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THE TIMES SUNDAY SPECIAL MAP.CH 6, 1808. SUNDAY MOliXIXG, Tokio "and forbidden to come within ten i one of the richest as well as the most prof- MRS. DONOGHLE'S LITERARY FAME THE ONE WOMAN OX PRESS CLUBS' LEAGUE'S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. DOCILITY 0I: Tilt AllEKICAN PEOPLE ALL EYES HAVE BEEN TURNED TOWARD WASHINGTON. CONFIDENCE IN Till; PRESIDENT the miners not far from anion, in the Tuscarawas coal region, broke out in insurrection.

The Governor had stumped aiming thciu for years, as they were in ids ilistrict. and he felt that party responsibility which is always entwined with the public duty. He called the commander of his militia to Columbus and asked him how -many men he thought he would need to put the mutiny down. The generalissimo reflected and calculated and finally gave a figure of the number of troops. The conference was long and very considerate.

Near the conclusion Coventor -Klnley said: "If yon ask for troops 1 shall expect you to ask for enough to accomplish your purpose, ami if yon ilo not do so 1 shall hold von responsible for the failure." Tills set the other to thinking and he asked for the entire militia of the Slate. When the miners saw Ihe grout force of armed men surrounding their region they asked for a parley. The strike was ended without bloodshed and McKinby was neither defeated for (inventor nor for President bv his thorough preparations. I have told this story more than nice among people who desired to know the nature of McKinley's courage. Ho has apparently reacted the part against the miners in the affair of Spain.

Preparations have been made over the widest area. while meantinu- tin- civilities of the government have been multiplied toward Spain and a strong reach made to gain the public opinion of the world without sacrificing America honor. The President has all the time held in his hand the greatest thunderbolt of all. ID- can recognize either tin- belligerency or the independence of the Cubans In whatsoever way he prefers, and upon Ibis question it would seem that party lines have almost ceased to exist, either lu the House or -Senate. Mr.

Teller, the most anxious man in til" universe to sit in McKinley's shoes, undertook to have a policy of his own toward Cuba, but did not receive one vote from the Southern Stales. His associates were only Cannon. Ilcitfclt. Alien and Mason. But Mr.

Teller was so well understood by Mr. Bryan that forthwith Bryan shot off another' salvo critit ising war as a dubious paying teller. Bryan and Teller are thus wrangling around the pit door while the performance is going on In the great opera McKiiiley is seldom referred to in comparison wilh Grover Cleveland, whose resignation appears to have Ihe assent of financial society. Cleveland's Venezuelan message lost him the llnal support of this commercial centre where he had not been a favorite of the general multitude, it was a 'repetition in apparent motive of Cleveland's free trade message near the conclusion of his first torn; and seemed directed upon the nominating TING FANG ligatc men in Northern New York To secure the signature of such a man to such a contract wins no mean task, but lie-ing young and hopeful undertook it. But Burton was a man whom It was impossible to deal with in the ordinary way.

He hedged himself about with obstacles which it was almost impossible to surmount, ana then slipped through the Angers like an eel. lleprobute that he was, poor fellow, he played hide and seek with me for two months, and I had almost despaired of getting his signature, when one morning he came to my ort'n-e and proposed to sign. As ill-luck would have it. had sent tlie tract to my client for revision, and felt that my chance was lost. When will you get it back? asked Bur ton with an oath.

I answered. 'Then, by the eternal, I shall be here at i2 o'clock to sign It. Expect uie then or go lo with your "There was something peculiar In his manner, something I had never seen before, and 1 knew he was telling the truth. 1 knew he would come. "It was in November, cold and drear, and toward noon of that slay it began to rain.

As night mine on the storm increased, blowing and blustering, the rain coming down lu sluices, it was so biul that I coucluded not to leave the offl-e till 1 had finished the business with Burton, and so 1 toasted some cheese and warmed up some stale biscuits that I bad In my closet, after which meagre supper I sat down before the stove to wait. I read the long contract over carefully to see that It was all straight, luterllniug such alterations as my client had suggested when he returned It. After that I got down a book and read for three iiours hard. By and by I felt mvself growing drowsy, the storm without had lulled somewhut. but the rain was coming in a steady down pour.

Turning my lamp low and tilling the stove with fresh oral I propped my feet in a chair and settled myself for a nap. It lacked an hour yet of midnight. The insufficient and indigestible supper, ihe uiieoniforlable position. gave me a nightmare. I suffered what seemed an endless existence of torture.

A pair of bands grasped my throat with a vise-like grip, and 1 could move neither baud uor foot. How long I struggled, of course, I cannot tell, but presently I heard the clock on the mantel strike li and sprang to my feet with a bound. As I did so I saw old Burton standing on tlie other side of the table from me. When he came In I could not tell, but there he stood bareheaded, a long, loose cloak drawn close around his throat. 'Where is the he asked, iu a peculiarly hoarse, rasping voice.

-I passed It over to him, forgetting even to turn up the lamp. Without a word, without even reading it, he turned to the last page and signed, big. bold and black, as his signature always was. Then the pen dropped from his hand with a sputter. As I stepped forward to nick it up my arm brushed against his cloak, and as the high collar slipped back It revealed his bare throat, with a bloody gash running from ear to ear.

So startling was the hideous revelatlnu that I staggered back, and In attempting to turn tip the dim light, turned It quite out instead. When at Inst I had found a match and liL-lued the hunt) again, my visitor was goue. 1 went to the door and looked out. I called him again and again, but he was nowhere to be found. Though Ihe rain was still pouring in torrents I remembered with an uncanny sensation that old Rurton had been bareheaded and that his clothes where I touched them were perfectly dry.

"Hut, being an unimaginative, practical sort of fellow- generally I folded and sealed the contract, mailed it to my client on my way to my boarding house, and turned Into bed and got a comfortable night's sleep, The next day the village was ablaze with excitement. Old Burton had committed sui-! eido. His servant, a thoroughly reliable man. who had taken care of the solitary, miserable old fellow for years, had found hiin a few minutes after midnight sitting in his chair, his throat cut from ear to ear. The doctors.

whom he had summoned, Immediately said he had been dead two hours, "1 have never told this story before. The transference of property was perfectly right ami proper. Burton's signature was proved ill court and my client died a rich uiau because a ghost had kept a legitimate contract." LOST FRESCOES FOUND (iliirtumlaio's Portrait or Amerigo Vespucci Discovered In Florence. The London Athenaeum prints an account of a most remarkable discovery that has just been made In Ihe old Church of the Ogiiissanti in Florence the famous frescoes of lkniciilco Chirlundaio. which bad long been considered as lost.

They are thus described by Yasarl: "The first pictures painted by llomeuico were for the Chapel of the Vespucci in the Church of the Ogiiissanti. where there is a dead Christ with numerous saints. Over an arch In the same chape there is a wherein Domcnico has portrayed the likeness of Amerigo Vespucci, who sailed to the Indies." According to Monsignor Hotturi's report It was believed that "when the Vespucci Chapel had. In Itiltl. gone to the liuldon-! netil family, the paintings of Ghirlaudaio had been covered with whitewash," and these frescoes had, therefore, frequently been searched for In that chapel, but al-' ways without success.

It was only on Feh-j ruury 1 last that Padre Itoberto Knzzoli dell' Online del Minor! Ossei-vaiiti informed the Inspector of tlie Florence Monument that, according to some uld documents he had seen lu his convent, some ancient frescoes, painted at the time when the convent be-! longed to the I'nillluti. ought still to exist In the Church of the Ogiiissanti: one. he said, in tlie Chapel of St. Elizabeth, (Jiieen of Portugal, representing a dead Christ: the other, in the Chapel of St. Andrew the Apos-! tie topposlte to the tirstl, representing the Holy Trinity.

Two days later the modest canvases which covered the walls of those chnpels-St. Elizabeth of Portugal and St. Andrew the Apostle, painted by Matleo lSos-selll were removed, and the beautiful fres-, coes actually came to light. The "Dead Christ" and over It the "iliserl-cordla" are undoubtedly by Ohirlandaio; the painter of the Holy Trinity is not yet ascertained. The fact is that Ihe Vespucci famiiv possessed two chapels iu the Church of the Ogiiissanti.

iind that if the description of that church l- Francesco ltoecbl iu his book "Le Bollezze della Cilta dl Floreuza." published iu the first Illustration of Hie beauties of Florence ever printed-had been taken into consideration, the frescoes bv Ghirlaudaio would have been found lie-' fore. Tlicv are described in that book as painted "second chapel to the right." and the second chapel to Hie right is just the one where they actually are. Tlie "Madonna della Misericordia" is painted in the lunette of the Chapel of SI. Kli.aboth. I'mlcr her mantle, held up by an-i gels.

Amerigo Vespucci and Ids family are kneeling, the men on one side, the women the other. The figures are two-thirds life-j size: Amerigo, a beautiful youth, uexi to tiie Virgin, is apparently 31. the age lie was at Ihe lime when this fresco was painted. The "Dead Christ" is under the luneiie; tlie bodv of the Saviour, the Virgin kneeling, SI. John the Hapiist, St.

Mary Magdalene, ami other saints. In the background Is the view of Jerusalem ami the cross. The faces of lite sainis are supposed to be portraits: they arc all dressed lu costumes of the lif- teeiifh century. The frescoes are well preserved. They are precious not only as works of art, but also as containing the luiig-sougiit-for portrait of Amerigo Vi spued, the great navigator, whose fourth centenary Florence Is going to commemorate with solemnity in the coining sprlug.

Hill Johnson on Kissing. Now tills yere sitty kissia'. In parlors rich an' fine, liar the chain Is mostly Tclvet An' the -lectrlc torches shine An bright the son at May suit sulne iieoplp. Mil! Hit hain't tlie hrami o' kissln' That tulls your I'tielc HIM. Jest felinme a bright May momln'.

Bestde a tllllltillll' stream. When the are a-hiini 111 the clover. An' tlie wmld 'pears mostly a dream; An' gimme the llpa o' roj- A sweet the rose Is An' I niu't a ki't-rin' niie-h wbuther Hill Is livln' cr doad. Atlanta Journal. miles of the capital, and came very nearly i being Imprisoned again, but the liberal party was growing so rapidly that its tenets were gaining a foothold even among its strougest opponents, ami the policy of tlie government towards Its adherents began to undergo a change.

In lxs'j Mr. Hoshl again visited Great Britain and the I'nitod Stales (he was partly educated In England and at that time had spent some mouths tra'vel-ing In America), in order to study constitutional questions ami repuhl'u-au forms of gov-erniiienT. When he returned In be found the liberal party in power and he was shortly afterward electesl a member of tlie House of Representatives, and from that time be has continued in important oilicial p((sitious. and has been and is an important factor lu the politics of his country. During all of the stormy years of his early career Minister Hoshl had the inspiration of a devoted wife.

Madame Hoshi was ihe daughter of a distinguished Ja'panese military officer, and the love of liberty flowed as freely iu tlie bloHl of. tier little body as it ever did In the veins of the Spartan wives of tireeeo. She believed that the cause for which her husband was struggling was a righteous one and through tlie years of his persecutions she never in tlie belief that the right would prevail. She's a dainty little morsel of humanity, scarcely five feet tall and as slight as site is sh.rt. It was said when they came to Washington that Madame Hoshl bad Just begun to adopt tlie western fashion of dressing.

At 1 events, at their first public appearance. hich happened to -ho Mr. Cleveland's last New-Year's she wore a Paris-made black velvet gown and hat and gloves and slices. Madame Iloshi did not speak English and she had not made much progress toward it when she returned to Japan, although she established her days at home during the season and took up her social duties very bravely. The legation fin street is a large brick house, with a wide lawn at its side, and Is handsomely furnished.

There had been no lady In the legation for some years when Madame Hoshl came, and lu honor of her cuning the entire ints-rior the house underwent a renovation and was finished in elegant style. Tlie frescoing was iu Japanese designs and much of the furnishings came originally from Japan. II Is an interesting iiluce to visit. ami her little TORU HOSHI Tlie Japanese Minister. son went back to Japan last fall, but will probably return in course of the coming summer.

THE LAWYER'S GHOST STORY How a Man Wtt a In His Throat, Who Had lieeu leud Two Hoars, -t sltfiu'd Contract at Mhlniht. 'l vjin it'll you story that will make your 1 luilr stand end," said tho old lawyer, a man wIjh was well known hi every mart in New York rily and State, and whuse name now is jxood on 'eliane for any amount. 1 "And what is more. It Is true. I derive you my word on that, though it Is a jihosi story 1 and I don't believe hi ghosta either.

"I wa.s not as old a 1 am now by nearly half a eentury. and my tiling tit the ilntir of a little whitewashed rhVe In a country village In tho northern part if New York Slate. I had spent six months doinj; but reading and waiting for a ease. when (ne day a man en me in ami offered me one. The singular, almost unique nature of tin1 ease maoV it a very Important one.

more important than most young fellows are called upon to undertake. If I eouhl tell the man's name you would understand what the niatter meant to me. Hut I must not tell name and story too. Suffice to say that though the mall himself I dead, the ease he gave uie and its subseipienf development was tile starting point of one of the largest family estates now existing lu tiie city of New York. The whole transaction as designed by toy client Is one of the shrewdest pieces of financiering that have ever come HOSIJI Wife of the Japanese Minister.

under my observation. I remember when he came to tin' he had his pocket full of notes, figures and suggestions. What he wanted me to do was lo draw up an Iron-chid con-' tract Involving the transference to him uu-I dcr circumstances and upon conditions too singular to scent possible to you. could I tell Having my client's notes and sug-i gestions to aid nte it as easy enough to draw- the cmitrnct, unusual as its stipulations were. Hut It chanced that my work only be- gait with drafting Ihe contract.

I was ulso to secure the signature of tlie other party ii'llii-med. Now, it transpired that tile party the second part was one Hurtoii. now fur gotten long since, but well kuown as mm A. Ja I i 1 i I i i I I i i I i i i I I I I i i THE TRANSCRIPT HER FOSTER PARENT" Her Tell i ii ur WerL on the l.eadlnr Boston. ashlnKton anil Other JournalsThe Heading the Poem "Atlanta" Recalled Of Both Puritan and Pllifrlin Ancentry and a Member of the Daughters of the American Revolution MRS.

MARIAN LONGFELLOW O'DONOGHUE The only woman elected to the Board of Ooverners. or executive committee, of the International League of Press Clubs at the late convention in New Orleans, was Mrs. Marian Longfellow O'Douogliue. From a woman' a standpoint this is an honor to be "real down proud" of, as our Yankee friend would say. In the language of the politician, this irre-presslbly ambitious woman "dow ned us all." just as any woman deserved to do who would defy a doctor's commands, -a husband's entreaties, out general a whole In spt-tal force, quit a sick bed and risk her life by going to New Orleans to serve the League's best Interests-Just now dearer thau any other interest ami she has many.

And, since the men of this convention wer so selfish and the women so submissive that the sex was only given one representative out of nine on tiie governing board, we are glad that one was it peiiwoinati so prominent In her profession, so generally loved and admired and so well born. Marian Longfellow O'llcnogbue is of both Pilgrim and Puritan ancestry. The little so often ridiculed as bringing over (in the estimation of the descendants of the early act tiers) all that was worth anything, held no less than thirteen of her ancestors, six of whom were signers of the famous Mayflower cninpact, as follows: Will-lam Mollncs. the father of Priscilla; John Alden. Elder lSrewster.Itichard Warren, William Tilly and John Howland.

Mrs. O'Donoghue Is fur prouder of this record than of the Tudor blood on the other side i.f her family. Through her mother she is a lineal descendant of Governor lirad-street and Ids wife Anne, called the "first American poetess." Oliver Wendell Holmes also traces his descent front the poetic Anne. Governor itradstreet. In those early days, strove to save, and falling In that, to mitigate the Bufferings of the so-called witches of that time; but fanaticism ami supcrstititioii joined hands to defeat any efforts he made.

Marian Longfellow O'Donoghue Is a niece of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet, and on her mother's side she is the granddaughter of Hon. William Pitt Preble. Judge of the Supreme Court of Maine, and onetime Minister to the Court of tlie Netherlands. She did not begin her literary career as a child, and says she was just a merry, light-hearted girl, always In mischief and in no way a prodigy. Her verses were first written lii the days of young womanhood and were primed in newspapers.

Her tirst work of conseiiucnce was for the Huston Trans-erift. anil her very first work was printed In a country newspaper, and under her initials for a lioin de plume. In this way she published three collections of poems entitled "Seven Songs of Chiisi mas," "The Lily if the It.suriection and Other Poems," and "Snow Crystals." These were all successful. A number of her poems appeared in a collection edited by Sdiarrt and liilinan and published in New- York. Several of her poems have been set to music, among others a barcarole published In Boston and "The lied Rose," published a yeur or so ago In Washington.

For a long time she wrote under the pretty pen name of "Miriam Lester," and this she slill uses for a certain class of stories. An editor once urged her to use her own domestic name, but she was possessed of a morbid fear that her work might lie accepted tecause of the prestige of her uncle's name, and she pluekily determined to win a place for herself In the world of letters outside of family Influence. Her preference is decidedly for more substantial work than verse. She prefers prose, but writes verse "because she cannot help it." I once asked her how she did her work; If she thought up a subject and then elaborated It in her mind before putting it upon paper, or whether she trusted to Inspiration. "Oh." was her reply.

"I don't even think up a subject. A subject takes possession of me and 1 take up a pencil and the words just run off the end of It. I don't know a moment beforehand what Is coming, and am as surprised as can be sometimes when I see what I've written." Then she added that she considered this a misfortune, rather thau a gift. "A facility for writing and stringing rhymes." she calls it. Her heart is in the reforms of the day.

and wlille she is not a member of the Woman's Suffrage Society, she ought to be. for she finds her greatest delight In aiding other womeu, whether In securing them work and the proper remuneration therefor, or In helping them get legislation for impartial laws. She took au active part in preseutiug to the Vuited States the question of Ihe legal status of women In the District of Columbia, for which a bill passed, fixing such status and giving Ihe women of the District of Columbia rights that obtain In other States, but that were not to he had there. She is a member of tlie National Society of the Daughters of the American Itevolution. being No.

a lit lu a membership of many thousands. She was also a charier member of the Mary Washington Chapter, D. A. of Washington, the mother chapter, and is now a member of the Elizabeth Wadsworth Chapter, D. A.

Portland. Maine, named for her great-grandmother, the grandmother of the poet Longfellow. Siie was a director of the Washington Choral Society, a member of the Raster Star and others. She belongs to a great number of clubs, because her Interests are large. She is the mother of the Idea of organizing the League of American Pen-woineii.

now one of the largest clubs or the kind, ami having headtjuurter iu Washington, D. C. In October. l'i. Mrs.

O'Douogliue went to Ihc Atlanta Exposition to re ul. by request, the poem she had been Invited to write for tlnit occasion, entitliil She also read before the Woman's Congress an essay nn the "Life and Works of Henry Wails-worth Longfellow." in June, isisi, she went as delegate from the Women's National Press Associutiru to tlie annual convention of the international League of Press Clubs, at HulTulo, N. and was elected a member of the governing board. At the seventh an nual convention, held in New York city, site was elected third vice president, and now she is still further honored by being the only woman retained on the governing hoard. Truly a distinction of which she may naturally feel proud.

The press, work of Marian Longfellow O'ltotiogliue has been on the Huston Transcript, which she calls her foster parent; the Huston Herald. Boston Saturday Evening Gaxette. Washington Post, Washington ftar and other papers of equal rank iu the world of Journalism. Meg. Am How MoKinlcy, AVlinn Governor of Ohio, Ilmnllod the St rike 1' the CohI Miners-Ills Attitude Toward uba, lilch Men "ho Try to Avoid Their Tax HUN.

Special Correspondence of Thk Times. New York. March 3. Everybody remarks the docility of the Stales and people In the Spanish emergency us compared lo our index-illy in ls01, when Fernando Wood, the Mayor of New York, spit at President l.liu-oln's proclamation. cvwihoilv frnm old General Soatt down had a iheory which was matched against the government's initiative.

Scott said "let the wavward sisters depart in peace." and Hor- i (ireeley was making peace on his own aeeount at Niagara Kali during most of the war. In place of that self appointed leadership we now have a system which renders the whole nation an obedient unit like Hohind in the day of her Stallholders. Holland made Europe as it is more than any nation, though Holland extracted itself from Spanish repressive dogmatism only after years of almost constant war. The elimination of slavery and the spread of one currency, transportation and jurisprudence have linporcoptably given an uniformity to the public mind. The destruction of the' Maine has tested this improvement.

Every eye In the country ha.s been turned lo Washington and to the Executive who but recently came from the head of an important Slate and from a full discipline in Congress. This also confirms the policies of both Hamilton anil Jefferson guardian measures and personal freedom. null sometime nfier the civil war Ihe public measures of Ihe country were violently obtruded upon 11 by associations. Hostilities toward Spain became conspiracies in the tlrst three administrations or until Jefferson arrested Burr ami Blennerhusi-et. The States like Georgia refused to obey the lavvii relative to Indiana, and even Gen-i-ral Jackson had to let the Supreme Court bo overridden rather than protect the hum- ble wards of the government.

During Ihe Canadian revolt in the first third of this century concerted attempts were made to force the 1 iitteil states into a The independence of Texas wih almost a private enterprise, though lint for the help of the general government Texas might have been absorbed in Mexico again. After the Mexican war was over important officer) in that war undertook to conquer Cuba, like t'uilman and Crittenden. Walker's expeditions continued till the last before slavery. Even the nre-cmption of Kansas from slavery was in the nature of a private expedition, of which Ihe beginners were Thayer. Unfold and needier and the sequel John whose filibii'-dering descent upon Harper's Kerry might have impressed the South with the bad example of any private warfare.

i i The attitude of this country to-day re- seinuies inai oi i r.t-t, wneu I icseiciii and his Cabinet refused to submit any longer to the excise insurrectionists in the backwoods of Pennsylvania and of Virginia, and called upon the four Middle States in-clusho of Virginia to supply him with an army, of which he took command. The fall of slocks in New York city was due to nothing but the emergency preparations of the general government. These were, however, a correct test of the stand ard of those Mocks when (subjected to the ex- treine of heat and cold. To put muny of those (stocks up to an illuminated height re- ipilred the constant nursing of tranquility, When Wall street is (screnest the scene i-s that of the awful baby asleep at last with its milk bottb- in itsmouthand it depraved toes still kicking in its dreams. That is the idea of tlte general public entertained by the Wall street operalors.

The cradle is being gently rooked and lullaby.s sung to the rep-iTOentailves of tolal depravity, of which the refrain is "Hush, my baby." A necessary percentage of all this property icprcscutcil in Wall street quotations must be a failure; otherwise the list would be interminable. The present endeavor Is to assemble the railroad properties into a very few groups and this has been carried out with a statesman-like pertinacity not wholly unaccompanied with experimental speculation, such ats the selling of the doubly solvent Lake Shore system to the partially solvent New York Central sy.stem. The operator, however, letting his stock go and taking a mortgage Instead. This would intimate an uncertainty as to the public holding up the stock continually. Indeed, our bond market hits almost become the criterion.

Mortgages have replaced stocks In the attention of investord. The ever-increasing area of capital, however, represented In our railroad properties shows that their future value has a universal credit. Meantime the shiftless elements of the country understanding little of the elastic-laws of civilized credit is engaged lu a poorly disguised political combination against wealth, though the motive of the crusaders to Improve their own condition, which is aiso wealth. One set cannot tind its way into the apparent labyrinth where all these savings and fortunes have their clue. Yet on the whole there is no value in liberty without protection to economy and accumulations.

Talking on this subject to one of the leading men lu finance he said to me: "I cannot recollect of more thau two demagogues lu my period who ever progressed to near.the summit of their ambitions and both of then) failed. They were Stephen A. Douglas and Andrew Johnson. Wlth-all the popularity of Douglas and the many elements and questions he appealed to. the home-spun Lincoln readily passed him at last, and I saw Douglas meekly hold Lincoln's hat.

when he was Inaugurated President. Johnson entertained the Idea that poor hated the rich, and he bad little respect for the government as I lie standard of deference, and. therefore, ended his Ineffectual life raving In the Senate at the most modest man among hks contemporaries, whose sword and magnanimity had spoken for lit tn. MoKinley has been adhered to by the rank and Hie of rich as well as poor during the Cuban crisits with a consideration which reminds historical readers of Washington's negotiation of the Jay treaty in That treaty had for its basis to compel reluctant Americans to fulfill their civilized obligations such as paying the debts they incurred before the revolution on tneir private account, which they expected to repudiate on general account after our Independence was obtained. The Kaudolpii family, to which Jefferson belonged, wa.s among those debtors, and Edmund Handolph was the Secretary of State to execute the treaty made by Chief Justice Jay.

Randolph postponed and prevaricated un til It came to light that he had been at tempting to raise money out of the Krench as a fee for hindering the treaty. Washington made him consummate tie-treaty and then acquainted him with Ids roguery. The rabble stoned Hamilton and mocked Washington and Insulted the British Min-Ister at Philadelphia, but the treaty stood fast, and during the seventeen years of peace tints gained the whole nation became solvent and happy until Europe endeavored to fores us out of neutrality into fiarllallty and brought on our second war. Whlie Mclviuley was Governor of Ohio VAOAME WU CLEVER DIPLOMATS FROM THE ORIENT THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE EAR EAST NOW AT WASHINGTON. BOTH INFLUENTIAL STATESMEN OeeupyiiiK Iliifli Positions in the Confidence ot" Their Count Visit to Two Legations lilch Tupewtrlesi From the Klovvery Klniitloin-Mlnlsiter Hoshl anil His Attractive- Wife A He-ccption at the Chinese Special Correspondence of The Times.

Washikhton. March T. A long line of carriages, extending down the four streets! which converge from the WU TING FANG The Cliiiu-He. Minister. tii.iithoast corner of Seventeenth and I.

stond In front of the handsome while stone building occupied by the Chinese Legation, one afternoon, just before thu bculnultii; of Lent, and a throng of well-dressed pedestrian was massed at Its entrance. Two ladies on the opposite side of the walk "tupped lis one of thciu exclaimed: "Why. what does Mich nn array of carriages such a crush of people mean out here': it look as thouuh it lnltslit be a White House reception, only that it is ul the wrong end of town." "Oh," replied her companion, "Ids Kxcel-Icncy, the Chinese Minister, is (jiving his final' reception of the Reason, and apprecia tive Washington is evidently tunilng out to enjoy It. 1 have cards for It, come on, let us go too," and they crossed over and jollied the crowd which blocked the fiont of the house and after a half hour's struggle mounted the steps and iu turn gained aduiis- sioii. Once inside it Is easy enough to umlerNtaud why the receptions at this Oriental Legation nre such popular afi'airs.

The house itself. the I-'rank Schneider residence, is one ot tlie handsomest in tlie city, and since It has be- i come the dwelling place of the Chinese he has tilled it with furniture ami bric-a-brac brought from his far eastern home within the walls of the flowery Kingdom. On the occasion just spoken of the rooms were flooded with a oft yellow light, which streamed from the incandescent bulbs suspended in Chinese lanterns, and which leut a mystic glamour to the scene. Kroiiithe overhead gallery in tlie ball room a string baud was ensconced behind piilnis. The music the baud played that, afternoon was of the weirdest, most enchanting description, anil it seemed to be In harnnniy with tlie event as It flouted out over the rooms.

Ills Lscel- leney.Wii a gorgeous red silken robe' with h.ng flowing sleeves, and a black, i tight fitting cap with bright red coral knobs I directly in front and In the centre of the top. stood in tlie fouling doora of the drawing rooms to receive his guests. Madame Wu. gowned in blue brocaded silk, rich and heavy enough to have jdn.nl quite alone, and i with a band of mammoth pearls encircling her smooth, glossy hair, was seated at her husband's left, and shook hands cordially i ami said a few words in English to each one in passing. A half dozen or more of the at- i incites uf the legation, in native dress, were in evidence in making the quests welcome, Pictures uf former Ministers hung upon tlie i walls, wilh Chinese landscapes of Impossible -perspective, In which were the Inng-legged.

long-necked cranes so familiar on Chinese; pottery. In the dining room, where distinctively American salads and Ices were served, and lea and ohnojilatc were poured into tlie dainties! Chinese teacups, there was but. little to suggest the laud of Cathay, but In passing lulu tlie apartment just beyond it one could easily Imagine himself transported here. Tlie room llself is a veritable Oriental dream. The walls are of Last India onyx and 8'ild decorated woods.

Street scenes in Cairo are painted on panels and set In between them. Au Imported Kgypiinn lantern In dull bronze, and holding many lights, hangs from the centre of tin- ceiling, it is vered with a shade of pale old rose brocade, on which me painted dark-eyed of the far Kasi. lu this ro on Wu has puiced the famous great cliair of suite from which he serves tea and extends tlie hospitalities of the b-gathin but only to visitors of the highest ottichil rank. Mil, wlio with Ids large retinue, succeeded Minister. Vang Yn lust 1 Wf i I I i I I 1 Wife of the Chinese Minister.

summer, is by far tlie most progressive representative China ever sent to the Culled States. As is well known, he is a lawyer by profession, and was educated and took his degree as barrister at Lincoln's inn, London. He speaks English fluently, which is of immense advantage to him in his present position, and is a thoroughly wide-awake, up-to-date diplomat. Not content wilh English, he Is now studying the Krench language, with the same assiduity with which he undertook English. Madame Wii quite overturns all of one's theories regarding the conservative Chiuese women.

She is a veritable typical lady of high rank, as Is evident from her tiny fssit which Is. by actual measurement, only three Inches In length. But for all of that she Is a tide cnd-of-tlie-ceiitury woman. She began tlie study of English iniinediaiely after coming here and speaks it fairly well now. She assumed her social duties very speedily and has presided Willi ease and grace at the dinners and other functions which have been given at the legation, and she keeps a close and careful account of all of the expenses, pertaining to the housekoep lug of her great liouseic hi.

When it is remembered Hie exclusive life she iesl before coining here it can easily be credited that in Iter new position she has had much to learn, but she has kept her bright, dark. almond-shaped eyes wide open, ami has shown a woman's native, keen wit in ad-! justing herself so charmingly to her changed env Ironinents. While the Chinese always, appear In their native dress and long queues and seem to glory In their Individuality, their neighbors frrni the Sunrise Kingdom, tlie Japanese, are ultra-European In dress, manner, ami. as i-far as possible, speech also. T'o meet.

Minis- ter Torn Iloslii and his secretary, KeMn-iro Mat sill, on Pennsylvania avenue in their lin-I maculate linen, their light trousers, dark waistcoats and Prince Alberts, their shining high hats lifting over their closely trimmed locks, their patent leather Cornells and car-I rylng dapper ennes without a seennd glance you would surely tliem for well-groomed American gentlemen. Of course, this preference for European dress lias been characteristb- of tlie Japanese ever since their government, adopted its liberal policy, and that Hoshl should adopt it is but lu keeping with the record of his long tight for the liberal parly of his country. Minister Toru Hoshl will go down in Japanese history as one of the patriots of his native land. He is iviimaralively a young man yet. for lie was iiorn iu ISTiti, bin i as long ago as in tin- early Nils lie beiran to urge the extension of popular rights .1 and the estalilisliiiicui ot a representative system of government, and was associated with Count ltagaki iu the formation of the Jlyuto parly (the party i liberty) which is to-day the most important iiocrnl m-gnnia tion iu Japan.

He had been appointed counselor of law lo the government, but after being iu the ser- MADAME vice two years he resigned on account of the conservatism or the ruling powers, and began traveling over the country, advocating the principles of the Jiyuto party. At tills lime he established several newsoapers which are still among the most influential of the kingdom. This course of action was not long in bringing him into disrepute with tho government, and in 1KH5 he passed six lie. nt lis iu prison, on charges that were trumped up against lilui. Hut this did not intimidate him.

ami sbort-i Iv after his liberal ion lie was as vigorously working as ever. In 17. on account of his uiihity lu Miese lines, he wus expelled front I "KN ft, I I I i convention which led to Bryan, however illogical a eaudldale. in order to rid the Democratic party of Mr. Cleveland.

President Harrison's recent excursion against rich men who do not pay their taxes is also interpreted as the letting fly of his raven to see if there be dry laud when he next gets out of the ark. The evasion isf taxes is not peculiar to any class of men. When we are poor we growl at our tax bills and when we have gotten riili we snarl that they are so high. if we move from one locality or State Into another to rectify our taxes, that aiso is natural. But there is no sufficient case made out against the aggregation of American ri'-h men to warrant an ex-Prcidcnl singing a dirge in Indianapolis jusi after we have seen him in the Supremo Court assisting th -disabuse of well-to-do clients.

The families of Kx-Prcsidcnis Lincoln. (irant and GartieM owe to the provision of prosperous men their present stability. II is much easier to pass the subscription lis! around New ork (ban to lue one feelings lacerated by ihe 111 manners of some Congressman or Senator. The taxes of the good eslflles of tills city are high enough to frighten their ownei-away fj-oin the country but for the love of commercial career. The average political demagogue would dei amp from his naiion with a year's income of some of these wealthy born men who have the courage stand tlielr ground.

Resistance to taxation happened to be the cause of ihc American revnhiiinn, and all I those gentlemen who meekly paid their laxcs to the House of Commons on the tea and window lights and stamps brought up their pos- I terity in Now Brunswick and Canioia West, Tlie poor had tio such taxes to pay. The rich planters ami merchants were the kickers against taxation, led by such men as John Hanc Charles Carroll and the New York and New Jersey Livingstones. A few years ago a coal dealer In New York inviled mo to spend the night at his house at Sing Sing, and as an inducement he said he would take me to the hardly finished ami ys-t uninhabited house of Mr. ltockcfclbT. He sent to Mr.

Rockefeller, his neighbor, for a pass in my name and his. Ii was returned promptly, but with a noto saying: "Mr. Ton nseud will confer a favor by making no description of (lie dwelling in any of his writings." Tills was a command of honor, and I never described the large stone mansion which contained about ninety apartments fur the family and its guests. In pursuance of the love of one's native country and of foundations upon its soil, this successful man had gone to a rude region thirty miles or more from this elly mid employed tlie lalMir, acquired the land and introduced the art to make a habitation worthy of his tastes and Intentions. has since given away about for education, niucfi to tlie reprobation of certain critics, who would have made Ihe same objection id the donations of John Harvard or Elihn Yale.

Mr. Rockefeller was brought up In the Baptist Church and he loves music and Is besides fatigued by business so that lie escapes from tlie city and takes his company to Ihe country at night and upon occasions. A few monllis ago I saw that upon tills mere rustle home a tax of something like a year was being imposed by the local grub worms. They thought it was smart after the gentleman had built his house to line him a week or more to live among them. This sort of tax getting has been fast sending our most useful men to foreign lands.

Kor a single year's taxation at such a rate as I have mentioned a man can buy a yacht, and for a little more than the Interest on the price of that yacht he can go anywhere on the globe. Gath. FOR A WORTHY CAUSE Amateurs to Heiulcr "London Assurance" Ht tho Academy- of Music. I'mlcr the auspices of the Catholic Younu Men's ArclKliocesan I'nlon of I'liiliniclpliia there will be presented at the Academy of Music, on St. Piitricli's nlKhtv March 17.

by St. Kihvanl's Literary and lu-jniatie Insii-tute. I Hun famous comedy. "London Assurance." The performance Mill lie of the nature of a benefit fur the House cf the fiood Shepherd. The east will be as follows: Sir llarcourt Courtly Chailcs Courtly Haz.le Max Harhawny O'Neill IIml'Ii It llmihin Tlicuniis J.

Ituyd lolin A. l-'llin Michael J. Hynn ThotniiM i Teruan Michael .1. H. McAdauis iJeinc A.

Cooke fieorjic A. Cookc Cora A. MorrlK'iu Krlsby Ioua Mae Xowleu odlv Spanker Mark Meddle Cool Solomon Isaacs Martin til-ice Hiiikaway I'elt Lady (Jay Spanker St. Edward's Iiranintie Company bus tlie reputation of belni; one of the leading amateur diaiiiatlc oriianizatici.s of tills city. In June, is.i.-, it produced "Tlie Lost I'nradise" at the Chestnut Street Opera House; lu June of Ihe followiim year, "Tlie tiirl I Left Hohind Me." at the Park Theatre, and on lust, at the People's Theatre.

"Limdon Assurance," when' the play scored a great su--Cess. Tickets fur tlie performance at the Acjol-emy mav la' procured nt tlie House of tlie liood Shepherd. Thirty-fifth stieet and Fair-moiiul avenue. West Philadelphia: (it St, Kilward's Literary and Uraiuatic institute. J'J-i" North Sixlh si reef, and at the Academy of Music on Ihe evoultn: entertainment.

Admission, oO cents: reserved seats. cents iindM. iwmnl.