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Thursday Morning, December 16, 1800.
I.OKH HKACONSFIKI.IPS HOOK.
" ENIIVMIOS," \l ITU Al l ITS I Al I TS, TAKKS
'l'llE RK.ADINC I'l lil.H' OF KNCI.ANK
IIV STORM,
rom the Henhlent Correti'otidr'Ul of the World.
LONDON, NOV. 2~>. —Tito first quos
which salutes one now is," What tin
you think of 'Endyntion?'" No
doubt most of your raiders have al
ready niado up their minds on the
subject, for the hook was issued on the
same morning in New York and Lon
don. Here, as you may suppose, the
whole world is raiding it. In what
the distinguished author fondly calls
the "refined saloons of the mighty," the
" patrician citizens " are eager to see
witieh of their number has been touch
ed off by the late Prime Minister. (o
into a club and the red volumes with
silver letters ou the back are in every
body's hands. At Mudie's then is a
crush of carriages waiting for a
chance to draw up to the door. If to
engross public attention is the secret
of happiness, Lord l>ea eons field must
lie the happiest man in England.
Even Ireland is forgotten and Mr.
Gladstone is nowhere. I sent you by
cable last night a key to many of the
characters in the novel and explained
briefly that the author has taken ra
ther free liberties with the likenesses
so that no one should be able to say
this or that is an exact portrait. In
some cases he has brought men and
places into existence before their time.
Dramatists and novelists have always
claimed this license, and no writer has
used it with greater audacity than the
author of "Vivian (trey." But the
originals from which he has taken his
sketches cannot be mistaken. These
pictures from life are really all that
give the book its interest. Story there
is very little, but no one looks for
auything of that kind. People want
to walk through the portrait gallery
and find their friends or acquaintance.
If the Tory party remain out of pow
er another year or two the adroit
artist will gratify them still further,
for it is a fact that he intends to follow
up this novel with another, in which
his strange, eventful history will be
brought down to our own day.
For one person who will read histo
ry iu its crude state a thousand will
read it disguised in the form of fic
tion. No one knows this better than
Lord Bcaconsfield. His main object
in this, as in other works front his
pen, is to put forward his opinious on
party politics ami the men who have
taken part in them. He would prob
ably fail iu a methodical and serious
history if he attempted it, and un
questionably it would e&ll for ntore
severe labor and greater accuracy
than he could bring himself to supply.
He loves to generalize, but pin him
down to facts and it is all over with
him. In a novel, any little slips can
he readily excused, and even anachro
nisms only secnt to form part of the
main design. Opinions can be express
ed for which it would scarcely be fair
or reasonable to hold the author re
sponsible. In the present instance Lord
Jieaconsfield has even chosen to use
the Radical -lob Thornberry (Mr.
(.'obdenj as his mouth-piece. By de
vices of this kind he can declare his
private views on men and affairs, and
avoid incurring any responsibility for
them. Titus he makes Job affirm
that the British agricultural classes
are in the condition of surfs and that
the whole landed system must lie abol
ished. To lie sure, Mr. Ferrars con
tradicts these opinions in a mild way,
hut the earnestness and force are all
given to Job. " These are strong
opinions," says Mr. Ferrars. " Yes,
but they will make their way," replies
Job, and undoubtedly so keen an ob
server as Lord Bcaconsfield must feel
that they will. The "commercial
principle " must be applied to land —
"no useless timber and no game."
The chief of the Tory party could not
come forward in his own person and
avow these sentiments. But he can
put them into the mouth of a lay fig
ure and thus draw attention to the
fact that he perceives clearly enough
which way the new revolution in Eng
land is tending. In like manner lie
is free to maintain behind another of
his characters that the House of Com
mons is becoming an assembly of
demagogues. He gave the best evi
dence of the sincerity of this convic
tion when he retired from it and took
shelter iu the House of Isirds. To
him it is all the same whatever may
happen. "Power, and power alone,
should he your absorbing object."
That is the religion which he professes
and no one can say that lie has not
• been fuithful to it. Men are pup|M*ts
to he made useful in the attainment
of your own ends. The institutions of
your country are only to be respected
in so fur as they assist you to rise to
power. "All the accidents and inci
dents of life should be considered
with reference to that main result."
Never was the Disraelian code more
* faithfully described. Of course it re
quires a little audacity for a man tints
to reveal the hidden springs of Itis own
life, but audacity is the secret of suc
cess. Until Benjamin Disraeli had
made a name in the world he attract
ed attention by his velvet coats and
dazzling waistcoats, bv the number of
gold chains round his neck and the
rings upon his fingers. Some people
called him a fop ami others a lunatic,
hut everybody soon found that the fop's
head had something more remarkable
about it than lite long black curls
shining with macassar oil. Dandyism
served its term and was discarded,
though perhaps even now it has a
certain charm, for one day last session
1 saw the author of " Endyntion " in
tin* House of Lords with a bright
scarlet tic round his neck, a black vel
vet waistcoat, and a pair of pantaloons
of the most bizarre color and pattern.
But it is not absolutely necessary to
play the part of a dandy any more,
rower has been won —and lust. A
great party has been nearly ruined,
hut its controlling spirit is satisfied,
lor tin* public are tumbling over each
other in their eagerness to get hold of
his book. None of the changes or
disasters of life are potent enough to
suppress Disraeli.
No doubt you will have noticed
and enjoyed the childish delight with
which tin* Ex-Premier depicts the
" gilded saloons" of his friends the
aristocracy. In thein, after all, is to
he found the only kind of social di
version for which lie has ever eared.
The middle classes arc a money-grab
bing, tedious, vulgar set. True hap
piness is to be found only in the socie
ty of "'Queens of Fashion" like Zen
ohia (who is a sort of combination o!
Lady Blcssington and Lady Holland),
and "distinguished personages," in
blue ribbons and brilliant decorations.
, Such was always the opinion of Mr.
Disraeli, and now that lie is an Earl
I lie cannot well be expected to change
J it. In one part of " Endyntion " lie
refers —of course indirectly—to the
" immense sorrows" of his youth.
W hat were they? He was sent to a
solicitor's office to he trained in the
study of the law. He was not a com
j moii plaee clerk, as many have .-up
! posed ; he was not in poverty. The
| ordinary accounts of the hard-hips of
his early life he has himself repudiat
ed. "My father left me a sufficient
patrimony," he once declared. W hat
were his immense sorrows? Simple a
i compulsory association with the" mid
dle class." Until a lucky accident
I gave him an entree to Lady Blessing
ton's house and opened Rothschild's
door to him lie was excluded front the
: "saloons of the mighty." In this hook
Endymion's sister is made to predict
that all his good fortune will come to
him through women. So it actually
happened. Lady Bles-ington took
; him tip, and Mrs. Wyndlium-I/ewis
married him and gave him all In r
money. Determination can move
mountains, but it cannot always ena
ble a man to pick up a fortune with
his wife. Even in delineating the
fortunes of his new hero, Lord Bca
consfield is obliged to jump the hard
est fence on the road by making some
anonymous friend come forward villi
a present of 120,000. Youthful stu
dents of the Disraelian system of "get
ting on " in the world will perhaps
complain that donors of (120,000 are
comparatively scarce in the world.
I The noble Lord's answer would be,
| " I have found them ; go thou and do
j likewise. Will n thing and you can get
it. Resolve to he Prime Minister and
! nothing can prevent you reaching that
I position. You will want money to
j start with —look out for a woman who
lias it. You will never find a man
j to give you 1'20,000; therefore turn
! your eyes to the other sex. I did so,
j and see where 1 am and what I have
: been." That is what the author of
; " Endyntion'' would tell any voting
I man in whom he took a friendly in
terest — Lord Rowton, for instance.
People may say that this is not a very
j lofiv view of life. But what is that
against it ? It enables men to grasp
| power. To do Mr. Disraeli justiee, he
never pnached any other doctrine.
! I hat is why he has been called a more
demoralizing writer than (J. \\\ M.
Reynolds. He saps the foundations
I of nil belief in the nobler qualities of
; the human rnce. Last night, just as I
i was going home to my lodgings, I ran
against a man who was himself figur
ed in one of the Disraeli novels, and
; who has no love for the painter. The
i inevitable question of the moment
j was exchanged. " \ es," said my
friend, "they've read it at the club.
It is precisely what you might have
i expected—a selection from his note
j book, with the usual glorification of
i himself, and the old sermons about the
duty of treading on your father and
1 mother if they are in the way—any
| thing to enable you to push through
j the crowd. Don't fail to notice the
i ship-shop writing, the bungling sen-
I fences, the penny-romance writer's
! touches of description. He does not
I say a man walked down St. Jantes'
j street, hut that he 'descended that
gentle eminence.' Go and look of
j his account of the grooms on a car
riage, 'sitting with folded arms of
■ haughty indifference.' I declare it
makes nte sick." Thus far my friend;
i but, between ourselves, I think he is
I still smarting from a sense of injury
' at having had his own portrait hung
up years ngo in the Disraeli gallorv.
\Ve of free souls can read and be
amused. L. J. J.
THE young man who shirks Itis du
ties as often us possible never succeeds
in life. You may set it down that
sooner or later he will he a drone in
the great hive of human industry. If
you begin life a shirk, you may set it
down as a fixed fnct that the habit
will follow yon through life, and in
stead of a success, you will be an ut
ter failure.
HO NAPA KTK-.HLANC.
Till! UNION Cl' A DAIi.IITF.It OF TIIE Mil,-
I.IONAIKK 0AM111.1.1l 111 MONACO AMI A
CRANK NEI'UKW Ol NAI'OLEON I.
limn tin* Iti'piiilrnl l'nrrii*|iuDili'iit "I (lio W'nrliJ.
PAKIS, November 11). —l'rince Ilo
liuiil Boiiuparte was man-it <1 to-day to
I Mille. Marie Blanc, daughter of the
! founder of the gainhling-hoiisu at Mo
naco. The marriage took place at the
Church of St. Rocli, on the steps of
which Napoleon I. planted the cannon
with which lie swept the Paris streets
of the mob. It. was the most splendid
ceremony of the kind we have had
for a long time. The marriage came
about in a curious way. One of the
papers lately published a series of ar
ticles on the "men who had disappear
ed" —the extinct volcanoes of notoriety,
so to speak. Among tliciji it named
Pierre I >ona parte, the fat her of Kola lid
and the slayer of Victor Noir, and it
gave a very piteous account of the
style in which lie was living and of
the efibrts of his low-horn wife to keep
the family on a looting of respectabil
ity. There was even some allusion to
the dressmaking business in London
which she used to conduct. This was
read by Mine. Blanc, of Monaco, the
widow of the tenfold millionaire. She
sought out Mine. Bonaparte and offer
ed her help. From this meeting sprang
the union of the two families. Mine.
Bonaparte's son was a sub-lieutenant
in the Line, ami in the course of his
visits to his mother and sister he saw
Marie Blanc, fell in love with her and
has now won her hand, with a respect
able number of her family millions as
her dowry. She is a charming girl,
well educated and ambitious. In this
last respect she i* only like the rest of
the family, which is most anxious to
do something to make people forget
the vulgarity, not to *ny the degrada
tion of it- origin. Mine. Blanc has
already married one (laughter to
Prince Iladziwil, one of the most illus-
I trioti* names in Austria, and the chief
i members of the Austrian embassy
| were among the distinguished people
at the wedding. Prince llad/.iwil has
| pushed forward the present union by
all the means in hi* power, and has
given grand dinners in honor of the
signing of the contract. For the rest
the Rlano* have been lavish of their
gold. The bride's trousseau i* some
thing unexampled even in this city of
costly wonder*. She has a pearl neck
lace which i* said to have no peer
among the known treasures of this
I sort, except iu the famous one worn
by the Empress Eugenie. Among the
bridal gifts was a carriage and horses
bought in England for AO,OOO francs,
and all the rest is on this scale. The
Wedding was half a political demon
stration owing to the presence of the
1 Bonapartists, hut in this respect it was
somewhat spoiled l>v the abstention of
the head of the family, Prince Jerome.
The Prince has never had anv groat
affection for Prince Pierre, and he
took no notice of the invitation sent
to him, and the Empress Eugenic was
equally oblivious of the invitation sent
to her. They all feel a hitter rancor
towards Pierre because his brutal es
capade in the shooting of Victor Noir
was the first gn at disgrace which hap
pened to tie- family, and indeed a blow
! from which it never recovered. Still,
Ronapartism in it* rank and file can
not afford to he squeamish, and all the
younger members of the party, with
| Paul de ("assagnae at their head, were
lat the church. Twenty thousand peo
ple were in the streets to see the party
i arrive at the church, and the old
building itself was resplendent in
hangings of blue and silver and purple
and gold. The solos in the service
were rendered by singers from the
opera. It was just such a wedding as
| Paris loves, and it will go far to sanc
tify in a social sense the wealth ac
quired by the founder of the Blanc
family, and, as nothing succeeds like
success, to atone perhaps for the un
lucky shot whose detonation brought
! that empire to the ground. It was
a truly edifying spectacle from first to
la*t. Queen Isabel In sat in one part
of the church, and near her was Mine.
Ratazzi on her knees.
AI'KAII) OF IfKINO CIIFATFD.
The uneducated mind does not see
! through those forms by which business
jis transacted. There is a well-known
I story of two honest Dutch neighbors.
One of them, Han*, borrowed twenty
dollars from the other, Jacob.
"Must I give you a writing, for dis,
! Jacob?" said honest Hans, as he pock
' eted the money,
"Yah, dat is what they do, I dinks."
Hans scrawled something which
meant that he hud borrowed twenty
dollars from Jacob, nnd would repay
him as soon as lie could. He handed
i it to .Jacob,
"No, I don't keep tliis," nnswered
i .Jacob, scratching bis bead, as if
in doubt. "You must keep it so dat
you'll know you owe me do money."
A similar perplexity as ton written
promise to pay, once sent an liouest
but ignorant fiopier out of a court
room, in hot haste, lest he should he
cheated. In the early days of Indi
ana, the lawyer used to follow the
I courts. "Riding the circuit," it was
| called, nnd it demanded horses that
could struggle through mud-roads and
swim over deep rapid streams.
During the court session, a lawyer
bargained for a pony for twenty-five
dollars, on n credit of six months.
The next day the owner brought the
pony, but required security for the
payment of tho price. The Inw^er
drew a note at the top of" a sheet of
foolscap and signed it. His brother
lawyers, some twenty in number, sign
ed it, and then the court—throe judges
—wrote down their names.
The lawyer presented the thorough
ly signed note to the man and was
surprised to hear him say: "Do you
think I am a fool, to let you get the
court and all the lawyers on your side?
I see you mean to cheat me out of my
ponv.'
I p jumped the alarmed man, ran
out of court, mounted the pony ami
galloped for home a* last as the horse
could currv him.
SOMF I IIIUST.MAS TOYS.
INDICATION* IN TUB Til AI)E TII AT TIIE ITU'-
I I.ATION OF TIIE COIJNTRV IS IN
SAIK HANDS.
I-mm the New York World.
Of making many toys there is no
end, and as every uetv Christinas sea
son approaches the shop windows are
glorified by displays of novelties. The
child, "pleased with a rattle, tickled
with a straw," need not nowadays con
tent himself with such simple play
things when for a dollar lie can get a
banged-hair l'ari-ian wax-doll with
movable blue eyes. Business, the toy
dealers report, is twice as brisk as
usual this year. Dolls, of course, are
most in demand of all the standard
toys. They are nearly all imported
from Germany and Franee. < >ne of
the novelties among them is a large
doll with wooden liiuhs so arranged
with hall and socket-joints as to he
movable in all natural directions.
Among the dressed dull* the advan
tage is very much with the New York
product over the imported. Many "I
these dolls are dressed in goods and
styles of the latest invention and'iatest
mode, for doll-dress making is an im
portant industry in New Yoik, es
pecially at thi- -eason of the year.
Among what are known as "position
dolls," or "Helen's Babies," are earth
enware dolls in many new and amus
ing attitudes, by wliieh the pranks of
a whole nurseryful of children are
represented. Among the nieehanieal
toys the newest are working model* of
the elevated railroads, l oon the ele
vated tracks, constructed and painted
after the style of the Sixth Avenue
line, car* are made to run by the turn
ing of a little crank at one end of the
road. The track is not so long as to
make fogs a matter <>f any concern,
and the dangers of collision are -till
further reduced by the running of hut
a single train. For Christmas trees
are many ornamented lamp* and tin
sel trinkets, and what i* called "snow
powder" has been lately introduced,
to sprinkle over the branches of ever
green trees. The savings hanks and
embossed blocks anil picture-books
abound in infinite variety. The hitter,
especially, come in most attractive
forms, many of the New York publi
cations being closely imitated after
Mi-s Kate Green way's pictures and
others of English origin. Toy musi
cal instruments are now a feature of
the trade, from the tin penny Christ
mas horns to Australian harmonica*
with hell aeeornpatiimeut and two or
three octave pianos.
There is an unusual demand for
cheap dolls. Dolls which cost not
more than a dollar apiece are selling
now instead of the ?4or ?•" wax dolls
which have held the field heretofore.
This increased demand for dolls indi
cated, as the World reporter was in
formed, "an increasing population."
"But nothing becomes old in the
line of toys," said one large dealer.
"Our Noah's arks, which we must ad
mit to a grown person are not what
you might rail new, are fully as at
tractive to the infant of to-day as they
undoubtedly were to Noah's own great
grandchildren. The imported goods
are about the same from year to year.
The American toy manufacturers turn
out some new devices every year in
metal goods and mechanical toys, but
nothing of that sort holds favor so
well as the standard dolls and arks
and building blocks which entertained
our grandfathers and will delight our
grandchildren."
Sarah Bernhardt and her I'rerions
Coffin.
Ilirhurd WlilMtiji'fl Pari* Ulln to Near York World.
Sarah Bernhardt objects strongly to
the imputation of singularity, ami yet,
if it were not rude to contradict a
lady, one would have to admit that
she sometimes does eccentric things.
Her latest proceeding is to have her
self photographed iu her Coffin ! The
coffin has long been a part of the fur
niture of her home and a very beauti
ful thing it is. It is enough to make
one long for death. It was originally
a present from a friend, who has
spared no pains in making it worthy
of the lady's acceptance, and it has
since been largely embellished by the
recipient. It was a fancy of hers,
which she shares, or might have shared
with the late Admiral Lord Nelson,
and with others of the great, to have
her last lodging constantly in view,
and, as it were, under repairs at the
hands of the prospective tenant.
Whenever she has had a bit of lace to
spare or a new idea in quilting or
embroidery she has put it into the
coffin. For a long time she used it as
her lied, hut that practice was finally
abandoned, at the earnest solicitation
of the doctors, as tendiug to hasten
the approach of the moment when she
would have to fnke'it for good and
all. Musing of late on that moment
ami its incidents, it occurred to her
that it would lie a good thing to leave
explicit direction l ! for the manner of
her funeral, and so she forthwith laid
herself out with exquisite taste, and
called in a photographer to "fix" lu-r
in pictorial black and white lor Ihe
purpose of exemplifying her testarncii
tary instruction*. The man did hi*
office, ami there she lie- —a* Mrs.
(jump might put it, "the sweetest
corpse." Only four copies were made
—for strictly private keeping —but if
the public could sec one of them,
which it never will, it would insist on
there being a thousand. The coffin is
half smothered in flowersand branches
of palm, most artistically arranged,
and it is placed on an incline, so as to
permit you to have a good view of
the occupant. She lies on a pillow of
white satin ; she i* robed in cashmere,
and her bare arm* are crossed meekly
over her breast —Ophelia going to her
grave. The eyes are closed, and till
the features beautifully composed.
Everything is done to carry out the
idea that death is but a long, dream
less sleep. Ask mo why the greatest
actress in France, and the most ad
mired, a woman who has won her way
to a throne of genius, should have
such fancies, and I must frankly ad
mit I cannot tell you. There is only
this to he said, I think ; her very
delight in her present of glory makes
her morbidly sensitive in speculations
as to the future. Death is ever in her
thoughts, hut not so much the death
of her body as the death of fame —
that terrible fbrgetfulncss of a great
and once popular name of which she
has seen so many examples in her
theatrical career.
■
The Personages of "Kmlymiou."
Frm lll** N. V. World.
So many requests have been receiv
ed bv the World for the republication
of the key to the characters in Eord
Beiicon.-field's new novel of "Endv
mion,'' that we now print it more I'uliv
and accurately than before. It uin*t
he remembered, however, that with
the exception of two or three person
ages none of the characters introduced
from real life into this curious book
by Lord lieaeousfield can be said to be
painted bv bim with the intent of mak
ing portraits. Mo.-t of hi- jK-r.-onages
are made up of odds and ends taken
from the leading traits of two or more
celebrated individuals. Mr. Jennings
truly cabled to the World that these
odds and end- are so "tossed and tum
bled together" that it will ulwuy- be
easy for I/>rd lieaeousfield, should he
think fit so to do, to deny that he
meant to make a deliberate portrait of
any particular person in any part of
the hook, excepting alway*, as we have
already observed, in two or t'iree in
stances siieii as Ste. Barbe and ' Sidney
Wilton, for example. Bearing tin*
in mind, the reader of "Kndvinion"
will doubtless find his enjoyment of
the book enhanced bv the discreet use
of the following "key" :
Endymion Kerrars.—Benjamin Dis
raeli, 1/ird Beneon-ficld.
Myre Fcrrars ( his sister . —Eugenie,
Empress of the French.
Prince Elore-tan.—Traits of Louis
Napoleon framed in an outline of the
career of Alfonzo of Spain.
Queen Agrippine.—ln the main
Queen Hortense, mother of I/mi* Na
|M>lcon, the name covering an allusion
to (Jueen Isabel 11.
Zcnobia.—A composite of Lady
Jersey and Lady Holland.
Baron Kergius.—Baron Brunnow,
who effected the famous quadruple al
liance of I*4o.
Nigel Penruddock.—Cardinal Man
ning, with trait* of Cardinal Wise
man.
Job Thornherrv.— Richard Cohden.
Sidney Wilton.—Sindev Herbert,
Ixird Herbert of I/oa.
I/ird lioehampton.—l/ird Palmers
ton.
Lady lioehampton.—Lady Palmers
ton.
L>rd Mentford.—The Earl of Dud
lev, Ixird Eglinton and I/ird Mel
bourne in one.
Mr. Ncucbatel. —Baron Lionel
Rothschild.
Adriana. —Lady Rose berry, with
suggestions of Lady Rurdett-Coutts
and Miss Alice Rothschild.
Mr. Bertie Treniaine. —Monekton
Mills, Lord Houghton.
Mr. Ste. Barbe.—W. M. Thackeray.
Mr. Gushy.—Charles Dickens.
The minister stopped st a house
and sought to improve the time bv
giving an eight-year old boy an in
structive lesson in morality. "Mv
boy," said the minister, "I have lived
forty-five years, and have never used
tobacco in any form, nor told n lie,
nor disobeyed my pnreuts, nor uttered
an oath, nor played a truant, nor—"
"Gimminy crickets!" interrupted the
lad ; "yet ain't had anv fun at all,
have ye ?"
A BKKITIC who was trying to eon
fuse a Christian colored man by the
apparently contradictory passages of
the Bible, asked how it could be that
we were in the Spirit and the Spirit in
us, received the reply : "Oh, dar's no
nuzzle 'bout dat. It's like dat poker.
I puts it in de fire, till it gets red hot.
Now, de poker's in do fire, an* de fire's
in de poker." A profound theologian
could not have made a better reply,
A 1 IIRAI IIKK in Iventuokv, rocentlv
becoming exasperated, paused in his
discourse to say: •• Ladies, if you will
keep a lookout on that door, and if
anything worse than a man enters I
will warn you in time to escape."
(Jen. (oilfield's Narrow Drupe.
A ST'LKV U'LL|( II UK M'KIM.KK TE1.1." MVit I
7 lir. I'RCHIOKNT M.K< T.
From th- Chic Tlii
WASHINGTON, Nov. 'PRO-idem
flirt Garfield could not forget nif, n i
coulil J forget liim.ii- for tliai mattci
said ('ongresMimn Springer in a tic di
tative manner, thf oilier <v< ning, wln n
u-kod how well li know Ins funic r
fellow member.
Mr. Springer thfii went on to r<
an interfiling episode in Gen. (>ar
field's 1 iii*. one known to hut few of
his friends. Had it not lie n f->r ti.
active exertion of M<->rs. Springer
and Hisenek, of New n (:w
--lieid would now la; in hi- grave iiistea I
; id' occupying the |Hisitioli of future '
tenant of the \\ liite IhiUr. In D7..
I when the I'otter investigation commit
tee became roasted out of their sum
iner quarters HI the Capitol, hy tin
wicked sun of Washington, an u<i
joiiriiiueul of several days was tak' i
to enable the committee to find a <.
er place for operations. Atlantic (it v
i was selected. Among the willie--c
suniuioned for examination ut thi
< ay going New .Jersey wutering-pluc .
i was Geo, ' iartield. He was one f
the visiting statesmen, and was one of
the last of these gentlemen to be ex
amined. The next morning after (>< n.
1 < Jarfield's arrival, and the day be wa
to he examined, he, upon invitation "f
('ougre—meu Springer and 11 i-cock,
mem Iters of the committee, accompa
nied them to the beach for a plunge
in the breaker*. The time selected
for the sea-hath was early in the morn
ing, so that the water felt quite chill
to the touch. Gen. Garfield is a man
of full habits and inclined to apoplexy.
As be was not familiar with sea-bath
ing, he omitted the necessary formula
of first thoroughly wetting and cooling
his head before entering the water.
He walked into the breakers gradual
ly, standing up in the waves as they
broke over bis body. The sudden
cooling of the lower part of his bodv
drove the Mood, as from a force-pump,
I to his brain. Suddenly lie put his
hand to his In ad and fell backward as
if shot. As he fell he lay backward
upon the shelving sands, with the
waves throwing a cloud of foam and
spray over hi- stalwart figure. lioth
Springer and Hi-cock .-aw him drop
at the same time. In company with
the stenographer of the committee,
who was bathing with them, they ran
hastily to (Jen. (Jarfield, and dragged
him hack II|MII the sand outside of
the water. To all appearances (Jen.
(Jarfield was dead. Hi- heart had
apparently ceased to beat. Kor -eve
' ral moment- his excited companions
searched in vain for a sign of life. It
wa- a very serious position. The ho
tel. of Atlantic city are fully a ouar
t< rof a mile from the bench. What
ever was to he done for the General's
relief it was evident should be done
quickly. In the office of the main
bathing establishment a small bed was
found. There (Jen. (Jarfield wa- car
ried. stripped and vigorously ruhired,
flic bathing attendant fortunately had
some hot water. The feet of the ap
parently dead man were thrust into
this, while the three men who had
carried him in worked like slaves rub
bing the body. For a long time thev
worked with the energy of despair,
without much hope, for it wa- fully
I twenty minutes before the faiutc-t
semblance of life began to appear.
Then a faint warmth about the heart
lagan to show returning life; and as
the glow spread throughout the body
Iliscock and the stenographer retired
to dress and then return to relieve
Mr. Springer. He was alone with
(Jon. (Jaifield when he opened his
eyes to consciousness. The General
looked wildlv about the bare room of
tbe bathing station as he said, in a
bewildered way, "What has happen
ed ?"
"You had a sudden attack of ver
tigo when bathing, said Mr. Springer.
Gen. (Jarfield at once said, with
great promptness: "This must be kept
from my family. It would frighten
them to death."
Mr. Springer assurrvd him that the
matter should l>e kept sceret. So se
vere was the attack that (Jen. Garlield
was not able to get up front the bed
unassisted. lie was carried to the
hotel, where he wa- obliged to remain
in bed for several days, before he was
able to go home. He never did np
penr ns a witness before the Potter
committee. The gentlemen who wit
nessed his attack sicurcd the suppres
sion of all mention of it at the time in
the newspapers. A week or ten days
later there was a brief paragraph
printed, merely saying that Gen. (Jar
field Inn! la-en taken suddenly ill at
Atlantic City, and for that reason had
been prevented from appearing as a
witness before the committee. Noth
ing more than this mere meution has
ever been made, however.
THE CE led rated Doctor Dumoulin,
being surrounded in his last moments
hy many of his fellow physicians who
deplored his loss, said to them, "Gen
tlemen, I leave behind me three great
physicians." Every one thinking him
sell to be one of the three pressed him
to name them ; upon whioh he replied,
'Cleanliness, exercise, and moderation'
in eating."
As editor in Georgia says: "Gold
is found in thirtv-six counties in this
ntate, silver in three, copper in thir
teen, iron in forty-three. diamonds in
twenty six, and whiskey in ail of them;
and the last gets away with all the *
rest.