the unyielding foe of Aaron Burr, the latter, and not Jefferson, would have succeeded the elder Adams but even more moment ous in its consequences was the long battle between Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay. When Jackson first ran for the presidency, in 1824, the candi dates opposing him were^ Adams, Aaron Burr Crawford and Clay. None of the four secured a majority of the electoral college, and the election thus devolv ed upon the House, with choice to be made from the three candidates— Adams, Crawford and Jackson—who had received the most electoral votes. This debarred Clay, who, forced, as he expressed it, to choose betwen two evils, announced that he had decided to support Adams. But Clay's deter mination no sooner became known than some of Jackson's friends at tempted to drive him from it. The weapon used for this purpose recalls cno cf the most discreditable inci dents in our political history. A fsw days before the time set for the election in the House a letter ap peared in a Philadelphia newspaper, asserting that Clay had agreed to sup port Adams upon condition that he be made Secretary of State. The same terms, the letter alleged, had been of fered to Jackson's friends but none of them would "descend to such mean barter and sale." The letter was anonymous, but purported to be writ ten by a member of the House. Clay at once published a card, in which he pronounced the writer "a dastard and a liar," who, if he dared avow his name, would forthwith be called to the field. Two days later the letter was acknowledged by a witless mem ber from Pennsylvania, Kremer by name, who asserted that the state ments he had made were true, aijd that he was ready to prove them. A duel with such a character was out of the question. Something, however, had to be done, and Clay immediately demanded an investigation by a spe cial committee of the House. Such a committee was duly selected. None of itk members had supported Clay for the presidency. Kremer promptly de clared his willingness to meet the in quiry, but in the end the committee reported that he had declined to ap pear before it, sending instead a com munication in which he denied the ,power of the House to compel him to (testify. No further action was taken, and in this shape, for the time being, the matter rested. Soon, however, came the election of (Adams by the House, followed quickly by his appointment of Clay as his Sec retary of State. Though it is now generally acknowledged that there ihas been no bargain between Adams land Clay, it was natural that, at the moment, the rank and file of Jack eon's following should regard Clay's appointment as conclusive proof that such a deal had been made. By ac cepting it Clay made himself the vic tim of circumstantial evidence. As Roseoe Conkling a matter of fact, he hesitated to ac cept the place, and finally assumed Its duties with reluctance. What chief ly determined him was the belief that If he did not accept it would be argued that he dared not. This to Clay was more obnoxious than the other horn of the dilemma. He,.there fore, too*.the alternative of bolt! defi ance but in so doing committed a calaxnitonserror. •. A strong effort was made at the mo ment to reject Clay's nomination. This ^tiling, the^cry of "bargain, and corruption" Wis again raised, and with, it began another contest for tire presidency, a contest longer and more mJuu»da.U*a» than any other In our DO- litical annals. Everything that rancor ous partisan intention could concoct was spread broadcast by the Jackson journals nor were Clay and Adams the sole objects of the storm of slan der. Charges of the most Infamous character were made against Jackson, and inflamed his animosity against Adams and Clay to a degree that ap proached insanity. Jackson believed Clay capable of anything of Which* the latter could be accused, and he him self gave currency to the "bargain and corruption" cry, which was printed, placarded and harped upon throughout the land. Clay, on the other hand, was unable on the stump to assume the line of dignified refutation and his language, losing all restraint, became the vehicle of raving wrath. The re sult of the contest was a signal tri- Alexander Hamilton. umph for Jackson. Even Kentucky, Clay's own state, went against him, and Adams retired in the shadow of deep humiliation. Four years later, when Clay himself was a candidate against Jackson, he received but forty nine out of 286 electoral votes. In 1880 the unrelenting animosity of Henry B. Payne alone prevented Allen G. Thurman from being made the nominee of the democratic national convention. In 1S57 Payne was a candidate for the democratic nomina tion for governor of Ohio. The con vention met in Columbus, and Thur man, then fresh from a period of bril liant service on the supreme bench of his state, had a friend in whose candi- Ytenry 6. Payne dacy for state treasurer he was much interested. Some of Payne's lieuten ants, without his knowledge, promised Thurman the support of the Payne forces for his friend in return for the votes he controlled in the convention but the Thurman candidate for treas urer failed at the last moment to re ceive the promised support of the Payne following, and was defeated. Payne was not aware of the trick that had been played upon Thurman, but the latter, who scorned double dealing in any form, was quick to resent it. Within the hour the opportunity to do fell in his way. The convention ended, Payne went to a hotel for dinner, ac companied by some friends, and in jovial mood opened wine in celebra tion of his success. Presently Thur man and a few friends came in and took seats at an adjoining table. Payne bade the waiter carry a bottle of wine to the newcomers, but in a moment it came back with the gruff »James G. Stain* message that Mr. Thurman did not care for any of Mr. Payne's wine. In evident surprise at this refusal, Paype rose from his Seat and crossed to the group of which Thurman was the cen tral figure. "I trust you tutd your friends will drink a bottle o£ wine with me judge" be said. urbantfjr. /fllrinJt to my sue 4l£ cess and the victory of the democratic party." "I do not want any of your wine, sir," was the reply. "I told that damned waiter to say as much to you, sir, a moment ago." And so saying, Thurman turned his back abruptly on' the man from Cleveland'. Payne never forgot nor forgave thip public insult. The quarrel thus begun ever after kept the two men apart, and three and twenty years later thwarted Thurman's highest ambition. In 1880 he was a candidate for the presidential nomination before the democratic na tional convention. Had he had the un flinching support of the Ohio delega tion, there is little doubt that he would have been the nominee. The delegation was solid for him on the first ballot. Then it broke and the chances of his nomination vanished into thin air. Payne was behind the break. The delegates from the dis trict in which his influence was su preme led it and were strongest in the claim which stampeded the convention to a dark horse. As Ohio was then an October state and practically certain to go for Garfield, the' result would be disastrous to the democratic cause. That argument defeated Thurman and nominated Hancock, and the revenge of Payne was complete. But the most dramatic of all the political feuds of the last forty years, both in its inception and its sequel, was that between Blaine and Roseoe Conkling. The two men entered the popular branch of Congress at about the same time, and both soon became leaders in that body. There was, however, little in common between them save the gift of pre-eminent abil ity. Conkling made Blaine the ob ject of his sarcasm whenever oppor tunity offered, and the member from Maine was prompt to retort in kind. Thus the enmity grew until, in the course of one of their many encoun ters, Blaine, stung to the quick by an unjust and ungenerous taunt, burst forth in an onslaught on his torment or which wrought the House into a high pitch of excitement and marked the beginning of a fierce struggle in the Republican party that ended in the humiliation of Conkling and the defeat of Blaine for President. Here are Blaine's words, and they are a model of excoriation: "As to the gentleman's cruel sar casm, I hope he will not be too se vere. The contempt of that large minded gentleman is so wilting, his haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his majestic, supereminent, overpowering turkey-gobbler strut has been so crushing to myself and all members of this House that I know it was an act of the greatest temerity I AUen C. Thurmart for me to venture upon a controversy with him." Then, referring to a chance news paper comparison of Conkling to Henry Winter Davis, lately dead, he continued: The gentleman took it seriously and it has given his strut additional pomposity. The resemblance is great it is striking—Hyperion to a satyr, Thersites to Hercules, mud to marble, dunghill to diamond, a singed cat to a Bengal tiger, a whipped pup py to a roaring lion. Shade of the mighty Davis, forgive the almost profanation of that jocose satire." There could be no reconciliation after such an onslaught, and the bat tle was to the death. Defeated for the Republican nomination by Conk ling and his friends in 1876 and again in 1880, Blaine in the latter year threw his following to his friend Garfield, who, nominated and elected, tK Se,Crlary °f and official right hand. Then came-thei struggle over the New York patrom age, which retired Conkling, and was followed by the assassination of Gar field. In 1884, when Blaine was final ly the formal choice of his party, Conkling was no longer in politics^ but the sequel proved that his was still the will and power to strike a mortal blow. A defection of a few hundred votes in COnkling's home county of Oneida gave that county, normally Republican, to Cleveland, and with it the electoral vote of New York and the presidency. Conkling had wiped out the score against his ancient enemy.—Rufus Rockwell Wil son in Philadelphia Ledger. Lions Fond of Lavender. lion tamers frequently perfume themselves with lavender. There is it is said, no record of a lion ever having attacked a trainer who had taken the precaution of using tfcie rerfume. Cowley, tKe ,Poet, Telia of Hle Won fterful Career. Cowley, the poet, who died In 1676 thus speaks of Oliver Cromwell in a single sentence ofhisMiscella.nles: "To oppress all his enemies by arms, and all his friends afterwards by artifice to serve all parties pa tiently for a while, and to command them victoriously at last to overrun each corner of the three nations, and overcome with equal felicity both the riches of the south and the poverty of the north to be feared and courted by all foreign princes, and adopted a brother to the gods to the earth to call together parliaments with a word of his pen, and scatter them again with the breath of his mouth to be humbly and daily petitioned that he would please to be hired, at the rate of two millions a year, to be master of those who had hired him before to be their servant to have the estates and lives of three kingdoms as much at his disposal as was the little inher itance of his father, and to be as no ble and liberal in the spending of them and lastly (for there is no end of all the particulars of his glory), to bequeath iall this with one word to his posterity to die with peace at home, and triumph abroad to be buried among kings, and with more than re gal solemnity and to leave a name behind him, not to be extinguished, but with the whole world which, as it is now too little for his praises, so might have been too little for his con quests, if the short line of his human life could have been stretched out to the extent of his immortal designs?" THIS FISH JOURNEYS ASHORE African Species Which Is at Home on Land or 8ea. Zoologists have long regarded the fish which remains for days out of water and climbs trees as one of the strangest departures from nature, but the most wonderful of these is the periophthalmus of the West African coast. It not only climbs the man grove roots and takes long journeys about the swamps on them and builds itself mud houses raised above the surface, with an opening at the top from which its bulging eyes stare out at every alarm. For this life the fish is fitted with long arms, with elbow and wrist, while the fingers are separ ated and prehensile, instead of being flat and finlike. These hands in the African species hold the mangrove roots in climbing and are the means of propulsion through ^he mud. The round eyes project from the skull and can be turned in every direction hence the Greek name, which may be freely translated "rolling eyes." New Way to Produce Speed. Senator Nelson, who amazed the senate by saying "damn" the othei day, holds that the government should build good wagon roads for the Alas kans. "You ought to see some of our Alas kan roads," he said to a reporter. "II is hardly possible to walk on them The horse shooters of Kentucky would have come to grief if they had tried their reckless tactics in my coun try." "The Kentucky horse shooters? Oh they were two planters who were driving with their guns one daj towards a shooting place. Theii horse was lazy, and they couldn't make it go, so one of them fired a charge of bird shot into it, poor nag! "It was the other man who owned the r.ag, but he was not in the leas# annoyed. All he said was: 'Shoot him again, John shoot him again. He goe3 admirably now.' The Deathless Dead. At even when the. brief wintry flay is sped, I muse beside my fire's faint-flicker ing' glare- Conscious of wrinkling face and whiten, ing hair— Of those wlio, dying young, inherited The immortal youthfulness of the earlj dead. I think of Raphael's grand-seigneurial air Of Shelley and Keats, with! laurels fresl. and fair Shining unwithered on each sacred head And soldier boys who snatched death's starry prize, "With sweet life radiant in' their fear less eyes. The dreams of love Upon their beardless lips, 1 Bartering dull age for immortality: Their memories hold in death's unyield ing fee The youth that thrilled them to the finger-tips. —John Hay in the Century. Figures Ae Inteesting. Mr. Fuller Figgers, the eminent sta tistician, has compiled the following interesting table. It applies to the average young "Voman of 24 years. Mr. Figgers says that by the time she reaches this age §fee will have learned to skate 284 tiroes, learned to swim 463 times, made, w.elsh rabbits 1,086 times, eaten welsh rabbits 2,378 times, stateJwaltzed 10,599 iS^:Wstepped"63^ 954 miieB, sat out 8,322%,dances, 25 1-3, cooked meals 0.^ eaten fudge, 484 tons lost hairpins, 18,876, 229 bought popular songs,, 4,500 been asked to sing 25,643 times, said she couldn't sing 25,643 times, yielded to coaxing to sing 25,643 times, had proposals 26 1-3, broken „engagements True 8eotch Thrift. v-vs Thomas Thorp, a wealthy Scotch man, diod, leaving h^ fortune to a poor relative on edpdition that a headstone with the name of tite said Thomas' Thorp arid a verier of poetry, be erected beside the grave.' Costing so much a word to chisel letters in the' stone, the poor relative ordered that the poetry should be brief.. Upon his refusal' to ^prove, 4cco«nt of their too great length! the, lines— "IJere .lies the' Of ihqtoasi Thorp/^' the following waft tti»tty^ord«i$4 Hn4 MiroptediX:. Before Mark Twain made his name famous in his first production of "The Innocents Abroad" he was attached to the staff of the old Alta California. It Was while there that he perpetrated one of his jokes, which at that time had no more significance than that of an ordinary wag who enjoyed a little fun at'1 another's expense. But since Mark has made his name known io the reading world the joke will bear repeating. It was one of those hot summer days that occasionally visit San Fran cisco that Mr. Woodward, one of the proprietors of the Alta, stepped into the editorial room and there found Clemens drawing on the end of a brier root pipe. Woodward mopped his brow and whep he cooled down he began to deliver himself forcibly. "I'm disgusted," said Woodward, "at what I just saw on the street as I passed by the carriage leading into Wells, Fargo & Co.'s yard down at California and Montgomery. Sitting on a chicken coop, either drunk or knocked out by the heat of the sun, ts a police officer fast asleep." "Let us take a look at the animal," said Clemens, getting up from his have been led lately to think the whole development of the steam en gine to the exclusion of the gas en gine, has been a .mistake and that we are now at the beginning of a new era in the use of power. Engineers could today gain better and more eco nomical results by abandoning steam and using internal combustion en gines, even in large establishments. The gain in economy in fuel will ad vance •with the size of the establish ment. With the internal combustion engine a brake horse power can be produced on a pound of coal. This could not be done with steam under any conditions. So great a revolution has come about in methods of producting power that a 10,000-ton cruiser of twenty one knots an hour could today pro ceed around the world at .fourteen knots without taking on fuel and with out sacrificing any of her war effi ciency. Oil- engines, using crude petroleum, will be developed as soon as the de mand is felt for them, but even here the fuel can be made into gas and burned thus with far greater economy There are certain college customs which are universal, but each univer sity has certain institutions peculiar to itself, and among the great West ern universities of the United States there have gi-own up some that are absolutely unique. One of the most surprising is the barber's day of the University of Michigan. Some years ago the sophomores, before Easter, caught a few freshmen and gave them hair cuts. The freshmen paid back in kind, and there grew up an annual fes tival of a week when the two lower classes go about- with shears to re move the locks of their rivals. The week is celebrated just before the Easter holidays, and most of the mem bers of the two lower classes leave for home looking like convicts. This year there were only twenty men out of the two classes' that escaped the operation, which is performed with more zeal than skill. Far out at Leland Stanford, in Cali fornia, they have what is called a "plug ugly." On a night in the spring all the men come out with ancient top hats on, then begins a battle royal. Puddles and pools in the village street. Dripping eaves, where the swallows hide The splash and splash of horses' feet Down the muddy lane, and trees be side, Sodden and soaked till fhd raindrops •fall, LlKe tears, and the twigs with jewels set Of limpid water, and over all A hase of misjt, like a cloak all wet. ir.„ of" the great oak tree or the huddled Under the bougRa «6if t_ The glisteniiSfc?-bulks kine. '. Driven from the pasture and rhythmi cally Munching their cuds, and. their .broad backs shine.: Drenched and matted, with pelting rain* Plaintively sounding, a: lowing wail A passing team in the muddy lane And a muffledand- melancholy hail. Blinding sheets 6f the driven rain ... .. tain and Mil Mist over, hollow and pi Splashing drops on the mlsted pane That thickle down to the window Bill Beaton fowlp. With their-ruffled'crests. The herdsinan lowers bistoroad hat brim r—lWw York Times. Thought It a, Puzxle picture. Jesse. LewlsohU 'of New York ift a discreet and' learned collector of pic-, turefu The other day he. was convers ing with Robert lfenri, the painter./. "Art galleries and exhibitions," Mr. Le^aphn said /'are ipterestlng places to h^unj: I wish I had Epted^pwn*!! the odd comments I hare Uetfd .Jp ijiem, i, 'a/ desk 'and'walking out. On khis New Era of Power College Has Hobo Club Ballad of the Rain way down to the corner he stepped into the California market Mid, going up to a vegetable stall, he plucked a large leaf from a head of cabbage. When he arrived at the place where the big, fat policeman was fast asleep the humorist proceed ed to fan him with the cabbage leaf. .This amusing scene soon attracted a crowd, whieh inside of ten minutes had swelled into hundreds and Cali fornia fetreet was blocked to traffic. To add to the excitement someone had run to the old city hall and .in formed Captain Douglass that there had been a robbery at Wells, Fargo & Co.'s, as the place was surrounded by armed men. Douglass summoned every available cop on his force, which at the time counted less than a dozen, and rushed to the place desig nated. After brushing the crowd to one side he entered the gateway and there found Clemen3 whirling the cab bage leaf as though nothing unusual had occurred about him. To say that Captain Douglass was mortified would1 be but a mild expression. The drow sy cop lost his star and Clemens en joyed the joke. than is possible when the oil itself is burned under boilers or gasoline can be used. In an ordinary 3,200 horse power torpedo boat forty-three tons of coal would be used in ten hours. With gasoline the radius of activity of the same torpedo boat can be' more than quadrupled, for 3,200' horse power can be produced from 3,200 gallons of fuel. Briefly, 16,000 pounds of gasoline will do the work of 96,000 pounds of coal. The cost of the fuel is higher, but with a gaso line plant in a torpedo boat only two men are required in the engine room and none at all in the fire-room. The dangers of steam at high pressure are avoided and the complexity of steam machinery is done away with. Owing to the certain saving to be secured in coal consumption and to the simplicity and reliability of the gas engine plant, we shall witness a gradual forcing out of the steam plants in future power plants for light ing, pumping or factory use, and it will be a question of but a short time before many of the existing steam plants will be replaced.—Lewis Nixon, in World's Work. with the object of breaking as many of the hats as possible. The battered stovepipes are kept by the students as souvenirs, and in every room in the university can be found the remains of what was once a tile. A club recently formed at the Uni versity of Missouri is, however, the strangest of all collegiate organiza tions. It is caled the Hobo club, and its avowed purpose is the encourage ment of the state of hoboism. The first convention was held three weeks ago in a little town some fifty miles distant from the university, and each member came on foot or by freight, attired in nondescript garments, like a true follower of the road. It is spe cified in the constitution that a mem ber will be expelled if he spends any money on the way to the convention, and during the week all the students become tramps in every sense of the word. The club noW has a member ship of 200, and the novelty is so tak ing that there is talk of forming other chapters at other universities and holding each year a "hobo" conven tion. To a sheltering. slant, and the rain drops fall From the beaded edge of the lowered rim To the oilskin coat that' envelopes all His length the guiding collie stops From gathering in the grazing flocks To shake from his sides the glistening drops That mat the mass of his silken locks.: The eave spout gushes its frothy streams, Whence the rain barrel fills and over flows It's sides and the slate roof blacker gleams -. Through the murk and mist the hoiise wife goes v: From room to room, lest the windows ba Unshut,. and peers through the sodden pall-v and ^the rain beats endlessly, With mist like a wet cloak over all. Sullen and sodden and soaked and splash- With pelting drops lies the distant field ),. The roads lie heavy, and wet steeds,'^ dashed With mud. Where a carriage, muddy#? whccicd» Rolls down the road, and the drear da*? long- T?eepta«r clouds no comfort hold. The peltimr fain dins a sullen song gray and coWpi- .yq^lj'fwomen from the read from the M. 1 cak see th ^wd' do$s. huM^re^ lAndaeer