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thing about it is plain and comfortable. The
most notable adornments are cups, busts,
cabinets, etc, presented to the owner by va
rious societies and by bodies of workmen.
Mr.. Bright's daily life has been one of ex
treme simplicity. He never was ''society
man." and having been widower for many
years has lived somewhat secluded. He is
senior partner Of a firm of carpet makers
which has world wide reputation, and has
made the partners immense fortunes. With
his employees his relations are those Of strict
business; he pays the market price for labor
and exacts good work in return. But in all
local improvements he is remarkably liberal.
His son John now controls the business, and
is an active politician as well, but lacks the
eloquence of his father. Jacob Bright,
brother of the old statesman, and long
member of parliament for district Of Man
chester, is also noted man; but he is physi-
cally much weaker than John, and therefore
lacks his aggressive energy. He is an advo-
cate of woman suffrage, which John stoutly
opposes.
The appearance of John Bright in his days
Of health was very striking and impressive.
His leonine head. lofty forehead, straight
clear cut nose, firm mouth, bold chin, strong
neck and flowing light hair, like lions
name, made him a marked man in any as
sembly; and no doubt much of his power be-
fore the people was due to his immense physi-
cal advantages Politically, he has had a
wonderful, and on the whole, a very success
full career. Aided by the famine in Ireland
in 1916, he and his coworkers overthrow the
British "Corn Laws" they then framed the
free trade policy of Great Britain, which is
claimed by her economists to be such great
success They next proceeded to sweeping
measures for the relief of labor; acts were
passed forbidding the employment of women
and children in coal mines, and all that series
of laws known as the Factory Acts" redu-
cling tho hours in factories and compelling
the education of children. The life of work.
ing people has been so much ameliorated in
the last forty years that the British laborer
now has but one evil to dread-loss of en-
ployment-and that much less than i'll 1916.
Mr.. Bright acted in political harmony with
Mr.. Gladstone. till the latter projected his
scheme OF separate parliament for Ireland;
since then he has determinedly opposed his
old friend. He maintains that the place to
right all wrongs, no matter in what part Of
the United Kingdom, is in the British parlia-
ment. But it is idle to inquire into the justice
of his views OH this subject; for his advanced
age and feeble condition indicate that his day
of political strength is past.
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If q marriage, u death, CT q birth among
their kindred wcrc the only landmarks in
English ladies' lives we should soon have
these occasions erected into as lengthy family
ceremonies as they arc III India. If the cb-
scrvance CT Ash Wednesday, Shrove Tues
day, Candlemas, M:chaeln,as, Lady day,
May day, and what not of our standard re-
ligious and secular feasts were tho main OPP
portunities for breaking tho monotonv of an
imprisoned life, how carefully they would be
kept, and how anxiously looked forward to!
This is why all tie in2unerable shankrants,
ekadshis, asthamis, naulnis, and other queer
tasts and feasts are SO regularly attended to
in India.
Indeed, female ingenuity hes there long
ago seized upon the many other opportuni-
ties for diversion afforded by occurrences in
cidcntal to human existence and there are
ceremonies to bo gono through Oh every
possible excuse. No phase Of life escapes
childhood, puberty, pregnancy, maternity,
widowEood, all come i'll for Il share. The
first tying Of rag round boys loins occa-
sions family feast, and so does the first
time his hair is cut; tho first time he puts ON
the janeu, Or sign Of caste; and so Oh al
through life. Before he is man he has gone
thrspsh sixteen sacraments, each u notable
occasion in the eyes Of his women folk.
Babies are put through oil sorts Of ceremo-
nies on tho first, tho fifth, the seventh, the
fortieth, and other days after BIRTH They
cannot even see the sun for tho first time
and, of course, canrot be given a name,
without a feast being held over the fact AS
to the womcn's special ceremonies, they aro
just as numerous. R. c. Temple il
journal of The Society of Arts.
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How Actor Coquelin Studies.

'Wken have a role to create, my brother
once said, II begin by reading the play
through from beginning to end five or six
times, with the greatest attention. first
endeavor to decide upon the scope of my
part and its place in the piece. | next study
its psychology. Having found out what the
character thinks and what is his moral con-
clusion conclude what he must be physi-
cally-his carriage, his words and his ges-
lures When these points are settled, learn
my part without thinking any more about
it. Tl.cn having got it all by heart, take
up my character again, and, closing my
eyes, say to him, Now, speak your piece.
Then see him in my minds eye getting of
the TRADES and phrases demanded Of him.
He lives, speaks and gesticulatcs before mo.
Ihave now simply to initiate him.
"People exclaim sometimes, How real!
How we'll observelr Observed! Nonsense.
An actor doesn't observe; he sees, and what
he sees gets fixed in his head, simply because
the human brain is made after that fashion,
it is Photographic apparatus. An actor
does initiate. But to what degrees AS much
as Moliere does, who has not painted miser,
q misanthrope, a hypocritc, but the miser,
the misanthrope, the hypocrite, borrowing
right and left tho traits that are united i'll
the character which he thus creates So it is
with the actor, who copies different manner
isms of gait, speech and gesture which have
become fixed in his mind. The, the public
exclaims, That's it ezactly' And til is true,
because what they sec is tao resume OF the
different types that everybody has seen. That
is all there is Of it."-Coqueii: Clu-t il Los
TON Tra.Srri,;t
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invariably successful in Lis business ven
lures, even in his youth.
His many plans for making money were
never at the expense of his honesty.
He first thought Of entering business for
himself in 1861. His friends warned him not
to do it. Ali sorts Of discouraging things
were predicted. He went into business. His
success was great. His dry goods house is
today the largest in the United States-per-
haps in the world. :u@...
Years ago, when Wanamaker was starting
a little tailor shop, he found it absolutely
necessary to existence to command some
credit. He and one of his partners went to
New York to secure it. They were unknown,
and you know the hearts Of New York whole
sale cloth men are very, very hard. They
tramped round all day, waiting not even for
lunch But all vainly, vainly. Not dollar
of credit could they command They went
to their hotel at night feeling as dismal as an
owl in sunshine. They had only one room
between them for economy's sake. But
Wanamaker's partner felt SO blue that he
grew reckless and hustled back to the bar
room to save at least one drink Of whisky
from failure. OF course it would have been
useless to ask Wanamaker to accompany
him. Wanamaker wouldn't save glass of
liquor if he saw barrels Of it going to disas-
ter. So the worldly partner drank alone, a
good big, detected beings draught. When
he went back to the bedroom he tumbled
over form on the floor; it was Wanamaker,
whats the matter! What are you doing
therey' he cried.
"Praying," was the calm reply.
''Praying for whatT'
''For credit, William"
And the next morning they struck a firm
that agreed to let them have goods to any
reasonable amount on fair time. The firm
was a new one and piously inclined itself. 1t
isn't in business any more. 1t failed the next
year. This the partner-though he really
isn't partner any more, John having set up
for himself alone-often tells to the children
at Johns Sunday school.
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HALF WAY HOUSE, ATLANTIC CITY.
mated Crescent and Nantasket beaches,
near Boston, after the storm represented
disastrous picture blown over,
piers wrecked, bath houses destroyed and
scene of general devastation.
In storm of this kind which is so general
in its nature the mind centers not so much on
the loss of property as the loss of life. In the
various kinds of disasters which occur to
mankind there is scarcely any thing more ter
rible than shipwreck. Death itself is a
simple act, but the hours Of anxiety and sus-
pense, which in a shlpwreck always precede
it, can scarcely be imagined.
If one could take journey down to the
bottom of the sea and look upon the count
less number of wrecks which lie there, he
would be appalled, at the sight, From 1854
to 1e79-just one-quarter of century-the
number Of wrecks OH the British coast aloae
was $1,000 odd, with loss Of 1889 lives.
In the years 1S7G-77 there was the enormous
number of 4,164 wrecks, but loss OF only
TIC lives. The first great disaster at sea oc-
Cured as far back as 1l20, when the Blanche
Nef was wrecked and S63 persons were
drowned. In this disaster perished the chill
dren of Henry l, and as William, the heir to
the throne, pershed with the others, 1t may
be said that tho whole course of English his
tory was changed by this accident The dis
aster led to the accession Of Stephen. Among
the great disasters Of the earlier part OF this
century may be mentioned the wreck of the
King George, packet running from Park
rate, on the Dee, to Dublin, with loss of l25
lives; the Prince of Wales, the same year,
with even greater loss of life; the loss of
the steamer Ellsnere Nhe first steamer
lost, with loss Of four lives, and in
lS4l the Governor Fenner and Nottingham
or Holyhead, with a loss of l22 lives. In
1853 Asbury Park, N. j., was the scene of
a terrible wreck. The ship New Era, bound
from Liverpool with load Of immigrants,
went en- shore in a dense fog. Beside the
ships crew and officers, there were SEQ imni.
grants Oh board. Only 405 lives were saved
from the wreck. The next morning the
beach fer miles was strewn with dead bodies
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The Climate ef California.

To undertake to photograph tho character
istics of our population would be Us futile as
to attempt to portray the geographical
features Of the state, which comDrchenls
within its boundaries q diversity of climate
and of scenery partaking of every continent
and every cone 1t is only natural that
casual sightseers: with imperfect vision and
short perspective, should be guilty OF esro-
gious errors. 1t is the fable OF the blind mon
end the elephant again repeated, tae blial
man wao touched the elephants tail declared
that the great and mighty elephant, about
whic: so mach had bcc:l said, was nothing
moro or less than q rope. The blind man
who raa against one of the great bru.es legs,
at onco pronounced him to be a large tree Of
the forest The blind man who bumped his
head against the elephants side likenea him
to a wall: the one whn touched his trunk
shrank from him il horror, as from great
serpent.
So, in turn, has California been judged
The visitor to tho north O.. to her mountain
Gus regions complains Of her Arctic cold
Ono who encounters q week of warm weather
in the interior or coast valleys declares her q
region of torrid heat. The man who sees on
irrigatinG ditch assumes that all her crops
are grown by irrigation He who is drawn
into the whirl of a real estate boom Judges
that the whole state is for sale i'll parcels, and
in tho hands of eager venders. And our in
habitants have Jared no better, having been
measured by few of the most conspicuous
types encountered in our cities, or bv self as-
sertive examples Of western citizenship who
havc gone abrood.-Sau Francisco Cor.
New York Post.
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~ ~ " Louis followed, ana
then the civil war came After the war Mrs.
Sherman's residence was at st. Louis, at
Washington, and, lastly, at New York.
Mrs. Sherman was a devoted member OF
the Roman Catholic church, and as such has
been prominent for many years. Gen. Sher-
man himself is not q member of the Roman
church Mrs Sherman's services were re-
cognized by Pope Plus TX, from whom she
received tokens of his regard, among which
was the "Goldcn Rose," an order of the
church confirmed usually only on sovereign.
Mrs. Sherman was also one Of the trustees OF
the 'sPeter's Pence in America.
Gen. Sherman's war record is in singular
contrast with the inclinations of his family.
The children were educated in the mothers
faith, and the older son, Thomas Ewing
Sherman, is Jesuit priest ut Woodstock, Md.
There are two sons and four daughters living.
Mrs Sherman, with several of the children.
visited the general when he was on the Mis-
sissippi river after the capture of Vicksburg.
One of them, Willie, who was then years
old, took great interest in army matters.
He was favorite with the troops and used
~ ride beside his father at reviews. He was
called q sergeant" in battalion of regulars,
learned the manual of arms and regularly at
tended parade and guard mounting of the
Thirteenth United States regiment near his
f,thers camp. The boy died soon after at
Xemphis of typhoid fever. Gen. Sherman
has said in his memoirs that Of all his
children, this one seemed the most precocious
and moro than any of the children to take an
interest in his fathers profession. This is
one of the few cases, perhaps the only case in
this country, where child was given q
military funeral. The body OF Willie
Sherman was escorted to the steamer which
was to bear it north by the battalion Of the
Thirteenth United States infantry in which
he had been called sergeant" Over his
grave in Calvary cemetery at St. Louis, the
officers and soldiers Of the battalion placed q
marble monument 1t is in this cemetery
that the boys mother has been laid beside
him. Mrs. Sherman, besides the loss she will
be to her family, will be greatly missed by
the poor for whom she spent lifetime Of
labor.
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flooence," and was for years bookkeeper in
A. I. Stewards drygoods; house. He Went
into politics after the civil war closed. In
1861 he resolved to capture the machine of
the Eighth district, controlled by George w.
Farmer. O'Brien enlisted the young fellows
in his cause and they made successful
attack Farmer ran for sheriff and opened
soup houses for tho poor He was badly
beaten, and, as O'Brien puts it, ''Farmer was
beaten on the strength of the soup" O'Brien.
on taking control of the Eighth district
organization, began at once to strengthen it
end showed that he possessed ability as
leader In 1870 Collector Murphy made him
his secretary. He afterwards was weigher
in the custom house, and resigned in 1877 to
become chief of the bureau of elections.
Although he has been in politics for a long
time lie is not rich. He will spend his last
cent to gain an object in politics. His race
in 1882 for county clerk cost him great
deal of money.
lr. ORriea wears perennial smile, while
his ruddy cheeks are the very incarnation OF
freshness. He is always ready to take you
cordially and confdentially into corner for
conference, even if you had just landed from
the Hague and were making your first in
spection of the building
OBrien's genial presence at Albany, the
capital of the Empire state, is always insured
when there is a prominent New York city
bill affecting the great corporations or poii-
tics before the legislature for consideration.
He never seems to be very much interested,
but the boys say he is 'always on deck" and
there. is something in the wind" when
Johnny O'Brien exhibits his handsome anat-
omy to tie admiration of the members.
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twenty i've years and which will bo re,nern-
bered by many was the loss of the Huron and
the Metropolis. On the 24t!l of November,
1877, the steamer Huron went ashore near
Nagshead, N. c., five Ei'cs cast of Nanteo.
Ninety-eight persons p9''.-aed. Two months
later than this the steamer Metropolis, bound
from Philadelphia to Brazil, loaded with
railroad iron and 245 sailors and passengers,
went ashore on Currituck Beach and eighty
i've lives were sacrificed Tue terrible dis
asters of the Cimbria and the shoiten are still
fresh in our minds. The disasters mentioned
are but few instances of the terrible power
Of the elements. The strongest vessels go
down like chips before the relentless fury Of
the raging sea. But it is gratifying to notice
that, owing to the many appliances for saving
life which have been invented and put into
use during the last twenty five years, the loss
cflne at sea has notably decreased.
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Midnight has closed me round! Give mo 20
PRICELESS AND PEERLESS.

Something About ViOlins-Eamous Instru-
ments and Cheap Fidd!cs.
"Anything new in the way of discoveries!'
inquired the amateur.
''Nothing You know that Giottos, Vero
neses, Rafaels, Titians, da Vincis are always
to be found at New York auction rooms,
and in similarly convenient places violins
by all the illustrious makers arc to be had
The pawnbroler myth, of the priceless, peer
less instrument, ticketed 'S5' bow included,
bought for that price, and worth thousands.
still embellshes the pages of the newspapers
with the name of the clever man who Sc
cured it. have made many useless trips to
strange places always within New York, to
garrets, to lager beer cellars, to drawing
rooms, and have offended an endless lot of
people. professional or otherwise, by telling
them that their violins were not as repre-
sented Mine has been a thankless task, for
once man is crazy over tho merits of his
violin, he is like Bottom in the play. 1t is
nhallucination which no amount of argu-
ment will overcome don't argue. What
is the usel
''But some of these violins were goodY'
Certainly. l have heard some ins:ru-
,nents giving out tones which delighted me
Italian makers-only they were not Cremo-
nese or Tyrolese. II these violins were just
as capable of producing fine sound as those
made by the old masters what then? That is
what the public asks about and never can
understand, Well, a Harper's last publica-
tion is moro legible than the frs. work issued
by Caxton, and Harpcrs book may be
worth say s2 and q Caxton $4,000 Men
Fo,, k6o l;oek<1 ~
they are sometimes rare, but not necessarily
beautiful. A violin that has lived 500 years
and escaped all accidents becomes remark
able thing. Think of floods, fires, and that
frail thing, box Of thin wood! The proba-
bilities Of chances still hold their sway. A
violin has lived on for three centuries
through miraculous Intervention, but its
time has come. The owner of the violin,
with his instrument, is in the cars. There is
smash up 1t is only the baggage car, but
Magini has been ground into 6laments. 1
could cry over 1t" and here the expert did
seem distressed.
''And what is it," asked the amateur
''News that two of the most famous violins
in the world, through carelessness or ignor-
ance OF accident, have gone to ruin Poor,
poor things!''
''Is it annihilation?' inquired the amateur.
''No; they were saved just at the last mo-
ment, when dissolution was near There was
flicker of life left in them. There are hopes
of restoration. 1t will be long, an arduous
undertaking. They are low here in the
United States, sent from abroad, and in the
hands of the most slsillf,l man in the world
Their drowned out and manslcd bodies he
now has. All he hopes is that he can put
their bones together and mayb still throw u
soul into them. He will attempt rcsurrec-
ton. Those two violins were of the close of
the sixteenth century, and Of rarissime
makcr.-Ncw York Times
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Tho Key to Popular Writing.

It IS not given to cny one man to cover
successfully tho whole range OF literary
work, and Us al cssayist MIR. Robert Louis
Stevenson is failure. OF course anything
dressed III tho garment Of his perfect Eng
lish is pleasant reading, but for man to
successfully write critical monologues he
must have something in them beside the
beauty of style. Mr.. Stevenson, in his esti-
mate of popular writers, does not seem to
touch the peculiar power of this class at all.
He wholly fails to notice the one thing which
is common to all Of them, be their methods
what they may.
There is gentleman in New York, Mr..
Harlan r. Halscy, who is the author of the Old
Sleuth series of stories. These are so popular
that he makes al income of about sec, 900
year by L:s pen. His own statement sbout his
work is worth quoting. therefore, as that OF
a man who knows how to reach the world OF
readers spoken Of by Mr.. Stevenson: II
have set rule" he s:id upon one occasion;
~ I.:il:o something happen within every
thousand words" Incident, then, is the key
to popular writing, not a description of what
the reader ..Eeieves ne would Le were he III
the here's place." as Mr. Stevenson puts it.
If Mr. Stevenson will again examine TIE
stories of Sylva:us Cobb, Jr., Mrs. South
worth, Draccbridgc He,nyns, Pierce Egan,
or any of the popular writer's, he will find
that they arc but a succession of incidents,
incidents, Incidents. There is always some
thing happening within each thousand
words.-Current Literature.
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relish being placed under that Of Manigat,
who was immoral, arrogant and bloodthirsty.
They rallied around Legitime, who seems to
be a statesman and well wisher for his
countrymen. Legitime was elected senator.
When, on the 24th of May last, the people
took up arms against Salomon, Legitime was
arrested and Manigat was banished, both by
Salomon's order On the 4th and eth of July
last, large portions OF the capital were burned
by the followers of Manigat The people, in
censed, called upon Boisrand- Canal, ex-presi-
dent, to defend the city from tho outrages,
and under his leadership the whole country
was ready for revolution. Salomon addicted
in favor of Thelalnacque, who governed Cape
Hayti. Thelamacque, feeling that Salomon's
power had vanished, concluded not to accent
the chief magistry from him, but to take it
by force. Boisrand-Canal, however, made
himself master OF Port-au-Priuce, and Salo-
mon was obliged to leave the country. The
people then called on Gen. Legitinle. Gen.
Thelamacque meanwhile entered the city, a
provisional government was formed, with
Boisrand Canal president, and his rivals in
the cabinet. On Oct. IL an election took
place end Legiti,ne was elected president
It was in tho cabinet Of Boisrard- Canal that
Hippolyte was chief Of police.
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NEW BISHOPS HOUSE. BROOKLYN

Bishop Loughlin was born in County
Down, i'll Ireland, 1916, and coming to Amer
lea when mere boy settled with his
parents near Albany, N. Y. The finishing
of his education was derived from Mount St.
Mary's college, Emmittsburg, Md, where he
taught for several years He also studied in
Canada. Ordained in 1912, he became rector
of St. Patrick's cathedral, New York, and
vicar general of the diocese i'll lS4s. Here
he remained until he was consecrated vicar
general CT the new diocese of Brooklyn
in 1853
The residence was built for the bishop by
subscriptions of the weather. Roman Catho-
lies of Brooklyn. The architecture is gothic,
the building is four stories and basement
high, sixty feet front by ninety feet deep.
Besides the bishops rooms there are apart
ments for the priests of the cathedral On
the first aoor there is q marble vestibule and
to tho left is the bishops study, and on the
right q parlor. Across q corridor is the
bishops bed room, with private bath room.
On each floor, in the clergy house, are accom-
modations for priests; a bed room and sitting
room for each, and on every foor there is
bath room On the third floor is splendid
|; ;h,.or