KEff5I izmWY THE PITTBTJUG DISPATCH, SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 1890.- 15 E The Wilds of the Northern Island Where Convicts Are Sent to Clear Away the Forest. BEARS AS LARGE AS HORSES. Half-Digested Remains of Children Taken From One's Stomach and Pre served in Alcohol. A CODXTRI OP AMERICAN IDEAS. ftarei Coal Mmes txi Gitat Tietrcies to Serelcp Great Etsmieei, rCOSSEEFOKDXKCE Or TBI DISrATCB.1 XeZO, August 29. Among those who haTe never crossed the Pacific Ocean the opinion seems to prevail that Japan is a tropical, or at least, a snb-tropieal country, inasmuch as it produces such things as tea and silk and camphor and monkeys. But, as a matter of fact, camphor trees and monkeys are not to be found in the most southern portion of the Japanese islands, which, in general, have a climate too cold for bananas or even lemons. The summers are, indeed, warm enough to favor the growth ol tropical plants, but the winters are too cold to tolerate their existence, so that tourists are disappointed in their ex pectation of finding a vegetation resembling that of the Sandwich Islands. Even as far south as Tokio there are almost 70 frosty nights from November to March, snow sometimes covers the ground for a few days, and the thermometer falls eight or nine degrees below freezing point. The Japanese, who wear very little cloth ing in summer, are at this time covered with thick wadaed clothes and sit shivering around their charcoal boxes in their thin frail houses without stoves or fireplaces. This is in Nippon, the principal one of the Japanese Islands. In Yezo, the large island which lies directly north of Nippon, the winter climate is so much colder thai it seems quite proper to call this island Japanese Siberii. For six months of the year snow lies here from three to six teet fteep, with drifts in some valleys of almost twenty feet. Northern lur animals, like sable and otter, are found here, vs well as a bare which turns snow white in winter, for protective purposes. TWO DATS TOO MUCH. This being the case, one would naturally suppose that Yezo would be regarded by the Japanese and the foreigners residing among them as an ideal summer resort a good place to co to escape from the sultry heat of Tokio, Yokohama, Kioto and Nagasaki. But it is, alter all, a two days' trip from Tokio, and few of the Japanese seem to have the means or the desire to under take such long journeys for mere pleasure's sake. Foreigners, however, seemed to have at list become aware of the climatic and other attractions of Japanese Siberia in summer, and this sea son the number of visitors has been larger than ever belore, while the prospects are that in luture summers there will be a per fect exodns of foreigners from Nippon to the Hokkaido, as the Japanese usually call Yezo. For Americans Yezo possesses a special interest, because on this island American ideas and methods prevail al most exclusively in all the innovations in agriculture and commerce. During my sojourn in Tokio I met a num ber of Japanese statesmen and officials, and found that the majority showed a marked partiality for certain American as compared with European phases of civilizition, but nowhere is this partiality so conspicuous as in Yezo, parts of which, that are now being colonized, bear a striking re semblance to American frontier towns. I was Incky enough to get as a companion on my northern trip Mr. Yabi, one of the most promising younger writers of Japan, at present one of the editors of the Tokio Mainichi Shimbun, or Daily 2Tews, the chief organ of the Liberal party. PKETir TEA. OIELS. "When our boat arrived in the pretty little harbor of Oginohama we were received at the wharf, on a projecting platform, by a bevy of tea girls lromlhe principal inn six of them who bowed gracefuilv as we touched the nier, seized our valises and es corted ns in style to the yadoya. The other steamer arrived soon after and took us aboard, together with any number o: bas kets offish, especially eels, which are caught here in great numbers and constitute one of the principal delicacies ot the Japanese. At Hakodate we were struck by.the re semblance of this old treaty port to Gibral tar. Generally such supposed resemblances remind one of the weasel and camel cloud in "Hamlet;" but in this case a real resem blance does exist. Although the Japanese "rock" is greener than the English and not so high, or bristling with guns, the general impression given by Hakodate, nesting at its base and connected with "the island by a flat peninsula (the "neutral giound" of Gibraltar) is strikingly similar to that of the English fortress in Spain; and what is more, owing to its favor able and commanding position in narrow straits which separate Yezo from the Jap anese mainland, it could be made to assume a military function and importance similar to that ol Gihralter. ODD SlISSIOXAKT -WORK. Hakodate has ceased to be a "foreign" port of any importance, beinr ehiefli- Vrv. queuted now by war ships in search of a pleasant summer climate. The foreign pop ulation at present numbers hardly two dozen, mostly missionaries, who, it is said, represent almost as many denominations that hate each other more cordially than they do the Buddhists orShintoisto; and it is owing to this example of "Christian love" as much as to the modern agnosticism which is now fashionable among the educated Japanese, that the genuine annual couverts to Christianity in any Japanese city can be counted on the fingers. Stiintoism is the leligion favored by the Japanese Govern ment; but Buddhism is stiil holding its own. Anil Hakodate, though it has ceased to be an important commercial port forloreigners seems to be one of the most prosperous of Japanese cities, for its population, which 30 years ago was 6,000, and 10 years ago 35, 000, is to-day 50,000 which may be classed ns one of the American features of Yezo. Essentially, however, Hakodate remains a large fishing village, lor fish, fish manure, j-ea weed and other products of the sea, are still the chief sources of income of most of its inhabitants. A EQtTATTT CITY. The streets of the city present a different appearance from those of most Japanese cities as ihcr were made much wider than i customary after the great fire, which, in 3879, destroyed the greater part of the town. All the houses are low, and since, from an elevated point, only the gray roofs can be seen, one gets tne impression that some giant had sat down on the city and crushed it flat as a German pancake. Near Hakodate are two of the prettiest lakes in Japan, besides a harmless volcano, hot sulphur springs, which are much fre quented by natives and foreigners, and other attractions. But we took steamer for the northern end of Yezo, which adjoins the Russian island oj Saghalien, but it is the most convenient, and in fact the only way ot penetrating into the dense forest which covers the greater partofYexo. There is jven a railroad, 57 miles in length, which brings coal down from Poronai to Otam: nnd irom Poronai a good road has just been constructed to Kamikawa, in the very cen rerof Yezo, which, it should be borne in mind, ii an island larger than Ireland. This A JAPANES SIBERIA rosd was only completed a year ago, and we were informed that only three or four foreigners had been over it before us. Here, therefore, 'was a new field to be visited in this much-described Japan. AN AMERICAS CITY. About half-way between Otam and the coal mines of Poronai lies Sapporo, the capital of Yezo, the most American city in Japan, though there are probably not half a dozen Americans residing there. The whole place is a curious mixture of Japan and America. The streets are laid out as regularly as an American chess-board town, but the shopsand the shoppers are Japanese, while the public buildings, including a fine large city hall, where the Governor General and the other officials have their office, is again in the American style, both outside and inside. We delivered our letter of introduction to the Governor General, a handsome man in whose hearing Japanese courtesy and mili tary dignity are pleasantly united, and were received most hospitably in his honse, which, like everything else in Sapporo, is half American and half Japanese. Foreigners enter with their shoes on by the front door into a carpeted parlor with toreign tables and chairs, and even foreign Pictures on the walls; while for the Japanese visitors there is another entrance where, as usual, the shoes must be taken off before putting foot on the white, clean mats in the unfurnished rooms. Had we entered on this side tea would have been served in tiny Japanese cups; but on the American side we were treated to several kinds of beer brewed in the Sapporo brewery, which makes the best beer in Japan much better than the Tokio and Yokohama beer, though lor some reason or other it caanot be found in the cities of Nippon. LEARNING TO LOVE BEER. This beer is sold in the shops at 23 cents a bottle, and I may remark, by the way, that beer seems to be gradually displacing sake or rice wine among the Japanese. Shops where long rows of beer bottles are kept abound in all cities, and the change from sake to beer will be of benefit to the Japan ese who are too easily affected by rice wine and who, as a race, need a little more of the corporal rotundity which beer tends to produce. We exchanged compliments and inter national comments with the Governor Gen eral, who welcomed ns cordially to the Hokkaido, ai.d offered to do everything in his power to make our trip a pleasant one. When we rose to leave he accompanied ns to showns his orchard, which contains some fine frnit trees, all imported from America. Afterward we received a basketfnl of apples Irom these trees at the hotel, and found them equal in flavor to the best Oregon apples, and entirely free from blemish. The trouble with most Japanese frnit is that it gets wormy on ripening and this is om reason the Japanese eat nnripe Iruit, they try to get ahead of the worm but Yezo fruit is sonnd.Jand these apples at any rate had not lust their flavor as most lrnits'do in Japan. POTATOES AND FLAX. The soil is coal black and Tery deep, and seemingly iuexbaustible. "What struck me especially was the fine appearance of the potato fields, and Yezo potatoes I fonud to be the best I had ever eaten. The soil and climate are remarkably favorable to flax, and accordingly a gigantic flax factory has been lately built, which we visited. The Japanese are being constantly told that everything in their country is small; and no doubt it is a land of petite things. The men are smaller than elsewhere, and so are he women; the houses are smaller and so are the animals horses, dogs, chickens; eggs like pigeon eggs; and the Japanese eat and drink out of porcelain ware of dolls' sizes. But this Sapporo factory is an ex ception. It is big enough to attraet atten tion even in America, the land of big things. Another big thingnowin course of con struction is a beet sugar factory, on as large a scale as the flax factory. This is under German control. After seeing these factories we were driven to the Agricultural College, where everything is American American imple ments, an American barn, American vecetn bles, fruits and cereals, and a collection of SO cows, which were much plagued by flies, though otherwise in good condition. The milk is excellent, as we bad occasion to find out in the cellar, where a constant supply of well water keeps it ice cold. It tisted afl the more delicious, as I had not had any since leaving San Francisco; for the Jap anese have no milk, cheese or butter, which have onIy lately been introduced. They say milk is an acquired taste, and the Jap anese do not like it at first. MAN-EATING BEARS. "We also visited the Sapporo Mmeum, which had a fine collection of Yezo animals, fish, butterflies and minerals, and a number of Air.o antiquities upstairs. What most attracts the attention is theenormons stuffed Yezo bears, with bodies as large as oxen. One of the specimens had ealen ten Horses before a band ol soldiers succeeded in shoot ing it by climbing up trees and waiting for it. Yezo bears are as savage as they are large, andbeingfond of gastronomic variety, they add a man or child to their menu once in a while. The contents of the stomach of one of these stuffed bears are shown in a glass jar in this museum. It is a ghastly sight. The bear had not taken time to munch the child's limbs, and the hands and feet, with the little fingers and toes, are preserved intact in the alcohol. The home of these bears, the almost im penetrable forest of Central Yezo, was to be the goal and climax of our journey; but be fore starting out we visited the coal mines at Poronai. Three mines are in operation at present, in all of which the coal is mined npward, the mountains being tapped at the base, which saves a lot of labor and expense. First you walk into a tunnel abont half a mile, then climb up by means of the tim bers which support the excavation exciting work, especially if yon wear white flinnel trousers and carry your own lamp. At last we come to the end a solid wall of coal five feet high with onlv one-tenth of an inch of impure matter in the whole mass. It has been estimated that there is enough coal in Yezo "to yield the present annual prod uct of Great Britain for a thousand years to come. It is of good quality, though it will improve aa the lower layers are reached. SETTLED BY CONVICTS. The Yezo forest is one of the most inter esting I have ever seen. The inhabitants consist of Ainos, convicts who help to pre pare settlements, and colonists from Lower Japan who are encouraged to emigrate to this region by receiving a house and a few acres of ground at a nominal price, the Government's object in colonizing this re gion being to relieve the overcrowded dis tricts in the South and to form a bulwark against the designs of Russia, which seems to have a desire to add Yezo to its Siberian possessions. The houses are simple wooden boxes, differing from each other aa eggs differ from one another. These bouses stand in the midst of clear ings, in which the trees, recently cut down, are still burning, and the air is still fragrant with the odor of burnt wood and leaves. The black, rich soil is being dug no, and already in some places potatoes and other crops are in full bloom. The amount of hardwood in Yezo is positively astanndino and is only equaled by the pine forests of Oregon and Alaska. Imagine an island larger than Ireland, the greater part of which is covered by a superb forest of decid uous trees oaks, maple, mountain-ash, birch, magnolia, elder, chestnut, poplars) wild cherry, linden, etc the last named filling the air in August with a delicious fragrance. As we approach Kamikawa actual tettlers become rare, but their place is taken by con victs in a brick-red costume, who are doing pioneer work. Though they are the most dangerous class of criminals, there are few soldiers to guard them. But they could not very welt escape, as there is but one road. To get lost in the forest would be certain death. Henry T. Finck. WT Vp. HewTorkTVoria.: "It's the tallest story I know," taid Sniplon. "What story Is that," said Hicks. The top one on. the Eiffel Tower." ADIRONDACK BEAUTY To Be Preserved Forever by a Club of Wealthy Eastern Men. A TBIRTT-THOUSAHD-ACKE TRACT. The Old-Time Guides Organized Into a Novel Police Patrol. J0IS IK CAMP AND TROUT FISHING rCOnHKSrOSDINCK OF THE DISPATCH. The Adirondack Mountain Ke SERVE, September 26. Thirty thousand acres of land - "n insignificant part of the earth for any one or a dozen people to own. This is about the size, though, of a slice of the most beautiful and healthful pait of the Adirondack region which an association of gentlemen from New York and Phila delphia have recently purchased and con verted into a park which every one can visit and enjoy. There are but two lakes on the property the "Beserve," hich stretches north- i . .. . ivard from the lower end oi Keeue Valley a distance of eight or nine miles, and westward from the Ausable river as far as the Boquet In these 40 square miles of territory are compacted mountains and valleys, lakes, cascades and rivers, and rocks and clearing. Here are many spots where men have seldom, if ever, A CAMP ON THE trod; here fastnesses where the bear is still to be found, where the eagle makes his home undisturbed, where the catamount still lurks, and the deer is to be still seen in hit forest home. MOUNTS AND LAKES. Mounts Colvin, Marcy, the Haystacks, the Gothics, Dix, the Basin, Nipple Top and Noonmark are peaks which are all con tained in the reserve's domain, and though but 5,000 feet high at the highest of their summits, they afford some pretty lively climbing to those who feel inclined that way. The two lakes are the Upper and Lower Ausable. Each is about a mile and a half in length. Connecting them and then flowing down to Lake Cbamplain is the An- Maying Card by the Camp Fire. sable river, a stream that in its mountain course offers many very beautiful sights as it falls from almost dizzy heights in cas cades, or goes rushing noisily over its bed of rocks or through narrow and picturesque flumes. The reservation was originally intended X HOUNDED for the woodman's ax. It was owned by lumbermen, and its value was chiefly counted in the trees which covered it. Years ago it was known as the Tottenham and Crossfield grant, and from them it passed down in time to lumbermen who were abont to realize on it when Mr. Will iam J. Neilson, a Philadelphia, conceived the idea of a pnrchase for the purpose of preserving its great natural beauties. SAFE FROM MARAUDERS. The tract was valued at some $25,000 for the land and $50,000 lor the timber. With a few friends Mr. Neilson acquired title to it and finally organized an association which now owns the region and insures its perpet uation as a park for all time to come. A toll is levied from carriages to meet the ex pense of maintaining roads and 'trails, while, other revenues enough to make the park self-supporting, are charged upon visitors. Meanwhile the streams and lakes have been stooked with fish, for they bad been fished out as completely as was possible by dyna mite, by the use of seines and every sense less method of extermination known. Last year some 90,000 voung trout were liberated, others the year beiore, still others this year and so on. The catch for the sea son thus far has amounted only to about 1,500, nevertheless the Beserve has fnrnithed the only desirable -sport of this kind to be found nowadays in the Adirondack region. At the breaking np of the ice last spring some famous catches were made and still better ones will follow as the fish grow larger. Plenty of two and two and a half pound brook trout were taken then, and throughout the snmmer good sport has been continuous. A TOLIOE PATHOL. ' ' Meanwhile the "Beserve," as the associa tion is popularly called, has placed sir in gent ml lies in tore . force for the preservation of I other game, and a most ingenious system of police patrol has made infractions of MM Hi A I "". ' .vrvaa yfytv-'ifii llaiiy l?ISfe 7- these rules almost impossible. "When the land was purchased the rivers and moun tains were a general tramping eround, and the native gnides earned a living by con ducting parties to favorite pools lor fish, or to camps where the deer could be shot or other sport indulged in. Every one of these guides has now become a guardian jealous of the preservation of this wild tract. What to do with these old guides long puz zled the possessors of the newly-acquired titles to the lands. They had long roamed the trails and made a livin? out of their campi and boats. Some lucky inspiration suggested that the easiest way of solving the whole question was to make a close corporation of these men, get them interested in preserving the premises, give them all the patronage to be cot irom visitors, and in return get from them a care of the premises which they would unwittingly perform for self-interest. Each guide, therefore, was given a spot for his camp on the upper Ausable Lake. Its shores are now dotted with these picturesque little huts, and none can visit the lake with out a guide of the association, for they alone own the boats, without which progress is simply out of the question. LIFE ON THE RESERVE. There is a mile carry between the lower and upper lake through a wild forest, over which parties are tramping every day in company with these guides. As a rule, these men are natives. They are entertain ing talkers, and are curiously alive to the beauties of their surroundings. A certain rivalry exists between them, which keeps the camps in neat and attractive order. At the landing place, along the shore, little docks are built, while on an picturesque em inence will be found a cleared spot with in dications of the campfire in the middle, a sleeping hut, open at onesideand filled with balsam boughs for a bed, facing it, while at a short distance, as seen in our sketch, are otber rnde huts where the cooking and eat ing are done. The nights are, as a rule, crisp, cold and heavy with dew. The campfire bjazes, the sparks ascend among the overhanging trees, and the party crowds around the blazing logs, sings songs, plays cards or listens to the experiences of these men of the soil. Their yarns are always well spun, and though there are nowadays no PheJpscs to discourse a rude philosophy, as in lormer TJPPEE AUSABLE. times, there are still some interesting char acter studies left among them. As to the nights in camp, they are just what they were when Charles Dudley Warner wrote so graphically of his delight inhavinpr a del uge of rain poured through'a crevice down his back all night long, and people cam plain as little of such things as ever. CULTIVATING THE DEER. Deer are occasionally seen browsing upon the water lily leaves which fill the southern end of tne lake We are trespassing indeed upon the rightful homes ot these pretty creatures, but by a judicious domestication of a few, a little feeding in the sterner win ter months, when food is scarce, the endless woodlands of the Beserve could soon be peopled witn the original owners of the forests. The association has arrested the wanton progress of the woodman's steel, thereby setting an example to the State and to pri vate owners which might well be 'copied. With the memory of the Johnstown and other devasting floods in mind, the neces sity almost of national legislation and pur chase for the preservation of those forests whose mvriad roots arrest the damaging flood of a heavy rainfall, is manifest. The home of the Beserve is at the south of the park, where there is an open table land, overlooking Keene valley, a spot beloved by artists for its many scenic attractions. Here a capacious hotel has been built and cot tages have been clustered about It. It is the object of the Beserve to keep these forest charms for the enjoyment of the people, and a most worthy object it is. Here the tired brainworker can regain his strength, here the business man throws aside his cares, here the invalid can respire an atmosphere such as is to be found hardly in another spot on the globe. Indeed these woods are a vast sanitarium. Their hidden DEEB. beauties lure the weary into a healthful ex ercise of the body, while the tranquillity, the grandeur, the beauty of the place are like the aroma of balsam, pervading every thing and imperceptibly healing the sick in mind and body. The nation which squanders millions to dredge the channel of an inaccessible creek, or the State which lavishes fortunes upon political jobs, can learn a much-needed lesson from the yigor with which this hand ful of enterprising men have done a positive public benefit. The time has long since gone by when this wholeregion should have been made a vast park for the benefit of the American nation. Hollis Holden. PE0GBESS OF THE KBTJPPS. Hurting In 1S27 Wltli Two Workmen Thej Now Own a Gieat Colony. Newcastle, Zng., Chronicle.! Small beginnings proverbially lead to great results. The Krupp firm have just presented the inhabitants of Essen with a lafee plot of ground, and the bricks re quired to build a town hall, and a second church and vicarage, the colony having quite exceeded the original accommodation. When it is remembered that the establish ment of Herr Krupp was started in 182T, with only two workmen, the stage of devel opment which it tfis now reached is a tribute to the potency of industrial enter prise to which there are not likely to be many parallels. Ho Dnils Are Not Men. Mew York World. J "How many people were at your hotel?" asked one Jersey City girl of another as tbey met after their summer campaign, "Well," was the reply. "I never counted them, but I shonld say, counting men, women and dudes, there were about 250." STORIES ABOUT MEN. Bow Walter Potter Made Money Fly in His Prosperous Days. IYES TURNS EVERYTHING TO GOLD. Henry Grady's Ideas of the Qualities and Duties of a Wife. THE CAREER OF DION B0UCI0AU17T The sensational developments of the Pot-ter-Lovell failure are the talk of Boston. Walter Potter, the more famous member of the now famous insolvent banking company, has had a business career that is Napoleonic. He first made bis appearance in the finan cial world with the old firm of W. I". Law rence & Co. in the capacity of clerk. Ho was born a financier, and his shrewdness in business) speculation, and as a salesman, soon won for him a salary of $5,000. He was reckless in speculation, but always made money both foi himself and his friends. He began his career in 1872, and by dint of persistency, shrewdness, and daring he gradually worked his way to a partnership in the firm, becoming a partner in 1875 or '6. At the time of the Shaw failure Mr. Lawrence pulled out Irom the firm, and Tower soon finding the pace that Potter had set too fast, followed his former partner's example. This was the beginning of the late Potter-Lovell firm, which was fonnded on the business lelt by botn Law rence and Tower. The Boston Traveller states that private extravagance had much to do with the fail ure. Next to Daniel Pratt, Mr. Potter is entitled to the distinction ot the-"greatest American traveler." He has visited nearly every section of this country; has been brought into contact with the most prom inent business men, whom he has succeeded in winning to confidence. In late years he has been in the habitof visiting Europe two, three and sometimes four times a year, and his expenses, it is hinted, have been some what lavish at such times. Some time ago Mr. Potter erected a pala tial snmmer honse at Nantasket, which some claim is worth nearly $75,000, the stable alone costing nearly a third oi the sum. His love for horses has been marked, and as an expert driver he has few superiors. He especially delights to drive four-in-hand. While in his days of prosperity Mr. Pot ter was generous to a fault, and has not only made himself rich, but has made money for his friends. It has been Mr. Potter's de light to give fine dinners and jollifications at one of Boston's best known hotels, and at one of these banquets, given in celebration of the success of a deal in Texas lands, it is told that at 3 o clock in tne morning the members of the Germania orchestra were summoned from their beds. Not a single glass of wine and a cigar were thought suf ficient for each, but a bottle and a box. This dinner, which has never been equaled in Boston for sumptuousness, is said to have cost Mr. Potter $2,500. The Princo of Wales Objected. Lord Norton is noted for the exercise of ventriloquial ability. At a reception given by the Prince of Wales a few weeks ago Lord Norton ventured to use his faculty on His Boyal Highness in a way that proved more successful than satisfactory. The Prince was conversing with Lady Henry Bruce, surrounded by a brilliant group, when suddenly he heard, as from one of his noblemen near him: "Your Eoyal High ness!" The Prince looked up. surprised at the interruption. He saw equal surprise on the faces of the party. Then he resumed conversation, only again to be interrupted by the same voice. Things began to seem eerie, and Lady Bruce turned pale. Suddenly one of the noblemen present, Lord Colville, of Culross, who happened to know something ot Lord Norton's gift, saw Norton standing a few steps away, appar ently intent on conversation withdlouel Henry Byng. He at once taxed Norton with using his ventriloquial powers on the Prince, and the latter acknowledged the im putation, at the same time moving toward the Prince with an apology. Albert Ed ward, however, was on his dignity and re fused to be pacified. He met Norton with a cold stare, and the latter soon after found it convenient to go yachting. It is of interest In this connection that a grandfather of the present Lord Norton, who also possessed ventriloquial powers, got into disfavor with George IV. when the latter was the "first gentleman of Europe," by a similar caper to that wmen nurt tne dignity oi the present Prince of Wales. Making a New Fortune. You remember dashing Henry S. Ives, the last of the Napoleans of finance, who, it seemed at one time, was dangerously near a long term of imprisonment. Well, he is ont and around Wall street these days, as bright and chipper as a lark on a May morning, says a correspondent of the Phila delphia Press. His cherubio countenance beams placidly, his eyes snap, and he carries himself like a racer going to the post. He is as superbly groomed to-day as before the crash. His wardrobe must be very exten sive, for he never commits the social error of wearing the same suit of clothing twice in one week. He is lavish in rich neckwear and jewelry. Indeed, his fingers sparkle with rings. He seems to be at peace with all the world. Ives lunches at Delmonico's, and his of fice is crowded with men anxious to get a word with him. While hundreds of bave beens jostle elbows with him every day, he pays no heed to the past, and is constantly adding to his already large fortune, for there are not many people who do not be lieve that be saved a couple of millions be fore tbe law claimed him. Everything that he touches now turns to gold. He is mak ing money more rapidly than any man in the street, and some day you will hear of him again, tor be is consnmed with an am bition to succeed Jay Gould as the big man of tbe street. By tbe way, how many men bave'strntted about Wall street for a brief day with tbe same idea in mind? Edison' Karlr Discovery. There was nothing wonderful about Edi son, says Dr. Gantley in the Chicago Herald, A plain and unpretentious man, he came and went without troubling any one with his conversation. Perhaps he spoke to me more than to any other man in the place, because we sat at adjoining tables. "One day his wire gave ont or went wrong in some way. He was working New Haven; I was operating Boston. He started to fix it, and whHe thus engaged hfs message came back oyer my wire. I called him; 'Tom, can you explain this?' He looked for a moment, and then remarked: 'Why, that is caused by induction; the two wires are near each other.' He went off and shortly afterward came back, seemingly lost in thought. 'Yes, that's what causes it,' he re peated. 'I wonder if we could devise a plan like that to make two circuits on one wire so that two men could send and two others receive at the same time?' And he went back to his instrument Out of that little incident he devised the duplex tele graph system. Then followed the quad ruple!, and these have saved the telegraph companies millions of dollars. Jay Goold'a Library. That Mr. Jay Gould possesses a library at all, will probably surprise some of those who are accustomed to look upon him as encompassed with money bags, and shut ont from human concerns by the iron doors of his vaults, says the Philadelphia Press. But that he owns an exceedingly rare and wisely selected library, vieing in its treas ures with some of the" most celebrated pri vate collections in the country, wilt be an unending source of astonishment. In fact, there are few libraries of the same extent which inolnde mors unique specimens, and few which would seem to be more character istic of the personal traits of the owner. "The catalogue of books forming the library of Jay Gonld, Lindhurst, Irvington on-Hudson" is a rich Boxburgbe-bound folio of 278 page, of which only 100 copies have been printed, and "reserved exclusive ly for private dislribution." It is, strangely enough, a distinct Philadelphia production. Wonderful Dion Booelcnnlr. No man bas ever created a character in fiction which compares for a moment in pic turesque, brilliant and grotesque features with that of Dion Boucicault, says Blakely Hall iu the Brooklyn Eagle. Once Laura Keen was on the verge of bankruptcy. Boucicanlt wrote a play for her in less than a week. He rehearsed one act In the day time while he wrote the succeeding act at night That play,- the "Colleen Bawn," saved Mis3 Keen from disaster, built up the fortunes of thetheater,and made over $1,000, 000 for Boucicault himself. Again, the late Lester Wallack found himself pressed by impending disaster. Boucicault had expended the proceeds of the "Colleen Bawn" and was again in desperate circumstances. He wrote "The Shaugh raun," and with it Mr. Wallack gained pros perity and laid tbe lonndation ot a fortune. Mr. Boucicault's personal profits from "The Shaughraun" have been placed as high as ouu.uuu. Again be went to pieces, ana then. just at a critical time iu the history of the union Square Theater, he produced Led Astray" and built one of tbe most extraordi nary successes known in the united States. The earnings of these three plays alone wonld have ranked him high among the rmiuonairies if he had cared for bis money. He wrote a hundred or more plays, hut he died poor. Though in pecuniary distress no man ever presented a more impressive front to tne pumic Sometimes be would drive to the theater in an open victoria with two men in livery on the box, while at other times he would affect a snug and perfectly appointed brougham with a team of mag nificently matched horses and most correct liveries in town. Grndv nnd HI 911 Jnlr. It has always seemed donbtful whether the aspiring, clever woman is the one best suited to mate with a man of talent She is often too severe a tonic, and getting such universal adulation and spurs to her am bition outside, it is advisable to have mental as well as physical relaxation at' home. It is related by a friend of Mr. Grady's that, coming in after an exciting day's work, he looked eagerly about for "Miss Jule," as he called her. She was nowhere to be seen at "first, hut finally her husband discovered her in a corner of their luxurious library, immersed in a book. So absorbed was she in preparing a French lesson for a fashionable class, re cently organized in Atlanta, that for the first time since her marriage Mrs. Grady was oblivious of her1 husband's presence. He looked at her for a moment with an ex pression of positive pain on his face, then, going forward, gently took the volume from her hand. "Please don't do that," he begged. "Yon are the ope person who loves me for myself alone, without knowing or caring whether I am a genius or a fool. If you get so smart, Miss Jule, I won't know where to go for comfort Seel" And he threw the book to the otber end of the room, "Go, there's a dear girl, put on your Paris gown and look handsome for dinner. Any man can have a wife talking French, but I'm the only man in Georgia who wiil have the prettiest woman this side of Mason and Dixon's line to sit at the head of his table." It is needless to add, says the Illustrated American, that Mrs. Grady abandoned her French lesson. Armour's First ITnndred. Phil Armour is short, stocky, far from at tractive in any sense, but a singularly happy man who has managed to make a big fortune. He cares little for money now, but time was when the loss of $100 nearly drove him mad. It was a good many'years ago, in the days ofgoldontbe Pacifio slope. Armoar was one of the numberless throng there searching for fortune. Fortune paid no heed to him, however, but finally he managed to eet gome "wash ings" that he sold for $100. This sum he carefully tied up in an old cotton handker chief for safe keeping. Then he hunted around for a place to put it His eye spied an old and dilapidated coffee pot in a corner of the cabin he occupied with three otber seekers for fortune. He put the $100 care fully in itaud placed it lovingly on a con venient shelf; themhe went abont his daily toil. When he returned from work his eye instinctively searched for tbe old pot It was gonel One of his partners had tired of work and come home. He had nothing else to do so he went to clean house. The old coffee-pot went with the otber rubbish, and a fire was made of it all in a little clnmp of bushes near by. Great was the consternation when Armour told what the pot contained. And how carefully he worked over that fire to rescue tbe pot finally be reached it, blackened and bent, but the money was intact, and no happier man slept in the diggings that night. Thereafter he carried it around with him in a belt And that $100 was the foundation of the Armour millions. Justice Tlarlnn In a Car. A big man with a broad back and a Dem ocratic white hat may be seen any day rid ing in a Fourteenth street car, says the Washington Post. Friday night, as usual, he was in one, and sitting 'on a back seat serenely puffed a fat Havana and chatted with a pretty girl in front of him. This big roan is one of the brainiest justices in the Supreme Conrt of tbe United States, Mr. Justice Harlan, and he.lives out be yond the Boundary at the head of Four teenth street. He is a jovial, companion able fellow, and the street car men and their Mount Pleasant opponents have no differ ences in respect of the genial judge. But pleasant and even familiar as he is, there is a dignity about him which awes while it attracts the too intrusive. Friday night a burly negro crowded somewhat too close to the judge's fair companion. A word and a look from the massive justice caused the intrnder to crowd hastily the other way and remove the objectionable pressure in short order. Ascribed to Jealaaay. A lady from the East, who lives near the Blaine family and knows them well person ally, was telling me the other day, says a writer in the St Louis Republic, what she termed the real cause of their treatment of poor pretty Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr. She declares that the elder Blaine was much at tached to his charming daughter-in-law and highly approved of his son's choice; in fact, he was quite fond of her, and would kiss and caress ber with as much affection as he lav ished on bis own daughters. Mrs. Blaine, however, didn't quite like his affection for the new daughter, as she is ol a jealous tem perament Harmless and natural as the affection was between father-in-law and daughter-in-law it became the real factor or the disagreement and ill treatment of the beautiful invalid. So the story ran from the neighDor oi me .tsiaines, Fresh Story ot Cleveland' Heiltb. Ex-President Cleveland has returned to New York after his snmmer outing. Instead of being improved, says the Philadelphia Press, be is in a state of health which, his friends fear, calls for some alarm, and he himself is as apprehensive as as his friends. He has told his friends that during the entire summer he has felt simply like loaf ing, as he expressed it, and could not master pluck enough, excepting on a few occasions, to indulge 'in a sport which a few years ago would have called him out at dawn and kept him with the rod and reel, all day. "I feel too Indisposed to move abont much, and I suppose it isbecanse I am getting so stout," he would say to his friends. The physicians, while not seriously alarmed about his condition, believe that he must submit to something like heroic treat ment, or he will lapse into a state of health which will be most threatening. LOTE YOUR ENEMIES. A Religious Precept the World Has Not Yet Learned to Obey. NEIGHBORLY AFFECTION IS RAEE. Too Much of the Unman Even in Church jor So High an Ideal. SOCIAL BARS IJt THE QUAKER CITY rwrnrrxN tob thb distatch.1 1 "Love thy neighbor as thyself is one of the great commandments set forth by the law and the prophets. This commandment was not only more strongly emphasized by the Founder of Christianity, but was even made more strikingly opposed to what 'is called human natnre by the additional command to "Love yonr enemies." But after all the teaching and preaching of this doctrine for thousands of years, how many people love their neighbors as themselves let alone loving their neighbors? , The world goes on resisting evil, hating enemies, striking back at opponents, sueing people, having respect nnto persons if they are rich, and doing all the things that in accordance wjth the doctrines they profess to believe, tbey should not do, and leaving undone those things which they ought to have done to make any show of consistency. "Now, Johnnie," said a fond father to his little boy, "if any boy hits yon, you hit him back. You take your own part, and pound him well nnless he is bigger than you are. You've got to learn to stand np for your self in this world, nnd we do not want any showoi tbejwhitejfeatber around this house." JOHNKIE'S TrtTHAPPT PREDICAMENT. This was the home teaching of the good Christian father, who sat np very solemnly and decorously in the head of the pew every Sunday and listened to the sermon on the mount and the gospel of love and non-resistance. Then Johnnie at Sunday school was taught that when anybody should smile him on one cheek he should turn the other for a second slap, and that he should not resist evil, but should submit to having his coat captured, his sled stolen, and to have other abuses and indignities heaped upon him, and should then love and pray for those who so despitefully nsed him. Johnnie between the church teachings and the home instruc tion of precept and example islikely to be come somewhat muddled in his mind on the subject, but his nature inclines him to fight and "go for" his enemies when they attack him, and he forgets all about the law and the prophets, while the sermons are only part of the Sunday programme, and go for nothing through the week. But there is a vast difference between doc trines and doings, even as the history of ihe church itself plainly shows. Love thy neighbor as thyself has been preached as a great commandment for thousands of years, while "love your enemies," "resist notevil," submit to indignity and insult are the founda tion stones of Christianity, and yet the church has often been lead by unscrupulous or misguided leaders into resisting evil with all its might and main. And often it has followed its enemies with relentless persecu tion. SOMEWHAT INCONSISTENT. In tbe past it has tortured and burned and martyred heretics wholesale and retail. It has given sanction to battle and mnrder and sudden death where its opponents were concerned. Even in these days of boasted tolerance the church does not in all instances love its enemies, but sometimes slanders, abuses, and despitefully uses them. Some sections of tbe church have justified civil war and sectional slavery. So-called pa triotism in the pulpit counseled no love to J enemies, bnt rather incited men to march to the field and kill them. Men sworn to preach and uphold the gospel of peace and non-resistance to evil deserted their desks, and showed the incompatibility between doctrine and practice upon tbe field of bat tle, where brother and neighbors and countrymen were in deadly array against each other. History and experience both show that however mnch such law and doctrine may be professed, the practice is overwhelmingly on the other side. The rnle of bnman nature as to enemies seems to be to "get even" if you can't get on top. It is the saying of a famous philosopher, "That a man shonld take care above all things to have a due respect for himself," and certainly, as the world goes, no man could really respect himself, if he placidly submitted to being bulldozed out ot bis coat, and then re warded the robber by giving him bis cloak also, or who was so silly as to lend money to anyon3 who wanted it for tbe asking and without good security. The general idea is that while the doctrine is good, it is impos sible in practice. MUCH TO DO TET. The world is still a long way off from the point when a man will love his neighbor as himself. Carlyle says "a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one." and there is much talk of the "brotherhood of man," but how little of it is really felt is shown by the antagonism between men of different nationalities. Americans hate and detest the Chinese and debar them from the coun try. They have a contempt for foreigners generally, and manifestly do not believe that the'eommand to love thy neighbor as thyself includes Italians and Huns and Poles and others. The Irish abhor the En glish, and will never, it is to be feared, learn to love their neighbors as themselves. In this country, by the protection policy, we show the world that the doctrine of love to man has as little standing in trade as has tbe Golden Bule in politics. Love thy neighbor as thyself does not apply to strangers that are without our gates. Our laws may bring bankruptcy, ruin, starva tion, and misery to national neighbors, but of course everybody must look ont for number one. That is not Gospel doctrine, but it is the world's doctrine, as shown in business and commercial intercouse. IN SOCIETT AND CHCBCH. But to come down to immediate neigh bors. Is the command any more fulfilled in a neighborhood or eveu in a church? Some church members with fnll knowledge of the command, regard their neighbors in other pews with contempt They say mean things about them. Tbey do not consider them as equals, and will 'not visit them, or even speak to them. Those in high position, or possessed of great wealth, grow very exclu sive and look down in disdain upon the neighbors they have left behind in tbe race for money. Everyone loves a good neigh bor, bnt who regards a bad one other than as a calamity. How can anyone love a neighbor when that neighbor is cross grained, quarrelsome and full of meanness? The question is asked what is a good neighbor, and tbe answers will come to everybody's mind. A good neighbor is one who possesses the qualities of a friend, who is kindly disposed, eager to do good turns, cordial in manners, sympathetic in trouble, and who is not given to meddling or evil speaking. How neighborhoods are so con structed appears to be a mystery that no one can fathom, but trne it is, that there is always one or more of the kind that knows everybody's business. Tbey gossip abont all their neighbors' shortcomings. Most people who live in a city or a town .know the neighbor who runs in the back way in order to be sociable, who cross questions the girl over the 'back fence for news, who is everlastingly borrowing, and whose time is almost wholly given up to finding out the inwardness of the affairs of tbe neighbor hood. THE MISCHIEF-MAKER. Then- there is nearly always a mischief maker to be found whose solace and satis faction in life consists in making trouble between good friends. This last sort of a neighbor generally manages to keep on the good side of the men, whom she flatters and bamboozles Into believing that she is a "mighty fine woman," and that the other women, wbo see through her and dislike her, are simply jealous of her taking ways. Shakespeare snows up such neighbors strongly in "Measure for Measure:" Wo might nor greatness In mortality ; back-wanndlng calumny The wbitest virtue strikes: What king scf strong uan tie tne gall up In tbe slanderous tonguer Now, wbo bas grace enough to love such neighbors as themselves? Wbo is Christian enough to loye such enemies? In the older cities it has come to be con sidered better not to know yonr neighbors, or even speak to them. In Philadelphia it is a matter ot boasting pride not even to know the names of the people next door, al though they may have lived close together for years. They may watch them from the windows, form estimates as to their waya and manners irom what they can see and hear thns far and no farther. A few years ago a Pittsburg family went to Philadel phia the City of Brotherly Love, remember to live. Some months afterward soma friends from Pittsburg determined to hunt them np. A PHILADELPHIA NEIGHBOR. They knew the street, but by chance la making inquiry happened to strike the house next door. Here the mistress of the mansion, in accents that seemed to indicate that she could bite a ten-penny nail in two that had been spiced in vinegar for weeks, and in manner conveying the idea that she was shocked at the thonght of any one sup posing that she could know her neighbors let alone loye them said she did not know their name nor anything about them, and did not desire to. To this advanced stage of culture and inconsistency with Christian doctrine we have not yet reached in Pitts burg. We are, in the main, still far enough back to like to have neighbors, and to Iova them if they are good. What is needed for pleasant and profit able intercourse with neighbors is good sense, good nature and wide charity. All people need sense enough to mind their own business and treat their neighbors as they would tike to be treated were conditions re versed. They need good nature to keep them from mean gossip and evil speaking. They need chanty, lor charity in its highest sense means to love thy neighbor as by self. By a cultivation of these qualities a neighborhood might attain to the highest felicity short of Paradise. Bessie Bbamblb. a peetty legend. How the Seminole Indians Account for tno Color of tbe Race. Among the Seminole Indians there is t singular tradition regarding the white man's origin and superiority. They say that when the Great Spirit made the earth he also made three men, all of whom were fair complexioned; and that alter making them he led them to the margin of a small lake, and be bade them leap in and wash. Ona obeyed, and came out of the water purer and fairer than beiore. The second hesi tated a moment, during which time the water, agitated by the first, beoame muddy, and when he bathed he came up copper colored. The third did not leap in till the water became black with mud, and he cams out its own color. Then tbe Great Spirit laid before them three packages, and ont of pity lor his mis fortune in color, gave the black man first choice. He took hold of each of the pack ages and, haying felt their weight, chose tha heaviest, the copper-colored chose the next heaviest, leaving tbe white man the lightest When the packages were opened, the first was found to contain spades, hoes, and all the Implements of labor; tbe second en. wrapped huntine, fishing, and warlike ap-" paratns; the third gave the white man pens, ink, and paper the engines of the mind, the means of mutual improvements, the social link of humanity, the foundation of Ihe white man's superiority. WKDAUE A. HUP" Complexion Spocialtis. r Mme. A. Bnppert's world-renowned faesi bleach Is tbe only face tonic In the world which, positively removes freckles, moth patches, blackheads, pimples, birthmarks, eczema and all blemishes of the skin, and when applied cannot be observed by anyone. 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