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THE LANCASTER DAILY INTEIiIJGENOEK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1889.
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OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY.
FREDERICK W. WHITE WRITES O'
A CHARMING REGION.
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Tke Btaaferd CalTtnllf The tick Obser
vatory Wiwde i fill Grevaa f Ormag ul
Otlra Tree The Olerie t CUeaata of
California.
Special CorreepeBdence.
But Jesi, Cat, Sept 12. Of all the
valleys of California Sant Clara b by
long odd (he most beautiful, most pro pre
ducttre, most interesting. Possibly its
nearness te San Francisce may account,
In a measure, for this. Early settlers prob
ably gathered near the commercial cen
ter, and civilizing processes and im
provements kept paoe with the growth
it the metropolis of the Pacific. But be-
?AUt3 NEAR BT. JAMES PARK, SAN JOSE.
yond all these is the exquisite natural
beauty and richness of the valley, which
has made it the abiding place of the rep
resentative wealth of the entire slope
and given it a distinction peculiarly its
ewii. I cannot think of any one hundred
miles of railway in the civilized world
presenting en its line anything like the
number of attractions, famous here and
abroad, that are seen en the journey
from San Francisce te Monterey through
the lovely valley of Santa Clara.
First, then, is Mcnle Park, the summer
home of the Floods, the Mackays, the
Creckcrs, the Stanferds and ether Occi
dental millionaires which lias about it
an delusiveness and repese net unllke
Lenex, Mass. Here, tee, is Senater Ice
land Stanford's "Pale Alte," the equlne
paradise, a ranch of nearly ten thousand
acres, wliere eight or nine hundred
horses live totter than half the humans
of the world, where two hundred men
are, employed te care for them, and
where the celebrated Electioneer, valued
at $100,000, heads the stud. As I patted
the grand old herse in his roomy stall, I
thought of n few years age when he was
bought in the cast for a mere bagatelle.
His get, thus far, has been sold for n
round million at least.
Te the north of Menlo Park is the Ice
land Stanford university. I wandered
through its superb yet unfinished walls
of yellow stone, which, when completed,
will have, cost twenty millions of dollars.
The senator pays this twenty millions
and then endows it all with thirty mill,
ions mere, as a beginning. Upen what
a large scale these California millionaires
de things! Within night of the univer
sity buildings is San Jose, the prettiest
and roost cultivated city in the state,
with a community of much mere than
average, intelligence. Just beyond the
city, en a "heaven kissing hill," is the
famous Lick observatory, the Mecca of
the avcrage tourist. Net many miles
away are the big trees and Santa Cruz,
and near them are the two great estab
lishments of Spreckles, the sugar king,
where thousands of tens of beets are
made into sugar. At the end of all is
Del Mente, a miniature, garden of Eden.
They have a legend in Santa Clara
which the loyal native of San Jose will
kindly tell you, te the effect that in the
far distant, prehistoric) times, this was
the home of the fairies, who watched
ever all the provinces or counties in em
bryo of California; that when the Span
ish padre came with his bell and leek
they departed from the Pacific te ether
undiscovered lands; that before going
the fairy representatives of all the coun
ties met at Santa Clara and into her lap
poured the gifts for which they were
each most noted. Thus it has come te
pass that this valley and county of Santa
Clara has "something and the best"' of
all the ether valleys and counties pos
sess, aud is therefore se rich in natural
treasures that it 1 called the earthly
paradise. Of course- this pretty legend
is shrewdly advanced by the worldly
wise resident as part of the glorification
of his home, but the gUt and implication
of the fairy tale is net far from the
truth.
I The visitor te the Lick observatory has
a sentimental journey if nothing mere.
The distance up and down the mountain
side or there and back is fifty-two
miles, the fare is $", the time occupied
about ten hours. The read is an excep
tionally fine one and the 6cenery ex
quisite. It suggests poetry and think"),
and they say that miles of tender verses
have been written by inspired tourists,
who leave the Vcndeme en the big Con
cord stages in the early morning. If
you take the ordinary conveyance, net
built for ordinary mountain travel, you
are likely, however, upon your return te
Sun Jese in the evening, te fully appre
ciate Heraco Greeley's remark when
Ilank Menk, en a wager, dreve the great
editor ever rocky reads from Virginia
City te Placerville, 113 miles, in ten
hours.
The old man, getting down from the
coach with much difficulty, observed te
the waiting and gaping meb: "Gentle
men, I'll bet $30 that Hank Meuk is the
best driver in America, and that I'm the
sorest man." The observatory is built en
the crest of what is new called Mt. Ham
ilton, a sightly eminence which the
Spaniards a century age gracefully chris
tened Mt. Ysabel. The new name is a
gross impertineuce. Some village doc
tor wandered up there one day, and in a
burst of tremendous egotism called the
mountain after himself. He wrote some
thing about it and then decently died.
When the visitor gets te the ebserva.
teryheBtajs there a couple of hours,
wanders through the buildings. Is told
several times that "there, sir, U the larg
est tek-scojie en Ged's wlde earth," and
that under its foundation of ene hundred
tens or mere James Lick, pioneer and
philanthropist, is laid permanently and
deep. He rests under the great deme e(
the observatory, just us Napeleon rests
under the great deme of the Invalides in
Paris. But the Frenchman gives, even
te this home of death, a touch of artistic
beauty by brightening it with rich colors
and decorating it with fine mosaics.
Lick's vault, en the contrary, U dark and
gloomy.
The Lick observatory has been here
for several years and is yet te be heard
from. It reminds me of Charles Dickens'
refreshment station nt Mugby, "whose
proudest beast was that it had never re
freshed anybody." I can't for the llfe of
me see hew James Lick acquired a repu
tation for great philanthropy by build
ing this observatory with It3 "biggest
telescope en earth." Your correspond
ent may be of the Gradgrind species,
and might make palatable soup of his
grandmother, but he really cannot see
what practical use the observatory is. It
has been here nearly a decade and its as
tronomers iiave accomplished nothing.
Possibly there U nothing te accomplish.
.Astronomical science has virtually
reached Its senlth. The movement of
the heavenly orbs, the principles by
which their motions are regulated, with
the causes of the various phenomena,
are known thoroughly, and If all the
observatories en the glebe were aban
doned today the science of navigation,
for example, would knew, and does
knew, all that can aid it for the next
thousand years. Saa Jese, however, la
very proud of this observatory, which
overlooks its beautiful valley, and sever
asks unpleasant questions concerning its
utility.
At the bread bases of these towering
hills lies seme of the fairest land under
the sun. Deep green orange groves, lus
cious vineyards, cxtcnslve orchards, with
olive and prune trees galore, I spent
two or three days driving about under
the shadow of Mount Hamilton, and
never did my eyes rest en a rosier or
mere prosperous country, seeing nowhere
a sign of poverty, and meeting a people
of uncommon thrift. One afternoon I
unexpectedly visited en ollve ranch,
meeting the owner en the highway by
accident. It was near Les Oates, a few
miles from San Jese, and is known, I bo be
lieve, as the Quite grove.
Could I be in California? I recalled a
day In Tuscany, when I sat eating olives
and black bread with a sandaled Italian
priest, and beard htm sing his dreams of
hope, and laugh his satisfaction ever the
drooping yield of his purple trees.
Some ene has said that no landscape is
spiritual from which the olive is absent.
I de net knew as te that, but the grow
ing olive te me seems te have the breath
of heaven en its body just as it bad en
that mount where the sermon was
preached mero than eighteen centuries
age. Quite greve is an Italian reproduc
tion. All the men employed en it have
been brought from the olive groves near
Florence, and have given a national
character te their present home. The
ewner is Mr. Goedrich, a gentle
man with a passion for -oil ve culture.
He is en eastern man, an alumnus
of Yale and a traveler of observation
and taste. His family is living in Flor
ence, where his children are being edu
cated, and he has made his present quar
ters rcscmble the Italian home of his
wlfe as much as possible. The servants
nnd the service are Italian, which is the
ene language spoken, and the whele
place has the true Tuscan tlaver. He id
improving the elive and, I assume, mak
ing money iu this delicious valley, while
all about 1dm are tidy llttle ten and
twenty aero fartnsdcveled te the French
prune, the grape nnd the olive, whose
owners say they realize two and three
hundred dollars an acre. Te the visitor
it seems an ideal existence; what its
drudgery may be I de net knew, But
this I de knew, that the reads of n neigh
borhood are :i fair criterion of the neigh
borhood's Intelligence and prosperity,
and the reads of Santa Clara are mag
nificent, well graded and ballasted. The
Alameda, for instance, a bread avo ave avo
nue running from San Jose te Santa
Clara, is level as a fleer and fihaded
by trees planted by the mission
fathers 100 years nge. In the perfection
of its roadways California gives the east
many points in the game. "If you are
in San Jose next Sunday I will run up
and dine with you at the Vcndeme,"
said a San Francisce friend as en a
March Monday evening he saw me off for
Del Mente nnd Monterey. The next Sun
day I sat in the coot of the veranda
awaiting the arrival of the neon train,
when my friend quietly bowled into the
court yard en his bicycle. The distance
from San Francisce te San Jose is fifty
miles. He had mtide it iu a trifle ever
three hours, se perfect are the reads.
E2bjl&
ti&Uu-
I.EL.AXU STANTOilD'S MEMORIAL CUAfKL.
Toward dusk he returned, thinking noth
ing of the spin. It is ene of the ordina
ry Sunday jaunts of the wheelmen, es
pecially during, say February and
llarch, when the warm spring sun has
nothing enervating in its caress.
Wasn't it Cervantes who said it was
like bidding farewell forevcr te n travel
ing companion with whom ene lias
passed agreeable travel from home? He
is net a friend, yet you seem te love him
like one, and you will remember him all
through llfe with a feeling of desire mero
lively than you would experience toward
many of these te whom you give the
name of friends. And se, with a tinge
of regret I bid adieu te the prosperous
city of San Jese, the enchanted gardens
at Del Mente, thu marvels of Menlo Park,
the "glorious cllmate of California."
Frederick W. White.
WITH RUSSIAN CONVICTS.
David Ker Iletntei an Adventure en tlia
CiMplan Sea.
Special Correspondence.
New Yerk, Sept. 10. "We Russians,"
said the governor of Sarateff te me one
evening after dinner, "are iu advance of
western EurejHi in oue thing we don't
condemn our criminals te death."
"Ne, you condemn them te life, nnd I
don't wonder that they sometimes wi-.li
the sentence commuted te death."
There was no apparent reason why
these words should Hash back upon me a
week later as I steed en the deck of the
steamer that was carrying me across the
Caspian sea from Petrevsk te Astrakhan,
watching the mighty peaks of the Cau
casus melting Inte the golden splendor
of the western sky, and the first shadows
of evening oer the bread, smooth sur
face of that strange outlawed lake,
which seems te belong neither te Europe
nor te Asia. Put they did haunt me
strangely, nevertheless.
There were eidy ene or two etl.li
raloen passengers, who were already bt bt
lew, making elaberate preparations fei
being comfortably sick, se I had the
upper deck te myself. On the lower
deck, just beneath me, a group of hand
some young fellows (iu the embroidered
white tunics, high sheepskin caps, ciim ciim
6en girdles and baggy velvet trousers of
Circassian mountaineers) were playing
cards with four gray coated Russian sol
diers, nnd greeting the ill luck that
seemed te attend the latter with hursts
of boyish laughter, in which thu Russians
geed naturedly joined.
A sudden chinking from below, like
cups and saucers lieing 6et out, brought
me down in haste, a sjeeia! correspond
ent's meal time being whenever he can
get feed. But there was no sign of tea
in the saloon, aud I turned savagely
upon the steward (a lumpish looking
Tartar half caste from the Crimea) te
demand the cause of this false alarm.
The worthy savage took bome time te
understand me, but when he did hii
heavy mouth opened in a grin se bread
as te roake his Hat brown face leek just
like a penny with a hele through it.
"If you want the cupsand saucers that
made that chinking, father," said lie,
pointing te the lower deck outside,
"you'll find 'em there!"
Just then the card players arose, and
I saw with amazement that the men In
Circassian dress wero heavy fetters en
their ankles, and that their wrists worn
8fan5Carm
handcuffed and linked together by a
short chain, which, without materially
impeding their ordinary movements,
would effectually disable them In a fight
At the same time I noticed that every
man of the "gray coats" liad a short
sword at Ids side and a leaded rifle with
in reach of his hand.
Then the truth flashed upon me. These
merry gamesters were a convict chain
gang bound for Siberia, and the Russians
with whom they were playing and jok
ing se gayly were the soldiers who
guarded them, nnd who were ready te
kill them without mercy at the least
sign of an attempt at escape.
As I hurried down the ladder for a
nearer view of them the hard faced old
sergeant commanding the party, across
whose brown cheek ran the scar of n Cir
cassian saber, caught ray eye and smiled
meaningly.
"Your honor hasn't often traveled in
such company, I fancy," said he, greet
ing with a stiff salute my Russian forage
cap and white military jacket
"Oftencr than you think, my lad; but
who ere these caged birds of yours?"
"These Circassians are brigands from
a gang that we've just broke up in the
Daghestan mountains; most of the ethers
are murderers. That fellow sitting yon
der by the mast lias committed twenty
three murders, if net mere, for he may
have forgotten a few."
The murderer, guessing that we were
speaking of him, smiled complacently,
while I looked keenly at him for some
outward sign of the ferocity which could
perpetrate such unsparing slaughter.
But I found absolutely none.
"Here's another," resumed the ser
geant, pointing te a big, slouching fel
low, whose heavy face iiad no expression
beyond a cearse geed humor. "His
baby disturbed him at night by crying,
se he get up nnd strangled it, and then
went te sleep again." (A fact.)
Just then a girlish voice, clear and
joyous as the carol of a skylark, rese
from, the forecastle, singing an old Rus
sian wedding seng:
Meet the tea urn, mother dear bake Uie cakes
for test
Quests today te thee U1 corae wooers gay te
me.
Unto thee they'll Rive ft bow, unto me a lias,
And a merry dny we'll tuwe, merrier e'cu than
thU.
Then the singer appeared from behind
a pile of chests a slender young girl
who seemed hardly 10, though really
several years elder, w ith n face se fresh,
and bright, and puie that it might have
taken its place among the child angels of
Raphael's wonderful "Sistine Madenna."
"Geed hcavcnl" cried I, starting; "what
can that child have done?"
"Murdered her husband," said the Rus
sian coolly, "a drunken old regue of a
money lender, old enough te be her
grandfather, and ugly as the devil him
self. He used te ceme home drunk
every night and swear nt her and beat
her, and of course she didn't like that;
nnd there was perhaps seme ether man
whom alie liked better; se ene night bIie
filled up the old fellow with liquor till
he was quite helpless, and then laid him
face downward en the fleer, with hla
head in a pan of water; and se" (with a
chuckle) "he died of apoplexy I"
Se ghastly was the contrast between
this hideous story aud the sweet, child
like face of its heroine, that I had no
heart topursue the talk any further; and
it was an unspeakable relief te me when,
a little after midnight, the shadowy hull
of a half seen vessel glided toward us
through the gloom as we ncared the
mouth of the Velga, and the clank of
chains told me that this lead of crime
and misery was being transferred from
our deck te hers. This, however, was
net te be my last meeting with Russian
convicts; but the story of my further ex
periences of the Siberian chain gang is
tee long none te be told here.
David Ker.
EARL OF ZETLAND.
The New Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and
lilt Ceunleu.
The following sketch of the new lord
lieutenant of Ireland is a geed sample of
the light and airy style of the English
journalist in writing biography, being
taken from The Londen Graphic:
The P.ight Honorable Sir Lawrcnce
Dundas, Bart., third earl of Zetland,
Baren Dundas, of Aske, near Richmond,
in the county of Yerk, England, who has
succeeded the Marquis of Londonderry
as lord lieutenant of Ireland, was born
at Stirling en Aug. 10, 1811, son of Mr.
Jehn Charles Dundas, of Woodhall,
Wctherby, Yorkshire, M. P. for Rich Rich Rich
mend,'whe was fourth son of Lawrcnce,
EARL AND COUNTES3 OF ZCTUXD.
the second Baren Dundas and first carl
of Zetland. The barony was created in
1791, and the earldom in 1838. There
are four branches of the ancient Scottish
family of Dundas, seme members of
which have held high public offices in
Scotland and in the United Kingdom.
The branch distinguished as Dundas of
Fingask had nn hereditary connection
with the Orkney and Shetland (Zetland)
Isles, usually holding the offices of lord
lieutenant and vice admiral in these
islands. Their estates in Yorkshire ac
crued from the marrlagoef Sir Themas
Dundas, in 1701, te a daughter of the
third Earl Fitzwilliam, and this gentle
man was raised te the peerage thirty
years afterwards. Mr. J. C. Dundas,
father of the present Larl of Zetland,
married in 1813 a daughter of Mr. James
Talbot, of Wexford, se the new lord
lieutenant of Ireland is son of an Irish
lady.
In 1673, en the death of hi-t uncle
Themas, second earl of Zetland, the well
known grand master of the Freemasons
of England, and renowned as a sports
man, the present earl succeeded, two
ether uncles having died young. Lord
Zetland, who held a commission iu the
Royal Hor&e Guards Blue, had mirried,
in 1871, Lady Lilian Luinley, third
daughter of the late Karl of Scarlwreugh,
and he has several children. Her lady
ship's sisters are married te the helm of
the Duke of Westminster, the Earl of
Bradford, and of Lord Bolten. Lord
Zetland has been a lord in waiting te the
queen. He resides at Aske Hall, Rich
mond, and at Kene house, near Falkirk,
In Scotland.
What We In llcr IHactlct?
An observing Bosteuian recently caw
nt a noted seashore retort a dashing and
loquacious bride of uncertain age, who
displayed a geed deal of jewelry, the
ineal noticeable, of which w as a pair of
extremclv wide bracelets of nl.-iln nM.
i A conversation with her developed the
fact that her husband was a dentist who
I had himself niade the Lraccicia fe? her
as a birthday gift, aa.l ihr.t they were
madeentiiely of a large accumulation
of geld fillings unconsciously contributed
by bis Datrens. Buaton Rxeur
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THE WIVES OF GREAT MEN
MANY PUBLIC FIGURES OWE SUC
CESS TO MARRIAGE.
Beaaarkabte Caie VTUee of the freal
dents Great Men a a Bale Are Hap
pily Married Mmee. Garfield, Hajrea,
Cleveland, Legan, Whitney, Carlisle, Etc.
(Special Correepeodence.
WASntsaTOH, Sept. 10. As ene sees
mero and mero of the successful men of
the times, and learns mero and mero
about their dally lives, the stronger be
comes his convictions that the men en
whom fortune smiles have their wives
as often te thank as the fates. Marriage
is certainly net a failure among states
men. I doubt if it is a failure, or any
where near a failure, with the men who
achleve success in any field of human
endeavor. Though it is easy te doduce
from the diverce statistics that, taking
the country through, ene marrlnge in a
dozen ends in separation, the fairinfer
ence from this being that for evcry di di di
eoreo there are four or 11 ve ether matri
monial misfits, giving the startling total
of GO per cent, of failures, no such rule
applies te the successful men as n class.
The man who nchlevcs political or
ether success in these days docs se in the
face of fierce competition. If he would
reach the summit, a scnatershlp, a seat
in the cabinet, or en the supreme bench,
or n high place among the memtars of
the heuse of representatives, his life
must be ft record of successes. A single
failure, ene mistake, is often fatal. The
race Is te the strong, the victory te the
enduring, mid hence the man who makes
n mistake in that most important of all
undertakings, that most serious of nil
contracts, matrimony," generally finds
himself outrun by his mero fertunate
fellows. A little philosophy like this
makes it easy te understand the fact
which is impressed en the nnnd of every
person who well knows many successful
men.
Ne place in this country Is equal te
Washington for study of the influcncoef
wives upon the fortunes of ambitious
men, and it is a genuine pleasure te
write down the fact that the wife seems
stronger nnd mero potential the closer
her work Is scanned. With surprisingly
few exceptions the great publie men of
today ure happily nnd successfully mar
ried. Net only happily, which means
leve nnd peace in the household, but
successfully, iu the sen se that they have
life partners worthy of them, partners
who are intellectual as well as mernl
helpers. When ene sits down and calls
te mind the famous men whoewo much,
very much, te their wives, whose wlves
have helped m.ike them, (he number of
such is seen seen te be strikingly large.
Some of these may be properly named
here.
There nre exceptions te the rule, of
course, men of power nnd genius, who
have pulled themselves up, though
weighted down by partnership with wo
men net their equals, with women who
have little character, small intellects, de
ficient emotion and bad Instincts. None
of the6e will I mention by name, liecause
it would 1)0 highly Improper te de be;
but I could point the pen toward a num
ber of successful men who deserve all
the mero credit for their accomplish
ments from the fact that their marriages,
though net produclive of positlvounhap pesitlvounhap positlveunhap
pines'), have resulted in failure in the
broader sense.
Anether fact which the student of
sociology will de well te consider Is that
n surprisingly small number of success
ful men ure bachelors. I cannot call te
mind in congress a dozen men who never
married, though, of course, there may
be mero than that, and there nre also a
number of widewcis. It appears te be
pretty well understood In this country
that bachelorhood is a positive handicap
te the ambitious man, particularly if he
is a politician. The pcople leek upon n,
bachelor's life as u thing incomplete,
lacking, suspicion, Bachelors new in
congress say they could he mero easily
re-elected, could, with less expense and
effort, held their own nt home, had
they wives te help them. If It is
true that a wife of the right sort
is a help te a statesman at home, it is
doubly true of his elferts nt the capital.
Here the geed wlfe the gifted, IntuI IntuI
tive, intellectual wife is .t jewel. There
nre many prominent publie men who
have wives that shine in society, make
friends for them, help them held the
friends they have; there nre many, tee,
whose wives help them think, The man
with no wife nt all is nt great disadvan
tage; the man w he does net marry joins
theso ether unfortunates, the misfits, in
giving comfort te pessimists who held
that marriage is a failure. Samuel J.
Tildcn would have been a mero
popular man had he mai.'ied; he
would Jamca Buchanan; and thX'ii'h
Orevcr Cleveland wus elected prcsidei.'.
when a bachelor, and defeated after be
coming a benedict, no ene will deny
that his marriage te handseme Frances
Fol.sem gained him new popularity and
brought him closer te the people.
Davy Bums, whose house, the first
built in Washington, still stands just
south of thu White Heuse, ence said a
very suggestive and rather Impertinent
thing te Gcerge Washington. The fa
ther of his country had been trying te
buy Burns' land te build the Federal
City iiKn, but Burns was obdurateand
irritable, and the negotiations were nt
times conducted in bad humor. Finally
the old Scotchman exclaimed: "What
would jeu have amounted te, fJcorge
Washington, if it hadn't been for the
widow CustisV" The buggestiveness of
this remark will le apparent when ene
remembers that Washington's marriage
was certainly the let streke of geed
luck that could have ceme te him at the
time. It is really n K'rieus question If
Washington would have beceme a great
man but for this fertunate marriage.
His wife brought him wealth, bettered
his social H)sitien, gave him opportu
nity, ami throughout life was his help
meet and adviser. The w Ives of the pres
idents, ith few exceptions, have been
worthy partners of great men. Abigail
Adams was ene of the cleverest women
of her day, the prep, guide, Milacu and
glory" of Jehn Adams life. Delly lladi lladi
beii wus one of the most xpular Amer
ican women that ever liuii Jelfersen
was n widower, and his administration
would have been mero successful had he
had a wife te stet r him clear of blun
ders. Jin. (Jen. Taj ler lnu-d nothing
better than te clt in her room in the
White lloube emel.iu u 1 l,i ic, whilu
her daughter rcceiwd !- U low, but
no ene knows thu iufiui m e that geed but
plain, old fashioned wetiuu hail upon
the career of her hui-hand Though Bu
chanan was n bachelor nnd Arthur a
widower, the oecinl ftnturc of their ad
ministrations were icade Miccessful, the
former by briih.tut lianlit Line, who
still lives, and the latter by (tepular Mrs.
McElroy. Yet lxth ItuHinunn and Ar
tliur would have hecn stronger with the
people had they bad wives.
The one really unfortunate marriage
in the presidential list was that of Lin
coln, and he proved etreng enough te
rise superior te nil doinc&tie Infelicities.
Beth Uarfidd and liajes owed much te
their wives. Mrs Garfield was and is a
woman of btreng character, and her In
fluence ever her husband is thought by
some te have been the maklns of him.
rrceidcnt Harrison has repeatedly testi
fied te the inestimable value te him of
his wife's counsel and companionship.
One of the foremost women of the day
wears nmeng her ether trophies the mak
ing of one of the foremost men of his
time. It is no reflection en Gen. Legan
te say that but for his neble and Intellec
tual wife he could never have attained
the great fame which was his. She net
only gave him leve and comfort, but
added her brains te his, was In all tilings
his equal and in many his superior. Oen.
Legan himself used te say: "Mary, I
knew why you are se easily satisfied
with nil tliat I de. Yeu made me." The
late Samuel S. Cox owed nearly as much
te his wlfe as Washington did te the
widow Custis. Sbe brought him much
of the property which added te his com
fort and usefulness, nnd her care un
doubtedly prolonged his life for a num
ber of years.
A plain, old fashioned woman is Mrs.
Thurman, of Columbus, O. Ne woman
mere unobtrusive, mero gentle. Yet I
ence heard the old Reman pay this trib trib
ule te his Reman wife: "Without her I
would liave been pretty small potatoes
and few te the hill." Ex-Senater Mc
Donald, of Indiana, is another publie
man who has n wlfe that Is te him a
tower of strength, nnd cx-Speakcr Car
lisle is still another. Mrs. Carlisle is a
tall, intellectual Kentucky woman, te
whom all the arts and graces of society
ceme easily and with such perfect mas
tery that ene thinks: " 'Tis a pity her
energies have te be expended in pretty
frivolities." As a man she would take
Idgh place In law, polities or war.
Like Mrs. Legan, she is n woman who
would lead had the nation adopted the
suffrage Bystem of which gifted Abigail
Adams was the first champion. Mrs.
Adams wanted women te vete and held
office, nnd ene can almost wish she had
had her way about It Frem Abigail
herself down te Mrs. Legan nnd Mrs.
Carlisle every decade has produced
scores of women whose inability te serve
their country was the country's less.
Herself debarred from the field of poli
tics, Mrs. Carlisle's ambition Is of course
centered in her husband. It wns n bit
ter disappointment te her when the
chief justiceship went te another, but
she still entertains hopes that Mr. Car
lisle will be president seme day.
Secretary Neblo has n wlfe te be proud
of. Her share iu the elevation of her
husband te his high place cannot, of
course, lw nccuratcly measured, but of
her geed sense nnd modesty no doubt
exists. On belng nsked recently for her
opinion as te wives helping husbands In
their career, bIie replied: "I have always
felt that n genuine man who had the
stuff in him te nchlove great tilings
would de It, wlfe or no wlfe, though, of
course, wives de help their husbands Im
mensely. I have never pieteuded te
'make' my husband. I have simply de
sired te keep up with him. 1 have
deemed it my duty te reliove him of nil
domestie cares. I am just ns much
chief in the heuse as Mr. Neblo is In
his office. He leaves everything te my
tnste and judgment, and he lias net a
Bingle care beyond furnishing thu where
withal te de It. He lias nothing te de
but enjoy his home when he comes into
It."
Mrs. Morten, wlfe of the vice presi
dent, who Is very likely te be the social
leader of the administration, as Mrs.
Whitney was of the Cleveland regime,
is a woman who has exerted marked in
fluence upon her husband's career. As
for Mrs. Whitney, she is a genuine
American woman, full of ambition fur
her husband and indefatigable iu her
efforts te advance him and make him
popular. She has brains, tee, and knows
a geed deal of the gamoefpolitics. Mrs.
Whitney has much te make her happy,
and is n happy woman, but she will
nevcr be thoroughly happy till her hus
band is In the White Henso.
Mrs. Whitney's mother was just such
a woman. Her dower, n tract of laud in
the city of Cleveland, O., we3 the foun
dation of her husband's new great for
tune, and that which gave him oppor
tunity te find rest from professional cares
iu the Klitical chase.
But It is idle te attempt further illus illus
tratlens of the principle. Wherever oue
turns in this city of successful publie
men, ene finds wives who are mero than
vines clinging te tall oaks, wives who
have in ene way or another, through fnte
or purpose, intellectual ferce or moral
stamina, served te bring out the liest that
is in their husbands and make them the
famous personages they arc.
Walter Wklijian.
Named In New Jervry.
Leen AblxHt, who was lecently nom
inated for governor of New Jersey
by the Democrats, Is a Philadelphia!! by
birth. He received the first rudiments
of his education in thu Philadelphia high
school. As Boen as he had finished his
law studies iu Hen. Jehn W. Ashmcad's
office, he formed 11 partnership with
'Vjlliam J, A. Fuller, n successful coun
selor nt I:.;", iu New Yerk. Being in
clined te pelftle.i e'jjig Ablictt removed
te Hehnkcu, N, J,, wlfrihn was made
corporation counsel. The Dcmoeie'"
politicians of the place nt once realized
AMkjU'h coolness and aggressiveness,
nuil in the fall of 180-1 he was easily
elected te the heuse of assembly. His
ribe was rapid, nnd when his term ex
pired he was re-clected by n very large
majority. He seen removed te Jersey
City, where he took en active part In the
debate at the ex
tra session called
by (3 e ve r nor
Ward in 16T,0 te
ratify the four
teenth amend
ment, and there-
uygnincuu siaie ?
renututien. II e Jra
was elected te the
assembly from
the First Jersey
City district iu
18C8. The same ''no:' f-TT.
year he was elected speaker of the house
and re-elected the next. He was an nble
speaker and was complimented by spe
cial resolutions at the end of leth terms.
While traveling ahiead in 1871 he was
nominated for the statu senate. While
benater he was appointed te the lucra
tive office of corporation counsel, in
which he gained additional honors.
While chairman of the New Jersey
delegation that went te St. Leuis in
1870, he showed by hi wisdom and
geed judgment that he was a competent
leader. In 1877 Abbett was elected
president of the senate, and it was in
that year that he was first mentioned as
n candidate for United States senator.
The contest was close, and Senater Mc Mc
Pherseu was elected by only one vote.
He presided ever the convention at
whi:L Uen. McCSellan was nominated,
and he could then have had the nomi
nation, but emphatically refused the
honor at that time.
In 18S3 the htate convention named
him for governor, and lie defeated Su
preme. Court Justice Jonathan Dixeu by
a majority of 1,837. In the winter of
1683 be was a candidate for United
States senator, but nfter a hard fight
was defeated by Senater MuPhcrsen. It
is just twenty-five years slnce Abbett
cnteied the New Jersey political arena,
and he is the fifth Jerseyman renomi renemi
nated out of u long lit of thirty-four
who have presided ever the state since
1776.
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vW 7
THE RALSTON ROMANCES.
nnOUQHT TO MIND BY MR9. BUR
LING'S CHARGES AGAINST SHARON.
I
William C tUlilen Tfa One of the Cali
fornia Itank'e Fantea Trlamttrate 111
Semallenal Suicide lilt Sen Samuel Alie
Killed Mlratelr.
William C. Ralston, the San Francisce
banker, was a brilliant phenomenon
while alive, went te his death by it mys
terious tragedy and left an Involved
estate, which has been a growing mys
tery ever since. His son, annuel Ral
ston, ran a much shorter career than hU
father, made two fortunes and spent
three, organized a brilliant scheme of
mining in Siberia nnd was expelled from
that country, came home and committed
sulcide. And new, mero than fourteen
years after the death of the elder Ral
ston, Mrs. Lconide Burling brings suit
against the Sharen estate, and sets up
averments that, If true, must completely
revolutionize publie opinion nnd preve
that Ralston was a victim rather than n
criminal. The story, with the latest ad
ditions, is worthy of a brief recapitula
tion. Fer Bome years previous te the great
crash of September, 1873, William C.
Ralston wai the princely banker and
trusted president of the Bank of Califor
nia, then the strongest financial Institu
tion west of the Mississippi se solid that
it was a proverb for solvency throughout
the far west. The enormous losses sus
tained by the bank in consequence of the
panic, nnd the great decline In silver
bullion In 1871-70, weronetoven suspect
ed at the time, nnd the details nre still
imperfectly known. Like many ether
institutions of theso days, the bank main
tained a fair out eut eut
side long nfter its
strength was
gene; the man
agers borrowed
secretly, "forced
balances " n 11 d
"get In coin" te
deceive the of
ficial bank exam
iner, nnd Presi
dent ltnl 8 ten
maintained his
gorgeous style of
1 1 v I n ir. Cenll-
WIM.IAU O. RAI.STON. ,iellP0 WjW U11m.
paired and thousands of humble people
placed their little savings in thnt bank
liecause they deemed it "geed as the
government."
Rnlsten's country heuse at Belmont, In
the Santa Clara valley, was it palace In a
rural paradlse. E cry foreigner of dis
tinction nnd every eastern man of nete
who visited San Francisce was enter
tained there. During the season when
such visitors were meit exectcd Mr.
Ralston had n coach nnd six horses daily
nt his bank te drive his guests te Bel
mont. Its decorations nnd grounds were
celebrated In all thu journals; the hospi
tality disHnsed there was truly described
an "kingly." Its owner was n leader in
most of the great enterprises en the
coast, and was considered ene of thu
shrewdest and most reliable financiers in
the country. Oue August daj in 1870 a
rumor floated through San Francisce that
all the mining enterprises of Ralston,
Sharen and ethers had proved failures.
that the funds of thu bank had been tee
heavily drawn en, nnd that Ralston was
going out. His friends rushed te him for
an explanation, and he said with a emtie:
"I inn tired out and must brcathe the
free air awhile. Let theso two wild cats
shoulder the lead new."
He leferred te Sharen auJ Mills. The
next day, Aug. 27, 1875, Ralston dreve
te the beach for his daily swim. On the
way he greeted all the acquaintances he
met with his usual gayety, nnd te his
servant he said:
"Yeu must drlve home quickly when
I cetnu out I will lw cold,"
He dived, swam far out Inte the bay,
turned, waved his hands gayly ten few
friends 011 shore, and Kink te rise 110
meie. William Sharen, neon te be noted
ns the absentee United States Benator,
at ence assumed the tight te speak for
thu bank, and his utatcmeut wn'i In these
werds:
"Ralston hai Piubcrzlcd the entlre
capital of thu California bank. Helms
ruined every oue In the busincii." Near
ly 2,000 men nnd women, who had
mourned thu death of Kalsteu and many
of whom had followed him te the grave,
were next day mourning for themselves,
lamenting thu less of their nil. It was
at ence concluded that thu banker had
committed ntiicldu. At thli stagu D. O.
Mill, father-in-law of Whltelaw Reld,
came ferwurd and, according te the pop
ular impression nt the time, saved thu
bank from utter ruin. A few thousands
were saved for thu family; of the two
sons, William C, Jr., engaged hi min
ing speculations and Samuel devoted
himself with great success te meclianlcal
engineering and improved methods of
milling.
Samuel Ralston Raid that when he wns
a small boy his father had told him te
lu.i-ier mechanical engineering. The
elder RaLten xtated ut that time that
were he an engineer he should go te
Hibetiannd ejieu up mining there that
would astound the civilized world. A;
that time lie secured it premise from Sam
that bu would become un engineer and
de what he could te carry out his father's
idea. When Sam's father was drowned
the youth took his own head, and the
fama of the great Ceili-trf euglue nt the
Centennial exHwltien had attracted hU
attention. He neught the noted engine
builder and carried out that part of thu
plan successfully.
While in the eastern cities Sam rjient
money lavishly and was a great favorite
with the ladles. He sjicnt 11 small fort fert fort
ime in social dissipation and prosecuting
I1I3 8diemu3, nnd then went te California
and wen another competence, which he
invested iu Siberia. The exact history
of JiLs cfchtccti months there Is net
known. The first account published was
that he and his party were escorted te
the frontier by the Russian authorities
and f 01 bidden te ever return; and the
explanation assigned was that the "lady
lobbyist' of Washington, who had se
cured the "concession" by her Influence
ever a Russian diplomat, had afterward
deserted her Muscovite, and he had in
rovenge Induced the canceling of the
government permit. Anether story la
that Sam Ralston was Inveigled Inte a
partnership with a RussInt.uebleman,
who proved te Imi a traitor !f swindler,
and se involved Ids friends In his ruin.
The result was that Sam returned te
California a bankrupt aud broken heart
ed, and In June of 1837 took his own life.
A still morn surprising fact is that
most of Sam Ralsteu's intimate friends
have come te grief. Of the group of
young men with whom lie associated In
Providence, It. 1., one wns murdered In
Arizona and another In Mexico, another
fell in a duel In France, and another died
iu a Paris hospital. Still another, who,
through Ralslen's influence, secured a
position in the Alnska seal fisheries, was
lest at sea. Ralsteu's death leaves but
two of the party alive. Oue of theau has
Buffered thu less of bis reason, and is new
hopelessly Insaue iu the Butler asylum at
Providence. The ether was released
from the same asylum only last year.
In the meantime Sharen's earthly ca
reer has euded, Sarah Althea's suit
asrainst him and hi cstate has led te the
LEU mf
death of Judge Terry, and new fresh
suits are en trial as te the old bank. And
they have brought out some very ugly
facts.
It appears te be proved that Banket
Ralston was net such a bankrupt M
Sharen desired te make out. Mrs. Leea
ide Burling Is the widow of Willtaaa
Burling, who, with Jiti brother James,
borrowed money quietly for Ralston mad
took stocks as securities. Sharen called
en them te pay, nnd they protested that,
as Sharen well knew, they had only act
ed as Ralsteu's agents and no ver received
n dollar of the money raised en notes.
Sharen asserted that the California bank
stock In their hands was fraudulently
ever issued, and demanded that Burling
pay the full amount borrowed en these
securities. Burling Bres, said that they
had Iwrrewcd at various times 13,000,
000 for Ralston, never doubting his se
curity, and they demanded that all se
curities ether than bank stock be held
for them. Sharen rcplied that all ether
stock had been taken from the California
bank and must be returned; that Ralston
had left nu cstate aud that all that was left
te hepe for Burling Drew, was te collect
from it, but that Burling Bres, must pay
the notes.
The result was the Burlings wow
crushed nnd went into liankruptcy. Lit
teo by little the facts have tieen forced
out. Mrs. Burling has already received
considerable sums, nnd just before hit
death Sharen paid $00,000 te compre
mlse n suit. Mrs. Burling's averment!
are very numerous and need net be re
counted; their Bubstance Is that all Sha Sha
eon's charges against Ralston were eithei
false or of acts in which Sharen joined,
that the latter was really the cmbczzlei
and that her husband was robbed at
well as the Ralston cstate. She asks tin
court te order a complete examination el
the books of the Bank of California, and
Sail Franciscans nnd the publie gener
ally are new prepared for a trial even
mere sensational than the late Sarah
Althca-Hlll-Sharen case.
THE FAMOUS TONAWANDA. :
Gned Old I'aeket Ship and Iter
A4-
venturous Career tier Recent r,SM, -
Twe years age the Philadelphia papers
chronicled the fact that the geed ship
Tenawnuda the vessel which has had
such a remarkable nnd adventurous ca
reer was henceforth te de 4uty as a
common coal barge, ami new it is stated
that the old hulk went down In Dela
ware bay during the recent storm which
played se much havoe along the Atlantie
coast.
vcWw-ca&.VSleJjsisa
Tlllt TONAWAKDA.
At the present day It is hard te Imagine
just what stir the building of such a ship
ns the Tonawanda made, She was built
in Philadelphia in 1830, and in these
duys thore was very little steam, and
most of the carrying was dene by sailing
vessels. Immigrants were brought ever
in this manner, and the Tonawanda was
built for this purpose te carry freight -and
immigrants. She belonged te tlie
famous "Black Cress" line, and was 171
feet long, US feet beam, was SO feet deep
and had three decks. She registered
1,600 tens and was put down in Lloyds
as A 1. There was room for 760 imnsl- -
grants nnd forty passengers.
At that time she was the most remark- .
nble vcasel that hail been built. She had
deuble topsail yards, which fact alone
was enough te draw crowds. Her first
VQrage tJvcrpoel, iu 1830, was made
tinder churge' of Copt. Mcsklns, who re
tired after making this voyage, and his
place was taken by Capt. Fairford; but
lie, tee, made Init ene voynge, when the
Bhlp was placed in charge of Capt, Thee
Julius, and it was during the time he
was her captain n period of twenty
years thnt she became be famous as a
packet ship.
Iu theso days, where se many lives de
pended upon the packet ships, the bes.
vessels were, or ceurse, always In de
mand, and the fame of the Tonawanda
spread all ever the land. Indeed It was
no uncommon thing for peeple te travel
all the way ftem New Orleans in order
te take passage in the ship. But net
only was the Tonawanda sought after by
passengers, but bIie commanded the
highest freight rates, and was a source
of great profit te her owners.
The most exciting event in the career
of the Tenauaiida was when she was
captured by the notorious Alabama ea
Oct. 1), 1802. She left Philadelphia en
Sept. HO. The afternoon she was cap
tured Capt, Julius was taken off and put
ulxmrd the Alabama. Ills son, who was
but 20 years of nge, and the first mate,
was then placed in charge, and then
Capt. Julius, Br., was put back en the
Tonawanda, but was taken oft agata,"
and thus the thing hung flre for several
days. The Alabama stayed by, holding
the Tonawanda prize, in the meantime
capturing ether vessels. Finally, bow
ever, thu Tonawanda was released, and
proceeded en her way te Liverpool.
This was the last veyage she made for
seme time, as trnde bad generally been
paralyzed by the war. Her subsequent
career was uneventful.
Iu 18G0 Capt. Julius, Sr;, retired, and
she was Iu charge of Capt. Jehn Turley
and put In thu let ten trade, sailing
from Mebile te Liverpool. After Capt.
Turley she was under the successive
commands of Capts. Jehn Tayler, Jehn
Willie and Capt. Ryan, all of whom are
new dead. Then, in 1887, she was made
Inte a coal barge, and the ether day tht
wateis closed ever the old hulk,
Muuieil lu Kurth Dakota.
Fer governor of North Dakota tht
Democrats have nominated Hen. W. N.
Reach, of Larrlmere, (J rand Ferks coun
ty. The gentleman is an "old settler,"
us bucIi things go iu the rapidly growing
northwest, having been In the territory
ten years and ene of the founders of hli
town. He was born In Virginia In 184(1
and educated at
Georgetown col
lege; he engaged
in moreantils
pursuits till 187,
when be went tc
Grand Ferks, D.
T., and dipped
Inte land opera
tions. He opened
the first mall
route te Fert Fet-
r5tin from Grand
Ferks, and in
1881 located at
W. N. reach. Elk Valley, neat
which he had acquired 300 acres of land
by homestead and tree culture entry.
With ethers he laid out the town el
Larriiueiu, mid was appointed first
major by the; legislature when it incor
porated the town. Te this ofilce he was
re-clected three times, and then declined
any further election. In 183J e was
elected as n Democrat te represent Orand
Ferks county iu the legislature, being
the only Democrat elected te the Six
teenth assembly. At the close of the ses
sion he V733 uppeluted by Governer
Picrce regent of the University of North
Dakota, was reappointed by Governer
Mellette last spring, and Is oesTfpresl.
dent of the beard eX regeaUel that In
stitution. - . -
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