.HHHIHHIISmr TBBBWWffliHoffllBHnlBpBCTffWK-BJinaBBwfflBT j WmmHIPffiBrotBfi p t : & THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. PAGES 17 TO 20. K"W THIRD PART. fflp 4 , i 1 I UWANDSTAHSMEH. Oyer Half the Congressmen Are Legal Lights. FEES PAST AND PEESENT. The First Cases of Men Who Have Become World-Famous. E7ARTS WORK IN SEATING HATES ICOKBXErOXDEXCE OP TH DIBrATCH. J "Washington, May 24. HE lawyers of Con gress! Their name is legion. They pepper the House and the Sen ate. Yon find them on every street corner in "Washington, and alter they leave public life 111 they settle down here to W practice. Of the 412 members of this Con cress 288 are lawyers. The Speaker is a law yer. All of the leaders of the House are law yers ana more man three-fourths of the men who hold down those soft 55.000 cushions in the Senate are, or were, limbs of the law. It has been so since the beginning of the Government. The law is a stepping-stone to politics. Clay, "Webster and Calhoun were all lawyers. Jefferson was making $5,000 a year at the law when he married. Madison and Monroe had each studied law before tney got into politics. Tom Benton practiced in the Tennessee courts before he went to Missouri. Presidents Arthur, Hayes, Johnson and Lincoln practiced law and so did Pierce, Tyler. Fillmore, Martin Tan Bnren, Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. Buchanan made 5938 the first year he practiced and ten years later he had run bis fees up to 511,000 a year. He dropped the law when he got into politics, and this is the case with some of the publio men of to-dav. sheemax's staet in lite. John Sherman was admitted to the bar at 21, He studied law in his brother's office in the little town of Mansfield, O., and bor rowed 550 to go to Columbus to be admitted to practice before the Supreme Court. "When he came back bis brother took him into partnership and the two bad a very iair col lection husiness. John was soon able to save 5500 a year, and these savings well in vested formed the foundation of his fortune. It was about ten years alter this that be was elected to Congress and dropped his prac tice. He has not taken it up since and is a statesman pure and simple. It is different with other members of the Senate. I saw George F. Edmunds shaking the tew locks of nis bald head and spouting out an argument at the rate ol 510 a word in the Supreme Court yesterday. He is said to make 550,000 a year at the law, and I don't doubt it. "William M. Evarts makes five times as much as Chief Justice Poller out of his law practice, and Senator Mitch- McDonald, Garland and Wilson, ell, of Oregon, has scoreb of gilt-edged cases from the Northwest before the Su preme Court. He charges for nil of them, and does not act like Alexander H. Stephen", who used to trv the cises of his constituents for nothing. Both Clay and Webster got good fees for all they did, and a United ' States Senator once told me that "Webster used to take ees for making speeches on one side or the other of the bills which came be fore the Senate. He made lots of money, but saved none, and was in debt all the tiire he was in "Washington. THE TEES WERE MOEE MODEST. The fees of that timewere nothing in com parison with this, and Ben Bntler and George P. Edmunds make tens of thousands where the statesmen of the past made one. Hamilton made 510,000 a year on an aver age, it is said, and William Wirt thought he was doing well when hisyearly fees amount ed to 56,000. Alexander Stephens got single fees o 520,000, and it is said that Aaron Burr made 540,000 out of a single case. Boscoe Conkling received a cash retainer of 550,000 for advocating the interests oi the Apolltu aris Water Company before Secretary Fol ger, and Benjamin H. Brislow received 55,000 lor a short speech on the bill organiz ing tbe Bureau ot Engraving and Printing some years ago. A number or ex-Cabinet ministers are now practicing law here. Their high stand ing gives them a wonderful influence in the departments and they can tret immense fees for their work before the Honse and Senate committees. Ex-Secretary George Bout well has been practicing here for some years. Attorney General Garland has an office here, and ex-Secretary Belknap has a good practice. Ex-Congressmen as lawyers are as many as the leaves of Valambnm; and ex-Senators are everywhere. Joseph E. McDonald is a regular practitioner in the Washington courts and at the Capitol. Jeremiab Wilson, once a member from In diana, makes 550,000 a year as a Washing ton lawyer, and the fees of Judge Shella barger. who was a noted Ohio Congressman in tbe sixties, amount to ten times a Con gressman's salary. Phil. Thompson, of Kentucky, is practicing in Washington, and as for ex-bureau lawyers you find them by the dozens. I understand that Ben But terworth will drop the unprofitable field of politics to go into the more profitable one of the law at tbe close of his term, and be could, if be would, have a bigger patent business than anv other man in the country. A GKEAT CCIMXXAX, LAWTEK. Of the lawyers now in the United States Senate Dan Voorhees is perhaps the best in criminal cases. Ot the murderers among bis clients none have ever been hanged, and he can bring the tears to tbe eyes of tbe jury in any case he pleads. He defended one of the members of John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry, and he gets the biggest fees o f.li is kind, enator Spooner was making 510,000 a ill! ti i" iritetwRHSi EjjjebpTIS fe J; jesr lauruuu lawyer wnen lie was yjelecled, and he is said to have one of the "clearest legal minds in the United States. ' A'llison was known as a good lawyer in Ohio Ijefore he went to Iowa, and there are lew better lawyers in tbe country to-day than oldlSenator Joe Brown, of Georgia. Ttrun iisfta isell-made man from the ground ? " " i" ui neera r icarea mat ne couiu not uo 10 again, ana be to the South Carolina Academy where he was educated and got the master to take the steers in payment ior his board and tui tion. It was here that he got the rudiments that enabled him to begin the study of the law, nd he taught school after this and studied law at the same time. He borrowed enough money to give him a vear at the Yale Law School, and improved his time so well that he was able to make 51,200 during the first year of his practice. He pushed his earnings from this steadily up until they reached $3,000, and he in vested all his savings well. The first 5450 he made went into a piece of land with a copper mine on it, and he sold the half in terest of this later for 525.000, which he in vested in farms and which lormed the basis of the immense fortune which he now owns. He is worth 56,000,000. SPEAKER EEED AND THE iAW. Tom Heed studied law while he was teach ing school in California, and be would have been a rich man if he had stuck to the prac tice. Leland Stanford once told me that be mide 51,200 the first year that he practiced law in Wisconsin. He had one of the finest law libraries in the Northwest, and was do ing well when a fire broke out and ate up this and the 13 mortgages which then con tained the bulk of his accumulation. The result was that he was reduced to 5800, and rather than rebuild he decided to go to Cali loraia. He there became involved in busi ness and railroads, and instead of being a rich Wisconsin lawyer he has become the hundred millionaire TJn'ted States Senator. Senator Ingalls studied law in Massachu setts, and as soon as he was admitted to the bar started to Kansas with 570 in his inside pocket He opened an office near Atchison. His law library was made npot three books, and the whole of his furniture was a chair Evartt and Edmunds. and a table. His tirst client was a carpen ter, and his fee was paid in kind. He got a J taDie and a nign aesK ior niB legal services, and this desk, painted green, is kept in tbe Ingalls lamily to-day as one of its most precious pieces of furniture. It belongs to Ingalls' son, Ellsworth, who carried it with him to college and who probably now uses it as a part of his office furnituie in the, start ing of his law practice. SENATOR MITCHELL'S STAET. Senator Ingalls' office furniture recalls a story which Senator Mitchell told me about his early legal experience in Oregon. Mitchell had just 55 in bis pocket when he reached Portland, but he registered at tbe hotel as though he was a millionaire and en gaged rooms which cost him 520 a week. He rented a little eight by ten office, which had no furniture whatever in it, and he spent his 55 for a volume of the Statutes ol Oregon, and this constituted his whole library. He found he conld get trnsted lor hit board and his rent, but he was at a loss as to furniture. A friend of his gave him two chairs and he went to a carpenter and asked him to make a table for him on tick. Tbe carpenter coolly replied that, be did not do business that way and Mitchell finally obtained the nse of a desk in the adjoining office. He put ont his shingle and at the end of that year he had 26 out of the 62 cases that came before the court. His practice grew steadily and citizens ot Portland tell me that he was soon making 540,000 a year. He had one client, Ben Halliday, who paid him 510,000 a year ior a number of years, and he still makes some of the biggest fees of the coun try. One of Mitchell's first cases became famous in Oregon as the "Goose Case." A poor German owned four geese which were killed by a wealthy, but unscrupulous citizen of Portland. The German retained Mitchell and the wealthy man employed "Liumlelet" AVilliams. The damages claimed were 520, but the rich man BY PERJUBINO HIMSELF got a verdict in his favor. The German was in despair, but Senator Mitchell, know ing the character of the rich defendant, advised his client to take a back seat in the leading saloon of the place that night, to see if the man would not acknowledge that he had shot the geese, in the presence of witnesses and if he did so to note their names. It tnrned out as he thought. The rich man made a night of it and celebrated his victory by treating his friends. He told George, Walthall and Eustis. them that be had shot the Dutchman's geese, but "that blanked little Pittsburg lawyer of a Mitchell couldn't prove it" Upon this Mitchell demanded a new trial and won the case. The rich man carried it to the Supreme Court and Mitchell again won and the result was that the man had to pay for the geese and to foot a bill of 5400 for the costs. The geese thus cost 5105 a piece. Nearly all the Southern Senators are lawyers. The late Senator Beck had a good practice in Kentucky before he came to Congress, and Blackburn can make a splen did speech before a jury. Bate, of Tennes see, was practicing in Nashville, and lelt his law office for the United States Senate and Governor "Vance is one of the leading lawvers or North Carolina. Bntler comes from a family of lawyers, and he studied in the office of his uncle, the Hon. A. P But ler. Senator Enstis, of Louisiana, is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, and he has been ior years Professor of Civil Law in the University of Louisiana. He comes of a very rich family, and he has had a number of noted lawyers among his an cestors. lamae's fibst pee was whisky. Senator Gibson is also a lawyer, and he is albO rich. George, of Mississippi, is not only a good lawyer, bnt he is a legal au thor, and hit frowsy head is packed full of legal facts. General Walthall was getting 510,000 a year as a railroad lawver wnen he was elected to the United States Senate, and he was at one time a partner of Justice Lamar. Lamar himseK has paid more at tention to books and literature than to the practice ot tbe law, bnt he has a good legal mind and he is a hard worker. Lamar's first- case wai the defending of a man who had whipped another, but icarea mat ne couiu not 00 1 wanted his rival bound over to keep the peace. Lamar succeeded in doing this, and received as his fee two jugs of handmade whisky. The late Sunset Cox tmt 2K fnr i tint law case and Henry Clav's first fee amounted to just 15 shillings. Kepresentative Hol man, the noted economist, learned how to skimp the Government by skimping his stomaoh to fit the size of a country Hoosler's legal salary, and John Allen, the funny mail irom Mississippi, mane nis nrst jokes belore the bar. Speaking of the investments of legal earnings some of the big fortunes have come from fees in kind which have been retained and have grown into millions. The late David Davis died a millionaire. The bulk of his fortune came from some lands about Chicago, which he was given for legal services which he got when be was a young man and when tbe lands were sup posed to he worth practically nothing. He held to them, and the city grew and the lands grew1 with it until they brought him in hundreds 01 thousands of dollars instead of a few hundred dollars. PATENTS AND LANDS AS PEES. It is so with many of the cases that come be ore many of the Washington courts, and before the departments. Patentlawyers ac cept sometimes interests in the patents they secure, and one ol the rich men of Washing ton is a patent lawyer named Anthony Pollock, who manages the Goodyear rubber patents. The land claims that come before Congress amount to millions of dollars, and when a lobby lawyer gets one through on the condition that he is to receive one-half or one-third he makes a big strike or nothing. When the electoral commission was settled there was considerable talk about tbe big fee that Senator Evarts received for his argu ment before the commission. The people supposed it to be thousands of dollars, and the truth is that Evarts did the work for nothing. Zach Chandler, who was then Chairman of the Republican National Com mittee, called upon him and asked him to take charge and select his own assistants. He then asked him what he would charge, saying that the Bepublican Committee was poor and they could not offer him a very large retainer. Evarts replied that as the matter was a public one be would make no charge, and Mr. Chandler told him he must at ltast allow him to pay his hotel expenses. He was at Washington at the time Chand ler came to see him and was stopping at Wormley's Hotel. He remained 30 days to try the case, and his bill for this time amounted to 5500, as he had had a number of friends to dinner. This was presented to the National Committee, but Chaudlerwas not present and it was not honored. When Evarts was told this he said be would pay the bill himself and he did so. Zach Chandler wanted to make it right, but Evarts would not hear of it, and the result was that he got 5600 less than nothing formaking one ol the greatest legal arguments of history. MANY THANK-YOTJ JOBS. One of the most constant practitioners be fore the Supreme Court at Washington is Ben Butler, and be probably makes more money there than any other lawyer in the country. He does an immense amount of thank-you business, and is always assisting some poor young man or some poor woman for nothing. Not long ago the boy of one of the brightest widows of the Interior Depart ment was seriously injured in a railroad ac cident. The accident was due to the care lessness of the officials and the railroad com pany was asked to make some compensation. This they refused to do, and the woman was in despair. She called upon Ben Butler at his office here and stated her case. He took it, tried it lor her and got her heavy damages 1 and would not accent a cent 01 pay. This is au instance that came under my personal vision, bnt it is only a sample ot many others of which I have heard. It was the same with Boscoe Conkling. He charged the millionaires, but worked for nothing for the poor. A highly cul tured widow 6fWashington whose property was tied up and was being unjustly appro priated by others through a supposed legal technicality, met Mr. Conkling in New York, and presented her case. He offered to take it up, bnt she told him she could not pay him. In the gentlest manner Conkling told her he would do it for nothing, and he then set the machinery of law in motion, which gave her back her little fortune. It did sot cost her a cent. Feank G. Caepenteb. BKW STREET CAB M0T0B, Compressed Air In small Quantities Said to be Practicable. Street cars are being run in England now by compressed air. but instead of carrying the motive material at a high pressure in large and heavy reservoirs through long dis tances, tbe car contains a small reservoir which takes in a fresh supply at intervals of half a mile. It is charged automatically in less than a minute from boxes which con nect with a main pipe line, the maximum pressure being 170 pounds to the square inch. The great advantage gained is a much lessened weight in proportion to that of the passenger, and the time occupied by them in entering or leaving tbe car is utilized for recharging the reservior, the delay being thus reduced to a minimum. SEBBY WALL ALL BIGHT. Tbe Dade on tbe Right ftldo of Market and May Reanme Ills Crown. New York Star. Berry Wall has been very fortunate in his stock operations lately, and the books of the uptown branch of a leading stock house already show a very handsome balance to his credit, with more to come if the market runs right. Jim Keene is credited with having put the ci-divant exquisite on the right side ot the recent advance of Sugar Trust, and Berry has followed the lead thus given him with energy and success. It would not be surprising, indeed, ir be soon resumes the lull dignity of his position as king of the dudes, a place which has never been filled to tbe satisfaction of the public since his temporary eclipse. A HOBNED B00STEB. ' Remarkable Freak That Has Strayed In 10 Amur the 8t. Louis People. tit. Louis Kepublic i One of the most remarkable freaks that ever reached St, Louis in the bird line is a rooster which arrived at Funstein & Moore's commission house, 309 North Main street, a few days ago. It hos a horn growing from each side its head, right above the ear, ex tending downward, and very similar in 'ap pearance to horns of tbe male sheep. It is a thing rarely ever reen, and people who have been handling that class of feathered ani mals for over 30 years declare they never did see any such peculiarity before. The roost er's horns are about three inches long. Tbe horns are of a hard substance, grow ing ont ot the flesh, being covered for the most part by a red skin. The rooster has horns growing from its legs, also circularly and convoluted, a qoite uncommon circum stance. The bird weighs from eight to ten pounds, and the firm demands the modest sum of $100 as the price of the rarity. PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, MAY 525, 1890. STOBIES. OF STANLEY. The Great Explorer's Friendship for Livingstone's Daughter. AN INTERVIEW WITH BISMARCK. Annoyed Out of Amiability by the Persist ent Visitors at Cairo. NO M0NEI MADE ON THE EXPEDITION IWKITTKT VOX THE DISPATCH. There is something enrious, and at the first sight unaccountable, in the interest which Henry M. Stanley takes' m Scotland; though in truth Scotland takes quite as much interest in him. The 'problem is solved, however, when wo. remember that David Livingstone, atypical Scot, was the proximate cause of bls.first visit to Africa. It was Livingstone.or Livingstone's fate,that made Stanley an African explorer. The Livingstone link, as it may be called, still survives in the person of Livingstone's daughter, Mrs. Bruce, who resides in Edin burgh. She and her husband. Mr. A. L. Bruce, are among Stanley's most intimate friends. It was due to his friendship with them that, when the Itoyal Scottish Geo graphical Society was established in the end of 1SS4, Stanley came to Scotland and de livered brilliant inaugural addresses in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dandee. I met him frequently at that time, and I still retain vivid impressions of the man and his racy talk. I well remember the zest and humor with which he described an interview he had had a short time previously with Prince Bismarck in Berlin. Their conversation had turned on certain negotia tions on African affairs, in connection with which there was a suggestion that on the one side there bad been something very like hypocrisy. There did not seem in Bis marck's view to be anything objectionable in that. Puffing his long pipe, and glanc ing at Stanley with a twinkle in his eye, he said "I love hypocrisy." ALLEGIANCE TO AMERICA. During the same visit I had an oppor tunity of observing a delight. ul instance of that hauteur which Stanley sometimes as sumes with signal effect. The incident occurred at a small luncheon party in a private house. The conversation turned on nationality and the hostess, not aware of the delicate ground she was treading on, said to her guest: "But, Mr. Stanley, I thought you were a Welshman." Stanley drew himself up, as he knows well how to do, and dropping the corners of his month, replied with great dignity: "Madam, I am an American." An intimate friend of the explorer, who visited Stanley a few weeks ago when he was in Cairo, gives me the following interesting information concerning him: "Stanley is looking extremely1 well, and is, indeed, in splendid health and spirits. So far is he from being dismaved by his re cent experiences that he is quite ready to re turn to the heart of Africa 011 the smallest persuasion. There is something extraordi nary in the fascination which Africa seems to have for those who have once explored its darkest recesses. Stanley is evidently more than ever under the spell of the Dark Con tinent. The trials of his last expedition have told on him. Whan he was in Edin burgh five years ago his brown hair was variegated with ominous straw-colored patches, indicating a stage of transition. His hair is now as whiteYs snow, and, as it is thick and "woolly; and close cropped, it has all the appearance of a wig, especially as bis comparatively youthful face is not exactly in keeping with his venerable locks. His hair would make him a man of 60 at least, though he is now only iu his 48th year. WOEKINO ON HIS BOOK. "While in Cairo, Stanley worked hard at his book every day from morning till night. He usually began work at 6 o'clock in tbe morning in his own rooms and wrote on till dusk, denying himself to all visitors, and leaving his desk only for the necessary pur pose of taking food. He complained bit terly of the persistent attempts made every hour ot the day to break in upon his pri vacy. One forenoon, when I called at his rooms, I found in the hall his London pub lisher, his secretary, and a favorite black bor, who acted as his servant. I asked how Mr. Stanley was, and was told in reply that be had been greatly exasperated and was iu anything but an amiable temper. "In explanation or in prooi of his chiefs state of mind, the Secretary told me how a Beuter's telegram bad arrived for Stanley a short time before, and how the black boy, alraid to face bis master, had fixed the tele gram on the point of a long spear, and, opening tbe door stealthily, had pushed it into the room until it came as the boy judged right under Stanley's nose. 'The boy was either anxious not to disturb his master or was afraid of being met with a growl; perhaps both. When Stanley after ward told the story to me I asked him what he did. "'Oh,' said Stanley, 'I lay back in my chair and lauched for about a Quarter of an hour CONFIDENCE OF HI3 STAFF. 'Perhaps the most striking testimony to Stanley's personal character and influence is the regard in which he is held by the officers of his staff", Dr. Parke, Mr. Nelson and Mr. Stairs the men who crossed Africa with him, and whose lives he held so long in his hand. Their confidence in him is un bounded. Dr. Parke's deliberate belief was that no man but Stanley could have led the expedition through the country with success. 'I trembled,' he said, 'for the lives of all of us during Stanley's long illness in the for est on the Upper Congo, because' I knew that, if he died, there was little hope lor us.' "When he was asked whether be was pre pared to cross Africa with Stanley again, he replied: 'Yes, certainly, with the most entire confidence.' Nelson's feelings were the same. He had implicit reliance on .Stanley, yet in a certain way he disliked or dreaded him. The reason'of that was his conviction that if Stanley believed that the life of any member of his staff formed an obstacle to his mission, or interfered with his success, he would unhesitatingly sacri fice him. Indeed, Stanley's sense of duty ol doing that which he bad undertaken to do is consuming, almost beyond belief. He avowedly makes Wellington, and Hora tio Nelson and Georee Washington his models in that particular; .and he is never tired of extolling their example. Referring in one of his letters to the case of an officer in the American army who had shrnnk from taking a certain fort, out of regard for the lives of his men, he said: 'His duty was to obey orders, whatever the result; he was told to take the place and he should have done so.' TEEATMENT OF THE BLACKS. The confidence which Stanley's staff felt in him was shared by the Zanzibaris, who formed his escort. They loved him and trusted him implicity. He was always much more anxions about them and their com brts than about himself. -When food was scarce he wt.s more concerned for bis men than for himself or his staff. He man aged them splendidly, often leaping and dancing at tbe bead of the column to keep up their spirits, and calling out to them, 'Come on boys, we shall be all right soon.' Indeed, be acted constantly as if he were their friend and not their master. "He managed the natives among whom they traveled with equal skill. Once when they were almost destitnte of food they came to a native village where they hoped to find some. Their getting supplies depended on their conciliating the people. Stanley took care not to precipitate matters. He sat down quietly in the midst of them, smoking his pipe and spending hours in palaver. When he had made them his lriends in this way, abundant supplies of food were forth coming. nni nil ,.. satisfied. The native feeling about him was shown strikingly on one occasion when his black servant, to whom I have already referred, came to him audtold him that a black porter, who had been wounded with an arrow, had shot him self and diad. 'What right had he, the boy said, 'to kill himsell? He no white man.' The boy's feeling was that the man was not his own property, and without Stanley's permission he had no right to make away with himself. FBAISE OF SB. PAUSE. "Stanlev ls,nnstinted in his praise of Dr. Parke, who is' something more than a skill ful physician and surgeon. He is a singu larly simple-minded and unselfish man. He is quite young, being only 27 years of age, bnt has discretion beyond his years. When Stairs was wounded 'in the breast with a poisoned arrow, Parke sucked the poison from the wound. The heroism of Stairs then came in. The poisoned flesh bad to be cut away a most pain 'ul operation, in which chloroform would have given great relief; but when Stairs learned that there was only one small bottle of chlorotorm left, he declined to use it, insisting that it should be reserved ior the natives. He then un derwent the operation, in full consciousness and with scarcely a murmur. In treating the native women, Stanley says Parke Bhowed as much delicacy and fine feeling as he could have , shown to the finest ladies in London. "There is a common belief that Stanley has made money by his expedition, and that a large share ot the Emin relief fund has gone into his pickets. That is an entire mistake. The .truth is that he undertook the work at a great pecuniary sacrifice. When he was asked to take command of the expedition, he had lecture engagements in America fixed which would have brought him 50,000 at least These engagements he at once cancelled at tbe risfc of offending thousands of his countrymen. He has not accepted sixpence of pay for all he has done. The expedition has cost 'many thou sands of pounds, but not a penny of it has gone Stanley's way. a gift op 510,000. "Nor is that all. He was offered a large snm by a London daily newspaper for any letters he might send home from Africa. He refused the offer, saying that his letters wonld be addressed to theEmin Belief Com mittee. When his letters began to arrive a newspaper syndicate was formed by seven or eight of the leading journals in England and. Scotland lor tbe purpose of taking over the letters from tbe committee lor publication. The committee realized from this transaction a sum of 510,000. When Stanley reached Cairo that sum was placed at his disposal. He was told that he had earned it. He re fused to take it, requeating only that one third of the son should be expended on pres ents to his staff. "Emin Pasha does not seem to have been a favorite with Stanley's people. They re garded him as a scientist and as nothine; more. Their report of him is that he has no power of organization and no skill iu man aging men. As a rival in the field of ex ploration he is regarded as perfectly harm less." Stanley has promised to revisit Scotland alter his engagements in London have been fulfilled, and here he is sure of a very cor dial welcome. W. Scott Dalgleish, Edinburgh Correspondent ot the London Times. PUBE AJB FB0M ABOVE. A Project 10 Dmrr a Supply Through a Pips 1,200 Feet High. Newcastle, Enjr., Chronicle. Prometheus, according to the story of Greek mythology, stole fire from heaven and brought it down toeartb. ''It appears that the per'ormance of a somewhat analogous service is gravely contemplated by the pro moters or the Watkin Tower, not fire, but pure air, being the useful commodity which it is intended tp convey from the lofty height to the lower level for the benefit o'f mankind. The tower is to be not less than 1,200 feet considerably higher than its pro totype in Paris. At this atmospheric point, air, even in London, is declared to be absolutely pure; and it is proposed that, by means of ma chinery specially devised ior the pnrpose, a supply of fresh air shall be drawn to the street level, and thence distributed to bouses and public buildings, as water and gas now are. The project, to the non-scientific mind at least, may look rather shadowy, albeit tbe object aimed at is so excellent and worthy, that it is to be hoped that it may not be destined to remain in nnbibus. TSETSE VETERAN BOUNDERS. Can't Crowd Too Much Fun In a Day for Gfrmral Porter and Mr. Depew. New York World. The indefatigable zeal with which General Horace Porter goes around from one social entertainment to another puts to shame some of tbe more blase and youthful of New Fork society men. General Porter knows no such thing as fatigue. A round of five or six social entertain ments in an evening leaves him as fresh us the same experience does Chauncey Depew, and the two men are apt to be lull of vi vacity and life at a late supper when guests 25 years their juniors are yawning and ex hibiting all of the external evidences of drowsiness and exhaustion. TRAVELS FOR THE FUN OF IT, Muslims; Tom Dai Juic Completed HI Third Wncon Trip Acroia America. There is hardly a more curions character in all this big city full of queer people than is "Mustang Tom," who makes New York his home for about one week every three years. Tom Stewart was born in Pennsyl vania "nigh onto 64 years aeo," as he phrases it. He has crossed the plains three times ea'ch way, and has never ridden on a boat or a car. His first trip westward was in 1849, the next ten years later, and he has just completed tbe third, reacning ban Francisco the other dav. "Mustang Tom," as he is called, left New York City to begin his last jonrney 18 months ago. His outfit consisted of a wagon, drawn by a pair bf small brown mules, and large enough to hold Tom, his water spaniel Boston, a rusty army musket, some cooking utensils and blankets. He shaped his course south west, visited friends in Missouri, passed through Salt Lake City, halted a while at Tombstone, Ariz., struck north to Idaho, went throngh Montana. Eastern Oregon and Northern California,dnfted down to Nevada and then made lor San Francisco. His first night in the city was passed at a cheap lodging bouse. He had not slept in a bed before for 15 years, and announced on rising that he "didn't want no more or it" Two days in the California metropolis satisfied bim, and the morning of the third he hitched up his mules and started for Arizona. Visitors to New York who wish to obtain the most comfortable quarters at the least pos sible cost should go to the Sturtevant House, "wenty-ninth and Broadway. Central location, mm wu 1 Muivumva nut ujfcaa piaa. Muttang Tom's Outfit. A ROMANCE OF RUSSIA AlfD SIBERIA BY PRINCE J'OSEF LUBOMIRSKI, ' Author of "Safer-Hadji, a Story of Turkistan," Eta Tkasslated Fkom the Russian foe The Dispatch BY META DE VERA. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. Vladimir Lanln, nephew of Count Lanln, is In love with Jana Wernin, daughter ot a rich resident or St. Petersburg. Onlphrt Scbelm, the villain ot the; story, is head of the division of political affairs under Minister nf the Interior PerowikL He has asked fnr Jam's band. 8ho rernses, and weds Vladimir, sending an invitation to Sehelm. This indignity, together with his rejection, leads Sehelm to au infamous plot of revenge. Colonel Palkln is Ald-de-O.imp of the head of the gendarmes. He and Scbelm are enemies. Pal kin has discovered a Nibili't con spiracy. Sehelm determine to have Vladimir taken as one of these conspirators and exiled. An old schoolmate of Sell elm's. Miller, is in porortr. Scbelm bnys bis services lor 100.000 roubles and sends him to make friends with Vladimir and bis bride. Madame de Dugarcv, of the. French legation, is a friend of Jana's and they have orcnlzed a ladles' club. Miliar gets Into the Nihili't conspiracy. the leader- ot wblcb is The Are of Clubs, an unknown per.'on. At tbe meeting before tbe final meeting for action. Miller tells the conspirators The Ace of Clnbs will make hlmiclf known just before tho blow Is to be struck. Miller Reizes upon Jana's club as the means of exciting Vladimir's Jealousy. He contrives f o that Vladimir overhears a conversation, in which Jana's conduct at the club is made to apnear scandalous. Tbe conversationalists speak of tbe password of the conspirators in such a way as to lead Vladimir to believe it is tbe password of Jana's clnb. The men also describe the location of tbe conspirators' meeting place a if it were Jana's club house. Mad with jealousy, Vladimir begs Miller to accompany blm to see if Jana Is true. He walks right into Miller's trap. The conspirators bail Vladimir as The Ace of Clnbs just as Falkin and the gendarmes rush in and arrest all. Nicholas Popoff is a poor emploie whom Sehelm bad unjustly discharged. Popoff bad learned of Scbelm's crooked transactions, and of tbe contract with Miller. Vladimir had befriended Popoff, and the latter attempts now to get Scbelm's papers. He covers him with a reyolver.gets the papers, but is suddenly made prisoner by a trap door. He gets Into Paikin's room and gives him the papers. Sehelm has him sent to Kssan. Miller was arrested with Vladimir and tbe cucspirators.accord ing to his nndertanding with Sehelm. The latter was to release bim after Vladimir was oat of the way. Instead, Scbelm breaks his word, and lets Miller, too. be sent to Siberia. Madam de Dogarcy discovers the whole plot, and tries in vain to convince the Czar of Scbelm's villainy. Jana pets tbe Czar's permission to join her bnsband in Siberia. Almost a year after Vladimir's exile Jana starts, accompinied by JJr. HaaS. PopofFs mother and bis s eetheart are also of the party, seeking bim. At Kasan. Schelm's orders to turn Jana back have been received. Palkic happens to be at that distant city, and succeeds in convincing the Qovernor that tbe Emneror's signature is more powerful than Schelm's, so tbe long journey by uleigb Is continued. Palkln takes Popoff along with the party to Siberia, telling blm he wishes his services in avenging him self on Sehelm. Palkin confesses that he gave back the compromising papers to Scbelm for 0,000 roubles. Arriving at a village near Irkutsk, the party find Vladimir bound In the Inspec tor's house on order of tbe inspector's wife, Caroline, wbo was pinned because Vladimir wonld not respond to her low advances. Palkin makes Caroline take off Jana's boots to humiliate her. Jana and Vladimir recount to each other the happenings of, the year. CHAPTER XVT. The door opened, the Cossacks brought the tea service and Br. Haas, appearing at the door, asked timidly: "Is it permitted?" "Pray, come in!" replied Jana. "'Where is the colonel?" "He is speaking with the inspector, who has just returned." When the inspector reached home, the Cossacks were eager to tell him of the ar rival of the colonel of gendarmes, and as their mode 6f speech is, using" the pluralis magestatis, they said: "They condescended to be in horribly bad humor; their angry faces seemed to predict nothing good." ' Terrified, the inspector hastened to appear belore Palkin, who, at first very severe. seemed to grow milder, perhaps pityingthe poor man, who trembled like an aspen tree, and said: "Your wife has made a terrible blunder, for which you, however, can make amends." "I shall promptly obey all your orders," stammered the poor frightened man. Palkin looked at him quite graciously. "How would you like, for Instance, to be made captain of gendarmes at Irkutsk?" The inspector expected so little promo tion, after having been received so sternly, that he thought Palkin was jesting. He made, therefore, a proiound now and re peated tbe Siberian proverb: "Unfortu nately that fur cloak is too fine for my dirty back!" Falkin looked at bim searchingly. "You do not look to me a man ofscruples. I am even convinced you are a consummate scoundrel; am I right?" Tbe officer answered coolly: "I endeavor to carry out the orders of my superior with out inquiring what their nature may be." "Very Velll Now listenl You know I might tend yon to Kamschatka?" "Yes, Colonel 1" , "Well, now, if you promise to obeme I shall not only forgive you all you have done" the poor inspector hung his bead . "but engage to make you captain of the gendarmes in Irkutsk." "Colonel, command and it shall be done!" Palkin whispered into his ear: "For rea sons that you need notknow I am compelled to protect this man Lanin. In reality I do not care for him. I leave here to-night with the Countess for Irkutsk. She hopes to return to-morrow, as soon as the Gov ernor has given her leave to live with her husband nearer "the capital, If she succeeds she will return here before sunset; if she does not return, you will never see her again. Up to that moment the colonist Vladimir must not be touched! As soon, however, as night falls to-morrow I leave bim In your, or rather your wile's, hands. You can do with him as yon choose, and I advise you to manage it so that he is never heard of again. In that case I shall bear witness in your behalf should any question be raised. The Conntess leaves Dr. Haas with- her husband. He might be an incon venient witness for you. Well, nobody will inquire it he should also disappear." "All you ask ot me, Colonel, can be easily carried out, and it will give me spe cial pleasure to do it." "I start in an hour. How far is it from here to where we fall into the great post roads?" "At most ten verstsl" "Does the road pass forests or plains?" "Both occur!" "Do the postilions know the road per fectly?" "Yery accnratelyl" "My coachman must take the wrong road; I will have it so. Tell him so in my name!" , "Once -more: Havejon-understood me well? Y m vau mam no WunderY" 1 ''Every word, Colonel!" "Well, then, you can go. Mind what I have told you! Now go and announce to the Countess that I shall be there in ten minutes!" Palkin fell into profound meditation. Jana had guessed rightly; he was des perately in love with her'! Bnt he knew very well that oue incautious look, one somewhat bolder word, wonld part him and Jana forever; he had, thereiore, tried hard during the journey to veil his passion under the appearance of profound and respectlul admiration. He gradually came to feel that be would never again be happy in his life if he could not gratify this passion ot bis, and as he was perfectly convinced of the hopelessness of such wishes, he resolved to commit a crime. 'This dpes not inter fere," he said to himself, "with my revenge on Sehelm. Lanin will tell all he knows; if he has any documents he'll give them to KEEP SILENCE, FOB TOTTE HUSBASD'S SAKE. his wife. The main.thing is to make sure of Popoff, and him I shall not let go very soon. I can pursue my campaign against Sehelm as well without Lanin and bis wife. Lanin's death is my gain. To-day I must find out wthat the Lanins know, and this night" He shrugged his shoulders and sat silent for a moment; then be rose, emptied a glass of brandy at one draught and went into the room where the other three were alreadv sitting around the tea table. The inspector humbly withdrew, and Caroline listened at the door", The Colonel noticed it and bade her shut the door. At first they spoke ot indifferent things, and Jana let no opportunity go by without expressing her gratitude to Palkin. Alter some time had thus been spent, Palkin turned to Vladimir and said: "Count, you know I mean well by you and wish to serve yon. But in order to do that I ought to knpw all tbe details. You have no doubt proois of your innocence. "Will you be so kind to tell me everything, to band me your documents " "Unfortunately," said Vladimir, "I have nothing of the kind. I only know that I am innocent!" "That is a pity. You have heard perhaps from the Countess that my position has changed entirely since those days. Now my fate is closely connected with yours. In de lending you I defend myself. If I nowi pos sessed those papers vou might be free very soon, and that rascally Sehelm should take your place in Siberia." "What papers are those?" asked Vladi mir. "Unlortunatelv I do not know one of them." "A receipt for 10,000 roubles, signed 'Sehelm.' He drew this amonnt Irom the secret fund October 30, 1849, and marked the purpose for which it was drawn thus: 'For the discovery of tbe conspiracy, La.' These are the first two letters ot your 'name. A jest that dates Irom the day before your twedJing and which tbe Countess has nar rated to me, corresponds in a remarkable manner with that date. It could, no doubt, easily be proven that at that time you could not well engage in a conspiracy. The ques tion now is only to have an inquiry ordered. This would be our first evidence. The sec ond paperis still more valuable. In this whole affair Sehelm employed as his agent prdvocateur a certain miller of Miller town." "Miller?" exclaimed Lanin. "Ob, that is impossible." "Yes, indeed," said Jana; "your friend was a traitor! Kita never trusted him from the beginning!" "Miller? My best friend? I thought of it several times, but the certainty now kills me. Is it really so. Colonel?" "Beyond doubt! I have read the engage ment of this man in which he binds himself to act as agent provocatear In the conspir acy La always the same initials and the same date." "I presume the' first thing now will be to una mis man Miller, remarked iL "bnt no doubt Sehelm will have sent him abroad!" "No. I know from good authority that Sehelm, faith ul to his principles, ha cheated his own agent. Miller is in Siberia. We shall find him, for the arms of tbe gen darmes are far reaching. In the meantime, Connt. tell me exactly how you were ar rested?" Vladimir complied with the request and when he had ended, Palkin said: "That is as dear as sunlight, and it will be easy enough to prove your innocence. First Miller mnst be found and that shall be my task. You you must make up a pe tition to the head of the gendarmes. I will forward it, You, Countes, will please not mention this to the Governor, who is con nected with Sehelm. I warrant an inqairy will be ordered, lint you must draw up the) petition at once, for who knows when wo shall meet again?" "I thank yu, Colonel," said Vladimir, pressing his hand. "I shall also ever be grateful to you,' added Jana. Dr. Haas, who had kept silent, now rose, and, shaking hands withalkin, saldt "You are an honorable maTr5!id other hon orable men can joyfully shake hands with you!" Palkin seemed touched. "You are too kind. But how time flies! Here it is 11 o'clock! Halloa! is any one there?" he cried. The inspector came hastily in. "Bring paper and ink and order the pos tilion to put the horses in," said Palkin. As tbe inspector went out to obey orders, Palkin turned to Lanin and asked him if ha knew the roads in the neighborhood pretty well. "Is there a good road leading to the post road?" "No, especially not in winter. But the snow is frozen hard and tbe road is excel lent for sleighs; along the forest you can trot all the way." "The road cannot be missed, I suppose. I inquire not for myself, but as the Countess will accompany me " "As long as the weather keeps clear yon cannot miss the road. For five versts you skirt the forest, then you pass our lur store, and after that you follow a creek. You must always keep to the left on the right you might easily lose your way on the plain. My comrades undertake to-night an expedition against the Tunguses who steal our lurs. If you leave within an hour I can keep my promise. "Will you tell the inspector so?" "Why, will you expose yourself, as you are not to remain here?' "I promised the men. Colonel, and must keep my promise to my less unfortunate comrades." Vladimir sat down at the inspector's writing desk and hastened to write his peti tion. Jan.i, leaning on a chair, followed with her eye every line he wrote. Now and then her womanly instinct made her suggest a milder expression or a better turn ot the phrase. Palkin and Haas engaged in lively conversation, drinking one glass of tea alter tbe other; Palkiu poured a quan tity of arac into bis. At midnight Lanin had finished. He read his petition to Palkin who approved both form and contents and took it from him. "The postilion is waiting!" said the in spector, whose bearded face appeared in tho door. The Colonel bowed to Jana. "I await your orders, Countess!" "I am ready. To-morrow we'll meet again, Vladimir. I hope no one will part us. Doctor, I trust my husband to yon." -"Colonel, will you be kind enough to tell the inspector that I have yonr permission to join the expedition?" "Well." said Palkin, "till the Conntess returns" the Colonel emphasized these words "Colonist Vladimir disposes freely of his time! You understand?" The Inspector bowed low. "And now, Countess, we shall have to start!" Jana wrapped herself in her costly fun. "Come, I commit myself once mors to your protection." CHAPTEE XVII. "lenar," a tall man said to his companion .in the language ot the natives, "the foxes are getting rare in the forest." The other man had narrow, squinting eyes, protruding cheekbones, a yellow com plexion, and a face that bad been tattooed. The Mongolian was easily recognized. "That has come about because men have filled up our deserts," replied Ienar-Kus to tne foreigner. "Believe me, we do not come because we wish it. We are compelled to do so." "Not one, however, compelled the con querors to oppress us or impose a tribute upon us." "Is it hard tor yon to pay the tribute?" "Soon it will Ge impossible. Your mer chants destroy our forests, which were created to provide for our wants. Game flees so far away that we cannot reach it any more. Ob, these are hard times." "If we were to spend the whole night here in complaints, not a iox nor a sable would come within reach. Friend lenar, whistle to your dogs and take me to the Sbatuan valley I must meet my brethren there!" ' "Very welll" replied Ienar-Kus. This conv-ersatiou took place about six versts from the colony, beneath some pine trees that stood there qnite alone in the vast mass ot snow. They looked like ontpoiU ot the unfathomable forest which framed the landscape on all sides. Both hunters, clothed in reindeer scin from head to foot, were reclining on the hard frozen snow. Near by, concealed under the trees, stood a narta, a Siberian sleigh. At first sight such a vehicle looks as if it could hardly hdld two men, and yet it usually contains under tbe scat In addition everything needed by a traveler in Siberia floor, grits, dried fish and other victnals, besides knives, axes and hunting gear; finally, the skin which covers tbe whole narta can be put up as a tent wnenever the traveler is lorced to re main at any place a longer time for hunting aud fishing. The two hunters, of course, did not re semble each other in the least. One was very tall and well made, with handsome, strongly marked features, slightly curling hair, and stamped in every detail as a Euro pean. He could not. however, be one of tho unfortunate exiles, since he carried a double gun on his shoulder, while the.law pro hibita exiles having firearms, Bat uXutn m KfflKTy " V &r & iSZ&UMii&jtk. a! 'jxJtf. ..?&, tv aj
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