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The morning times., 1896-09-13

| panion on the British mail ship Tren,
| on November s, 1851
| They were on their way TO Europe where
| Mason was to represent the Confederate
government at London and Slidell at Paris
They were brought back and held as pris
oners together at Fort Warren, in Boston
Harbor, uil January 2, 1862, when they
We're released in response TO the derna nd
OF the British guvernmeut.
DEATH OF sLIDELL.
John Shdell died three months after SEN
ator Mason, at the age of seventy -c gilt
He went 10 Paris after the two were re-
leased from Fort Warren, and there his
daughter was married TO Baron Erlanger
the banker OF that city through whom he
obtained q considerable loan to the Con
fcderate government He died in London
Mr.. Siidell was a native OF New York and
graduate of Columbia College He re-
moved TO New Orleans after he had under
taken Il commercial career in New York
and found ii not TO his liking.
Senator Hunter was the Youngest of tie
coterie. He was born in 1sOs and lived till
1887. He was at the time OF his death
collector OF customs at RappahaDuck. Va,
where he was appointed by President Cleve-
land in 1856.
Senator Butler's wife was granada ughter
OF Robert Y. Hayn.r who was hanged at
Charleston by the Tories, when the Brit
sh captured the city during the Revolu-
yionary war. Their daughter married Gov.
johnson HagoDd of South Carolina
Il W. Martin, of the Recorders office
here, WAS an aide on Gov. Hagcod's STAFF
when lie was a general in the Cunfeders :.
army. Gen. laguod them had the mess
chest which Senator Butler used in I!ieir
quarters when he ana the other three We're
associated here.
Senator Butler was at the time of tl.eir
club life a widnwer. Gen. Haguul obtained
with the chest a lot of very fine silver
plate, but when lie was captured ahont the
close of the war the soldiers rifled the
chest of its treasure and left him nothing
but the box as "A reminder or the Senator's
Washington club life. Senator Butler was
an uncle OF ex-senator NJ. C. Butler
The morning times., 1896-09-13

WIS Just turning in. The correspondent
began to tell OF the great story he had
missed.
Whom were You going to inter, icw,'
asked the day clerk.
Why! man alive. Mckinley and Hanna
are in town.
You mean the men whose nangcs ars
on the register?''
Yes, of Course"
Then the story came out and sore
and sorry correspondent wearily wcr,IrJ
his way home while the sun ru>c
The morning times., 1896-09-13

Trinity, Union, Dartmouth and per-
haps, half 4 hundred others. But the most
interesting trio remaining in this basty
survey are undoubtedly the West Pointers,
the United States avail cadets, from A map
oils, who will play them, and the India n
team from Carlisle, who may measure
strength with the young soldiers and
sailors.
The Indians are remarkably good play
ers, everything considered. One OF their
best men last year, Pierce, a fine guard,
and worthy OF a great varsity team,
has very pronounced Indian features.
Metoxen, the fullback; Wheelcock, the
left guard, and Others OF the team were
less pronouncedly Indian in. appearance
The team rs 4 whole was decidedly good
and Will probably be no Worse this year
judging from the material available
for the construction OF their elevens, one
would expect Princeton and Yale to put
into the field the best elevens OF the year:
and if Princeton doesn't hold its end up
pretty wei in the great game, il will be
because the men in blue have done some
very hard work
The morning times., 1896-09-13
Scenes in the City.

Freddie and Willie are two young men
whose lives thus far have been given up
10 strenuous idleucss and whose ouly
visible means of support is the corner at
Thirteenth aud the Avenue.
Freddie has been toId that he would have
been able to lead the Union forces wbenthey
retired from Bull Run, while Willie has
somehow conceived the idea that he could
walk away from sextette. They began 10
tell the sports the other evening what they
had done in the sprinting line. According
to their accounts the records they had
broken, would, if oh ronicled, fin the
Congressional Library. The mutual ad-
niration society's proceedings were per
fectly harmonious until the hundred-yard
record was discussed. Freddie was sure he
had beaten nine and three quarter seconds,
when he ran a half mile to get a drink
before the saloon closed at midnight, while
Willie remarked that the record was an
cewagon gait in comparison with his or
diDary rate OF covering that from which
we are made and TO which We eventually
return.
Then came the clash. As in the fable
there was a man in the crowd who said:
Here is Rhodes" They were invited to
to show their powers then and there.
Freddie pleaded fatigue but when pressed
said that he couldn't run unless he had
a tooth pick. This was soon procured in
the drug store. Willie ~had registered
vow never To race unless chad q rabbits
foot in his hand. One OF the sports h lad this
article and all objections were over
ruled. A hundred yard course was paced
off on the asnhalt Dayement Tho rom
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quent occurrence also that Congressman
who had his wife and family here strulled
down to a mess and for once enjoy a
dinner cooked exactly to suit his fancy; the
click OF wine glasses and the plot and
counterplot through the devious ways of
politics.
SENATOR BUTLER AND HIS COMPAN-
IONS
One of these ''messcs'' that used to have
rooms Just back of the National Hotel was
made up of Senators A. p. Butler. OF South
Carolina; Mason, and R. NJ. T. Hunter of
Virginia and John Slidell, Of Louisiana.
Every man in the group ha an abundanceof
means. The South was in that day the land
of great wealth and generous living. Men
owned their plantations, stretching for
miles across the Virginia valleys, on the
rice coast, along the aliuvial plains of the
Ohio and the Mississippi, down among the
bayous OF Louisiana and on the plains of
Texas.
Every place had 1t scores Of blacks
10 work Ii and turn out tobacco rice and
cotton to send to the European markets.
In exchange for fine clothing, fine wines.
jewelry, tapestries, laces. paintings, and
luxuries of all kinds that made the planter
prince and gave him power to iGrlu-
ence Northern men who enjoyed his hospj-
talty. There were no colossal fortunes
then such as have been piled up in the
business centers OF today, but the landed
wealth of these men placed them far
beyond the possibility of want, il their
estates were managed with the least in.
telligence
1t was upon these men and these re-
sources that the civil war rested ara
found support for four long, weary
years OF grim struggle and monstrous
devastation. At the close the estates We're
gone, and only the remembrance of them
Is left in stories of how their owners lived
at home and here
SENATORS ENJOYED LIFE.
In the mess of which Senator But
Ter OF South Carolina was the acknowledged
head was money enough to have bought
the block they lived in. They only rented
a modest suite OF rooms, and there they
lavished their money on what pleased
them most. They had rich couches from
Paris, elegant and costly service of sill
Yer, delicate Limoges china, cleaning cut
glass. rare wines, aud cigars.
Their servants were the pick OF the four
groups OF the trusted house families at
their homes. and knew their masters
wants almost without sign. They were
proud OF their places, and mixed yer little
with the common" darkfes OF the capital.
At home the y pitied the poor white trash -
to say nothing of their contempt for field
hands" They had money to spend for
themselves when they " auted It. and vverp
only required to watch carefully for their
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teeAcHr4AJN 4 CORNELL

squarely about and walked back with as
sure afooting. When he jumped down from
the rail he was the soberest man in the
party. He only claimed a hat on the bet
though Mason afterward insisted on giving
him good servant in recognition of his
self-conniand.
SENATOR CALLED A FOOL.
An incident in the career or another OF
the group was his experience with a stage
driver who brought guests from one Of the
virginia summer resorts. The Senator
was great tease and the driver very
dull. One evening when feeling particu-
larly well lie took the stage for Washing
ton. 1t was in the midst of a political
campaign and he piled the driver with all
sorts OF questions and made every kind of
wild argument.
He kept the whole load OF passengers in a
roar at his witty replies To his adversary's
earnest contentious.
When ne left the stage here the driver
turned to him with wi,hering contempt
and said:
II have brought lots Of people TO Wash
ington, but you're the biggest fool of all
ever saw"
self. while his friends told the driver who
his passenger was.
Senator Butler made great speech in the
Senate one day, and when he me ou of th,.
chamber, some constitute mt who had heard
him, and who was scholar Of know re-
pute. met and complimented him. Among
other things, he especially praised the
Senator's fluent and accurate use OF Latin
quotations. In reply TO this, Senator But
Ter said: -f.
Yes, think that was pretty good
speech myself, but the Latin mustn't be
put to my credit. That was Prof Dim
mick's, out at Georgetown College"
LIVED TO BE OLD MEN.
These four men all lived to advanced
age, except Senator Butler, who died just
before the war at Edgefield Court House, G.
c., where he was born. He was sixty-one'
years old. He had dancing eyes, ner-.
vOus affection which preve nted his using
firearms. ->'r' -" -aa-7~.r
Charles Sumner was bitterly opposed
TO him in politics and Offered him some af-
front. Senator Butler could not respond
by challenge to a duel-tbe only way that
was deemed to be open to Southern gem
t1eman-and Preston Brooks, who was a
relative, took up the quarrel, and the
result was the famous assault upon Sum
ner upon the Capitol steps
Senator Mason was born on Analostan
Island. He was the son OF George Mason,
leading public man, and died near Alex
andria. at the age Of seventy -four, in
1871. Together with RlideIl and Hunter,
he was expelled from the Senate at the
outbreak OF the war. He was sldell's COM
The morning times., 1896-09-13
ALL-NIGHT LUNCH ROOMS.
They Givea Glimpse OF the Other
Half.

| HaIf.
Washington has many washingtonians
who never sleep in bed OF: eat at table.
1t has been stated that one half the
| world does not know how the other half
| lives This used to be a mystery, SO mys-
| terous that only mystagogues could tackle
IT, Recently though, ii has been discovered
how, at least part o; the other half, lives.
A large part of this other half lives in
al-night lunch rooms. 1t stays in these
places all night. but wien the glow-worm
and the milk wagons show the matin To
be near, it sinks away like dew upon
the eastern hills when the sun buckles
down to work.
There are about one score OF places in
this city which minister to the ipner man
rJIg o u enight. Thcyarcdi u gus he'd
by the pct epithets OF ''luncheries," :" ..ooe-
fee bars, = milk ranches" pie joints"
hash dens,' grub dives" etc. These
places burn grateful, radiant holes of
light into the cheeriess darkness OF the
night. These places trim their wicks when
the celestial lamp-lighter goes his rounds
and sprlnkles Jets of fire in the skies.
These places blow ont their lamps when
the chandelier OF Heaven grows dim.
ne most tlotcW OTtHN feature ABOUT tneSe
places, though is the habituc. Many OF
these are OF the better day. variety
Standing there by that fragrant cluster
Of pumpkin, mince, and dried apple pies,
with little hillock of dusty doughnuts
at his elbow, leans in detected aspect, a
noble specimen % the creature.
That old fellow with the barley corn
flame growing in his prohoscis, is sort Of
IN anatomical cunundrum. Nobody has
been able to guess him. No one has been
able 10 work him out. The cryptogram
failed To solve him. His style is as lugu-
brious as the Peace Monument. He is a
distress signal from Crownto toe. His hat
is an anachronism. His collar, what there
is OF il, cannot recall the time OF its last
wash, and droops in limp folds above
a shirt front hrnnZed with tobacco spray.
His coat is green, perhaps in memory
of the ver,lent fields wherein the wool
Of its youth was passed. No buttons bloom
upon its surface; only gaping rissures show
where The tooth OF Time has gna wed them
IF. 1t ghstens in the red glare of the
The morning times., 1896-09-13

wouldn't have ii that way. All the FORM
alities of rubbing down and getting set
were undergone. ,.
The word go was given as q street
sprinkling wagon crossed the hEe on the
other end of the street. Freddie ran we
will call it that as If he had the bind
staggers. while Willie's motions We're
such as are seldom seen outside of Il cir
Gus. Finally the line was reached, but
none too soon, for both were ready to drop,
while the sound of the breathing was
equal to an engines exhaust pipe. The
sprinkler was turning the corner OF ~Fif-
teenth street as they broke the string.
Freddie WINS" cried the man holding
the watch.
Time, 80 secopds.'
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He was an amateur detective and read
,, sensational literature Into the First
precinct station-house he da shed. ir, thlrss
and excited.
Some foul deed has teen committed. >
he cried To statonkeeper Eherly
''WhereH' asked dozen voices
Meath the shadow of the Mouun, ut,
on the brow OF the sunburnt hill"
Patrol Driver Lotus and seyer.,, Of the
reserves started for their coats and hats
Pause. men; let me recite the story Of
the awful crine.''
Il noticed a covered vehicle bowling
along Fourteenth street and with true
sluthean instinct l discerned incrinifnatins
discrepancies in the bearing OF the reins
manipulation"
Cut It out Bub, and tell us where the
trouble is" broke in Policeman Kilmartin.
Disdainingto answer, the youth cont inuetl:
II followed in the wake of the guadra-
wheeled apparatus, and as 1 went de-
tected the odor Of mortified flesh The
parties noticed that was shadowing them
and whipped the horse into harbcry
iather. 1 stopped as the wagon came TO
4 halt meath the shadow OF the shaft The
miscreants delusively huggcd the ihoughp
chat they had distanced me- 1 saw them
raise heavy form, throw it upon the
embankment and then drive off rapidly.
hurried hither that by our united efforts
we might bring these takes of human life
to Justice"
Quickly the Officers hurried to the White
Lot and then to the spot designated BY
the callow youth.
STOPPING down nervously. near where a
dark body lay, Officer kilmartin slipped
the catch OF a lantern and east the Ii;:ht
upon the object.
IAN right, Bubbie," said the policeman.
"Run along home to monte now and wen
have the health department remove tha,
dead horse in the morning." !.
The morning times., 1896-09-13
One Torture Axoided.

There is one excellent feature about this
method of photographic said, as he pre-
pared for picture by the Cathode process,
which " as.to locate q needle in his foot
what feature 10 that?'' asked the
operator. @
The subject is not required to look pleas
ant. t."-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
The morning times., 1896-09-13
The Thing That Troubled Him.

The Thing That Troubled Him.
"Cap'D,'' said the old colored inhabitant.
"iS yo' eddieated on dis heall finance ques-
tion?'' .r-.-
"Oh, yes"
"KDow all crbout it?''
We'll, i understand 1t tolerably.''
"Des SO! Now, wants ter ak you fer
some information"
IAN right
"what want ter know FUN you is dis:
Do dis heah sixteen ter one business mean
sixteen votes fer one dollar?'-Chicago
Times H erald.
The morning times., 1896-09-13

lamps and clings round its master affec-
nately as If contemplating the time
when it Shall bc torn from him, ground up
again into allwool carm ent, and is re-
issued. There is no binding in the place
where the binding ought to grow. Who
can ten Of the rapture and despair which
may have bloomcd and faded in that old
green coat?
He is one OF those men whom we see most
and know least ur, None of those who
see him in the night know where he lives
in the day. He enters the lunch room at
4 O'Clock in the evening. buys Il mug or
coffee and a plate OF biscuit, lunches les-
urely. Iakes n chair and sleeps, sleeps,
sleeps TIL O'Clock. Then he buys another
mug OF coffee and another plate OF biscuit
and exits.
Everybody calls him Colonel" He never
talks, and has never told who he is. There
is il legend that he was once rich but fell
Il victim to those allurements which SO
often make men poor. There are many of
his type in the ii all-night lunch rooms.
This, though, is not the only character
OF patron which feeds and fattens on this
moor The hackm en- eat there. The hack
ma n IS probably one OF the IN ost abused men
in the town., abused, cruelty abused, by
the policeman.
The policeman. after turning his eye In
side out in search OF the inspector, also
enters.
The printer is there in force. The dope
fiend is also there. The bleached face, the
nervous eye, the languid air. and the droop-
ing cigarette tell the story.
D1ringthe long watchesof the nightmany
A tramp enters Tor every time the hour
hand circles round the dial OF the clock.
No tramp goes hungry while there is
gang of typos In the "Joint." Not one.
Theaverare printer who Ii ives In the hustling
composing room of a morning paper is al
ways ready enough to do a kindly turn.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-08-23
THE WEST AND THE GULF.

There is no longer any question that
the export trade through southern out
lets is rapidly expanding. The late or
rather present railway war on grain
rates is proof positive that Galveston
and New Orleans, and perhaps Mobile,
are getting more than the eastern trunk
lines deem these points entitled to. All
this is in the interest of the west, in the
interest of western production and
western commerce. The commerce of
Galveston, Texas, according to late
figures, is growing nearly as fast as
that of New Orleans. This city is rap
idly becoming the port through which
the products of the Rock mountain and
Pacific states seek easern markets. A
large section of the western plateau re-
gion east Of the Rockies will also trade
through Galveston. "The states east
of the Mississippi and south of the
Ohio" says the Jacksonville Times
Union, "will, sooner or later, ship to
Europe principally through southern
ports, and will trade with South Amer
ic=a princally through Savannah, Jack
sonville, Pensacola and Mobile. In a
very few years this trade will become
extensive, as this section surpasses any
other part of the Union in the variety
of it's resources. The iron and coal re-
gions of Alabama, which will become
one of the greatest manufacturing re-
gions of the world, will trade with
South America through these cities"
The British steamship Atherton clear
ed from New Orleans last week with
262, STA bushels Of corn in bulk and
sacks. There was" says the Plea
yune, "a time when cargo Of $1,000
bushels was considered an immense
one, but we have now passed that point
and send each year a number Of car
goes more than three times as great.
But, as a matter Of fact, 6,512 tons Of
corn is really an immense load to ship
in a single vessel" The Picayune
adds that ''the shipments from New
Orleans during the last twelve months
have been so satisfactory that nearly
all the western grain will seek an out
let here"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-08-23
UNEQUAL REDUCTION.

A Wichita merchant called the turn
on a travelling agent for a New York
patent medicine company one day last
week. This itinerant vendor of an ex-
elusive patent was expatiating on the
necessity of maintaining our national
honor, making the point that the west
ought TO pay up their mortgages in
gold, and accept the condition under
which they find themselves The mer-
chant came back at him with the quick
response that. while corn. wheat. beef,
pork, wool and cotton had declined so
cent or more, that the price OF his medi-
cines remained the same. Here lies
the difficulty: In the all round read
justmenr of prices some attention
should be given TO equality in reduc-
tions. A days labor calls for the same
expenditure of nerve force. of muscle
and sweat, as when prices were higher.
1t is everything to the farmer that he
may reap the advantage of the same
reduction on what he buys, as that
which he sustains on what he has TO
sell. He is even then the loser to the
extent of the decline on his surplus.
We realize every day that there still re-
mains gross inequalities in the price
Of what we buy. Patent medicines are
largely consumed in all parts of the
country, and thus furnishes good ex-
ample of this extortion in trade There
are better reasons for reduction in
the price of such goods than on farm
products. The farmer has his capital
locked up in land The manufacturer
Of the class of goods referred to finds
the cost of his output consisting largely
in the labor employed. He avails him.
self Of the great reduction in wages,
but still holds to the old price on his
goods.
1t sounds very well to talk about
honor in diScharging all debts, but here
is case wherein the very man who
insists on full payment Of every dollar
of principal and interest deprives his
customer Of the means of doing it in
the exact ratio that the old price on
his medicine bears to the present low
price on farm products. If this medi- |
cine vendor had less a monopoly, and,
like the farmer. was subject to some |
extraneous influence or competition |
which would bring down the price of |
his goods, regardless of his wishes, he |
might sing different tune Protect
ed by his patent, he is the sole arbiter |
Of prices. He can well afford to prate |
about honesty while only his custo-
merS are being gOred
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-08-23
YANKING UP FORAKER

The eastern newspaper readers are
having most glorious time with the
financial question. East OF the Mis-
sissippi river they are not all gold stan
darl men by any means. There are
just enough silver men to make it in
teresting.
There are three classes in the east
which now have hold Of the important
question:
Iirst, the rich and the well-to-do who
discuss it in their Offices, in their
studies and on their front pcrches in
the evening and who do il politely and
without broken noses.
Second, the working class who own
small bones and have not had much
10 do with money except that which
they receive as wages. These men are
discussing il great deal and they are
tie ones who write In thousands OF
questions 10 the newspapers
Third. the men who stand on the
street corners and make the most rabid
arguments on both sides Of the ques-
ton without fear Of God. man or the
devil or successful contradiction. and
who occasionally drop TO the level OF
pu-i.ism to prove their assertions
The second class of dispuiants y by
far the most interesting. Every tine
they come against . snag which VIII
rot be rooted out they write 70 the city
newspapers for Information
Thousands OF tAeSe questions are
asked over the United States weekly.
The large newspaper keeps one man
for the express purpose of answering
financial questions. and be Is not able
- do IL o5-hand- he must give author
iries for bis answers. and scnfe Of the
questions sre stumpeTS
One OF the principal questions is the
one in regard TO the extent 10 which
silver IS legal tender. another Is the
authority for the <loo.0o,oo for lie
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-08-23

gold reserve; another is how, IL free
coinage would force silver dollars
down to only 53 cents in value 1t could
benefit the silver mine owners, as
claimed; another is why if gold and
silver ere on parity, they are not in
Interchangeable.
But there are thousands of these
questions. which it would take several
issues of the Eagle to publish
the smallest mistake in a speech Is
greedily seized upon. and the newspa-
ps-s are Geluged with questions in a.
gard IL il.
Ia his speech in Ohio the other day
Senator Foraker said:
The reason silver dollars are main
tanned at par with gold is because sill
yer dollars are redeemable in gold"
This caused a great storm. Silver
dollars are not redeemable in gold. 1t
is little bit singular that a public
man would make so erroneous a state
merit, but he made il, and the way in
which people picked him up shows
how closely every public man is being
guarded b! the people.