SsBiBW aigpiui i,mu--a- .1 i. .i mi II. i.uiuhuj iu nii i. n .1 1 .,,,,....,,,,,,.. ,,.......,. iimi. -I.. ....i 1.. ........J..,- . 11 ih.j ,....... ui. .... I........ ... ..j.ii 11 f...iuimjni81ynM.i u. u 'ii'" r.'Tim'Tri' '"i i" i'"i'i ills. Ht Mfc yj. aj MsTTI tB T III I rnmMTTl tMimrm I ' Ml 3 E PITTSBURG DISPATCH. r . . - ; r ; , ''-:.. v .ik - V i IV - -u A -"" - -- ' ITC T BvsnsB W M TH PAGES 17 TO 20. " "1 ; --1 THIRD PART. PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1890. BANKS UNO BUTLER. Carpenter's Gossip of Two In teresting Characters. RUSSELL SAGE'S MILLIONS. A Sunday He Couldn't Afford More Than $1 for Missions. JOE BLACKBtTCN'S DEUXKEN JEHU rCOEBXSPOXDEXCE OF THE DISPATCH. "Washington, April 19. ENEKAL BEN BUT LER has been spend ing considerable time in the two Houses of Congress during the past month. He is as bright as a dollar, as lat as butter, as rosy as a milk maid, and his eye which used to be cocked is now as I straight as a string. I (made a study of him ' from the Press Gallery I to-day, and I saw that he took in the House without spectacles. The scar from the surgical operation repairing his ' eyes was not to be seen, though he was not 20 feet away from me, and his sight is now as good as that of any public man in the United States. General Butler was sitting side by side with that other Massachusetts septuagena rian, General N. P. Banks. The two made & remarkable picture. Both men are long past their seventies, and the skins of both are rosy with the iron in their blood, and they both show sap in brains and limbs. Both hare been many times in Congress. Both have served as Governors of Massachu setts. Both made national reputations during the war, and when General Butler left New Orleans General Banks took com mand in his place. Since then both have been in the thick of public affairs, and both are still keeping their fingers on the key board to which are attached the political wires of the United States. TDK DAVIS WAS SUPBEHE. General Banks is the elder of the two, and he was a national character when Ben But ler was still practicing law at Lowell, and was investing his surplus funds in buying little houses at auction, and thus laying the foundation of his big fortune. It was then that N.P.Banks was the candidate lor Speaker of the anti-Sonthern element of Congress, and the contest was so close that for two months the ballcting went on. One hundred and thirty-three ballots were taken before Banks was elected, and he was the leader for that Congress of the North against the South. I chatted with him the other day as to the influence which Jefferson Davis held in that Congress and with the administration ot President Pierce; and he illustrated hi statement by giving a descrip- An Interesting Couple. tion of a call which he then made upon Caleb Cushing, who was then Attorney General. Congressman Banks had a Massachusetts man with him for whom he wished to ret an office, and he wanted Cushing, who was also n Massachusetts man to help him to it. Attorney General Cuabine was supposeJ to have the command of the appointment. General Banks presented his irieudand asked for it. General Cushing replied that he could not grant it, as the office had been asked for by Jefferson Davis, "and," said Cushing, "it should be thoroughly under stood, and it will certainly be known soon, it it is not known now, that nothing can be gotten from this present administration without the consent of Jefferson Davis." Davis dominated Congress as well as the President, and it was the coalition made against him and his friends that elected Banks Speaker. A CONTRAST IN 'WOBI.DI.Tr GOODS. A movement to place General Banks on the retired list of the army as Major General will probably pass. He is, I understand, not in good circumstances and the contrast between him and Butler in this respect is remarkable. Butler is worth his millions. He makes, it is said, 10,000 a month at the law and he still owns his "Washington man sion with its big mortgage. He has invest ments all over the United States and he has been largely interested in West Virginia mines. His law practice at "Washington is so great that he keeps an office here in a little white brick building just across from the Capitol, and he can step out from his papers into the Supreme Court room and open his mouth at the rate ot a dollar a word almost any day of the week. He is one of the hard est workers of the lawyers who practice be fore the Supreme Court, and he scruples not to burn the midnight oil upon occasion. He uses a stenographer and typewriter to help along his work, and he is as methodical as the calculators of the Treasury He never destroys a letter and as a rule answers all of his immense correspondence. He notes on the back of every letter he receives its con tents, and in shorthand notes the answer which has been sent to it These letters are filed away and General Butler can lay his band on anything he wants at a moment's notice. His correspondence would make a vory interesting book, and it is said he began work upon his memoirs some years ago, but .he matter seems to have been dropped. butleb's two peculiarities. Two curious things abont Butler are his jigar and bis buttonhole bouquet The but tonhole bouquet he wears summer and win ter, year in and year out The cigar he wears between his lips periodically every day, but, unlike the flowers in his button hole, you never get any fragrance from them. He is one of the dry smokers of the United State, and in this he surpasses General "W. T. Sherman. He will take a Havana cigar and, putting the lighting end in his mouth, will suck and chew and think and talk, and think and talk and suck and chew, for hours at a time. Now and then, as he becomes animated, he will take the halt chewed cigar from his rosy lips and gingerly lay it down upon the table while he utters a paragraph. At the close he picks it up, blows at it to remove any particles of dust that may adhere to it and puts it back borne, between his teeth. General Butler has little respect for the A3 H vinT iHtTln r I eiA m I J S divinity which hedges the Judges of the Supreme Court, but he has not tried a dry smoke in the court room for the last three years. He tried it once, but Marshal Nico lay made- him take the cigar out of his moth, and though Butter said he was not smoking he would not permit him to chew it The Supreme Court cets more dignified as it grows older, and some of the Judges look upon themselves as judicial gods. It was different 50 years ago when Henry Clay practiced in the same way that Butler does now, and when he once stopped in his speech and walked up to the Chiet Justice's bench and asked His Honor to give him a pinch oi snuff. rUNEBAL OP HENBT CLAY. Speaking ot Henry Clay, General Banks attended his luueral in the Capitol at "Wash ington, and he tells me it was the most im pressive scene he ever witnessed. Clay died in 1852, and the luueral ceremonies were held in the rotunda under the dome. This vast hall was packed with spectators, and while the sermon was being preached a great storm came up. The thunder roared and the lightning flashed and ths crowd, half- jWJ VttL, ? Russell Sage's Contribution. shrouded in darkness, was illumined now and then by the great sheets of flame which shot across the heavens. After the funeral the corpse was taken to Philadelphia, stop ping at the cities on the way, and General Banks accompanied the funeral cortege. This was a full generation and more aeo and General Banks, though he is fine look ing now, was then one of the handsomest young men of the United States. There is no finer painting among the portraits of the Speakers of the House than his and now in his seventies he is as straight as a Nor wegian pine. He is tall and slender and his long narrow face has a high forehead from under which shine out friendly blue eyes. His head is covered with a thick thatch of silver hair and this is brushed well up from the forehead. He is one of the most observed men of the House and he always has a crowd of callers about his desk. As I chatted wih him the other day, an old negro with an army medal tied into one of the frayed buttonholes of his vest, came up and with his face shining with admiration said: "How is yon, General, and don't you remember me? I am one of your old sol diers." "Are you, indeed?" replied Banks reach ing out his hand, "and were you with me at Port Hudson?" "Yes, sah, I was there and I Bailed through all the shot and shell, sab, and I want to say that I'm glad 1 done it, sah, and I would do it again if you was over me, sah." The General thanhed the man for his good will and referred to the scenes at Port Hudson as the most exciting and dangerous of the war. Firrr times a millionaire. I saw Russell Sage in the Arlington Hotel last night, and speaking of Banks recalls the fact that Sage was in Congress when Banks was making this noted contest for the Speakership. Sage managed his can vass and he was one of the youncest mem bers of Congress. He made a -good record and he did his best to get the United States to bur Mount Vernon, but couldn't make it. He is now in "Washington looking alter the school lands which it is claimed have been unjustly appropriated by Cornell Uni versity. This college is one of Mr. Sage's pet charities, and it is said that he has given several large fortunes to it I thought of this as I looked at him in the Arlington Hotel last night. A rather tall man of 70, his white whiskers well trimmed and his upper lip clean shaved, he looked more like a preacher than the noted "king of puts and calls," and he was the last man yon would take for a "Wall street speculator. He is worth, it is said, about 550,000,000, and he always has a million or so in the bank ready for any turn that may come up. He appreciates, however, the loss of interest if nothing offers and it worries him to think he has to lose on this money between Satur day and Monday as the Stock Exchange is not open bunday, and besides JMr. bage is a church-goer. lake most millionaires, how ever, he watches the small corners in chari ties and gives in a lump. Not long ago Dr. Paxton preached an eloquent sermon on missions and at its close be urged the con gregation to give liberally. Ex-Secretary ot the Treasury Benjamin H. Bristow, was sitting just in front ot Sage and as the usher started up the aisle with the plate ne turned round to Sage and said: A DOLLAK HIS LIMIT ON MISSIONS. "Well, Sage, whatare you going to give?" Sage opened his closed hand and showed a silver dollar. "Oh, is that all?" said Bristow. "I'll go you 25 better." "No, you don't," said Sage. "I can give as much as you can," and with that he put his hand in his pocket, drew out a roll and counted ont five crisp five-dollar bills. It Blackburn's Wild Ride. may be that the bills were new, and that their beauty appealed to him, but at any rate Sage held these bills in his hand tight ly clasped until the plate got close to him, and then thrusting them spasmodically into his pocket he put the silver dollar into the plate with a jerk. Bristow caught his eye as be did so, and Mr. Sage whispered: "I can't do it, Bristow, I've got 53,000,000 lying idle in the bank, and I'm not getting a cent of interest on it. I'd like to do it, but I can't." Russell Sae is said to be one of the most even-tempered millionaires in the United States. You notice no change in his features alter a bad day in "Wall street, and if he makes a pile he does not become over elated. He is a man without enemies, and he is a sort of father to the present Congress men "when he goes about among them. He calls each member "My son" as he lobbies in favor of his charities, and he has a sort of patriarchical patronizing air about him which is fatherly and brotherly and almost motherly. He attributes his good health and sustained vigor in his old age largely to his habits. ,' ME. SAGE'S HABITS. ' He gets up and roes to bed at abont the same hours the year round, and he rises be- HIS jy&" ' tween 6:30 and 7, and turns over the second time before going to sleep everv night be fore the clock has struck 11. He eats his breakfast an hour after rising, and is a great advocate of the healthfulness of wheaten grits and baked apples. A chop, an egg and a roll, some baked potatoes, a cup of coffee, the grits and the apple, costing all told not more than 50 cents at a marketing, are all that tickle his $50,000,000 palate every morning, and he goes to bed after a supper quite as simple, washing down the homemade bread with a cup of black tea. He is regular in his exercise, drives a good horse, drinks but little that intoxicates, and does not even smoke in Ben Butler's dry way. He has not grown a year older in a decade, and he will last till he drops to pieces all at once like the old deacon's chaise. Senator Bate, of Tennessee, gives roe some interesting matter about Mark Twain's father. Everybody knows Colonel Sellers, and most people are aware that the play is a dramatization of Mark Twain's book, "The Gilded Ace." Eew know that the characters are taken from life, and that Colonel Sellers is a representation of Mark Twain's father, who was fully as visionary as Mark's fancy paints him. The Clemens family came from the mountains of Tennes see. Mark's father had put all the money he could make and scrape into the rough lands of the Tennessee Mountains. He owned thousands of acres about him, and he would look over these and say, "These lands are underlaid with the finest of coal and iron. There's millions in theml Mil lions! Millions!" A FOBTUNE "WENT FOB A SONG. At that time, however, the lands were worth nothing. Everyone laughed at Mark's father, and Mrs. Clemens, who was of & more practical and ambitious turn than her husband, urged that they sell the property and move into civilization. She finally per suaded him to do this. The lands brought a mere song, and the family went to Mis souri, where Mark Twain first saw the light of day. The recent developments in Tennessee, says Senator Bate, have made these lands which Colonel Sellers-Clemens owned im mensely valuable. They contain valuable deposits of coal and iron as old man Clemens stated, and did Mark Twain own them to-day he might have a bigger busi ness than in his book publishing and book writing. He isnow worth a million. Had his father stuck to his land? and to bis theories he might have been worth his tens of millions. Had the fortune come, how ever, during Mark's childhood, the vorld would have lost a hundred million laughs. "Innocents Abroad" would never havo been written, and the "Prince and Pauper" would probably have remained unpenned. Senator Bate tells me that the Eugby colony is doing very well, and that the lands which they own are growing valuable. Senator Joe Blackburn, ot Kentucky, had a ride the other day quite as wild as that of Sheridan on his way to "Winchester. It was the day of the races and Senator Blackburn and Correspondent Stealer, of the Courier Journal, had driven out together. They were in a closed coupe to which was hitched a tall, thoroughbred Kentucky sorrel, man aged by a big colored driver. "This horse," said Senator Blackburn, "is a goer, and he will take us to the race track inside of 12 minutes." His prophecy became true, and the two were driven out at the rate ot 16 miles an hour. It happened to be a big day for Ken tucky and the horse named after Senator Beck made the best run of the day. A HALF DOLLAB TO THE DEIVER. Both Blackburn and Stealey had invested slightlj in the French mutual pools, and Blackburn was so happy over his winnings that in a spasmodic fit of generosity he gave a half dollar to the driver. "With this half dollar the driver managed to get gloriously drunk before the races were over, and when Senator Blackburn and Correspondent Stealey were ready to go home he could hardly sit upright Senator Blackburn told Stealey that the man had promised to take them back in ten minutes. This was just as the 'horse started, irudtheirtwo men inside the coupe could sea through the glass doors the driver reeling from side to side. "The man is drunk," said Stealey, "and I'm afraid he'll kill us." "Yes," said Blackburn, "that's all right! He's just drunk enough to drive well." All this time the driver was lashing the Kentucky sorrel and Blackburn's rig shot out and in among the teams and around cor ners and over gutters at a 2:30 pace. Black burn and Stealey poked their heads out of the windows and tried to veil to him. but be would not listen but only whipped up harder than eyer. "We shall certainly be killed' said Stealey, and Blackburn replied: "I am a believer in predestination, and if fate has ordered that we are to die this way we can't help it I think we're destined to be saved and we will get through." Just before reaching theEbbitt House the driver dropped his whip and he whirled the horse, running as he was, five times around 'in a ring in the endeavor to strike the exact spot where it lay. He finally got it and then continued his 2:40 gait to the Ebbitt House. Both Stealey and Black bum look upon their escape as miraculous. Eeank G. Cabpenteb. THE MAK-EATIKG TiGEK. An Instance of lue Extreme Boldness of the Animal When Hnncry. New York Son. The man-eating tiger is often extremely bold. At Aliwar in the Nefal district of India lately a woman was cooking at a fire on the north side of the village, not over ten feet from the door at which her husband and three children sat, when a tiger, who had come out of the ravine and kept the cover of some bushes, sprang upon her. This was just at sundown. The spring of the tiger knocked the woman into the fire. He seized her by the foot and drew her out, and, although her clothing was on fire, he took hold of her shoulder, gave her body a twist to throw the weight on his back, and was off at a rnn. The woman must have been killed by the blow of his paw as he sprung, as she made no cry. ACCUMULATING FAT. Men of Active Hnnltn na Likely to SutTcr as Indolent Ones. Fat seems to be accepted nowadays as an indication of self-indulgence and indolence, but a little observation overthrows the be lief. The famous Daniel liambert weighed more than 700 pounds, and was not quiet G feet tall, his vast bulk never seeming to in commode him. "When he weighed over 400 he waited long distances with less fatigue than was endured by his companions who weighed comparatively nothing, and until shortly before his death he was actie in field exercise. He never spent .-uii time in bed, sleeping less than eight hours in the 21, was a moderate eater, and drank only water. LIVING IN NEW TORE. Itemized Stnremcnt by a Itlnn Who Gets a Tiionnnnd a Year. A young man of New York, who has a family of three and gets $1,080 per year salary, itemizes the expenses of the year, as follows: House rent at $25 $300 00 Ninety cents a week for washing and ironing 46 SO Coal, and getting into cellar 22 00 Kindling wood 3 00 Ice. 18 weeks at 50 cents 8 00 Fire insurance 2 50 Light 3 cents per day 10 93 Meat and groceries. $35 per mouth 420 00 Doctor's bills, per year. 50 00 Church and chant; per year, not one- tenth ot what I receive 50 00 This leaves him $166 15 to clothe four people and buy a few ot the luxuries and pleasures of this life. A FAMOUS LIBRARY. Something About the Beading Koom of the British Museum. THE COST LESS THAN A MILLM. Dimensions of the Dome and the Arrange ments for Comfort. FACILITIES FOE HANDLING B00K8 rwnrrTEN fob tub dispatch. : For 40 years past I have been a fairly steady reader under the great dome ot the quiet and grand old room in Bloomsburg, England, so well-known to countless stu dents, scholars, poets and literary men, not only throughout England, but most Euro pean nations. I can therefore speak of it as a place that I know with all its peculiar ways and usages; its especial features, ad vantages and comforts. Many and many a long day have I spent there; many happy ones, and many a day of downright, hard toil. Since my first day there it has undergone many changes; bat changes needing no fur ther notice here, for the simple reason that they have all been for the good of the read ers, and have left it in that serene state of quiet and easy comfort which will benefit the nation that owns it and the age of intel lectual progress which it adorns. The only question in the minds of some men is whether the accommodation for readers there is not too luxurious aud comfortable a cast tor the student really in quest of knowledge who come to work and not simply to while away an hour over the last new novel, mag azine or review. THE ACCOMMODATIONS OFFEEED. Of the general plan of the reading room, the various libraries adjoining, and helping to feed, it, a glance at the accompanying ground plan will at once give a clear idea: In the center ot the room, at A, are the at tendants, major and minor, all men of edu cation and intelligence, always ready and able to give valuable information. To one of these the reader presents his ticket (duly filled up from the catalogue), naming the exact title of the book he needs for study, virvnerl with 111 mvn nnmn nn tiowinir noted on it the number of the seat he is oc- ' : I nnnrin(ffl I ,ii nn-rnn I I CZl I ll 1 UD I ' . iDiini TQrT J in PLAN OF THE BEADING A. Superintendent B. Cataloeue Tables. C. Readers' Tables. D. Access for Attendants. E. Entrance from Royal Library. F. Entrance from North Library. G. For Rejristration of Copyrights H. Ladies' Cloik Room. J. Attendants' Room. cupying. "Within a certain number of min utes the book will be brought to him at that seat, in one of the 20 long blocks of desks, etc., which radiate from the center of the plan. There is good accommodation, for upward of 600 or 700 readers, each having provided for him a library chair on castors, a blotting pad, his own special ink stand, rack, pens and pen wiper. He cau, by merely asking for them, have as many books in reason as he chooses to require. The trustees, well supplied with Govern ment funds, provide all things necessaryfor the equipment of the student but brains. Of this final requisite each lady and each gentleman has to provide the due amount for her or himself, and to carry on the work of research, study, compilation or original composition in profound silence, allowance being made only for occasional sneezing, a stray cough and blowing of the nasal organ. "Speech," said the sage of Chelsea, "is silvern, silence of gold," and if ever that oracular dictum needs special enforcement it is here among the daily host of full 500 devourers of printed matter, many of them belonging to that charming sex to whom a word of whispered talk is as the very breath of life and happiness. SOME OF THE STATISTICS. During the year 1886 (of about 300 days) upward of 500,000 volumes were handed out for the use of readers, under the great dome, books of all ages and sizes; on ail possible subjects; in all languages, living and dead; and for a wide variety ot nurposes, if one may conjecture on so obscure a point. Some, no doubt, are used for downright actual study, to gain a knowledge of the author as a whole. Some are dipped into for five or ten minutes to verify a reference; some opened again and again daily for months, or even years, for translation; aud some, again not a few are never even once opened. "Why on earth they have been printed out in the catalogue, asked lor, found and brought to this solitary student, and never looked at, heaven only knows. I vouch for the fact only. For three whole consecutive days did I sit next to a young ascetic in a velvet shooting jacket; each day were three large folios brought to him and solemnly laid on his desk, and there they rested until 6 F. U., untouched; while Juvenis read a novel fetched out ot a neighboring shelf and refreshed his outward man with au oc casional sandwich and a glass of sherry, which he fondly imagined that no eye beheld, bnt his own. If he should ever chance to meet with this number of The Pittsbubg Dispatch, he will surely be amused with this easy transit to immortality and rejoice more than ever in the old 'tag' Sic itur ad astra. NO LACK OF EVIDENCE. It he doubts the truth of my sketch of him and sajs that he opened and read the folios on the days when f. was not there let him appeal to that charming young student from Girton, who sat next to him, robed in a dainty gray dress, with a white rose in her bosom, who was steadily grinding away at quadratic equations for her next "exam." Blie will agree with me and find Juvenis guilty as a sham reader at the British Museum: He had much better subscribe to Mudie's, and honestly read and enjoy his I novel in broad daylight, every day aud all day if he thinks good. But. under that grand old, quiet dome, with its mighty treasure of a million and a half of printed books all waiting to be read neither he, nor any other of his butterfly tribe, has any right to appear. He is simply out of place; as a grasshopper might be in a conclave of the royal society. I have called the dome "grand," and not without reason. It has a diameter of 140 feet, and is 100 feet high; only inferior in the former respect to the Pantheon at Bome by two feet, the giant St. Peter's itself being only 139 and St. Paul's, London, 112. To the inexpressible comfort of all readers, old and young, male and female, they can breathe freely air as fresh as any bottled stmosphere to be found in Babylon out of the surrounding 1.250,000 cubic feet, or wander into the suburbs of adjacent library rooms and still find 750,000 feet of space to the good. COST OF THE LIBBABY. Taken in round numbers the total ex pense of building up this mighty dome and its adjacent libraries which feed'the central stream of books in daily demand was 150, 000; a comparatively small sum when one calls to mind how vast the store is and the countless host of readers it supplies with food not to be had elsewhere. "We talk calmly of a million and a half of printed volumes, and may well be in clined to boast of having found accommoda tion for them all in such a lashion that any single one of them, from the tiniest 18 mo. to the most gigantic folio can be laid hands on and brought to the desk within 10 minutes. So well has the work been done, and so perfectly does the whole machinery move, that Juvenis calmly reposing in his cozy chair affirms it to be as easy as clock work. Oil the wheels, and wind up the huge and complex horolage and the thing is done. Bravo! Juvenis. That point be ing thus easily settled perhaps you will be good enough to say how the chief librarian is to find room for his ever increasing family which at present is multiplying at the rate of 40,000 new volumes per annum and in this prolific age of book-making will soon rise to a still higher figure. EVEBT BOOK PBIKTED. By act of Parliament, with which Pater noster row dare not trifle, a copy of every volume printed within the realm of Great Britain must be forwarded to the British Museum, so that there is no chance of the tremendous yearly influx being in any way checked. And the worst of it is, not that a copy of every readable, good book must find its way to the great storehouse in Blooms bury, but also a copy of every volume of trash, however vile or worthless, has a right TT BOOM, BRITISH MUSEUM. K. Gentlemen's Cloak Room. L. For Gentlemen. M. Umbrella Room. N. Assistants' Room. to claim a place there and insist on being taken in. And now, when my space is all but ex hausted and the inexorable editor of The Dispatch graciously says, "Stay thy hand," I find that I have as yet left un touched a host of topics connected with the great library, that cry with loud and em phatic voice if but for a passing notice. Topics they are, indeed, of the most enticing aspect and most rare value: without'which my picture would be totally incomplete, and which I can only hope he will be graciously pleased to let me deal with in another column on some future day. Per haps, by that time Juvenis will have made up his mind how to provide for a family in creasing at the terrible ratio of 40,000 per annum. B. G. Johns. GREAT MEN'S DEBTS. How Itofm Cboate nnd Daniel Webiter Once Raised the Wind. Once upon a time Bufus Choate was in Washington and had spent all the money he had with him, besides exhausting his bank account by checks on it. He. and Daniel "Webster were alike in respect to bank ac counts, that they knew no other use for one than to proceed to exhaust it. But Choate needed money, and went to "Webster to bor row some. "I have got a dollar," said Webster, musingly, and then he added, "But see here, Choate, you say you want $500. Make out your note for that amount, I'll indorse it and Corcoran & Biggs will let you have the money." Choate immediately agreed, when "Web ster continued: "While you are at it you may as well make the note for a thousand and give me 5500, too." And so the note was drawn, and, remaining always unpaid, is retained as a souvenir in the banking house of Corcoran & Biggs at "Washington to this day. THE ALASKA BLACK BASS. One of the Gnmlest of Fishes That is Very Abundant There. Alaska is a sportsman's paradise. The black bass is abundant. A writer describes an experience as follows: "Our bait con sisted of needle fish (sand eel with us), ob tained at low tide and dug from the sand. The hooks had barely sunk beneath the sur face when both poles were suddenly dashed into the water by some unseen thing of ap parent great weight and strength. How they palled, plunging down, then drawing the line beneath the boat, and darting di rectly for us. "We at last conquered, and with the two lines twisted together we pulled into the boat two large aud beautiful black bass. Our luck continued until late in the even ing. The catch amonnted to some thing over 90 fish, ranging from one to six pounds in weight" Horsford's Acid Phosphate. Beware of imitations. NEWS ABOUT METALS. The Government Surrey Locating Mines for Gold flnnters. HOW THE YELLOW STDFF IS FODBD. A Corner in Platinum Threatened and a Plea for Dakota Tin. PHOTOGRAPHING FILMS OP STONE tCOMESPOHDEXCE Or TUB DISFATC3.1 "Washington, April 19. If yon want to go hunting for gold, apply to the Geological Survey at Washington tor the maps it is now getting out on a large scale, showing exact spots in California, nnd elsewhere in this country, that give promise of yellow wealth. It is generally supposed that gold is only found in stray places and isolated localities, whereas the fact is that it is the most widely distributed of all metals. Everv gravel-bank and sand bar is a mine of it, th only trouble being that there is not enough of the metal present to pay for the process of separating it There is not a cart load ot sand on the Atlantic and Pacific coast that will not yield at least a "color." Philadelphia is built on a soil that would very nearly, if not quite, pay for panning, just for the gold in it. The yellow mineral is everywhere, almost And why? Simply because all of it found in the world was originally deposited by sea water during those ages when the waves of ocean overflowed the continents. Under certain chemical conditions sea water will dissolve gold and hold it in solution, and thus it happened that daring the epoch re ferred to the ocean was a tincture of this metal. Gold was one of the elements enter ing into the original composition ot the form ing earth crust,and the sea water held it sus pended for a time and finally deposited it, as if with the intention of putting a coat of gilding on the globe. THE CALIFOBNIA FIELDS. But iu some places conditions were more favorable than in others for the reception of the deposit Eor instance, the Calitornia hills, in the process of formation, were by causes geological all crumpled up, so that cracks were left everywhere. In these gold collected with other minerals deposited in the same way, and in this manner were formed what are now called gold-bearing veins. It is believed by geologists that all the gold in the earth is on the surface of the globe or very near it. Quite otherwise is it with silver, which was all thrown up or iginally from the earth's bowels by volcanic action. Just as occurred in the case of gold, the floods of ocean took, up the silver and deposited it wherever circumstauces were favorable, as in,N,evada, where one silver bearing crack in the rocks, at "Virginia City, has already been mined to the depth of 2,200 feet without getting anywhere near the bottom. The processes employed by the Geological Survey in the examination of rocks are most interesting. To begin with, a chip of the stone to be investigated is ground down on one side with an emery wheel until .it is an absolute plane, perfectly polished. The polished side is then attached to a piece ot glass and the other side of the stone chip is applied to the emery wheel until the chip itselt is ground all away, save only a film of inconceivable thinness. This film is finally removed and placed upon a little glass "slide," and no the stone ib ready to be examined. ' L ' - EHOTOGEAPHS'OFTHE-SIONE. For this purpose it is put under a power ful microscope, in which an arrangement is provided for polarizing light Xiooked at through the instrument in the ordinary way, the film of stone, which resembles a mere blot of discoloration on the glass to the naked eye, is exhibited merely magni fied enormously. Bnt when by the turn of a screw the light is polarized, the object is suddenly dressed in the most gorgeous col ors of the rainbow, each element found in the rock taking on a hue of its own brill iant bine, red, green or what not Photo graphs are taken of the little films of stone with a micro-camera. It only remains now to paint the photograph with water colors precisely as the same object appears to the epe through the microscope, with the aid of polarized light, and you have a permanent picture record of that particular kind of rock. Something happened the other day that shows one use of a practical sort to which the study of rocks may be put. Out in the wild West a mailbag was emptied of valua ble contents by parties unknown and filled with stones. The loss was not discovered until the bag reached its destination, and no one had any notion where the theft was committed within a thousand miles of the journey. Bnt a petrologist was shown the rocks, and he said at once that there was only one place in the United States where such were to be found. He told where the place was, and a detective going there it was 450 miles away found two Chinamen at work in au isolated spot where, it was subsequently remembered, the robbed train had stopped for water. He promptly charged them with the crime, aud they were so taken by surprise that they confessed it So muctffor rocks. . PLATINUM AND TIN. Platinum has risen 100 per cent in value within the last year, and no reason seems to exist for supposing that it will ever go down again. "Four-fifth? of the platinum that sup plies the world is obtained from two mines at Nishnee-Tagilsk and Goro-Blagodat, in the Ural Mountains, Siberia," said Dr. David T. Day, of the Geological Survey, yesterday. "Platinum and gold are usually found together. Th6 deposits of the Ural are mined, not for platinum primarilvfbut for the more precious yellow stuff" the platinum is a 'by-product' But now the gold has become scarce and they are forced to depend to a greater extent upon the platinum for their profits. Of that metal, happily, there is plenty left. Laborers are also scarce, being at work on the Trans Siberian Railway. At present, also, the big dealers are buying up all the old platinum they can lay their hands on, in anticipation of a further rise in price, so that a 'corner' seems to be arriving in the commodity. This accounts for the rise." 1 The capitalists interested in the develop ment of the great Dakota tin lodes are mak ing a tremendous effort to have a protective duty placed upon that metal. They ask ten years of such defcuse against foreign com petition, at the end of which time they are willing that the tariff shall be removed aud promise that the wonderful mines of the Black Hills will supply all the tin that this country cau use. These tin mines, they as sert, will be the most productive that the world has ever seen. Harney Peak and the rocky crags in its neighborhood are simply mountains of tin much of the ore being three-fourths composed of this valuable mineral. As things are now, they are not in a position to compete with the tin brought over from Singapore and Penang, which is mined by 400,000 coolies and Malays at al most no wages a day. Bene Bache. All Sorts and Conditions of Men Acknowledge the efficacy of Hostetter's Stom ach Bitters as a means of extirpating dys pepsia, constipation, malaria! and bilious troubles, nervous debility and kidney ailments. The learned and sacred professions, the press, the mercantile, manufacturing, asricmtural and mining communities have, for the past SO years, been tarnishing each their quota of tes timony in its behalf, until that has reached un wieldy but gratifying proportions, affording unequivocal proof that the public is discerning. rmmi twm WEITTEN FOB SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. The leadiner characters of the story are Geoffrey Bingham, a London barrister, and Beatrice Granger, daughter ot the rector of Bryngelly, on the Welsh coast, and village school teacher. Geoffrey 13 married to a titled woman. Lady Honoria, who married him for an expected fortune that did not materialize. She fretted at poverty and made life generally miserable for Geoffrey during his early strugcies. They have a daughter, Effie, a child of sweetest disposition. Wbil outing at Bryncelly, Geoffrey is rescued from drowning by Beatrice. In spite of themselves this incident developed into deep affection. Lady Honoria is not slow to see It and this makes mat ters worse between her and Geoffrey. Beatrice has a sister. Elizabeth. The family is poor and Elizabeth is ambitions to become the wife of '.Squire Owen Davies, who is rich, but stupid. He is madly in love with Beatrice, finally proposes to her, is rejected, but continues to annoy her with his attentions. During Geoffrey's stay at Bryngelly he received a brief in a celebrated law case. Beatrice reads it and hits upon the right theory of the case. Geoffrey returns to London, tries the case on Beatrice's theory and wins a great victory. It is his key to fortune. Henceforth money rolls in to him. He gratifies Lady ilonoria's every whim. Finally he is elected to Parliament, where he soon distinguishes himself. All this time he corresponds with Beatrice. Lady Honoria, at last realizing that her husband amounts to something, is more considerate in her treatment of him. but cannot extract herself irom the frivolous class of fashionable people she has cultivated. The poverty of thi Granger family becomes serious. Beatrice give up her salary to her father, but it is not sufficient. Mr. Grangers must borrow. Scheming Elizabeth takes advantage of this fact to compromise Beatrice in the eyes of Owen Davies. She sends her father to Geoffrey Bingham, who not only gives him 200. but agrees to visit Bryngelly. Before leaving home Lady Honoria charges Geoffrey with his tenderness for the pretty school teacher. He meets Beatrice unexpectedly, and on the impnlse of the moment confesses to her she Isthe only woman who can properly sympathize with him. It is a tempestuous moment to both another warning of the whirlpool toward which thev are drifting. Geoffrey also meets Owen Davies, who confesses hi3 unsuccessful suit for Beatrice's hand, and says her love for Geoffrey is the cause. He pleads for Geoffrey's help, and of course is treated with scorn. Owen talks more like an insane man than anything else. Elizabeth secretly rejoices. The next evening Beatrice and Geoffrey take a walk together, Geoffrey making bold to plead Owen Davis' case. Beatrice angrily reproaches him and at last bursts into a flood of tears. Then they fall into each other's arms and all is forgot in the tender expressions of their love. That night Geoffrey can not sleep, and is startled at last by Beatrice who in a somnambulistic state walks to bis room, awakes and, realizing the situation, swoons away. The crash of the doors awakes both Elizabeth and Mr. Granger. Geoffrey starts to carry the inanimate form of Beatrice to her room and nar rowly escar being discovered by Mr. Granger, who is up to see what caused the noise. As Geoffrey enu..s with his precious harden Elizabeth appears to sleep, bat in reality is alert to every move. Geoffrey puts Beatrice in her bed and retires. Next morning Mr. Granger's sus picions are turned aside with a' ghost story. Geoffrey returns to London, and Elizabeth, in order to explode the whole matter, writes an anonymous letter, reciting the events of the night, to Lady Honoria. CHAPTEE XXIY. LADY HONOBIA LEAENS PABT OP THE SECKET. In due course this charming anonymous letter reached Lady Honoria, bearing a London postmark. She read and reread it, and soon mastered its meaning. Then, after a night's thought, she took the "Biter's" ad vice and wrote to Elizabeth, sending her a copy of the letter (her own), vehemently re pudiating all belief in it, and asking for a reply that should dissipate this foul slander from her mind forever. The answer came by return. It was short and artful. "Dear Lady Honoria Bingham," it ran, "you must forgive me if I decline to an swer the questions in your letter. You will easily understand that between a desire to preserve a sister's reputation and an incapa city (to be appreciated by every Christian) tojspeak other than the truth it is possible for a person to be placed in the most cruel of positions a position which I am sure will command even your sympathy. BEATRICE P.EADS though under such circumstances I have little right to expect any from a wife be lieving herself to have been cruelly wronged. Let me add that nothing short of the com pulsion of a court of law will suffice to un seal my lips as to the details of the circum stances (which are, I trust, misunderstood) alluded to in the malicious anonymous let ter of which you inclose a copy." That very evening as the Fates would have it, Lady Honoria and her husband had a quarrel. As usual, it was about Ffne, for on most other subjects thev preserved an armed neutrality. Its details need not be entered into, but at last Geoffrey, who was in a sadly irritable condition of mind, fairly lost his temper. "The fact is," he said, "that you are not fit to look after the child. You only think of yourself, Honoria. She turned on him with a dangerous look upon her cold and handsome face. "Be careful what you say, Geoffrey. It is you who are not fit to have the charge ot Effie. Be careful lest I take her away from you altogether, as I can if I like." "What do you, mean Dy that threat?" he asked. "Do you want to know. Then I will tell you. I understand enough law to be aware that a wife can get a separation from an un faithful husband, and, what is more, can take away his children." "Again I ask you what you mean," said Geoffrey turning cold with anger. "I mean this, Geoffrey. That "Welsh eirl i your mistress. She passed the night of Whit-Sunday in your room, and was carried from it in your arms." "It is a liel" he said; "she is nothing of the sort. I do not know who gave you this information, but it is a slanderous lie and somebody shall suffer for it." "Nobody will suffer for it, Geoffrey, be cause you will not dare to stir the matter up for the girl's sake if not for your own. Can you deny that you were seen carrying her in your arms from your room on Whit Sunday night? Can you deny that yon are in love with her?" "And supposing that I am in love with her, is it to be wondered at, seeing how you treat me and have treated me for years?" he answered, furiously. "It is utterly false to say that she is my mistress!" "You have not answered my question," said Lady Honoria, with a smile of triumph. "Were you seen carrying that woman in your rms, and from your room at the dead of night? Of course it meant nothing, noth ing at all. Who would dare to asperse the character of this perfect, lovely and intel lectual schoolmistress? I am not jealous, Geoffrey " "I should think not, Honoria, seeing how things are." "I am not jealous, I repeat, bnt please s1etoi ftMvt &raxjMiMjf't THE DISPATCH. I understand that I will not have this go on, m your own interests ana mine. Why, what a fool you must be. Don't yon know that a man who has risen, as you have, has a hun- , dred enemies ready to spring on him like a pack of wolves and tear him to pieces? "Why many of even those who fawn upon you and flatter you to your face hate you bitterly in secret, because you have succeeded where they have failed. Don't you know also that there are papers here in London which would give hundreds of pounds for the chance of publishing such a scandal as this, especially against a powerful political opponent? Let it once come ont that this obscure girl is your distress" 'Honori3, 1 tell you she is nothing of the sort. It is true I carried her from my room in a fainting fit, but she came there in her sleep." Lady Honoria laughed. "Beally, Geoff rey, I wonder that you think it worth while to tell me such nonsense. Keep it for the Divorce Court, if we ever get there, and see what a jury say3 to it. Look here; be sen sible. I am not a moralist, and I am not going to play the outraged wife unless you force me to it. I do not mean to take any further notice of this interesting little tale THE LETTEES. as against you. But if you go on with it, beware! I will not be made to look the fool. If you are going to be rained you can b ruined by yourself. I warn you frankly, that at the first sign of it, I shall put my self in the right by commencing proceed ings against you. Now, of course, I know this, that in the event of a smash you would be glad enough to be rid of me in order that you might welcome your dear Beatrice in my place. But there are two things to re member: First, that you could not marry her. supposing vou to be idiot enough to wish to do so, because I should only get a judicial separation, and you would still have to support me. Secondly, if I go, Effie goes with me, for I have a right to claim her at law; and tha fact, my dear Geoffrey, makes me mistre'sa of the situation, because I do not suppose that you would part with Effie even for the sake of Miss Beatrice. And now I will leave you to think it over," and with a little nod she sailed out of the ' room, completely victorious. She was in deed, reflected Geoffrey, "mistress of the situation." Supposing that she brought a suit against him where would he be? She must have evidence, or she would not have known the story. The whole drama had clearly been witnessed by some one, proba bly either by Elizabeth or the servant girl, and that some one had betrayed it to Hono ria and possibly to others. The thought made him sick. He was a, man of the world and a practical lawyer, and though, indeed, they were innocent, he knew under the cir cumstances few would be found to believe it At the very best there must be a terrible and shocking scandal, aud Beatrice would lose her good name. He placed himself in the position of counsel for the petitioner in a like case, and thought how he would crush and crumple such a defense in his address to the jury. A probable tale, forsooth! Undoubtedly, too, Honoria would be act ing wisely from her point of view. Public sympathy would be with her throughout He knew that, as it was, he was generally believed to owe much of his success to his handsome and high-born wife. Now it would be said that he had used her as a lad der and then thrown her over. With all this, however, he might cope; he could even bear with thevulgar attack of a vulgar press, and the jibes and jeew of his political and personal enemies, but to lose Effie he could not bear. And if such a case were brought against him it was almost certain that he would lose her, for, if he was worsted, custody of the child would be given to the) injured wife. Then there was Beatrice to be considered. The same malicious toneue that had revealed this matter to Honoria would probably re veal it to the rest of the world, and' even if he escaped the worst penalties of outraged morality, they would certainly be wreaked r
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