SB VW5 7Q THE -PITTSBUEQ- DISPATCH,- SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1890. TIPS 01 UNCLE SI How Public Men Could Make Millions Tlirongh Information That Comes in Their WaT. TEE SILVER TOOL DIDX'T WORK, Ent Other Similar Schemes Have Panned Out Fortunes of Colossal Propor tions in limes Past. JEKUT ELACE AND SCOTT'S SECRET. Etcao (hce Eefcscd Itsiie Ticts ca Whisiy Ttit Wen Wcrli Big Kcney. rcocnrsroxDExcE or tee iHsr.iTCH.1 Washington, November 29. The fail ure of the Barings, the threatened panic and the consequent tightness of the money market, has knocked the life out of the famed Silver Pool of the last Congressional session. Silver is down to par instead of being up to 12S, and about 20 of our Repre sentatives and Senators are, figuratively speaking, trotting back and lorth from the Capitol to the White House, on their uppers, instead of riding behind their coach men and pairs. This Silver Pool contained Congressmen from all sections of the country. It was or ganized at the time that it seemed sure that the free coinage silver bill would pass and it began to buy silver when it was at So. It bought a big block on a margin before it cot to par, and its members fixed the figure to which Mlver would rie at the passage of the bill to 12S or 13.. They watched the stock reports, as it crept up point by point, to 105, and liugged themselves when it jumped to 108 alter the iree coinage bill passed the Senate. SWALLOWING TKE WORLD'S SILVER. Their faces tell when the House struck out the iree coinage provision, and silver dropped to 1K, but they thought that the 51,500,000 a month which the Treasury was to take, would be practically free coinage, and they still held on and waited lor a further rise. Some of the leading silver men in Congress, then consulted Secretary Windom, and he told them that the pur chase of silver ought to be restricted to the product of American mines, or that all Eu rope would ship her silver here ior saie. There is. however, no greater crank, nor no more obstinate crank, than the silver crank, and the silver meu sneered at Windom and said that they would take the silver of all the world. For a time, it seemed as though thev were right, and that we could swallow all the silver the world had to give. Silver went upward right along, till it got to be 321, when the Congressional pool sold out a big block of its stock, and held the rest for a iurther rise. The bill by this time was a certainty. The Treasury was taking in the metal in gigantic mouthfuls, but silver, strange to say, began to fall. It wmt down to 118, then to 117, then to 116 and then 112. PLATING IT DOUBLE. In the meantime, our money-making Statesmen, who had cleaied themselves at the sale oi 121, reinvested their earning, ex pecting to see silver rise again and reach 12S. But it oid not rise. It continued to fall, and the speculators aic nowdead broke. Eugland did it. Frauce helped, and Ger many was another of the bears. England could not afford to carry on her trade with India. China aud the East on a gold basis, or rather a silver premium basis, and she sent 511,000,000 in one chunk over here ou the quiet to bear the market. The recent troubles have made the matter worse and a number oi our statesmen, by the sad lesson o. experience, will speculate no longer. The number of speculators in Congress is, however, very small in comparison with the number of members and still smaller in comparison with the immense opportunities for making money. It is a moral question as to how far the Congressman has the right to speculate on matters of legislation. Some meu see no harm in it an. I some do not hesi tate to give information to their friends as to what Coneress will do pending financial or other legislation, the passage or failure of which will materially aflect the markets. A CHANCE IX OCEAN LINES. Suppose the general subsidy bill which Passed the Senate ljst vear is goin? to n.iss the House and become a law. The advance knowledge oi this fact would be worth millions. It -.rill put up the stock ot a number of the steamship lines several points, and I know a half dozen Congi ess men who aie watching it, and of others who expect to invest in I'acific 31 ail, as soon as they are certain o! its passage. Nearly all the committees of Congress afford oppor tunities :or money-making in the changes in the prices w hicn are affected by their recommendations to Congress, and it is to the credit of our American statesmanship that so manv of our Congressmen are poor. Take the AVajs and 3Ieans Committee ot the House, and millions could be made off or almost any article on the tariff hill in which the duty is lowered or raised. There .ire hundreds ot men who hang around the lobbies of Congress during the session seek ing for such information, and, it a Chairman were dishonest, he could make a hundred times his salary. don't accept the offers. v Still Morrison is comparatively poor. Mills is worth little more than his salary, and all the money McKinley has he cot through his wi!e ami inheritance. Tom Eeed is not rich, and vou will find hardlv a Chairraau of the Ways and Means who has profited by his office. It is the same with the Finance Committee, but Sam Itan dall was on this lor yars, and he died leav ing only about So.000. Hand all was the most scrupulous mm in. regard to such matters we have ever had In Congress. The fact that one ot his 'riends or relatives was to indirectly profit by a piece of legislation was a reason Miy he should vote against it, and he killed many an nonest bill :or this reason. It is the same with other committees in Congress, and the wonder is not that Congressmen speculate so much, but that they speculate so little. An immense deal ot money was made by Congressmen during the war, and the rise in whisky, when a dollar a gallon was put upon it, made a nice sum tor a number of statesmen and their friends. It was a ques tion in the minds of the Finance Committee of the Senate, as to whether the revenue tax on.whisky ought not to be increased 50 cents a gallon. All at once, in a secret mcpting, they decided to put :t up to a dollar a gallon. A BIG HAUL IN "WHISKY. One of the correspondents, a man who is stii: in Washington, met Senator Sherman just after this meeting, and asked what the Committee had done. He said it was a secret, and that it would be known tne next day. The knowledge was at that time, how ever, worth millions to this correspondent's friends in the stock markets o.' New York, and he went from Sherman to another Sen ator ou the committee, and was told the news. The resuit was that his friends made fortune!', and he netted several times a Congressman's salary out of the stock they bought or him. Horace White, Villard and Whitclaw Iteid also got this in ormation in advance, and they each made 530.000 out of it. It was this that gavcYiJlard his start. He took the mocy to London, and there bought our Government securities for 30 cents ou the dollar, realizing handsomely on the pur chase. White took hia money and bought an interest in the Chicago Tribune, and Iieid invested his money in a cotton planta tion in the South at the close of the war and lost it. Senator Sherman was accused of hav ing furnished the information to his friends away from Washington, but he indignantly denies the accusation. FIEST KNOWLEDGE MEANS FORTUNE. The Ways and Means Committee at this time had a constant influence upon the stock market. An hour or two of advance knowledge was worth fortunes, and the members posted their friends. The Secre tary of the Treasury would send up a mes sage that it had becnadecided to issue $50, 000,000 more in greenbacks, and this would send the prices on everything upward. A great deal of money was made out of the Morrill tariff bill, and intbi, as in all legis lation, the first knowledge is worth money. All of the Government bond issues were pro ductive ot wealth to the men who had the nerve to speculate on the information which was furnished them before the general pub lic got to know it, and the same is true to day. The big railroad grants which were given by Congress were productive of wealth to many statesmen. The Credit Mobilier in vestigation showed that a number of votes had been secretly bought with presents of stock, and there are men living in Washington to-day who made their lortunes out of it millions to lobbyists. It is said that 500.000 were given by the lobbyist Dick Irwin to secure the passage of the Pacific Mail subsidy, and C. P. Hunt ington and Jay Gould have spent, it is said, fortunes in passing or killing bills. Judgs Jerry Slack once visited Tom Scott, the President of the Pennsylvania Railway Company, in behalf of a client, who had a claim against the Texas Pacific. Scott opened a drawer of his desk, took out a paper containing a long list of names ot distin guished men with big figues and a number of ciphers opposite them. "What is this?" said BJack. "That is what I paid to get the charter of the Texas Pacific," replied Scott. Black crew angry. He threw down the paper and said, '"What do you mean by showing me that? I don't want my soul seared with your sinful secrets. I shall not be able to read those names again as they appear from day to day in the newspapers without think ing of my country's dishonor." "Oh," said the railroad king, as Black turned away. "They don't think it dis honorable," and pulling out a bundle of letters, "I have notes here Jrom nearly every one of them demanding more money." MAKING MONEY IN LANDS. Public men at Washington have many chances to make money in land sptculation. A great deai ot money has been made in Washington real estate, and this has been in nearly all cases of late years legitimate. I know of a Congressman from Kansas who made more than $100,000 during the past year out of suburban property on the Mcssa- chusetts avenue extension. The man is a millionaire and he is a bold speculator. A railroad is now being built from the northwestern fashionable part of (be city out to the district line by what is known as the Calilornia Syndicate. This syndicate has more than $1,000,000 capital, and sev eral Senators are interested in it. They will make fortunes, if wc do not have a panic, in the rise of the land from the building of this railroad. Senator Sherman, William Walter Phelps, James G. Blaine, Don Cameron and a score of other statesmen of national note have added to their lortunes by investing in Washington property. Sen ator Sherman is both an investor and a specu lator, and the same may be said of many of the other men of the Senate. I do not mean to say that they speculate on matters before Congress, but they are shrewd and tar sighted, and they are not afraid to pay for a good thing when they see it COULD HATE MADE A MILLION. One of the most punctilious statesmen who have ever been in Washington was Hannibal Hamlin. He did not believe that he had any right to use information which he got as a public servant to advance his private interests, and he once refused to buy a whole square iu Washington for half a cent a foot oa this ground. Had he made the pur chase he would have been now a millionaire, for this square is worth about 50 a square loot to-day. He acted the same in regard to bonds, and at one time one of his fellow Senators, in speaking of a bill which was berore the Senate, asked him to vote for it, telling him he could take him to a place where he could get all these bonds he wanted for G cents on the dollar, which would be worth 100 cents when the bill passed. He ciosed with: "Well, Hamlin, what do you say to the chance?" "I say," replied Hamlin, with an angry frown as he turned his back, "I say your chance and vour bonds." And that was the end of the matter. FRAUDS IN PUBLIC LANDS. The Commissioner of ihe General Land OfHco and the Secretary of the Interior have advance knowledge of the most valuable tracts of public land in this country aud it is only their honesty that keeps them from being wealthy. Suppose a valuable tract ot coal land is reported. It could be bought o." the Government by their friends at 1 25 an acre, and they could have an interest in it aud no one be the wiser; Congressmen have the same chance as to land grants and as to the opening up of new reservations. The first steals which were discovered in the Government service were land uteals, and as lar bick as 1795 there was a scheme to get 20,000,000 acres of West ern lands from Congress for a nominal sum. This scheme was engineered by a lobbyist named Itaudall, and he claimed that he had 30 members of the House and a majority of the Senate in with him. In 1S57 two New York Congressmen had to resign because they acted corruptly as to a land grant, and thebribe to one of these for his services was seven square miles of land. CABINET OFFICERS COULD MAKE MONEY. Secretary Windom's word will raise or lower the value of bonds and stocks. He knows of legislation and ot the financial acts which the department is to perform days and weeks in advance, and a wink from him could turn certain things into gold. Still he is to-day a poor man, and no one has ever charged him with corruption. In the awarding of a contract like that of the seal trade ot Alaska, involving millions, a cor rupt man could squeeze matters this way and that so as to make his services worth thousands. Access to the presenceof the Executive is often worth a lortune if it can be accom plished in the right manner, and during the days of Grant the influence exerted upon him was, it was openly charged, bought and sold. There is no doubt hut that President Cleveland was scrupulously honest and that his Private Secretary. Lamont was equally so. Still Cleveland made 5100,000 out of his real estate investments, aud the friend ships which Lamont made by his courtesy and ability as the White House watchdog, have since given him openings which make him a rich man to-dav. Frank G. Carpenter. PAYIHG EACH OTHER'S FAKES. TheScene WhichEnsnesWhenTTro Women Cet on a Street Car. New York Times. Everybody is amiliar with the spectacle of two women in a street car endeavoring to pay one another's fare, but it remained for an energetic Brooklyn conductor the other day to take the matter in his own hands and straighten out the snarl. As usual, when the two were seated, each plunged for ber purse, which receptacles were brought out with mutual protests. No. 1 got out her coin, a dime, saying complacently, "It's all ready, my near." But No. 2 had a quarter which she "really wanted changed." So it went on while the conductor stood before them waiting forsome decision. None came and he grew impatient He counted out some change in each hand. "Let me have your dime, please," he said to No. 1, and she obediently handed it over. Then he put out his hand to No. 2, who gave him her quarter, not understanding what was coming. Then quickly to No. 1 he banded a nickel, and to No. 2 20 cents in change before either of the women discovered" his intention, and walked off to the platform muttering something that probably would not look well in print THE REALISM OF RHYME. ICAr.XEr.ED FOB THE DISPATCIt. ! Tlio Iticli and tho Poor Man. An Old Latin Epigram.-! Not free from want the rich man, nor alone In want tho poor; wants rich and poor must own. The rich wants gems the poor a frugal feast xotn are in want tne poor man s warns are least -Beclouded. By Emily Dlcklnson.3 The sky is low, the clouds are mean, A traveling flak'e of snow Across a barn or through a-rut Debates if It will go. A narrow w ind complains all day How someone treated him; Nature, like u, is sometimes caught Without her diadem. Invito Minerva. OllTer 'Wendell Holmes In Atlantic Monthly.! Vex not the muse with Idle prayers She will nothear thy call, She steals upon thee unawares. Or seeks thee not at all, Boft as the moonbeams when they sought ' Endymion's fragrant flower, Ebe parts tho whispering leaves of thought To show her full blown flower. For thee her wooing hour has passed. The singing birds havo flown. And winter comes with icy blast To chill the buds unblown. Yet though the woods no longer thrill As once their arches rung, bwect echoes hover round thee still Of songs thy summer sung. Live in thy past await no more The rush of heaven-sent wings. Earth still has music lett In store While memory sighs and sings. Little Fir Trees. Evalcen Stein, in December St. Nicholas. Hej! little evergreens. Sturdy and strongl Summer and autumn time Hasten along. Harvest the sunbeams, then, Bind them in sheaves. Range them, and change them To tufts of green leaves. Delve in the mellow mold. Far, far below. And so, Littlo evergreens, growl Grow, growl Grow, little evergreens, grow! Up. up, so airily. To the blue sky. Lift up our leafy tips Stately and high; Clasp tight your tiny cones, Ta.wnv and brown; By and by, buffeting Rains will pelt down; iiy ana uy, Ditteny Chill wit.ds will blow; And so. Little evergreens, grow! Grow, growl Grow, little evergreens, grow! Gather all uttermost Beauty, because Hark, till I tell it now! liow Santa Ciaus, Oat of the Northern land. Over the seas, Soon shall come seeking you. Evergreen trees! Seek you with reindeers soon, 0cr the snow; Ard so. Little evergreens growl Grow, growl Grow, little evergreens, grow! What if tho maples flare Flaunting anu red. You snail wear waxen white Tapers instead! What if now, otherwhere. Birds are beguiled, Yoii shall yet nestle The little Christ-child! Ah, the strange splendor The flr trees shall know! And so. Little evergreens, grow! Grow, grow! Grow, little evergreens, grow! Tho Lowers' Litany. Byltudyard Kipling. 1 Eyes of gray a sodden quay. Driving rain and falling tears. As the steamer wears to sea la a parting storm of cheers. Sing, for faith and hope are high Nono so true as you and I Sing tho Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never diel" Eyes of black a throbbing keel, Milky foam to left and right; Whispered converse near the wheel In the brilliant tropic night Cross that rnles the Southern skyl Stars that sweep and wheel and fly, Hear the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!" Eyes of brown a dusty plain S'llit and parched with heat of June, Flying hoot and tightened rein. Hearts that beat tne old. old tune. Side by side the horses fly, Framo wo now the old reply Of the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!" Eves of blue the Simla Hills Silvered with the moonlight hoar; Pleading of the waltz that thrills, Dies and echoes round Benmore. ".Mabel," "Officero," Goodby," Glamour, wine and witchery On my soul's sincerity. "Love like ours can never dleF' Maidens of your charity. Pity my most luckless state. Four tunes Cupm's debtor I Bankrupt in quadruplicate. Yet, despite this evil case. An a maiden showed me grace, Four-and-forty times would I Sin; the Lovers' Litany: Love like ours can never die!" To the Sunset Breeze. Walt Whitman In Llppincott's Magazine for De cember. J. Ah, whispering, something again, unseen. Where late this heated day thou enterest at my window, door. Thou, laving, tempering all, cool-freshing, gently vitalizing Me, old. alone, sick, weak-down, melted-worn with sw eat; Thou, nestling, folding close and Arm yet soft, companion better than talk, book, art (Thou hast O Nature! elements! utterance to my hi-ait bejond the rest aud this is of tncin). So sweet thy primitive taste to breathe within Thy soothing fingers on my face and hands. Thou, messenger-magical strange brluger to body and spirit of mo (Distances balked occult medicines penetrat ing me from held to foot), I feel the sky, the prairies vast I feel the mighty Northern takes, I feel the ocean and the forest somehow I feel the clone itself swift-swimming in snace: Thou blown from lips so loved, now gone haply from endless store. God-sent (For thou art spiritual. Godly, mostot all known to my sense). Minister to speak to me, here and now, what word has never told, and cannot tell. Art thou not universal concrete's distillation? Laws, all Astronomy's last refinement? Hast thou no soul? Can I not know, identify thee? Tho Secret Cosmo Monkhouse In Somerville Journal. She passes in her beauty bright Amongst the mean, amongst the gay, And all are brighter for the sight, Aud bless her as she goes her way. And now a beam of pity pours. And now a spark of spirit flies. Uncounted, from the unlocked stores Of her rich lips and precious eyes. And all men look, and all men smile. But no man looks on her as I: """" They mark her lor a little w hile. But I will watch her till I die. And if I wonder now and then Why this so strange a thing should be That she bo seeu by wiser men, Aud only duly loved by me; 1 only wait a little longer. And watch her radiance in the room, Heie making light a little stronger, And there obliterating gloom. (Like one who in a tangled way Watches the broken sun fall through. Turning to gold and faded spray. And making diamonds of dew.) Until at last as my heart burns, She gathers all her scattered lights, And undivided radiance turns Upon me like a sea of light And then I know they see in part That which God lets me worship whole; She gives tb em glances ot ber heart. But me, the sunshine of ber souk THE HAT OF ENGLAND. Stove-Pipes Are as Characteristic as Juggling With the fl's. THE BUTCHER, THE LORD, THE BUM, ill Delight in Them, for They Lend Dignity to All Stations. FIEST THING A WINDFALL BRINGS COItBESrOXPKNCE OF THE DtSPATCUl London, November 2L The tall hat is an essential part of every Englishman. It is far more to him than the tall hat is to an Irishman, even at a St Patrick's Day parade in New York. It is even more than the kilt is to a Scotchman. To the Englishman, the tall hat means'-dignity and respectability.even if occasionally com bined with a certain amount of festivity. According to the shape and newness of the tall hat, the style and characteristics of ' tliA T. n irl I qTi m a n rnr. ijj usually be ascertained. With the average En glishman a tall hat is the first thing he buys wheu a sudden wind, fall arrives; conse School Boy. quently, it is not an uncommon sight to see a ragged-edged pair ot trousers continuing upward to a brand-new tall hat Ou the other hand, there are Englishmen, usually literary men of note or noblemen of very high rank, and a few poets and bankers, who pride themselves on the antiquity and complete shabbiness of their tall hats. A poet who wore the most disreputable tall hat I have ever seen, wrote: Tho lensrth of his whisker3 defines the cat, And a man you can tell by the style of hubat. But I do not agree with that poet For in stance, his verses were gen erally better thau his hat; had they been worse, the coup let might have been regarded otherwise. Again: I was once seated in my office await- Provincial Cricketeri. ing subscriptions for a charitable object A man entered with an awful-looking tall hat. I said to myself, "Here is the charitable ob ject" But it wasn't It was one of the biggest dukes of England, and he called to leave me a cheque for a substantial amount The Englishman hunts. Now, I should say that the most unsuitable headgear possi ble for a man even an Englishman oa the top ot a horse going over fences, rushing under trees, tumblingover five barred gates and other things, is a tall hat. But no; it has been definitely decided thatonlyonchat can be worn with "pink" the tall hat. "You see, suppose you fall on your head, you know," explained a fox hunting judge to me yesterday, "many a fel- ' Inw a nrtIr his noon (saved at the expense of a crushed tall hat," which, from the judge's point of I view, is a strong plea. But, oh dearl "How fuuny it looks to see a - small boy of 7 or so with g. a tall hat as long as his little Dody; and yet no young English gentle- Tlie Fly Catcher, man who wishes to be regarded as "a young English gentleman," ever dreams of creepiuglike a snail, un willingly to school, unless he is wearitig a tall hat. Go to Dean's Yard, Wesiminster, and watch the boys at play. They are spin ning tops, climbing poles, and even kicking the football in tall hats. At Christ Collese, another public school known as "The Bine coat," the boys do not wear any hats or caps at all, which is presumedly the other ex treme of the tall hat mania." London cabmen, 'bus drivers, and street fakirs invariably wear tall hats; ancient all hats often, mildewed tall hats mostly, but distinctly tall hats. A group in a beer saloon with pewter mucs at their lips and short tall hats well tilted on the back of their heads, is a scene worthy of a chapter of Iiudyard Kipling. A man who was selling comic sonzs three a penny in the j, OLICC1, lUiU U1C lilSb Saturday, confiden tially, that he was hnnrv and wanted boots, and bad neu- I ralgia everywhere. He looked it; hut on his head was an al most new tall hat He noticed my as tonished eve and ex plained: "A bloke guv' it me yesterday with an 'am san'widge and sez 'Try and look respectable in this; it Undertaker's Man. don't fit me, and my brother wot wore it Sundays is dead." It'll come in blooming fine when I follers my profession ageu in the summer, I does the 'ketch'em alive n'act' from the day when the furst warmint is 'atched up till when he dies of the bally frost, and I h'advertises my business in front of mv tall 'at stuck h'all h'over, sir. with flies." I gave him sixpence, and moved on ater accepting a copy of a comic song with the following chorus: Oh the 'at oh the 'at Oh, the nobby tall 'at! It's the pride of the boy and the man; It's always the stvle Is the glossv silk tile. From the Duke to the fly-catching man. Go to the Bank of England to collect or sell or buy jrour Con sols. A man in a white apron and a tall hat shows you the rinht door. Several other tall hatted, white-aproned men show you more doors, and one of them points out to you a nice fat-lni-prl V. stomached old b o v crossing n corridor. "That's n mo,,..: director, sir.worth hun dreds ot'thousands, but just awful eccentric; never wears a tall 'at h'anytjme, sir. H'al- WflTS In !l Vttllir-fM,T- A Century Ago. fr0m h'aem. to p. h'm. Fact, sir, s'elp me." An obliging middle-aged man leaves every morning on my doorstep half a dozen' mBm Jill ,!!,! Am yi in "IW"1 S,ii Mi -38KUSSL-. HSt y.fixn mKia L2I II J. fit I. . I mmn fa I w II little slices of hors e fl e s h, stuck neatly on a skewer. The best part of him is cov ered by a huge blue apron, but his tall hat looms up proudly to the sky with the words on a band round the brim: "Purveyor of catsmeat to the royal fam ily." And so I could go on for columns, but the artist wants too much room for his pict ures. I see he has de picted a swell of the day and 2 A "t yMvw 'nlit a 1 VviniX Si a swell of 100 A Swell of To-Day. years ago iu their tall hats. He has also that drawn a gentleman whose profession is 27ic Turncock. of a "Turncock" (vide Dicken's "haughty uncle" in "Nicholas Nickelby"). Well a turncock is an offi cial of the New Kiver Water Company. The Englishman's house always has a cistern, and he is allowed so many gallons of water a day duly measured according to the size ot the residence, for which he pays a tax known as the water rate. If he fails to pay it the turncock turns the water off nntil the bill is settled, and the two iron instruments, somewhat vaguely drawn by the artist, are the turncock's implements ot business. Without his tall hat, however, he never Have a Cab, Sir t would bo able to perlorm his merciless errand with the dignity due to a man who lully realizes the import of the lines in the "'Orrible Story" ballad: And nothing was left, 'tis the truth I state, H'except a h'unpaid water rr rate. A. B. C. TASTY ADVERTISING COLUMNS. How tjie Compositor's Art Brings Order Out of Hopeless Chaos. "It has been a subject of wonder to me," said a retired newspaper compositor to a St. Louis Republic man, "how the numer ous advertisements in a morning news paper these days are set up so tastily and in so brief a time. While standing in the counting-room of the Republic a few min utes one evening last week there came 15 or 20 persons with copy for advertisements to appear in the next day's paper, some to oc cupy a pige, others a half page, and so on down to SO lines double column. The copy was mostly written ou large sheets of manila paper, in some instances making quite a bundle for each ad. I fancied that the printer to put in type the manuscript that came while I was wait ing, to say nothing of what had already been received or came afterwards, would have to run the matter together, like a trus tee's sale, with a line of big type at the top and bottom to make the required space. I was surprised next morning to see all the advertisements properly classified, artisti cally arranged, and the feature of each dis played so as to catch the eye at once. When I was at the business a merchant or business man wanting an ad to occupy more than a column in width was required to furnish copy several days in advance ot its publica tion." HOW THEY GET POINTEEa Milliners and Dressmakers Attend the Fash ionable Weddings. Sew York Times. A well-dressed woman put her head through the dour of a fashionable church on Fifth avenue the other day and asked the organist, who was giving a reporter a list ot the weddings to come: "Is there a wedding here to-night?" There was, and, after inquiring the hour that the ceremony would take place, she withdrew. "Relative?" asked the reporter of the organist. "Oh, no; she's a milliner. They always come to the weddings. I keep halt a dozen posted on the weddings to take place. And the dressmakers, too; they are always here long enough before the service begins to see if there is any new style worn." A QUESTION WELL A2CSWEKED. In What Kespect is Chamberlain's Cough rtcmedy Better Than Any Other We Will Tell You. It is the only remedy that will liquefy the tough, tenacious mucus incident to colds, and renderit easy to expectorate. It is the only remedy that will cause the expulsion of mucus from the air cells ot the lungs. It is the only remedy that will counteract the effect of a severe cold and greatly miti gate, if not effectually cure, the cold within one day's time. To do this it must be used as soon as the first symptoms ot the cold ap pear. It will cure a severe cold in less time than any other treatment it is the only remedy that will prevent croup. It is the only remedy that has cured thou sands of cases of croup without a single failure. It is the only remedy that will prevent all dangerous consequences frooni whooping cough. It is pleasant and safe to take. There is not the least danger iu giving it to children in large and frequent doses which are always required iu casesot croup and sometimes for whooping cough. It is put up in large bottles for the price. Many persons who have used it lor years and know from experience its trne value, say that a fiO-cent bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Keniedy will go further toward curing severe colds, and do more real good thau a dollar bottle of any other cough med icine they have ever used. wsu. ilfi 1 1 olfln REAL ESTATE BOOMS. The Experts of New York Can Give Western Geniuses Points, GEASD SDBDUBS ALL ON PAPER. Prices Steadily Advance Without a Single Sale lieing Made. THE EXPEEIEXCE OP A D0UB SEEKEE fCOEHESrOXPEXCE OF THE DISPATCH. 1 New Yoke, November 29. The New York real estate man is fully up in all of the wiles that characterize his Northwestern brother as drawn by the humorous pencil of Bill Nye. On the whole our New York dealer in suburban property can probably give a Wisconsin land agent points. There are undoubtedly some beautilul pieces of suburban real estate contiguous to this great city, but they are held at prices that would make any but a real estate man blush. If you will take the trouble to consult some of the maps that adorn the walls of the real estate agent you will be surprised to find how many beautilul villages of which you never heard before are lying within easy reach by the elevated road and by hourly trains out of New York. These villages promise not only lovely homes to those who desire them in the coun try, but the most tempting bargains to the capitalists and speculators. It is astonish ing how much property of this character is bought aud sold without ever having been seen by the purchaser. Take the trouble to visit personally one of these suburban vil lages and you will be more astonished to find that they exist chiefly on paper. A TOONG HOME SEEKEE'S TEIP. A young married man who is desirous ot obtaining a home without great expense made a tour of some of these places recently, and his experience would make an interest ing volume of many chapters. "A real estate friend of mine," said he, "has been after me for some time to purchase a lot or two in his sub-division north of the city. He has asked me to go out there a dozen times, but my experience iu other directions was such that I didn't think it worth while to pursue my investigation in this line. Finally, I concluded that I would go, and one bright day we took the train north to look at the property. "On the way out I studied ihe map of the locality pretty thoroughly. A lovely town was laid out, and a beautiful railway sta tion was represented on the edge of it. There were churches and schools and lovely villas designated on the map, and the streets and avenues bore high-sounding names. I was informed that most of the property had been gobbled up by very prominent men, and the pieces of land they had secured were pointed out to me. Be. ore we got out there I was chock full of enthusiasm, aud bad almost settled upon the particular lot that I was to have and on which I was to build a country residence. HO VILLAGE I2T SIGHT. "There was a little hitch about the prices, which I considered somewhat high, but this was in a fair way to be smoothed over before we reached the epot After about an hour's travel my friend pointed out of the car window and said: 'Hereweare.' I looked out, but saw nothing iu the shape of a house within the radius of half a mile, except an old farm house, which has been there for a century. 'Perhaps it is on the other side of the train,' I thought, getting up and follow ing my real estate man to the door "The cars slowed down at a cross road and the agent nudced me, saying: 'Don't be in too big n hurry and be. careful when you jump. We jumped, landing in the mud and dust of the country road. My breath was fairly taken away. There was no station at all. When the train passed on, which it did immediately after dumping us there in the road, I saw that there was no village either." "The station will be right here," said the agent, pointing to a couple of sticks driven iu the road near by. "Isn't this just lovely?" A VILLAGE OF TITE FOTUEE. "But where is the village?" said I. "It seems to me that the village is a good bit like the station, yet to be built" "Oh, the viliage and the station are all right," said the real estate man, confiden tially. "This place will be covered with houses before the middle of next sum mer." "We walked out into a plowed field and I was shown the streets and avenues that were laid out in anticipation of the spring rush. There were two or three meu digging a hole in the ground, which hole was to answer the purpose of a cellar for one ot the villas marked out on the map. There was another hole in the ground nearby, which was evi dently started for the same purpose hut which purpose was evidently abandoned be fore the hole was completed. I then noticed in the field nearby two lonely little frame houses, and was told these were the resi dences erected by the first comers. There was a big board sign on each announcing the fact that they were for sale. One of them had never been occupied and the other had been, occupied but a couple of weeks when the family moved out and back to town again, where thev could consult without difficulty the family physician. EVEN THE FAU3IEE GONE. "Even the farmhouse which stood in a lovely grove of trees flanked by garden patches, stables and other 'outhouses, was vacant and to let cheap. There was not a sign of a pavement or even a gravel walk in the whole neighborhood, and the mud would have floated a barge. I took all these thinirs in while my friend, the real es tate man, glihly presented in the most glowine language the unparalleled advan tages of living iu the country. The only A COLUMBUS CELEBRATION AT HUELVA. Hnelva is, perhaps, best known in this country as the great copper port of Spain, from which the product of Rio Tinto mines is (hipped, but it has other and historical interests. It was from the estuary now known as Huclva harbor that Columbus sailed on his memor able voyage, which was to have such enormous results for Spain-and the rest of the world. Several governments having been consnlted in connection with the celebration of the fourth centenary ot the event, the President of the Eoyal Historical Academy in Madrid, Senor Canovas del Costillo, announced at its last meeting that the American Congress had fixed upon such part of Spain as the Madrid government might designate for the holding of the next Congress in 1892. The Madrid government have selected Huelva for this nAEBOE 'WHENCE pnrpose, the meetings to be held at the convent pf La Eabida, which sheltered Columbus when he was about to give up his idea in despair, aud the prior of which secured for him that Eoyal aid which he had himself failed to obtain. The visitors will not find anything lacking in the wax of hotel accommodation, as Huelva is the possessor of one of the be't organized modern hotels iu Europe. The Colon, or Columbus, as it is named, was founded by the Eothschilds, Mntheson & Co. and thoEio Tinto Company, aud between them they have produced a palace. The municipality is taking steps to render the stay of the mem bers of the Congress agreeable. It is intended to erect a monument to Colamhus at the old port of Palos, on the estuary near Huelva. at the ceremonies in connection with which the Queen E'gent and the Eoyal family will be present. reason that he didn't put up a residence there for himself was because his business required him to remain iu the city. Nearly every other lot I found was the property of big New York speculators, who were hold ing for the inevitable rise which was to come through the settlement of the place by home-seekers. "The probability of anybody going to such a place to live filled me with astonish ment. I wouldn't lire in such a place (or S1.000 a month. No, sir, not if you would put up a $25,000 house there for me and make over the deed for 1 cent. We loafed around there for two mortal hours waiting for the train which was to take us back to New York. Standing there in the muddy road and shivering iu the cold wind waving a white handkerchief to bring the train to a standstill for us, we formed a picturesque and idiotic group. CUBED OF, ONE DISEASE. "I came home that night and had a chill, followed by m-ilarial fever, which I caught out there in that plowed ground, which is some day to be a village, and tossed nn my back in bed for two days. My doctor bill has not been sent to nie yet.'but wheu it comes I think something of sending it to my real estate friend for payment. No, sir, I don't care to live in the country. A fiat in a tenement district in New York is good enough for me. I am thoroughly cured of my notion ot a suburban residence, though 1 am not fully cured ot the malaria that en tered my system while I was on the lookout for one." A casual investigation will show that speculators hold every foot of ground within ten miles of the city limits. The value of this ground is just what they put it at These map villases, or sub-divisions, as they would be called out West, have been put up in price year alter year without re gard to purchasers present or prospective. These lots or 25x100 feet range all the way from So00 to 51,000. GOOD TLACES FOE GOATS. Some of the property is among the rocks and in such places that a builder would have to spend double the value of his prop erty in blasting lor a cellar and walks. There are towns laid out above the city of New York in the vicinity of Yonkers that are practically inaccessible to anybody but a goat at present The goat would have to be a pretty sure-footed one, too. When a real estate man tells you that such property has doubled in value within the last year or two, he means that the speculator has sim ply put up the price from time to time until it has reached that point This without ref erence to any bona fide purchaser who in tends to co there to live. It will be seen at once that it will cost a man who desires a home more motipy to cre ate such a home in the suburbsofNcwYnrk than it would to buy a house in Harlem. To a busiuess man the matter of railway fare is the most important item. From SO cents to 81 a day for every business day will go to the transportation company. A LOSS OF TIME, TOO. The value of the time it requires to go and come is not generally estimated in the ques tion of expense. It should be, however, and if it is it will form no small item in the gen eral aggregate. This is saying nothing of the discomforts of two or three hours a day in dirty railway cars. New York is a great, crowded city, but it will be a good many years, and it will be a much greater city than at present before the suburban property of this character will be desirable for homes. It would seem to be a reat mistake for those real estate boomers to put such property on the market, even at the figures asked for it before sufficient means of transportation are at hand. When New York adopts the underground railway system, by which a man can leave his business in the lower city and be whirled away by steam at the rate of 15 to 20 miles an hour, it will be time enough to talk of living comfortably and satisfactorily above the northern extremity of Manhattan Island. ClIAS. T. MUEEAY. The Snake Charmer. New York Herald.! .-0 1? . O mni ;,& W Storklet Ah I What a snap. Yonder cometh a snake charmer. Vf l? ii -A, N x-'K-' I simply dote on snakes. But this is the most ticklish one I ever struck. COLTJlIijrjs SAILED. t M S s mm r XAAAXyV J-' 12" fnOnuOQy & SMil THREADS OF STEEL. Transforminjr Iron Ore Into the Wire Used by Jswelers. INTERESTING GAS CITI INDUSTRY. Strands So Fine That Three Will Go ia the ije of a Xeedle. YAJS OP S0FTEX1XG AXD DKAWIXQ 1WKITTES FOB TOE DISPATCH. "" An old resident was much astonished lately when told thataPittsburgmill turned out watch springs, orthe next thing to them. He conceded the Iron City's supremacy ia rail making and pipe rolling, but he grew skeptical when the manufacture of wire for watch springs was mentioned as a local in dustry. Nevertheless wire is made here day by day of such fineness that the skeptical citizen could walk away with a couple of hundred miles of it on his back without ex erting himself very much. A freight-car load of this would be long enough to encircle the earth, and then have a good bit over. The most interesting thing in connection with this fine steel wire wire so fine that three strands can be easily passed through the eye of an ordinary needle is found in considering the intelligence and skill which has converted lumps of mineral dug out of the ground into such a delicate form. While the manufacture of the steel from which this fine wire is spun has no very extraordinary feature, the various opera tions by which the thread is reduced from a big block of steel are interesting enough. Patience is a primary element in the work. It takes about a month to make a coil of this fine gauged wire. MAKING THE STEEL. This description of the wire is made from crucible steel. The steel is melted in pots in a Siemens' regenerative furnace. The material from which the steel is made is wrought iron scrap, etc., fused or melted in the pots or crucibles and then poured into molds. The Crescent Steel Works has a plant of 60 pots, said to be the largest in the world. The furnace in which the pots are snbjected to such a strong beat as to liquify their contents, is constructed of brick, tfUb. a number of holes to receive the pots, each hole being covered during the heat. When a heat, of which six are made iu 24 hours, is ready, men armed with huzc tongs, lift the pots from the turnace and pour the con tents into the molds. These are about four feet high and vary from 3 inches to 16 inches square. The metal, when cast into the molds, be came what is kuown as "ingots." These ingots are high carbon steel. When coid they are released from the molds and con veyed to a storehouse. Here the ends are struck off and each one is separately exam ined and set apart for the purposes for which its particular quality is best adapted, whether tor tool, sheet or wire making. A glance from the skilled examiner decides whether the incot shall pass into a knife for -a harvesting machine, a carpenter's chisel or the mainspring of a watch. FEOJI INGOTS TO THEEADS. Those for the latter purpose are conveyed to the mill, where they are heated, ham mered or rolled down into billets. Next they are passed tbrongh roughing rolls and reduced to billets inches wide by half an inch thick. Tney are then cut into lengths of about four leet. These are again heated and passed through a train ot finish ing rolls eight inches wide and having a series of grooves ou their face. This opera tion reduces the billet 4 leetlong, 1JC inches by hal: an inch to a rod 3-3 feet luug and one-quarter of an inch in diameter. As an instance of the wonder u! homogene ousness of the material it may be mentioned that a six-foot billet has been drawn out to a rod 500 feet fong and inch in diameter by passing and repassing it through the rolls. With the next operation begins the long process in which the rod is slowly reduced to wire. From tbe rolling mill the steel, made up into coils, is conveyed to the an nealing furnaces. Here it is heated and al lowed to cool gradually to render it soft and pliable for drawing out. It next finds its way to the drawing house. This is a large house with benches running around the walls. The center of the shop is filled with coils of wire in various stages of manipula tion. On the benches are the drawing ma chines. They consist of two vertical draws, placed about lonr feet apart, with a strong, vice-like arrangement immediately between. ALL DONE BY 1IACHINEEY. The coil of wire is placed on one drum and fed through a pair of dies fixed iu tbe vise, being received and taken in charge by the other drum as it passes through. This is all done by steampower, the work of the attendant being to keep the dies well sup plied with grease to prevent them losing their temper by heating due to the friction of the wire as it is drawn out The coil of wire when passed through the first machine has been reduced .005 ol one inch. The wire is next reheated, and bathed in sul phuric acid and water. This is for the pur pose of further softening it aud removing all surface impurities. It is then dried in an oven, and once more returned to the drawing room, where it is put throngb the second machine, and so on, until wire of the requisite gauge has been obtained. The operation of annealing, pickling, and drying is performed after every reduction. To make the smaller gauges these processes are gone through no less than 24 times. Hence it will be seen that wire drawing is a matter of patience, rather than of any great mechanical skill. There are loO diffeieut gauges. The smallest is known as .0o5 of one inch, or as "jewelers' gauge." EEADT FOE THE JEWELEE. From the drawing room the wire is con veyed to another department and straight ened. This is done by paing it through a small machine making3,5U0 revolutions per minute. Next it is cut into lengths of three feet and turned over to the polishers, who pass it through other machines with emery cloth fixed between a, pair ot blocks. It is then sent into another department where each strand is polished, examined and gauged. The strands are then tied up ia hnndles and placed away in proper order for shipment Side by side in the storehouse may be seen a bar of steel inches in diameter, and a strand of wire so fine that a piece of cotton thread of the No. 40 variety looks coarse beside it. The wire, after passing through so many annealings, is soft, and the jeweler has to temper and farther manipulate it to meet his requirements. Keijou. LATEST SWIHBLIHO DEVIC3. - It Is Called the Glove Trick, and Is Almost Aln-nya Successful. Oneof the neatest swiodliug devices of the street fakir is what is known to the police as the "glove trick," says the New York Journal. It is worked in two ways and usually in a crowded thoroughfare. Tha fakir is always well dressed and has the ap pearance of an eminently respectable gen tleman. He carefully selects a victim whom be readily perceives" is not a native of tha city, and, therefore, apt to be unacquainted with the scheme. Alter having picked out his man he-walks a short distance in front of him, and when he is positive that his victim is looking carelessly drops a glove. The stranger sees it fall, picks it up and restores it to its owner, who is overjoyedto receive It, because he buds that a valuaoe ring is lodged in one of the fingers. An heirloom, etc. They naturally tall into con versation, and before they part the swindler, out of pure gratitude, offers to sell him a very fine chased ring, marked tea carats on the iuside, at a ridiculously low figure. Tha victim swallows the bait and gets a ring valued at abont 5 cents tor $2. He does not discover thj fraud until his very finger beA gins to turn green. 3 rtA
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