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Show ggl , THE SALT LAKE . TIMES. jjll J. 1' PAGES SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SATURDAY. AUGUST 2, 1800. 12 PAGES NO. 2.VJ. ,es at the National Capitol- -A Sight Lot of Active and Vigorous Youths. THEY HAVE TO HUSTLE. to, Has Heard of the Pages Who ave Become Legislators fays of Making Money , y SHLNGTON, July 24. T I ''lio smartest lot of l boys iu this country are 11 the pages of tbo houso 1 ami senate. They are a I half hundred precocious, 1 quick witted, self conli-- dent chaps, Tanging in A-- years from twelve to ? (i,c A majority of them live from home, and, enjoying I g0od incomes for boys, try to look as if they had seen nothin" The pages of the senate show a wonl derful variety of sizes and stages of ma-turity, considering that their ages aw Brjppoaad to range between twelve and sixteen. Some of the litila shavers ap-po- to ba no more than eight or ten, whilo some of the larger ones have faces which indicate that are they shavers iudoed. It is hero to be noted that the age of a boy is as un-certain as that of a woman or a horse. Mnch depends upon stature. This Mr. Barry of whom I have spoken was ap-pointed a page to succeed one Ringgold, Who was transferred to the document room "on account of over age." Later on Barry and Ringgold became acquaint-ed, and made the startling discovery that the former was a year and ten months his predecessor's senior. But Barry was short and Ringgold was tall. In tho house there aro thirty-fiv- e boys. One is a riding page, oue attends to the telephone in tho members' lobby, one is assigned to the press gallery and two carry cards to and from tho ladies' re-ception room. This leaves thirty boys for service on the floor, and as there are a dozen members to each boy they are kept pretty busy. Ordiuarily' the pages are required to reach the house at 10 in the morning. They must tidy up each member's desk, file upon it a copy of The Congressional Record and get every-thing in readiness for the day's business. Some of the large boys have twenty members on their list, while the small chaps have only three or four. Every boy wants as many members as he can get, for it is one of- - the tradi-tions of the house that at the end of a session each member must give his page $5 or $10. In addition to their salaries of $'3.50 a day the pages of both house and senate pick up many extra dollars. - Besides running all over the Capitol they are often asked to carry-note-s for members to the residence part of the town, and nearly all of these er-rands are fruitful of tips. Sometimes these missions are of a delicate nature, " ?id then the rewards are made propor- - V.TZZrZ KOJIENT. alits are not always of the best, as a rule imitate the men whom rve in chewing tobacco, smoking and cigarettes, playing the races .inking beer. All the .world has of the pages who came back to a as members or senators Gor- - f Maryland, Townshend of Bli-Bil- l" Scott of Pennsylvania 'and The world has concluded, there-b- at the page's path leads invari- - ii fame or fortune. Unfortunately jumption is not warranted by the lajority of the pages, particularly if the house, turn out badly. Mr. S. Barry, who rose from page-ob- e the accomplished Washing-nrresponde- nt of The New York lis me that a number of his old utis are in jail, one or two in :ite asylums, and only a few have mounted to any thing in the world. of the brightest boys of my day," (r. Barry, "and the one of whom vas expected, I saw the other day ii? a carriage, clad in a green coat big gilt buttons and yellow top trouble with pages appears to be too knowledge at an early age. What to not know at fifteen they think itiow, and the result of this Bortof ity is often bumptiousness and r. Happily there are many ex-i- s to this rule, as to all others, of the pages now in the service of attend night school regularly, heir money and are preparing to names for themselves. One of tho promising young lawyers in town i horse for several years between pit"l and the departments. " A COLU8IOK. ticmale. If the pages of the Capitol were to tell all they know what a commotion thero would be in the big building and out of it! The pages have many other ways of making money. They are sent out to buy cigars, chewing tobacco, gum drops, bottles of whisky and many other con-gressional necessities and luxuries, and they often "keep the change." Occa-sionally they do an important piece of work for some lobbyist, and get a fat fee therefor. One page I know has mado $800 during the past six mouths watch-ing and reporting on certain tariff mat-ters. Pages get up subscriptions for the purchase of popular speeches, have the printing done at private offices cheaper than the government printing office rates and pocket the difference. These bright boys absorb parliiunent-nr- y law. Often they hold sessions of their own after the real statesmen have home, with Johnny Jones for gone speaker and Billy Smith for sergeant-at-arm- s. Some of the pages become so familiar with the rules and customs of the houso that members consult them on the forms of resolutions, and reports. Ono of tho smartest of the boys was Chief Pago Frank Gorman. He knew nut only parliamentary law but men, and early in tho session, when Speaker Reed was counting many quorums, ho stood by the speaker's side, at the latter s request, and pointed out .tho members might be put down so that their names as "present aud not voting." There was a time when a page man-aged tho house of representatives. In 18G0 aud '61, when William Pennington, Of New Jersev, was speaker, the recog-nized authority on parUauientary law about the Capitol was young Thad Mor-ris, then a page and about much about the rules knew ten times as and parliamentary laws as Mr. Penning-ton did, and the speaker used to uave him stand near the chair as a prompter When Pennington did not know what to do-- au occasion which arose about inoe in five minutcs-t- he page helped about tho Capitol HUSTIJNO THE PAGES. ate pages generally turn out better "oiise papes because they are taken "t by their employers. The rule in nate is to "take care of' a page who s himself worthy and capable. In 'late pages are discharged on reach-N- e age of sixteen, and they are then P'aces in the folding or document j :d mo afterward made door nKm and promoted from time to Many of the employes of the sen-?art-out as pages, a conspicuous Ple of this class being old Capt. tt, tho white haired patriarch who ;it the left of the presiding officer. ' as appointed a page through the Me of Daniel Webster. " nam Bassett and his boys make a pretty scene about the dais on ;l siis the vice president. . A striking ft is fonned by the captain's ven-- features and patriarchal beard in cJose ' proximity to the youthful ; the pages. " When there are few ,jrs in their seats and theprooeed- - are dull and drowsy the old his head fall on his breast. He 118 to be asleep. The boys lounge '.' B,Jt pretty soon Senator Ed- - or Senator Sherman claps his hand ps his migers. and it is discovered !f Capt. Bassett has been sleeping with one eye open. He spnervously.crackshisoldfingers 7 to rouse the drowsy boys, waves his j rjns, and away scaniper"two or three fellows as fait as their nimble legs ry them. Sometimes disaster fol-tt-sudden display of energy. Two heedlessly rush together in the cen-colli-and go sprawling upon u0r. Ori such occasions itisinter--? watch the faces of the digni--luer- iy senators. They have witneis-- e Eglhaoa and it's results, but they I PKOMrTKO THE SPEAKER. 3Skifdm ol . ittal. uoco-rwi.llna- i. He.it ami Grimo Seem to Have an Affinity for Each Other-Cri- mes of the Heated Term. JULY IS A LAWLESS MONTH. Some Famous Eiots That Have Occurred Iu Midsummer-- A Scene Dur-ing Draft Eiots. o r weather aud crime T-- y I There really seems, at lirs thought, unreason why tlio H I two should bo coupled. Tito S degree of culoric. n indi-- I rated by the innocent look-- 0 ing thermometer, serins to H H have nothing to do with t ho domination of man over bis moral mmre. 'J'o suppose that man is inllttuncrd to ei'iino bv tint fact that the weather is twenty inArers higher than would bo really eoinfotablo is to suppose him r poor creature, indeed, but that is the fact. At least the Kilico say so, nmt slailsiics gay no. Anil perhaps the si roup st conttr-nintlo- n of it. may lie found by recalling the fact that nearly all the riot that have din-- however, itml appoint! Frederick of police, and he apwnlily foreoof some tw?nty-Uv- e volun-teer a special pollownon. lie hud need of thorn. The old force was o!T Ui'ty and a famous riot promptly be-gan. It w between the liowrery Bor and the Dead Itaubit. The latter gang Inhabited Mullssrrv Bend. and were con-sidered by the Bowery Hoys inferiors, principally ttecsuse of thetr habitat, which wi'.s then us it is now a specially unsavory ncigbburhocd. The Kivefolota wirethen cloe by. Thera km the bilteriwt fcelinc; 1 it ween tha two gjo.gs, and individual fights were of frequent, orrnrrenco even small bttlbut when the pollen went off dill each side beptm deliberate prepa-ration to destroy the other. Ilnyard street was rhoaen a a hnttla ground, and t wo barricade of wagon were thrown up about two hundred fet apart, Udiind which the two gang stationed themselves with rillns and began tiring. NotbinK niom than the rivalry lietween Uie gangs and a natural love of fighting apiiears to hare heen the cause of the out-brea-but it w an a serious one and lasted three day, t'ue day thirteen men were, killed by the bullet and nut one of them was a member of either gang. tlu the third dav the Ikiwer? hoys secured from aome quarter a howit jer, which they loaded with grapeand pntnn a feed wagon, which was started fur their tiarrirado. They were going to blow the other KW out of existence. It happened that the Seventh regiment was on it way to a Fourth of July when Chief Tallmadge called on the colonel for aid, and bo tuai-Jie- bia men liehilid the police force of twenty-five- , tl.nt, Mfuri.Ml in riiofiiee the howitzer. It wan found in Chatham aquam and rapt ured after a iliU mruxKle. "d lh rlot w"" aiieedily broken up, more by the moral font of the. predem of the seventh than by the strength of the police. The OraiiKH riot Is to well remembered to lussl divcripiton now. H ocrum-- kit July. The Tompkins equar riot did not, but they were not real rlola. Inasmuch as t he rlt iietia did not tlulit, nor offer to. They assembled In public nieetiiiK. and thcpollce. HtUuked them. There, wa no fighting beyond tho throwing of few brick by the ruen w ho were running to escape from the terrible night at irks of the police. All this dura not how that hot weather produce riots, certainly. Kverr one of these disturbances, and ninny other that might lie mentioned, had their origin In aomethiiig entirely dllTerent from tba weather and entirely independent of It. Tbo connection Is nevertheleaa a direct one. it Is very aeldom that a man commits sui-cide or assaults or kill nuolber because it I hot. Yet t ho fact remain t hat aeeaulU, aulciiles rnd murder are all far more fre. cpient. In summer tbnti in winter In New York city, and there, is a reaaou for It. To understand tbl reason fully you mint risit the tenement house region of tho rity on a very hot day or night. There llva the poor-l- lie isiorly fed, poorly housed, poorly educated (us a rule) and least nv sponsible member of the community. Hints, assaults and murder are not com-- i nion iiiiiong the more fortunate Ntopla, who have at least nil their moderate da- - THK WIDE AWAKK KIOl. graced New York in the course of the laat half century or so have occurred in July. This ba even come to called tho mouth of riot Imcause of this rurii.u fact. The great parade of tho striking cloak-maker- s tho other day was entirely a peace-able demonstration. Not a blow was struck in the courso of it all excepting by ono foolish park policeman, who became ex-cited wit liinit cause possibly on account of tho heatanil by a woman whom it is ..liiiUnl,tnr,,lltl.inlVlLM.ril.V. llllt IsUlOlt on the curb Willi Inspector Williams t ho famous ('apt. Williams of former times and bo said: "Seo how narrow the margin is lietween peace and disorder. Those men are desperate; they say they are all hungry, and more than nil, they are hot. If one mull should spring out im a leader and propose some net of violence we'd have to jump In and club them, for they would do whatever bo suggested." The iuss'tor spoke calmly enough. Ho bus learned to keep bis old time Ilerserker rages in check. Hut I hiivo repeatedly sisui him before he learned that lesson, and I looked al. him keculy and Imagined I saw a dilation of Ills eye that told how little irksome such duly would Is'. Ho is n born fighter and he wan standing in the sun. The Hint Abolition riots, so railed (I he Abolitionist being tho ones attaeked), lis a result, of a l''ourth of July meeting ill this city in l'l. Tho bitter-ness of political feeling continued from that time until after the war. and all hough lighting was Infrequent it did occur from iinie to time. It. was, If lam not mlslak i Iho campaign of ISW Hint tho "Wide Awakes" organized, and In that Hummer there wero several small riots In New York. It was necessary, so tho polirosa) now, for a man to go armed If he wore n Wide Awako hat and uniform. tif course all thes'i sinnll MilitieI riot T.cre insignificant compared with the great draft riots of July, lw-- l. That was the most ierriblu municipal disturliiuieo that ever occurred In an American city. Kor three week tho entire police force and nil tbo militia that were not at the sent of war were fighting night mid day against such i a mob as has seldom Is i n seen. Private houses, wero plundered, men mostly lie- - groes were hung to lainpiHiet 'ny bun- - (HtAMIE WOTS. Sire gratified. Among the poor there) I an amount of physical filtering from tlm heat that is enough to make n sni lit savage. No ordinary man can be r peeled to wo bis wife and children aleeping. a I have many times i thru sleep, on the utonrn of tbo siilowalks or the burn rf of the tenement house and preserve his amiabil-ity. Hi Irritation at their and hi own physical disromfort I likely Vi assume a spirit of rueeiittneiit against Ihoeo wh'i r more fortunate. This feeling Is likely to be aggravated by eon versat Ion w ltbotlns h badly off s he, and still further by Joining tlnoii In I ha only luxury wit hin the poor losa'a rea eer. Drink affects men more quickly In hot weather t ban in cold. 11 iiie 'U tiou of ss iil excitement Iss under discus-sion at such a time and It leatoloeo bow a riot I more enaily st irrl up I luui It would be In the winter. Tbls is not theo-rizing. It I a fact. Tho well U do know oothingof tbo suffering of the poor Iu July until they go to the poor man' home and sen for thcmsHve. Aside from this of rrimo a afTw-te- directly by tb beat of auiuiiirr 111 a great city, there is a dlreet tm lo th eommunlt v from the heat that I not easily dreds, tho colonel of a regiment was ktlb'd ul the head of bis command, and business was generally suseiided all over the city, for the reason that It. was not wife logo about tho street even in broad daylight. It, was estimated that over 3,Ot persona were, killed, in the city in those three, weeks, but the exact uumlsrwas never known Kor months even for two or three year afterwar- d- it. was no uncommon thing for the police to find in the shanties of tbo aquntterson uptown lots elegant fundi lire, costly lares, and even Jewelry of tho most expensive kinds. They wero the booty of the riots. , Jlut thl a remarkable not had occurred iu July. H was in l.-7- , ami tho opportunity for tho riot came out of tho disbanding of the old police force the leather Heads, as they were railed, berailso if the stiff leather hats they wore, like flrsv figured lip, but which i very great. .Meo cannot work In summer a they do in win-ter, and bnailiea i interrupted to a greater extent than is generally realist. K--w person appreciate how slight a cause may Increase, tbo friction of tha great m bin we call commerce, and how greatly that friction may delay lt working. A si. k horse, a sun stno k lal.rer, an overworked and wilted messenger, a lar clerk or any other un of tho direct results "f hot weotio r may interfere with an enterprise of great important, aad audi tlitntt do, every summer, and every specially hot day 1b summer, delay operation tosiu h nn ex-tent that they are counted on a rgular luctdenta of Inwiiiew. Daviu A, Cf nn. DIKING DIMM P.IOTS. men. The IcgUleiure bail p-- d a bill creating a pfb commission which was to comn.-- l the Metpipoiiiau of Ne York and Brooklyn, t'bief Matsell am. Mayor Fernando Wood to recog. nil the comininwon. and the old pola-- declined to eon.ll tbeui-aelv- e force to a man as they negbt bave dune, In the nw oriiouization. Tbe o DLIVEILIIIFEIiollJUli Fashions for the lair-T- ea Gowns and OtLer DrwMea""Ar Fanier Coming into Style, PEETTY AFTER NOON GOWNS. Shall We See Hoop-ikir- U A:in?-S- oir General flmin About Wo-man's Wear. i;V YtiKK. July Si Th graceful lei gin has not U en b (t out of Ihfl list of "nuiist hates" for the wiiwin, N- - and oery woman tries to (ol-lo- I'idouille' ud ic to let tt be x cosily as her pure. can bur. Oho lea gown that ie to grace th Tcry swetleet te table in tbo swcllest coiiagu at New-pot- t lias n front of ortni; cren ami tho putred and wrinkled sleeve rw , of that same gorgeous ralor. 'I'bo out-skI- h is made of black surah, with bands of jiwtmfntrie of jet anil mt combined. Tim irurah U mailrt with Vnttau train in the WW aixl hng likmdy In front while shpe.l at thsi,l. Altogether thin i one of t! most atrvk-t.- i?iirim of the acW. and aritneo bo- w- I can't tell how exiv-tlr-- ha ort of tragic air. The Udy tola "drwara" btdonjrs to ia a pnunmntvil brunette, I ran imagines tbia made in Hark and pink or blue, or in dark Um and cream, dirk irrccn and white, anil rath new cotntitnatlon or color would, W jus a pretty, if not quite so daring. Nearly all ci sdumea nowaday belong to tworlaeee. They aro either ilantig or exceedingly simple. A very dainty dresa of thl style. U niado of waeli ailk. in stripe of gray, green aiul twin pink. Th comago t uwtdn quite, plain a to trimming, tlw r Is ing no attempt at any kind exi epl sin b an i afforded by draping tlm fabria ' over tbo bust. Tho ulcere am n m to tii ed leg o' niutUm, ami th skirt l quite plain, tbo Uu k breadtlM Wing aliirrwl rloeely IntnasiKMPof fotirtnehe. 1 iiotleixl tcslar in iin iniportins: hone" caeo upon case of little affair which Hist t could not imagine the am of, but on inquiry 1 found thorn to b panuler or falso bil. They ar" made of rlii and whalebone, and are somewhat the ah.'t( of a sugar ansip without Urn hanille. From tho quantity Iwro iliplyl 1 hv no doubt tlutt there will l a faehion wear th dresjiea distended nn tbo hipa ' insteud of in tho hack, m tlwy ww a yenr ago. Ami I saw, too, a largo of small h'ip skirt. Thrna 4 of hardly eter, a ujtdy withont a demand. liowii for fnll dresa for young ladle are now all rut In tbo ingenue ntylo aqiiaro in the n k, with a rnfllo m or muslin all around. TImi falilno la iiretty. With tbw manner of dnsHing tho hair U rtit short ait around tho face, and combed diean straight aud slightly cnrlwl at tho ends. In thnlsvk It Is fantenM In aCaTtran braid, orul tlil with a nbUm to mh l tho rotor of tbo dn-e- orin sharp con-tract. Homo very pretty gwn for ywnjf girl aro mado of whito riwi, witt largo ldka ibits, over a r,,.rel slip, with rtbbona t mat h. Lace, or jwC plain white mull, bs-k- a prrtty tnado m tbi way. 'llio pretty drw In tho illua-trati-nKve ia of gry rrystaMUi, with a liguri-- l lKinlering and a fall of oriental btre around tlio neck. Tlio binter I jtirhe, as thero I no wovea to (Tystalette. Hrh a stylo W suiUbla for a young girl from II to 30. Tho other day I noticed a vry prerty little faury whk h had t'vklly a pWM effect A pl.nn whifo summer --ik dr.m hl the skirt rtit prfi!y aimpb-- . and th waist wa tnnini"l with hajuls of seal brown elv. t, with rtbbotia U j nwt. h. Tho lady had an obi iai rorah, snciue maile, tiie l k and dc xteodU j ing te '.tie bottom, but mil -- wft toj?!;. The front t tbi arqa wt riil-- m wxth U o a.id bows of ri'fs!i. an i th wt te ie ve hl d vp mfftea of b'- - Whrtt Uo W4u:el to he drl tuT a high te ,hi u;t. off thf uug eowag-- s ae-- l d'rtjned the dintr qu, aud w jo5 tuo berelr f ir anyti-iag- . on siirt r U,th roca'S. which, row-v-- j i d tho same doubtful a that : wbu o mate th" I nte girl e vvc in f.f havini "o alk-- of bread luS I Istn bitter an l how-y,- . There is Not a Great Difference Between the Two Sufferings of the Eat and the Lean. THE CITY SODA FOUNTAIN The Oool Spring of the Country An In-teresting Sketch for Midsum-mer Beading. Now the obese man with his palm leaf fan, Ami tho sewhiuz solar ray Throughout the week play hide aiul Anil the Itraiiiu Jouutaius play. KucloutR no rain, and all in vain Has the fat man plead and prayed. With relentless vim Old Sol spots him, For it's !K degrees in the shade. lor tho loan muu the is even worse. The man boils and steams in comfort, but AND lean man alas! he and fries till bo feels and like a cinder. The man's appearance sttf-- ; fers cruelly in comparison. What clammy and sluggish rivulets of perspiration are yielded by bis skinny exterior seem to po wruiig from hint by some great mental anguish, where-as the fat man perspires as naturally, easily, comfortably and becomingly as a pitcher of ice water. Hut the fat i man must go. He blocks up the way to the soda fountain and takes up too much room in the horse cars. pation. Should business ' be allowed to go to the bow-wow- s entirelv, or should an effort be made to keep up an appear-t!- ! of industry? Was it bprtor up stairs in one's room with nothing oc, or on the front stps dressed in as few and as thin gannmits as tho custom of civilization and the prejudices of tho police department would permit? Was ft better to go in swimming, or to sit in the shade and eat watermelon? The question of straw hats anil was often uppermost, while tlm dreadful uncertainty as to the exact so-cial status of the silk sash as a snKstituto for tho waistcoat was as harassing as a nightmare'. " It. is entirely safe to say that while the city man and woman were ardently longing for the pure breezes ami sylvan shades of the country spot most dear to their memories, tho country mnn and woman wero declaring tho dusty roads and the crude conveniences of farm life insupportable. And it was hot in the country. Kven the frogs and tadpoh's wero parboiled in the shallow, still pools whore their an-cestors had lived until seized by the farm lxys for bait. In the pasture streams the cows stood all the afternoon immersed to their shoulders, only ven-turing out as tho sun sank low to get a few monthfuls of grass on the way homo to bo milked. Tho pigs wallowed in the mud, first on this side and then on the other, and on the upper side the mud was always baked as hard as tho boards of their pen. Tho hens wandered list-lessly about tho farm yard with their beaks wide open pouting for breath, and two old roostciM, disputants for su-premacy on the largest dunghill, incon-siderately renewing their ancient feud, were chastised by the sun imd crawled off into the shade of tho barn to die. The only axil place on the farm waa tho spring house, withHts troughs of running, sparkling water fresh from the hillside and its rows of moisture beaded milk crocks. Here at midday the fann-er, the boys and the hired men come af-ter dinner, and though the rye was dead ripe in the field hero they lingered until after 4 o'clock drinking buttermilk and recalling all tho bad days of their cxjie-rienc- e. This day was admitted to bo the hottest of them all; and that evening iu the , midst of the violent storm that dropped suddenly out of a clear sky the old oak overhanging the well was split by lightning from top to bottom. CUETW DlNHAM. ' Inn 4 THE KT7ZUNO FAT MAN'. The scientists declare that a person is no cooler for filling his stomach with liquids. "The sensation of thirst," they say, "is in the throat. The stomach has nothing to do with it." Why didn't some one think of that be-fore? The stomach has enough to do already. Why overload it with lemon-ade and soda water because you are thirsty in your throat? As you go along the street, wet as water outside and dry as fire inside, and observe the golden streams that are pouring into the tills of plutocratic vonders of temperance drinks, six to every block, remember what tho scientists say. Gargle your , throat with a little tepid water and save your money to buy a house and lot with. AT THli SODA WATfcR cuujTr.u. When the temperature rose to 80 degs. tho sellers of cool drinks began to make money rapidly, but experienced no little difficulty in keeping on tap a sufficient variety to satisfy wisely discriminating palates. The population was Veginning to drink, but it demanded all sorts of pe-culiar mixtures and flavors. When tho mercury touched 33 dogs, tho list was narrowed down to less than half a dozen of the good old fashioned flavors, aud when tho 90 mark was touched and passed the sellers of cool drinks had everytlung their own way. If the supply of "vanilla" gave out they filled up tho vanilla compartment with anything that was nanuy, arm uio population drank, mado no complaint, Hsked no questions, paid its money and came back and drank again. As the hours passed and the 00 mark was out of the race the population grew more reck-less and the soda water sellers more au-tocratic. The population, as it wound by the fountain in a never ending pro-cession, could find strength to gasp but one word: "Soda!" The czar of the fountain adopted the final article constituting his realm an i,.i,iifl monarchy. Before arriving IS THK COOL STKISU HOISK. within fevend yards of the magic spigot the populatitm was confronted by this proclamation in bold black letters: I BUY TICKETS HERE FOE SODA WATER. Drink was the main thing, but there was also the Question of dre and o cu- - They Have I.lttla to IJe For. The illustration presented herewith gives an idea of the remarkable condi-tions under which existence is eudur?d in certain portions of F,ngland. "In this old rotten van," writet: tho taker of 'OPBiif JiPt3f A VAN AND ITS fHX'tTANTH. the photograph from which the picture is reproduced, "which I saw near Rugby a fortnight ago, 8 feet 4 inches by 5 feet 8 inches by 5 feet 3 inches, there were one man, one woman and eight lsiys and girls from four to sixteen yearn old. It was their only home, and all were iu a most pitiable state, and not one of them could tell a letter, except the mother, who could rend fairly well." It is said that 50,000 jieople in the British Islands have no other homes than these houses on wheels, and a general demand is being mado for tho passage by parliament a movable dwellings bill, under the ovis:ons of which the sufferings of thivmtortunates may be in some measure alkylated. j MADE GOVERNOR BY MANDAMUS. A Young New Hampshire Man Forced Into a High Omre. David Arthur Taggnrt is now acting Kovernorof the state of New Hampshire. Governor Uoodrll, the regularly elected ebief maLnstrate. has been ill for a long 1 time. Intheevent of his death Mr. Taggart will m govirrnor by right of succession. Ho occupies the office now as tho result of an ordirr of court. The story " of bis forced ele- - is tliis: Ivation Taggart ia president of tha N e w Hampshire D. a. tago abt. HtjttJ w.nate- - other day Attorney General Barnard brought mandamus pr'K.eedings reiu.ir- - ing him to show cause why he did not till the office and duties of governor during the illness of Goodell. Chief Justice Doe, of the supreme court, thereupon directed the clerk of tho Hillsborough county court te enter a decr for tbo plaintiff. Mr. Taggart, on advice of tho Isvnch, fol-lowed the example of John Langdon. the first president of the fmate of New Hampshire, in a like caw, and assumed the title of governor pro tempore. Mr. Taggart was born at Onffstown, N. H., Jan. 30, 1W). He graduated from Harvard in YM, and in 11 was admit-ted to tho bar. He r.Tewiitel Oafft-towni- n the le?Ulatnro of IWSand ls came a member of he senate in 1H8. He is a Republican and Prohibitionist. They Pldn't Koow Mr;lni. i The erl iters of I;iid .n new spap havi ( yet to lettni tliat "tiUM-tag-- J from the -' containeil in inpty little aro not n !u-- : ble, and tlutt "Ix.wn Went McOtnty" U i a pi.pular American song. It is owing probably to this iiietrnsablo ignoranco ' tliat tho Icjobng English journal ncent-- ' ly pnblishcl tho following paragraph as a serious matter of new: "A bottle roiit;ining a card, oo which was written the word: 'Stearru r Knn, Capt. McGiii'y, at tte U.tt.,Di of tho sta was picked up ytenlar at t'lg-with- . near the Li-r- J. It was a bunres card, on tho re v me si te of v'ui h wa prmt'-- l D. J. Vs !ke, baker at.J broker. New Y'otk. Tnete U reason l beiievo that thw i a gma no mesoago fr'itn tho Ul fatel N'3!i"tal lm-- r Erin, from New ! Y'otk. ar.l aeems to show that th I trvu kcrt not fiJ from JSa'.atfl. Those 'IooeeMt, .lrl. Detroit Free Prw. When one read the story that comes from Chicago of the stealing of the dia-monds of several ' innocent ' girls by ,i professional thief bis heart bleeds for tne victims unld he pauses to k him- - ' self of the probable decree of a guli w ho would accept an invitation to po u a saloon and drink beer or anything else w ith a strange young man. |