IWMh
Wljr."
"Then come, corns at once te my fa
ther!" "Tubbe the! dfahyer night air te cttUy,
en' my roeautU is a caution. Wener te
Mlisl virey get any me' dat liniment,
Misy? Yeu see I done de bes' what I
eeuld."
"And Ged blew your said Missy, fer
vently. "Yeu aball suffer for nothing
se long as we have anything. Cernel
Come quick, and tell my father."
CHAPTER XXIX.
THE MUCK OF IHK.MOlje.
"Let me read, loe."
The colonel was in the effice: Missy
saw the gleam of his light through the
window as she crossed the yard. Toe
eager te delay for permission, she pushed
open the deer and entered with the
words "My father;" but she could say no
mere.
Her father looked up in sonie alarm,
but when he saw behind her a bent old
negre leaning en a stall, he half believed
that he must be dreaming; it seemed in
credible that old Gilbert should be stand
ing en that threshold, with scarce a
wrinkle mere than when he traded for
the mule.
The colonel started te his feet stagger
ing, and put out both hands. "Gilbert?"
he said, "Gilbert? Is this you?''
"Tubbe bIie, niawster! I'60 been gawn
a long time, but de Lawd is spared me
ter git back."
"My son?" faltered the colonel.
Missy burst into tears. "Make him sit
down," she sobbed. "Tlicre is se much
te tell."
"Sit down," the colonel said, pushing
a chair toward him.
"I'm 'bleedged ter you, mawstcr," old
Gilbert stammered; te be seated in the
presence of quality shocked his sense of
decorum. "De wuz a wagin gin me a
lit' us I come along. I 'lighted by de
back let ter git ter my beuse, en dcre I
met Missy."
"Sit down," tlie colonel commanded,
and old Gilbert felt he must obey. But
he shunned the chair, and spying a box
in the corner he went ever and perched
thereon with a sigh, while Missy eagerly
repeated te her father the account given
of Nicholas.
"And he has n letter for you from
Brer Nicholas; will you net read it?"' she
entreated.
The colonel could net speak, but he
put out his hand for the letter that old
Gilbert was seeking in the crown et his
dilapidated hat.
"My 'pendance wuz strong in de Heb
enly Mawster ter spare me ter ban' you
dat, sub," he said. "I'd a fetch hit buf
fo', but de roematiz spilt my chances ter
wuk out my travelin' 'spenscs."
The colonel seized the letter, but his
hands trembled se that he could hardly
adjust his glasses.
"Weill welll inawster is ceme ter spec
tiklcsl" said old Gilbert in .admiration.
"En' ye' hair is ii-shcddin'. 'Minds me of
ye' paw. Yeu is niiddlin' ele, inawster,
tublKj she!"
The remark was intended as a compli
ment, but the colonel was absorbed in
his son's letter nnd it escaped him.
"Let mu read, tee," Missy entreated,
leaning ever his shoulder. "I cannot,
cannot wait!"
It was a touching appeal in which the
banished son besought his father's pro
tection for his wife and child, and then
implored justice for the devoted old Blavo
who bad proved se trne n friend. He re
counted hew freely old Gilbert had sup
plied him with money, the savings of hit
years of industry, and besought bis fa
ther te discharge this debt.
"Ah, my brother, ceme backP sighed
Missy, passionately kissing the letter,
"and everything you ask shall be denel"
"Gilbert," said the colonel, with a
tremulous smile, "hew much money did
you lend my son?"'
"Dullaw, mawstcr? IS' Mawse Nick
wretened you 'bout dat? En' I tole him
net ter fret, bccin' dis ele no 'count nig
ger is'mes'ter de cend of his row. 1
dean 'zactly recellict. I had it en ter n
crap e' paper Mawse Nick writ me, en'
a tally stick besides, which I could oner ener
stan' better, but I les' 'em bef, 'long with
my rumbcrilla, en de flel' e' battle. J
you been in de wall, mawster?"
"Yes," said the colonel.
"Praise be ter gleryl" ejaculated old
Gilbcit. "Den you kin encrstnn' de wuj
pew'ful Bcatterin' times, en' bit druv de
amount plum euteirmy uiln'. Seme of
hit wuz what Misslc-virey sent him, en' I
had ter purtcn' lak hit wuz all mine ter
git him ter berrer hit. Hit wuz like
Mawse Nick wuz my chile. Net but ez 1
encrstan' hit, mawster, you wuz beun'
ter slftt ye' eyes leginst him fur c'reo c'ree c'reo
tien," the old man hastened te nraend.
"En' I wuz after him cawstant ter 6en'
you his 'pentnnce, but my min' misgive
me, nil along, dat Miss Rexy she win
wukin' beginst Mnw60 Nick's 'pentance.
Yeu 'members Miss Rexy "White, maws
tei?" The colonel nodded.
"She wuz a pe'ful holpte MawseNick,
en' a mighty geed 'eman; but" and h
paused nndloekcd areuniVas though MIbi
Rexy might be eavesdropping "she
ain't finality. Miss Rexy is pe'ful set in
her own notions, 'en she is plum bound
up in dat chile, Mawse Nick's llttlobey,
en' she is dat feard e' lesln' holt ou him,
hukkem she ain't no inceuridgemiut tet
Mawse Nick te turn his desires homo hemo home
wuds." The colonel glanced up quickly with a
leek of enlightenment; he was beginning
te understand his son's ebstinate silence.
"But new new we will bring him
back?" Winifred entreated.
"We shall see," the colonel 6aid, and
sighed. He could net consent te lay bars
his hcait, nnd he changed the subject.
"New that you are your own man, what
are you going te de, Gilbert?" he asked,
with amused curiosity.
"I U-en studyin' "bout that," old Gil
bert answered, hesitatingly. "I'se allera
lowed te be hones', en I paid you fur de
lillirl."
"Se you did!" exclaimed the colonel,
with sudden recollection; andhoresoand
unlocked the secred drawer of his secre
tary. "But den hit 'pears ter me lak I stele
ye' nigger?" pursued old Gilbert, with a
furtive grin. "Ain't 1 beun' ter wuk out
dat time I stele myse'f? Maybe I better
git n lie yer's 'vice en hit?"
"Ne!" said Missy.
The colonel smiled. "Well, de you
want te stay en here at Therno Hill?" lie
naked, aa he took out the little bag that
ild the mice of the mule.
-Hit w a geed room, ' t '
had here," Mid old Gilbert, with a re
gretful sigh; "but hit te dat batted down,
en' dat grewed no. En' e for dat mu 1,
hit wuz a short lived muel fur de money;
hit tuk 'n died In less 'n six months."
"I'll give you n deed te the house and
tend, making it yours for life," said the
colonel. ,
"Well, tubbe she, you kin spare dat
much," said old Gilbert complacently.
"En' ef dat'a ye' will en' pleasure, maws
ter, why I paw my cawnscnt."
Hew much an acute sense of his own
advantage, hew much of affectienate
fidelity and the power of habit, went te
the making of this consent it is impossi
ble te say.
"As te the prlce of the mule," contin
ued the colonel, "there is the money just
as you left it." And he tossed the bag of
coin te old Gilbert, who grinned and
twisted with mingled embarrassment
nnd satisfaction. "But I would like te
knew hew you contrived te convey it te
me, nnd hew you contrived te convey
yeurielf away?'
Old Gilbert hung his head sheepishly,
and glanced nt Missy, who said, as the
quick bleed mounted te her forehead;
"It was me managed It!-'
Her father looked at her with a smile
of sad perplexity.
"Hit wuz jes' dct she wuz se set en
Mawse Nick, tubbe she!" old Gilbert ex
plained, as he hugged the remnant of his
savings. " 'Ceptin' I had done les' track
of him, I wouldn't nu vcr have ceme back
bedeut him, 'long e' my premuss ter
Missy. But what a pe' no 'count nigger
can't manage, sh'ely a man e' gumption,
lak mawster, kin fe' shortly bring ter
pass."
"Oh, my father!" Winifred exclaimed.
"Yeu will bring him back? And life
will be sweet ence mere, nnd we can for
get the war."
"We will see," the colonel said, and
sighed.- He had net the heart te remind
her that there waa no certainty that
Nicholas still lived. '
"Well! well!" said old Gilbert, with a
subdued chuckle, as he slipped down
from his perch en the box. "Ef I ain't
been 'stenished eutcn my manners at
glttin' home! Hew is Missle-virey, tubbe
she?"
"She is well, and she will be se glad te
see you," said Missy. "Come te the
house and you shall have a Christmas
dinner. After ull, this is net such a sor
rowful Christmas day."
Yet she wiped away the tears as she
went.
Old Gilbert's nppearance at the "gret
house" created a hubbub of excitement
thnt penetrated te the room where Jehn
Fletcher sat in moody meditation. Five
weeks had he been a guest at Therno
Hill, and, his immovable resolve was
taken; he would go en the morrow; he
would run any risk rather than remain
longer under this reef, new that he knew
the fate that threatened him.
But en the morrow Jehn Fletcher was
again an invalid, no had contracted a
chill from exposure te the night air, and
for some days following he was serious
ly ill; but though the colonel's courtesy
never flagged, and Miss Elvira was
prompt with kind attentions, his im
patience te be gene increased with his
illness.
Cel. Therno jicrceived this state of
mind with extreme annoyance. He had
ticcepted this northerner as he might
liave accepted a decree of fate, but he
never forget that Capt. Fletcher was hia
guest, and he would fain have had him
feel at case.
'It is a dull house, a dull house," he
repeated, with a deep sigh, as he sat be
side the sick man's bed ene morning. He
looked strangely worn and haggard: 111
though he was, Jehn Fletcher noted the
change wrought in Missy's father since"
old Gilbert's return. His dignified self
possession seemed te have deserted him,
and he talked witli nu absent nir, ns if
thinking nleud. "Yeung peeple require
gayety," he said. "My daughter must
go away for a few days; she dwells tee
much upon her brother." Then, with an
instant nnd haughty change of manner,
ns though he repented the momentary
weakness, he interrupted himself: "But,
sir, I disturb you, and Dr. Lane advises
perfect quiet."
The colonel had spent an hour in the
sickroom that morning, but of all that he
had said Jehn Fletcher understood only
this, that Missy was going away; that he
blieuld sre her no mere. His reason, hit
pride, his sense of "the eternal fitness of
things," assured bini that this was best;
but mere than ever did he new desire tc
leave Therno Hill.
Otntimifil vert Saturday
Kntlicrlne lMcailnr Conway.
Bosten, July 3. MisH Katherine Elea Elea
eor Conway, of this city, is a poet nnd
critic of exceptional talent. Miss Con
way was born in Rochester, N. Y,, but
has been for many years a literary worker
of Bosten. Miss Conway is en the edi-
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KATIIEM.Nr. KIXANOlt CONWAY.
terinl staff of Beylo O'Reilly's journal,
The Pilet. She has published a vnluine
of poems called "On the Suniifie Slope,"
and edited for Mrs. Clara Krskine Clem
ent, the well known art writer, n volume
entitled "Christian Symbols and Stories
of the Saints." An exquisitely bound
copy, in white velvet nnd geld, was sent
te Pei) Lee XIII, and his holiness ac
knowledged it in nu autograph letter.
In her cuily girlhood Miss Conway
came under the jiersenal iufluence and
instruction of Bishop M'Quaid, one of
the most distinguished Catholic prelates
in America, and under this stimulus her
litciary gifts were harmoniously devel
oped. Miss Conway is the president of
the Rexburv branch of the Catholic
union; she is a leading member in the
Weman's Press club, nnd is very much
in demand before clubs nnd societies as
a reader of her own papers.
Mis3 Conway was the first Catholic
woman ever invited te nddress the Wo We
man's union in Boaten, an organization
that while net sectarian is st ill positive
in Protestant tendencies. Miss Conway
has a peculiarly earnest unci impressive
pretence, and unusual as are her gifts,
and finely as she expresses thein, of her
it m.'.'? still be well said:
The x.t'i devj, H'llc hiart
I Ijetlvr than Uli xx't' fame.
Tlnnnu. ('. riutt'n Itcailli'K.
Mr. Piatt is a great leader. Thack
eray, Dickens anil Rebert Leuis Steven
son are among his favorite authors. 'As
te newtiupers, it is said that he reads
every paper published in New Yerk city
everyday. H is a tall, thin, nervous
looking man. His hair, lward and nuts
(ache are brown, ettcrtkvil villi tfraj .
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COLcfftp
OUR COLOftSBRETHREN
TA
MANY OF THMWARE IN GOOD CIR
C'JMSTANCEJr If WASHINGTON.
GlTlng m lteatjCutata Owning Barber
Tip of Ten (jenta Anether Barber VThe
Bar Be Is a Very Ilnqr Man "Colored
Society" atthe Capital. ,
lSptUI Cormpendcacr.
WashinoteV, July 3. A stranger in
Washington was getting shaved in the
barber shop of Villard's hotel, ene of
the eldest tavemMn the city. He was
operated en by art elderly and sedate
,. E
A BENATOK AND HIS NKldHDOn.
colored man, who while wielding the
razor with practiced hand carried en a
conversation with a white man sitting
nearby. Apparently the conversation
was en business matters, for the white
man remarked!
"Well, Mr. Stewart, I'll raise my offer
from oiic-five te one-ten. That is the
best I'll de, positively."
"Then we can't trade," replied the old
barber, "for one-fifteen is ray price and
I'll net tnke a cent less."
"Pretty close trading fornsccend hand
razor," thought the customer in the
chair. "If I wanted te buy u razor from
a barber I'd give the man his price'nnd
be dene with it."
The would be purchaser finally raised
his eiler te onc-twelve, greatly te the
disgust of the customer, w)ie thought
such haggling ever pennies disgraceful.
He inade no remnrks, however, until the
shaving was dene and the ether man had
left the Bhep. Then he said:
"Uncle, let me see the inzer that man
was trying te buy of you. If it's any
thing of a razor it's cheap enough ut
one-fifteen."
At the same moment he slipped n quar
ter into the barber's hand and bade him
"keep the change."
"I wasn't talking about a razor," re
plied Mr. Stewart.
"What then?"
"A building let."
"A building let for one-llf teen eh, I
6Ce; oue hundred and fifteen dollars."
"Ne; ene hundred and fifteen thou
sand dollars."
The stranger turned Bharply, looked
the old barber in the oye, whistled softly,
as if te liimself, and went up stairs mut
tering: "A let worth oue hundred nnd fifteen
thousand' dollars, nnd I just gave him a
tip of ten cents!"
Mr. Stewart is the eldest barber in
Washington. He shaved Abraham Lin-
M.ACK BABIES AND WHITE NURSE.
coin and cut his hair en the day of the
emancipator's arrival at Washington te
take the presidency. He owns, besides
the valuable piece of property Hjeken of
nbevc, a number of houses and lets.
One never knows in Washington when
he gives tips of dimes or quarters te col
ored persons whether he is helping n
very peer man or swelling the horde of
an African Cnesus. In a hurry for a
shnve one day I ran into u ten cent bar
ber shop en D street. The barber and I
exchanged confidences. He had ene bhep
in Washington with eleven barbers, an
other in Georgetown with nine barbers.
"Bnt I am net able te give them the
close attention they should have," he
added. "Fact is, I am a very busy man."
"Other business?" "'Deed I has. I
have a factory where I make trusses,
which I invented myself. 1 am presi
dent of u colored man's bank, vice presi
dent of ncoleicd man's insurance com
pany, ene of the trustees of our church
and cemetery association, a member of
six secret societies and an officer in tlnee
of them. Beside tins I am partner in a liv
ely htable, part owner of a grocery steie
and superintendent of our Sunday
school.
These nre two instances out of hun
dreds that could be given. Washington
contains n greater number of educated,
refined and well te de colored men and
women than any ether city in this coun
try. A few have made money in trade,
but mere have grown rich by investing
their ravings in real estate. In the flush
times following the war the colored men
of Washington prospered. What was
then outlying prejierty, unimproved, and
in many sections low ground, unhealth
ful and nndesirabl". could bobeujrht for
little or nothing, here Uie black men
invested, nnd many of them held their
property te this day. An ordinary build
ing let, which they bought for $100 in
U03, is new worth $10,000 or f 13,000.
The section which a colored colony
monopolized many years age is new
rapidly becoming the rit of fashion,
nud hence it is nothing uncommon te see
a humble hovel, inhabited by negrees,
next deer te a brown stone mansion. On
Massachusetts avenue a senator has a
neighbor of this sort.
But 1 de net mind it at nil," says the
statesman; "I am a ioer man, who pays
out one-half of his salary for heuse rent.
Why should I turn up my nose at my
neighbor, who owns his home and is
rich?"
Nowhere else in this country has civ
ilization reached such it high f-tate
among the ex-slavo of the cotton nnd te
bacce plantations. A striking iiistuuce
of this fell under my observation en K
street a few days age. A baby cart in
habited by two black infants was i
charge of a pretty white umse. Colored
men here enter into all the activities of
life. They are shopkeepers, Ikiss me
chanics, money loaecrs, bankers, law
yen, doctor, dentists nnd mchitects,
il KcnHl
ujLiaiawi i iBaav
iRi
s
uney erganise tneir own lire and are in
lurance companies, savings banks and
building societies. There are colored
policemen, firemen, city and Federal of
ficials, colored military companies, col
ored clubs, colored Grand Array pests.
Our colored friends are inordinately
fend of secret societies. In Washington
there are nt fewer than thirty councils
and ledges of colored Odd Fellows, a
Masonle grand ledge with ten ledges, a
grand Royal Arch chapter and five
chapters, a grand cemranndery Knights
Templar and four ceramandcrics and n
Scottish Rite supreme council. There
are many ether secret societies, these or
ganized by colored women nlone being
almost innumerable. On a Connecticut
avenue car I overheard this fragment of
conversation between two well dressed
colored wemen:
"Hew many a'ietics ye' membah of
new?"
"Only seven; but I'se gein' in two me'
dis week."
"I beats ye'. Tee in nine."
bWELUS ON THE AVENUE.
As a rule the colored men nnd women
of Washington dress better than the white
folks. Yeung colored men wear white
flannel snits, belts and russet shoes, nnd
ride bicycles nnd play lawn tennis with
dusky belles radiant in yellow slippers
and blazers. Colored men nnd women
drive their own carriages, deg carts,
Russian Burreys nnd mall wagons, and
ride their own saddle horses.
A Sundny morning sccne in front of
the First Presbyterian church, en Fif
teenth 6trect, is worth looking nL It is
in the heart of the fashionable region.
Next deer is the hotel which Secretary
Blaine made pepulnr by living in a year
age. In front is McPherson square, sur
rounded by elegant mansions. The vice
president's hotel, the Shercham, is but a
block away. At church hour the fash
ionables of the colored world ceme up
by ones and twos. The majority walk,
but many ride in handsome equipages.
Seme of the costumes of the women are
magnificent. Plenty of diamonds nre te
be seen. The men wear high hats, patent
.leather 6lioes nnd geld headed canes.
Tliis is the swell church of the town.
Membership in it is a passport te upier
ten society.
There is a surprising number of
churches for colored peeple in Washing
ton. The Baptists take the lead with
thirty-five churches and missions, the
Methodists following with twenty-nine.
There nre three Episcopal churches, two
Congregational, oue Presbyterian ntnL,
ene Catholic. The last nnmed, St. Au
gustine's, is ene of the famous churches
of the city. It is attended by many
members of the diplomatic corps. The
music of this church attracts visitors
from near nnd far.
The colored schools of Washington
rank as high as the schools for white
children. The system is complete There
are kindergartens for little black folks,
nineteen graded Echoels, aNennal school,
a high school and a university. With
se many nids te progress it is net stir-
w - ...
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IN FIIONT OP THE IIIOII TONED CHUnCII.
prising that the colored peeple of the
capital city nre growing in culture as
well as in wealth. If the Afre-American
race is anywhere te develop men of ge
nius nnd a community of sterling char
acter and widu influcnce, ene would
naturally expect te find it in the city of
WnHliimrtnn WAi.TFfi Wku.mav.
SHE WAS A SERVANT GIRL.
Hew raltlifill Werk Ilnmslit Oppert'.inl
ty In a Demestic.
After an nbsence of eight years in In
dia Miss Annie Gcisinger has returned
te the Uuited
States, and is new
visiting New
Yerk friends. She
enjoys the pecu
liar distinction of
having Iwgun the
career of a Pres
byterian mission
ary before attain
ing her eigh
teenth birthday.
She is said te
have met with
rcmarkable sue- annik nnisiMiKit.
cess, and only intermits her labors en ac
count of failing health.
Miss Qcisinger is a native of Warren Warren
ten, Me., nnd the daughter of German
parents who are in humble circum
stances. When 14 years old she went
out te domestic sorvice nnd performed
her duties se faithfully that her mistress
afforded her an opportunity te secure an
education, After graduating she ex
pressed a desire te become a missionary,
and the Presbyterians sent her te India.
l'lazza Ciithlfiui.
Striped awning cloth, dark blue and
old geld or old geld and white, makes
excellent cevars for piazza cushions.
Turkey red, orange and blue cotton,
which comes at five or six cents a yard,
is a bright, clieap covering for hammock
pillows. Denim or workman's blouse
cloth in blue or brown is also excellent
for piazza cushions or beat pillows. It
costs but fifteen cents a yard, nnd with
an eutline of cearse white, green or red
Scotch floss is quite artistic and will de
for library or hallway cushions as well.
Jacob Fisher, who died recently at
Kutztown, Pa., was 100 years old. Up
te his fatal illness he had never been
sick a day in his life, and boasted that he
had eted for nineteen Democratic Can
dida an for the presidency.
The Chicago Advaucehas made an nd
vnnce even for it. As its agent, repre
senting its interests in New Lngland, a
weuiau lias 1m.-cii appointed, Mrs. Kinily
L. Leeds. She is a cultivated woman of
unvuiuw'ii business ability.
- I1 v'" 'lift '
IP W a UW$M
'ntMir i fTtKrfifjriVf't1!
II HA. , - I. I
ABOUT WALL STREET.
THE FINANCIAL CENTER OF THI9
NEW WESTERN WORLD.
fti Ontnlde. ami Intltle lrel trailer
Swaltnirnl Up In It Vertex Tlie Trag
edies It Ciuir A Letter from .tiinlui
Henri Itrewne.
(SkvUI CorrejeniUice
New Yekk, July 3. Famous as Wall
street has Iteen for mere than a genera
tion, it has never Ikhmi half se famous as
during the past twelve or thirteen years.
The extent nnd variety of its ojieratiens
is se constantly and rapidly increasing
that sonie of the bulls nnd Iwars of 1870
nnd 183 would show te very little ad
vantage new. Wall street has always
been national in importance and influ
ence, bnt recently it has grown decidedly
international. Londen lias lccome al
most ns closely associated with it as Chi
cago is.
The Bourses of Paris, Amsterdam,
Frankfort, Berlin nre often seriously af
fected by its feeling nnd quotations. Its
throbs, indeed, nre communicated te the
furthest reaches of civilization. Its vel
ume of business nnd its audacity in en
terprise are hardly equaled anywhere.
Its methods and manipulations, its de
vices nud schemes nre wholly and pecu
liarly American, often arousing the ad
miration nnd wonder of the entire mone
tary world.
The street it is commonly se spoken
of has changed as much in its archi
tecture as in its transactions. Beth
tend te the colossal. Where a brief
while age ancient, grim, solid struct
ures steed, today su)erb, lefty, com
pletely contemporaneous piles nre
reared. It is net a street, though called
Riich; it is a quarter, embracing lower
Broadway, Nassau, Cedar, Pine, Will
iam, Pearl, Hanover, New and Bread
streets nnd Exchange place, a territory
mere than half a mile square, ene of the
very richest tm the glebe. Trinity
church old Trinity blocks the sheet
proper nt ene end and the deep F.ast
river cuts it off nt the ether, illustrating
nt ence the mockery of what is known
ns religion and the reality and sugges
tion of suicide. If consolation cannot
be found in a theolegic creed, peace the
peace of death may lie sought in the
tidal stream. Hew'stuiTcd with history
(much of which will never be revcaled)
nnd prolific associations that quarter is!
" It leeks very calm and restful after
the day's business has ended, like a bat
tlefield when all traces of the strife and
carnnge have been removed. But When
it is aroused, full of financial fury, as it
commonly is from 10 a. in. te U p. m., it
is a strange, bewildering spectacle. Mes
senger boys, most of them carrying tele
grams, dart here and there ever carts
and wagons, directly under horses'
heads, lictween men in clese conversa cenversa conversa
teonthey have no time for manners
as if their life depended en ten seconds'
time. They nre never slew there, what
ever they may be elsewhere. Their or
ders are always te hurry, and hurry
they de. Besides they catch the epirit
of the quarter, the feverish restlessness
of these about them.
There seems te be mero electricity in
the air en the eastern side of the lower
end of Manhattan Island than in any
part of this highly charged republic.
The excessive- electricity affects the
nerves and quickens the bleed te an un
healthy degree. Men whe.walk leisure
ly and tranquilly in Fulton street Or
Maiden lane, no Beener turn into Wnll
street than they accelerate their pace
and get excited, They may net have
any interests there, bnt they are in
fluenced by the locality, nevertheless.
They cannot be distinguished in the
driving throng from the great stwculn stwculn
ter wliose fertune is nt stake en the is
sue of the day, or the small speculator
hurrying te his broker te make his mar
gin geed before his stock shall be sold
out. '
Net every ene gambles, its it might np
pear, in that district. The big banks nre
conservative and carefully managed. If
they were net their credit would be
ruined, and no bank can disrensu with
credit. But even they make large call
leans en stocks, the prices of which con cen
cent them nearly. They nre secured
against less, under all ordinary circum
stances, by the amount of their collat
erals, but when these decline te a certain
lelut their demands nre inexorable.
Dealing in meney lint dens the heart, and
hundreds of millions are locked up in
their btreng vaults. The gray sub-treas
ury at Wall and Nassau streets, where
stands the bronze statue of Washington
en the site of his inauguration as first
president of the United States, is burst
ing with geldand silver and stuffed with
bank notes. What innumerable eyes
must leek every day with hunger and
envy en tliose firm walls shutting in that
prodigious wealth! Hew impossible- te
the Father of his Country would the ro re
nlity of today have seemed te him when
he took the oath of office in the spring of
1769?
A well dressed, well bred wetnnn,
though occasionally a feminine operator
is visible there, is a rare sight in the
street. She attracts much attention,
consequently, among the fomale fruij
venders, the scrubs, the janitors' wives
and assistants. New nnd then a new
wife comes, radiant und beaming, te bet
husband in her carriage after ' o'clock.
As he drives away with her, nubmissive
nnd sentimental, the elder and mero
seasoned lordssmileand say, "He'll seen
get ever that." The temper of the place
is plainly net uxorious, but it is gal
lant out of business hours, gallant te u
fault, as the liberal purchases of flow
ers, bonbons and jewelry by its frequent
ers for their bwcethenrts after a lucky
turn amply attest.
All the exchanges, metal, cotton, coal,
coffee, petroleum, produce, stock and
real estate, are in that region, but the
two stock exchanges, notably the elder
and bigger ene. in Bread struct, are
generally active, and frequently the
scenes of wild excitement. Failures aie
continually occurring; tertum- are con
tinually made and let. Firms whose
credit has steed high, unshaken t 'ireush
years of revolution and disaster, which
are bupiescd te be very, very rich, sud
denly go down, nnd then it is known
that they have long lieen crippled, un
able te pay their debts. If they are
honest and honorable much is forgiven
them the street is generous and mag
nanimous in its way they nre regarded
sunply as unfortunates, and are encour
aged and helped en their feet again.
Very few men held out there. The
victors of last year ure overthrown tins
year. The latuels of summer are nipped
by the winter frost. Leaders regularly
npiiear and disappear. He who made
such a noise, who gained repeatedly the
golden prize, uiue or ten seaseus since, is
already forgotten. The coming man is
always going. The Napeleon of the time
is ever meeting with his Waterloo. The
annals of the street furnish a dreary
record of extinguished leaders. What
becomes of them? Some retire with a
remnant of the wreck; mero die jioer.
Seme end in insane asylums; ethers
commit forgeries, or swindle their cred
itors, or steal securities and run away.
Seme get into prison; ethers blowout
their brains. Bnt the wnve of oblivion
e-pcedily sweeps ever all. Ne worship or
recollection there of thu rjun uHininu or
aectined. success alone Degots.taeiatry.
Often men who have been prosperous,
who have had seats at the beard and
had a following, tumble and sustain
hurts beyond healing. Conscious that
they cannot recover, they still limp
around they are known ns lnme ducks
held te their old haunts by the grate
ful, torturesemo memory of the iast.
Their figures nre melancholy, depressing.
They nre ghosts of their lermcr selves.
Countenance, dress, manner are wefully
nltered." Their leek is dejected, distrust
ful, half appealing, half submissive the
leek tlint conies from permanent failure,
from expectations crushed. There is
something pitiful in their shabby gen
tility, in their hollow effort te appear
what they have been. Many of their old
associates are kind te them, aid them in
little ways. But they seldom last. They
canuet bear the mortification of irre
trievable defeat. They are missed for a
few days, then their death is announced.
Perhaps a subscription is raised te bury
them decently. 'Teer Jenes has gene.
He couldn't have cared te live he had
lest his grip. Let's take a drink. West
ern Union's up two pelnK"
The street keeps a brave outside. It seems
se pleasant under the sunshine, se pros
perous, se premising. What vast wealth
it has, what tcmptatienslt offers! Brown
nnd Thompson, Smith nnd Robinson had
nlmest nothing when they began, nnd
see where they are new! Beautiful town
houses, villas at Newpert, carriages,
lexes at the opera, sumptuous entertain
ments yes; but where nre the hundreds
of ethers that fell while they rose? The
many never think of the defeated, who
are net te be counted in the reckoning of
hope. It nppeara very easy te make
money there. Watch the market; get a
few points; venture boldly and the thing
is done. The thing is done, dene every
day; but hew? Net as the venturer
hopes nnd desires ence in twenty 'times.
Contrary te jmpular opinion, the great
mass of speculators, big and little, leso
in the street in the long run. The out
come of gambling is generally disas
trous under all conditions and in all
places.
It is natural tlint the battlefield of the
bulls and liears should externally com
mand interest nnd admiration. Every
thing moves se smoothly and regularly.
Everybody is se neatly and elegantly nt
tired, se ngrecnble in manners, se buoy
ant, se cheerful; even when most excited
it is a quiet sort of oxcitement. The
brokers appear, whether old or young,
like boys at piny. Americans possess a
degree of Bteicisin that ether peoples
cannot reach. Thoysmile nt ruin; jest
en the briuk of the grave. The street is
eminently stoical; but stoicism cannot
annul the perilsnud terrors of gambling.
The street is leprous as te speculation.
Albeit it shows but a financial strife, a
daily rush and crush nnd commotion, a
frantic effort te win at all hazards, it in
cludes the gravest questions of morals.
Nobody can estimate the sum or unhappi
iiess it causes nnnunlly,net here alone and
in the large cities, but in every nook and
corner of the land, directly nnd indi
rectly. More than half the defalcations
in the east may be traced te speculations
there. We may knew the crimes it en
genders by newspaper reports; but the
silent suffering, the moral deterioration,
the blasted hopes, the conquered virtue
we can never knew. But the street is
less responsible than the weakness of hn
mauity. The street is here becnuse the
metropolis is here. Every great city in
Europe hns n similar evil, growing out
of the greed for meney, which cannot
be removed while mankind is what it is.
The mass of men nre gamblers when the
lust of gain is aroused, and the habit
formed, it is stronger than principle or
pleading.
The Btreet, like seme mighty monster
of fable, devours every Avcelc hundreds
whodareto trillewith it. But no ene
learns by the experience of ethers or by
Ids own. Fresh victims are ever forth
coming, nnd they go the way of deem
serene and smiling, aa the host of their
predecessors have done. While the wife
wails in ngeny; while the children are
deserted; while the pistol of thu suicide
hounds; while the defaulter llies from
justice, Wall street, which has wrought
theso tragedies, leeks innocent and staid
Trinity invites te prayer.
WHEAT FIELD INSURANCE.
A Nmrl lli'Milt of Calirmnln .Muteor .Muteer .Muteor
iilejclcfil Ceiiflltluim.
Special CerreiB)nJcncn.J
San Fiiancisce, Jutm 28. The fact that
it never rains in California except when
it rains is generally known throughout
the country as ene characteristic of
this Gelden state. But just why these
long annual droughts eccnr is net
se generally known. As the meteoro
logical conditions which produce the
long, rainless summers are set forth in
the cneycleiedias it is net my purpose
te explain them. But some of the effects
of this state of affairs will net be with
out interest te eastern fanners nt least.
Te say that except where irrigation is
practiced the fields become dried up
sand banks is but te relate what every
ene might expect. But the resulting
danger from field fires anil the practice
of insuring the grain in the field against
less from fires nre features of this coun
try which nre novel, flrnin insurance
hns ceme te be nu extensive branch of
business, and has some interesting feat
ures. The basis of valuation is figured at se
many pounds of grain te the acre, and is
insured ut ene cent per pound upon the
eatimated yield. The premiums are at
the rate of one and one-half cents en the
dollar of insurance, nnd it continues in
force for three months. This is figured
as sufficient tlme te allow the grain te
ripen nnd be harvested nftcr it becomes)
dry enough te burn in the fields, if n
fanner writes insurance en the three
months basis, but gets his grain in the
ware house ln-fore the time expires, he
is entitled ten rebate or draw back en
Ids premiums. When the grain is stored
in ware houses it is then insurable en
another basis. The soliciting insurance
agent gets a commission of SJO per cent,
of the premiums.
Te keep track of such a large number
of short time policies requires nu army
of clerks. The salaries of these clerks,
together with the commissions of agents
nnd the profits te the companies, which
nre usually large, all come down and
constitute a heavy tax en the farming
community. When therefore we eat het
cakes made from California wheat, and
compute from the cost te the consumer
what the profits of the fanner are, we
must net overlook thu nimy which in
tervenes between the hemy handed till
ers of the soil nud our breakfast cakes.
Nature eccius te have conspired with the
speculative spirit of men in this case.
Til.' UlnuW-M r t!n I'imI.
A filing essential te beauty in the
old days appears te have been a set of
curls. They all had their clustering,
clinging ringlets that hung down ever
their cars nnd around their slender,
twisted necks, just as they all had deme
like foreheads mid an expression of mild
melancholy. They appear te have beeu
particularly proud of the culls, for
through whatever vicissitudes they went
the artist always kept these rfnglets un
ruffled and looking ,us if they had just
come from under the hand of the hair
dresser. They probably thought it would
be very immodest and disrespectful te
put a woman with dUhevcleO. lir iute
a picture
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GOWNS OF FAIR WOMEJfr
OLIVE HARPER'S INTERESTING LET
TER ON CURRENT FASHIONS.
Mnnj- tlnmlitnme. Drettet Tlint Have Bam
Mxln nt Heme or Abroad for Bea
Tlme Are Juit Iteglnnlng te Sm the
Mslit of Ilnf.
Special Corriwpendisncu.J
New Yerk, July 8. Dainty, pretty
gowns that wcre made, or may be im
ported, during Lent are only new seeing
their first dnvliaht since- then, and soma
will still be kept a conple or three weeta Al
BIXIlETa TO TELL
mero until the senseu nt the fashionable
resorts has gotten into full swing. Last
week I helied a couple of young friend
of inlne te pack for Saratoga.
But before I say much about the
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crisp after a month's wear ns if jufc i!-j
frein the hands of the fairy godmother; Ji;
Thern is for each uress u large, liar, pane
beard box some 3 feet long nnd about j'O
18 inches wide by 4 deep. These bexee &"
nre quite, butnet unusually, strong. The fyJ&
circss BKtrc is iiikpii hi uie miuuie ei iu :;,
belt nnd ut the bottom in front nnd then ?V
held tight nnd laid flat en bed or fleer, &'
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anil UIU uacK luuini iumhijiiki in unn ;"j,
folds nnd kept without, wrinkles, and taj
natted and nulled out quite smoeth.Ji
Then this is laid carefully into the.bexi's
nnd folded down te fit in without press- $
ing. The waist is also folded neatly nml,f 1
laid In tlie box, uetn bkiw ami ueuice,,,
ngni siue qui. ,?p,-'s
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If the dress does or does net quite fill
the box a sheet of line tissue paper iiSr
Intil ever It. Each dress is lflaCcd in iU ??,'!
Benarate box. and the nanie of it writtenls
en the top se that there will be no cpnH
fusion. liach gown has its lace sewn in c
in thu same box, se that it is also keptift'JH
its best condition. ft JSa
We will btippose that ene of these twetj3 y
pretty fcirls is relating this secret te herlJ m
dearest friend. Among the dresses wmcn&-a
Milly carried away was ene which sheiM
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.1.1 iin ulm nvrwttml trnlil 1H1 VArV nf. V'21
nearly always have a background ej
.11 v a twv ..fc.w ..w -
green. It was of cream colored
silk with cardinal flowers, thr eWrt.iEa
caught up in a tangled mass of wrinMM''3
en each side, forming partial paulertlvril
The sleeves, sash and vest front were Of J ,
cardinal small, while the bnt and parMOl, ..
both beamed in the same fervid color;
Spanish trimming of cardinal crochet ,
Vandyke lace added a finnl touch te tli
costume. 'Tlie cream color tn ,tfh'
groundwork tones down the brilliance
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The ether young lady had ft preurV
dress in old rose veiling nud surah, madt'-ffl
with pinked out Vandykes ever knifed '31
plaltlngs en the front of the skirt, Her.i ;
ripeul nmt lmf triimnttifr emitnliA? IiJ '
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guwiii ever uiu piiuiuuurn niiu Hwuuuiwe
l.f. atiijil rt (ttlitflli iiliA sitttt Inlit fulfil . : ,A
Seinu of the prettiest dresses of the sea.fe,
son nre for afternoon wear en the plat- J&s
7.;U and in ireneral. I took HDecinl no- 1a
tice of two; ene was of figured cliallie in $yj
peun gray wim K"1 " i"iiiig nuu rusea v. ta
iii medium sized patterns nil evor ,.,
with a border. Mil' unucrsKirt we m
knife nlailed. and the cliallie draped inm:X
vest front and across in a most graceful'. .-kM
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way, u npuniHii jaci(i;i. u green vpiyoste
trimmed with geld embroidery extend i?5
into panel ou the sides. The sleeves are
of cliallie with velvet caps and cuffs.
rilKTTY AFTKItNOON OOWNS.
The ether is of beige colored India silk,
with polk.idetsof alternate red and blue.
The dress is cut princess style, and
draped in n manner easily understood
by referring te the illustration. The
ilaik part isef cuqtu'licet red surult. A
red ribbon ties the hair and encircles the
neck. All that is required te complete
these toilets for the promenade is te
den hats te match the costume and te
take parasol, or fans as the hour is early
or late. Oi.ur. IlAitfKU
An Anriilel" f Artemin Wanl.
Ni:w Veuk, July U. The fear of
death always remained with Artemu
Waid (Charles F. Brown), and even
after he had becouie famous he resorted
te some of the strangest freaks te drive
it away. 1 have licen told of his getting
up one morning nt 2 o'clock and going
te the residence ei a iauy wuu n
great admirer of hi, lle rang the bell,
and she came down te the parlor rub
bing her eyes.
"Madam," wid Artciuus, "I hope you
will excuse me for disturbing you at
such an unseasonable hour, but your
,-neU .loes frv nerk se deliriously that I
presumed en your friendship te the ex
tent Of aslilllg you lO nave net uj; iiiu
ft
slice new."
"Certainly, Mr. Brown," said the
lady, amazed at the request. But she
aweke the cook, who fried the perk and
served it in the dining room. Waid sat
down gravely at the table and ate it. He
kept up u miming conversation andtne
lady ainwered in sleepy yawns. When
the lierk was eaten Ward weet out te the
corner of ilie street aud laughed se len
and loud that a police officer thrnuenej
te take him te an insane asylum u '
he went Itejue, it
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