6
A MYSTERY.
Wh?r we take an observation of wfrat t
going on around
We often think that wonders never ceas".
for instance, there ate people who appar
ently are crowned
To live a life of luxury and ease.
It their accounts were balanced less thai,
nothing would remain.
And prison fare they probably would
chew,
And yet they set the fashions and we follow
in their train.
We don't see how they "do it—but they do.
Their homes are simply palaces of elegance
and art;
Their costly entertainments are a dream;
They lead In gay society ar.d are consid
ered smart,
And pass lor greater Hons than they seem.
While better folks are fasting they are
feastfng night und day.
And pleasure Is the object they pursue;
At d yet if force to settle what they owe
they couldn't pay.
We don't see how they do it—but they do.
There are the politicians who an easy way
have found
Of living without doing ar.y work.
Arrayed in gaudy garments they are n wag
goring around
As lazy and as saucy as a Turk.
Although they are the enemies of every
thing that's right,
Although we know they rule ar.d rob us,
too,
They make themselves, ouo bosses and we
cheer them with delight.
We don't see how they do it—but they do.
There are the stock promoters, who are
working night ar.d day,
Tr. laying gold on other people's shelves.
They kindly take your money and invest
it in a way
To realize a fortune—for themselves.
Their sch« mes are most magi.illeent—the
profits are so great,
They only grant their favors to a few.
A million dollar company from nothing they
create.
We don't see how they do it—but they do.
There are the busy merchants who are al
ways—so they say—
A selling things at less than what they
cost.
They all have bargain counters where they
givci the. goods, away
To crow ds of crazy shoppers they exhaust.
Although they're losing money on each ar
ticle they sell.
According to their advertisements true.
They never look discouraged and are al
ways very well.
We don't see how they do it—but tlvey do.
There are the foolish people who compel
themselves to bear
A burden growing heavier each day,
In keeping up appearances for those who
never care
They throw their peace and comfort all
away.
Their awful strain ar.d worry Is, in spite of
all their guile,
Quite evident to everybody's view.
And yet with all their troubles they In
public wear a .smile.
We don't see how they do it—but they do.
—H. C. Dodge, in Chicago Dally Sur.. .
A Knave of
Conscience
By FRANCIS LYNDE.
V J
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CHAPTER XIX.—CONTINUED.
Griffin strolled listlessly with the
crowd, and presently found himself
in front of the new playhouse. It
was early, but the "first-nighters" \
were already thronging the vesti- \
bule. He stood aside to look on, ]
honestly wishing lie could rid him
self of the Rayou bank mystery long
enough togo in and enjoy himself
with the pleasurers.
Now it chanced that in stepping i
back out of the sidewalk throng be
got in the way of the carriage con
tingent, and a moment later a voice
at his elbow said:
"Excuse me; will you let the ladies I
alight?"
Griffin gave place, and saw a young
man with a clean-cut, eager face
hand two young women from the
carriage. They were followed by an
elderly gentleman with eye-glasses;
and on the sidewalk the group fell
into pairs. Griffin could not well
help hearing the colloquy.
"I think the others will be here in
a few minutes, doctor. Shall we wait
and go in with them?"
Thus spoke the young man with
tbe clean-cut face; and at the older
man's negative lie spoke again.
"Just as you please. If you will
take Miss liaymer and let me take
Miss Farnham, that will divide us
equally. The seats are all near to
gether, but I couldn't get them all
in the same row."
Griffin stared hard at tbe speak
er s companion as tlie parti carre
moved away.
"So that is Miss Charlotte Farn
ham. and my last chance," he mused,
turning back toward tbe hotel.
"There is one grain of comfort in it
for me; if her face doesn't belie her,
she will tell me the truth. By Jove!
but tlint young lawyer, or whatever
he is, has an eye for good looks. I've
never seen her equal in all my ups
and downs, and that's saying a goi/d
deal."
So be went bis way to the St.
James and presently to bed, without
so much as suspecting that he had
actually touched elbows with the
man whose identity he was vainly
trying to establish.
CHAPTER XX.
It was tbe early morning of a flaw
less northern summer's day, and the
lake sparkled like a sheet of ham
mered silver under the windows of
tbe Farnham sitting-room. The
shades had been drawn when Griffin
entered, but he had taken the lib
erty to run them tip before Miss
Farnham came in. And since lie was
finding it necessary to read much be
tween the lines of her guarded an
swers to bis questions, he did not
regret the precaution.
"You say he admitted bis guilt to
you, Miss Farnham, before the boat
reached St. Louis?"
"Yes."
"May I ask how he earne to do
that?"
"I—must I answer that?" tthe fil
tered.
"I need hardly say there is no
"must' about it. I am an ofT.ce r of
the law, and I am anxious to find
the man.l am sure you will tell me
everything which might help me, and
I don't ask to l<now more."
She considered it for a moment,
and then took counsel of frankness.
"lie admitted it because 1 asked
him."
Griffin smiled, and then explained
the smile.
"l'ardon me," he said. "I was
thinking that no one but. a woman
would ever have thought of doing
such a tiling as that. 1 fancy you
surprised the admission out of him."
"No. I do not think I did. He ad
mitted the fact very willingly,
though lie would not admit that it
was wrong."
"Ah; that helps more than you
might imagine. They have all been
looking for a seasoned criminal, you
know."
"He wasn't that," she said, with
an air of conviction. "Apart from
this one great wrong whu?li lie had
(lone, he seemed to be a gentleman.
It may seem incredible to you, but
lie fairly insisted upon my writing
to Mr. Galbraith."
Griffin smiled again and nodded re
assuringly. What she was telling
him fitted in admirably with the only
tenable theory lie had formed; that
the robber was no criminal; that he
was only a monomaniac on the social
side.
"And when he did that he doubt
less asssured you that he would con
sider himself bound in honor not to
take advantage of your frankness?"
"lie did just that. llow did you
know?" she asked.
"I merely inferred it. And his
parole was to expire at St. Louis?"
"It was—it did."
Griffin ro.se and found his hat.
"J am greatly obliged to you, Miss
Farnham. 1 know y< u haven't found
it easy to speak of this to a stran
ger."
While the identity of the man is still
a mystery, you have helped more
than you know. Good morning."
Griffin left the house, but instead
of taking the street, lie turned aside
to stroll aimlessly along the lake
shore, giving a new theory time to
grow a little more definite. As has
been said, his trade of man-catclier
had come to be a passion with him,
and he had genius where others la
bored only with talent. When the
new theory had taken shape, it
slipped into musing speech.
"She can't account for his little
vagary, but I can. He simply fell in
love with her at first sight, and be
cause lie was in love with her he
made her do that which she knew to
be right, at whatever cost to himself.
That being the case, he is as sure to
turn up here sooner or later as the
sun is sure to rise to-morrow morn
ing. Better than that, he may be
here now. I*ll camp down and study
my environment for awhile. It's a
pretty place, and I'll call it my va
cation."
In a week's time Mr. Thomas Grif
fin had learned more about Wahaska
than the ordinary summer visitor
would have learned in a year's resi
dence. lie knew Jasper Grierson and
his ambitions, and Jasper Grierson's
daughter and hers. He knew all
about the social teapot tempest, and
could identify the adherents of each
of the factions. He knew that An
drew Galbraith was a guest at the
summer hotel on the point, and vis
soon able to draw liis own conclu
sions touching the growing intimacy
between Grierson and the New Or
leans banker. The drawing of these
conclusions cost the detective a trip
to the pine-land region in the north
ern part of the state, and the in
formation he sought and obtained
had no bearing upon the bank rob
bery. Jasper (irierson held the re
version of some worthless pine land
which he was trying to sell Andrew
Galbraith: that was all.
Hut in another field Griffin sent his
arrows of investigation nearer the
target, and that without knowing it.
lie came to Know all about the Ray
mers, the iron works company, and
the reorganization of the same with
one Kenneth Griswold for a partner.
Probing a bit deeper into this, more
to account for the oddity of a man
like Griswold interesting himself in
a business affair than for any other
reason, the detective unearthed a
thing which the prime movers in it
were not bruiting abroad. Jasper
Grierson had all but succeeded in
smashing young Raymer's enter
prise; would have smashed it but for
Griswold's intervention. That was
fact the first. And fact the second
was this: That Jasper Grierson re
pulsed was not Jasper Grierson de
feated. Having failed to smash Ray
liicr, he was now trying to obliterate
both liaymer and the nc.v partner.
To this end he was fashioning two
weapons. The railway and all other
work controlled by Grierson and
those to whom he dictated wns
withdrawn from the reorganized
iron works company. That was
the weapon legal; the other was
more deadly. In the height of the
Raymer-Griswohl prosperity a depu
tation of workingmen had waited
upon the partners with demands
which could not be met. And the
alternative was a strike.
CHAPTER XXI.
1 As liaymer had foretold Griswold's
I initial visit to Ihe Grierson mansion
ion the lake's edge was but the be
j ginning of an acquaintance which
[soon ripened into intimacy with the
| daughter of the house. For one
| thing, Griswold was always sure of
j his welcome at Mereside; and, for
| another, he wan beginning to find
| the atmosphere of Margery's sitting
j room the one environment where the
remaking of the book could goon,
land that Mar»er.v herself was the
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16. 1902
one person with whom he could dis
cuss it with helpful freedom.
Do what he might he could not
bring himself to the point of tak
ing Charlotte into his confidence in
the matter of the book. Though it
was wholly undefined in his own
mind, the barrier was the one which
had been builded on the voyage up
the river. The more he saw of Char
lotte, and the more his love for her
grew and throve, the less possible
it became to look forward to a day
when he might hope to tell her all
with a fair probability of winning
her approval of the thing he had
done.
But with Margery no such difficul
ty existed, ller sympathy was al
ways quick and intuitive, and she
seemed to have the prift of saying in
stinctively the tiling he craved moat;
the thing he might have suggested if
she were not always beforehand with
him. He was not so besotted as to
believe that he had discovered in her
that other half of the artist's always
incomplete circle; fhe one person in
the world who can fully understand
him. On the contrary, in his so
berer moments he thought he knew
her for what she was. But these dis
illusions grew less frequent as visits
to Mereside became more frequent,
and in time they began to disappear
altogether. For Mistress Margery
was wise in her generation, knowing
many things well and the heart of
a man better than anj\
But about the book, which was to
settle once for all the vexed ques
tion of the rights of man, tliey did
not always agree. As first conceived,
the story was merely a vehicle load
ed to overflowing with the socialistic
protests of its author. But in the
rewriting a new plot had been sub
stituted; suggested, nay, even out
lined, by Mistress Margery herself;
and on the keel thus laid the ven
ture built itself into something more
like a novel and less Hke a preach
ment.. Griswold saw the growth of
it under his hand; saw the far-reach
ing possibilities of it; saw also that
it was departing, despite his most
strenuous efforts, from the course
which he had pricked out on the
chart of the former endeavor. I"n
other words, the new book bade fair
to grow into something which the
publishers might accept and the pub
lie might buy anil read, but of the
rights of man there was coming to
be less and less as the work pro
gressed.
Hemp- first of all an enthusiast,
Griswold dug deeply for the cause of
"YOU HAVE HELPED MORE THAN
YOU KNOW."
all this, and thought he found it in
liis new relation as an employer of
labor. At first he had told himself
that he would be a silent partner in
the iron works, leaving all the activi
ties to the practical llaymer; but he
soon found this blankly impossible.
And with personal interest and the
shifting point of view came a change,
gradual and almost insensible, in his
attitude toward mankind in general
and toward the workers in particu
lar. Ko it came about that while he
was writing a book, designed to over
turn the existing social order, he
was drifting slowly but surely into
the ranks of the oppressors.
The first open confession of this
change of creed came when the
threat of a slrike rose storm-cloud
like on the iron works horizon. Ilay
lner was for temporizing with the
men, and for yielding something if
need be; but this Griswold fought
stoutly, growing more stubborn as
the threatening cloud increased in
si/e. If the men could not see for
themselves what was for their best
interests, they must be made to see.
But in reality it was Margery who
was responsible for the major
changes in the book. Caring nothing
at all for the ethical question in
volved, she eared a great deal for
the success of the author, and she
was shrewd enough to arrive quickly
at a double conclusion; that Gris
wold was well able to write a suc
cessful book; and that, left to him
self, lie would assuredly spoil it with
his theories. So she labored faith
fully to keep him in a broader road
and not without a goodly measure
of success.
"But, Margery,"—(they were well
past the "Mr." and "Mil*" by this
time) —"I can't do that," he said
one morning when they had been re
working the plot through one of the
cozy sitting-room talks.
"Don't you see it begs the entire
question of labor and capital?"
"1 see that you can't help doing it
unless you are deliberately false to
j your art," retorted the literary ora
cle.
"You have put these people on the
stage, giving them certain characters,
and they must goon and do the
things that are consistent."
"Not if the consistent things are
going to make the entire picture out
of drawing."
She laughed. "How impossible a
man can be," she rejoined, sweetly.
"How many times must we go h|clt
to the original question. You must
choose between saying it all aril hav
ing nobody read it and saying a lit
tle and having everybody read it.
I'm not saying anything against
your theory—it's lovely. But unless
you make it a good story, first, last
and all the time, you will never get b
hearing."
"Then 1 may as well give it up,"
Griswold confessed, "if I may not
preach a little I have no excuse for
saying anything at all."
"Oh, you may preach a little. But
in this particular instance you must
make Bathbone stern and inflexible,
cruel, if need be. You needn't be
afraid of its effect upon the girl.
She will condone anything he may
have to do —it's a way girls have."
He looked at her narrowly and
then the lilin of abstraction came
between.
"I wonder.if you really mean that?
Are women so ready to condone?"
Her laugh was mocking. "You
make me blush for you," she said.
"Isn't an author supposed to know
more about us than we know about
ourselves?"
"I don't know about the supposi
tion. But the man who knows tlio
heart of one woman—"
She stopped him with a little ges
ture of impatience.
"Tell me what it is you don't know
and I'll turn traitor and betray my
sex."
At that his gaze went beyond her
again and he said: "I wonder if you
would?"
"Try me and see."
He hesitated a moment, and then
plunged into the depths of it.
"Then tell me this: If Ratlibone
should goon and do all the hard
things you say his character calls
for—things which Priscilla believes
to be wrong—would she put her con
science aside and stand with him?"
Miss Crierson's reply was brief and
very much to the point.
"A woman in love has no con
science. The man she loves has to
furnish enough of that commodity
for two."
Griswold wincod. "What a merci
less little cynic you are," he de
clared.
"It is true, and when you are say
ing true things where is the use of
taking the roundabout way. I don't
say the woman wouldn't be hurt.
She would be, and the hurt might
turn up afterward in a way to make
the man sorry. But that has noth
ing to do with the fact that a wom
an's conscience can't hold its own
against her love."
Griswold shook his head in depre
cation. "I don't like to believe that.
I'd like to believe that a man may
goon making a good woman's con
science the touchstone by which his
own conceptions of right and wrong
may be corrected."
Margery laughed lightly. -And so
you may, if you don't first go about
to make the woman love you. But
you can't eat your cake and have it
too."
Griswold folded his manuscript and
put it back in the envelope. Then
he said what was in his mind.
"These are generalities, Margery.
Would you be that loyal to the man
you loved?"
Miss Grierson's shrug was barely
perceptible.
"I like that," she said. "That is
certainly personal enough." And
then: "You mustn't endow me with
a conscience."
"Why?"
"Because I think it was denied me
in the general distribution of things
good but unhappy. I am afraid the
question I ask oftenest is whether I
want the thing hard enough to try
to get it."
"As if anyone would believe that
of you!" said Griswold, at parting.
But afterward, when he came to
think of it, the thin edge of belief
found a crevice and would not be
denied its entrance therein.
[To Be Continued.]
He .Meant Well.
I was laid up in the cabin of a North
Carolina mountaineer with a sprained
ankle, and, though he would willingly
have provided me with fhe best, the
fare consisted of pones, fried squirrel
and corn coffee every meal.
On the fifth day I must have let slip
some sign that things were growing
monotonous, for lie looked over at me
and said:
"Stranger, T reckoned to make a
change in this yere fodder, but it
didn't come about."
"Oh, the fodder is all right," I re
plied.
"But I don't skassly think it is, and
I was gwine to make a change. Sorry
to say I couldn't do it, but the dratted
woodchuck got clean away!" Phil
adelphia Press.
A SlrniiKt' Iloliliy,
The principal hobby of the ex-queen
regent of Spain is collecting of playing
cards. She possesses a large number
of curious packs, many of which have
no little historical interest. One set,
made of ivory, is believed to have be
longed to Prince Eugene, who fought
with the great Duke of Marlborough,
and to have accompanied him in all his
campaigns. Queen Christina also owns
some exceedingly rare cards of Egyp
tian, Arabian, French and Spanish
manufacture. —N. Y. Sun.
Wi.Mi* Precaution.
"It is always advisable to know what
business a man is in when he proposes
marriage to you," said the blond.
"Why so?" asked the brunette.
"A man once gave me an engage
ment ring and, of course, I was a little
curious to know what it had cost.
"Naturally."
"Well, 1 went to a jeweler's to in
quire what was the value, and I found
the man who gave me the token be
hind the counter." —Yonkerg States
man.
GAMBLERS MUST GO.
Secretary Shaw Makes War on
"Sporty" Treasury Clerks.
lowa Mnn, for the* of (lie Serv
ice, llu« Instituted Some Aotu
ble Mural ltcloi-iiiN in lii*
Ut'DUflnirul,
fSoeclal Washington Letter ]
r*Tr~>Hl liK is a black sheep hi every
flock. There is nil Arnold or
ail lscariot for every age and
tj lion. There Is a dead fly for every
uiut ment.
All along the shores of the great
ocean ol life, driven far upon the
beaches of the coasts, are the wrecks
and remnants of those whose em
barkation seemed to lie under the be
nignant rays of the very star of
hope. They seemed to take the tide
ut the flood, being led onto fortune,
lint, nhis, they knew not the shal
lows, shoals and quicksands of life.
Each life needs a separate and ac
curate chart, because eaeli is set in a.
different current.
•lust is a lit'.le leaven leaveneth
the whole lump, so one pervert or
misdirected entity malodors a whole
class or caste. The embezzling, ab
sconding Sunday school superintend
ent taints an honorable hundred
thousand zealous workers for ino
ralily und,religion. In like manner
the thousands who serve the govern
ment in the executive departments
of the national capital sometimes
have their reputation injured by per
verts in their midst; albeit the num
ber of those who walk not in the
straight and narrow way is small
It is so in all ages, and climes.
Even the brilliant Cassius was an
office holder reputed "to have an
itching palm." During President
Jackson's incumbency some govern
ment eierks failed to pay their board
bills, and gave their class a bad
name. In those days it was easy for
any citizen to see the president, so
one landlady called and informed the
president that an employe of the
patent office owed her for two
months' board. The president told
the lady togo and get the young
man's note for 30 days. That was
easy. When she-brought it back to
the white house, the president took
it and wrote his name on the back
of it. Handing it back to his caller,
he said: "Put that note in bank, and
if the young man don't pay it 1 will."
It was paid by the young man, of
course; and the news of it went all
over the city, so that thereafter gov
ernment clerks became accustomed
to paying all of their debts.
During recent years government
clerks have been given a bad name
locally, because a sufficient number
of them have been indulging in gam
bling to give cause for general sus
picion. This condition of affairs was
emphasized recently when the dis
bursing officer of the census office
was found short in his accounts, in
the sum of upwards of $S,000; anil
when lliis criminal lapse was fol
lowed by the discovery of a short
age of a similar amount in the ac
counts of the disbursing officer of an
executive department. Inasmuch as
the paying officials of all of the de
partments have to get their cash
from the treasury department, that
department naturally made inquiry
into preceding conditions which led
up to these defalcations. It was dis
covered that in both cases the iklu
eiary officials had been betting on
the races, ami that their gambling
propensities had ultimately caused
them ' 5 reach into the government
coffers and take the moneys intrust
ed to their honor.
Although the laws against gam
bling are rigidly enforced in the
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SECRETARY SHAW.
District of Columbia, to the extent
of the ability of the responsible of
ficials, there are games and game.-i
Quito a number of clubs are protect
ed by their charters, and gambling 1
for hig'.i stakes is indulged in. There
tire see ret games in various parts of
the city, but across the river, up
the river and down the river there
are places within easy access by
email boats, but too remote to war- i
rant constant surveillance by the I
state officials of Maryland and Sir- |
g'inia.
Of coirrse there are "open" poker
games, and an occasional "sweat
board" inside the city limits, known
only to a select few. It is well un- j
dcrstood that the Chinamen have!
very quiet games of 100 anil fan j
tan !r. the alleys and attics tlie |
colorc-d folks have their crap games.
But it is along the river shores that ;
the great games are to be found.
(in the Virginia shore, between the
Aqueduct bridge and Cabin John's
bridge, is "Jack Ileatli's place," close
to the water's edge, against a steep
clitV .accessible only by boat. one
of the Georgetown wharves a little
steam tu|f receives passengers for j
112 the round trip, the price being 19
I cents. Every half hour the trip 19
I made to Heath's place. The tug be
j longs to the proprietor of the gam
| bling resort, uud it alone brings him
J a constant revenue. As soon as a
| load Is aboard the tug strikes right
out into the stream, darts untie'*
j Aqueduct bridge, up the middle of
; the stream, puffing along in the
shadow of the spires and minarels
of Georgetown university. The tug
bears its burden of anxious human
beings up to the wharf of the club
house.
Scrambling ashore, nil bent on win
ning, >r of recouping for past losses,
jihe modest, quiet-looking house i.i
| found to l>e a Babel of voices. "For
; ty-eight, C:!, 0, 15, 20—Keno," is the
1 tii'sl distinct utterance. The front
door <.pens into the bar, and that
A PIKER'S GAME.
shows n great head for the gambler
in chief. He not only takes in money
for drinks, but he starts his victims
to the games with their heads not
a bit too clear. Hack of the bar is
the poker room. On the second floor
we thirl roulette and craps, the cheap
1 gambling hell showing forth in all
1 its glory. Keno and hazard, are in u
I room to themselves.
There is a "piker's game," with
; chips at ten cents each, the man-
I ngeuient being willing to take ear
| tickets at five cents each. The floor
is covered with sawdust and sputum,
the air reeking with the fumes of
cheap tobacco, consumed in cheap
pipes or cheaper cigarettes. In these
rooms the pale-faced department
I clerks touch elbows with collarless,
I coatless, evil-visaged people from
whose presence they would shy even
on street cars. The games are car
ried .iri from Saturday night until
Moiul.iy morning. Those who have
stayed about the place during that
entire period, whether winners or
losers, and usually losers, must re
turn to their duties; and they are
both physically and mentally unfit
for any kind of work.
It was with some knowledge of these
conditions that the secretary of the
treasury determined to strictly en
force the rules and regulations against
gamblers. More than two months ng >
Secretary Shaw gave this matter his
personal consideration. He deter
mined that the great treasury depart
ment, w herein great responsibility de
volves upon every clerk, is no place for
poker players and those inclined to
general gambling. The clerks would
not believe that the quiet, grave-look
ing man would have time or take time
to look after them. But "sporty boys"
were surprised one day to find that the
salaries of three poker-playing clerks
had been reduced, and that they had
been sent to less responsible positions.
One clerk had his salary reduced from
$1,801) per annum to SI,OOO. His wife
and children will have a better living
now than they had when he was draw
ing more money, for he took nearly all
of it to the gaming hells. Hut for their
dependent families the clerks might
have been discharged.
The examples thus made have been
productive of good, for they have
caused others who have been reck
lessly inclined to become more home
loving in their habits. Nevertheless,
one clerk in the treasury continued to
play the races for high stakes, and was
also known as an expert in picking
winners. He invented an alleged "sys
tem" whereby the races could be sue*
cessfnlly played by those who were un
informed concerning the merits of the
horses. "This system was advertised
by circulars, the allegation being that
"the inventor holds a prominent posi
tion in the treasury department."
The "sporty" clerk was drawing :t
good salary, but hi- great "system'"
went so much wrong that he was
obliged togo into debt, and he bor
rowed money from John J. Kleiner, a
private banker here. When he failed
to pay this indebtedness, Mr. Kleiner
sent his bill to the department, inclos
ing the tellt ale circular. And the clerk
with the system was removed. In pass
ing. it may be of interest to many read
ers to know that Mr. Kleiner was for
ten years a member of congress from
Indiana, and that he was the foremost
champion of the opening of the great
Sioux reservation in Dakota territory.
This dismissal has had an effect
which will be lasting, because through
out- the great department there is now
a feeling that the man at the helm
knows how to deal with minute details
of the department, ns well as with the
great problems which require state
craft.
Secretary Shaw is a kindly-disposed,
Chris t inn gentleman, a religious man,
n temperance man, a church goer, and
a worshiper of the living Ood. Albeit
lie has been severe with those who de
serve severity, he is gentle with those
who deserve kindness. During the
very period when 1 e was disciplining
the wrong-doers, lie took tlie'time to
hear the personal sorrows of a lady
clerk, and he tempered for her justice
with mercy. He endoavors to be jus
tice iucarunte. SJOt.'XH D. FRf,