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FLOATING
TOT
01
? A Trip Down the Allegheny River on
a Rafl of Logs With a Tiny
Bubble for a Pilot.
KEITHER A JAR KOR A SOUND.
J
Sha Sides of the Beautiful Tallej Seem to
s Be Gliding fist Like a Panorama,
HOTT TO GUIDE TflE UNWIELDI CBAFT
Bene cf tt Rifttmen of Zulj Dijf tsd Eteiiet Tim
tht Ltnkir Begioas.
1WPITTKK TOR TTIE DIBPiTCH.3
r. HE wealth of the for.
rest has come to the
' doors of Pittsburg. It
came silently and al
most unobserved. It
freighted on none of the
iron trsini of com.
mecce; it was propelled
bv no powerful steam-
TheLaiK boats, its approach was
unheralded by the merry horns of wagoners;
nor did any white sail fly from its mast.
Up where the Clarion river flows into the
Allegheny a fisherman's rod cut a plavfol
ripple in twain, and there was instantly
born a tiny bubble. The bubble started off
jauntily on a voyage down the romantic
Allegheny. About the same time a raft of
lumber, an acre in area and worth thousands
or dollars, left the shore, and drifted down
stream also. The bubhle became its pilot
Guided by a bubblel "Whoever heard the
like? Drifting with the currentl What
eould be more enchanting?
JCorel Methods of Travel.
All torts of adventures in locomotion have
fallen to the lot ol the writer in a varied
career of journalism. Speeding to Cleveland
at the rate of a mile and a fraction per min
ute to overtake the Garfield funeral train
and report the burial of the dead President
dashing into a handcar on a high bridge
on the way and killing seven men; riding
from Pittsburg to Cincinnati on the crest of
the great flood ol 1884, in the United States
relief steamer, and changing to a johoat at
the more perilous points; rattling down a
gravity tramway in the Allegheny Mount
ains with a drunken brakeman in charge;
utilizing locomotives and handoars in re
porting the Johnstown flood; enjoying the
princely entertainment aboard Andrew Car
negie's special train which carried President
Harrison and a party of seven from Wash
ington tn th onenin? of the Allegheny Li
brary; pulled in a rough farm wagon by the
borses, Beaver and Bucephalus, over 1,000
Stttrlna a fiO.000 Raft.
miles of cnuntrv roads in Western Tennsyl
vanial Of all'of them what oould be more
novel than a rait ride to Pittsburg?
A Lone Career of Floating.
"Oh, yes, come aboard," cried the good
natured master of the raft in question.
"It's mighty slow, though, and you'll be
apt to be sorry that you didn't take aValley
train instead of this way of traveling.
Have I been ratting on the Allegheny long,
you ask? Well, yes I have. This is my
third trip this season from the mouth of
Clarion, and I have been taking timber
down to Pittsburg for 15 and 20 years. Be
fore that I used to boat oil in flat boats from
Oil creek down the Allegheny to the city.
I was employed on the first boat load of oil
that ever came out of celebrated Oil creek.
"Do I know the channel pretty well by
this time? Yes, I do. Yet you could take
this ratt down to Herr's Island as well as I
can. Watch lor the deepest water. See
that bubble on ahead there? Well, that
would be a good guide. See how it's bob
bing over toward that shore. We should
go about in the same direction. Right!
Let her go to the right a little, men!"
Guiding tho Mighty Craft.
And then, altogether, the four steersmen
at the front of the raft lilted the great oar
handles high above their beads, and, turn
ing their backi to each other, walked across
the rait with their faces away from shore.
They kept step together. As the first
reached the edge ol the rait he dropped bis
oar, and at tn.it signal all the others did the
same thing. Then there was a retreat, and
again the oars were lilted and pushed
through the water. A third time, and then
the order was bawled out for the lour steers
men at the rear end of the raft to push to the
left once. Now the huge floor we were
floating upon had swung deftly into proper
position. The bubble, glistening in the
sunshine, was fairly in the middle of our
path, far out of reach of thchuge oars.
O.irt.1 That is what they are called; but
what giant oars they arc I
"It doesn't pay any more to bring them
back to the lumber regions by rail from
Pittsburg," remarked the master. "Freights
are high and we can get a fair price in town
.for the 'blades.' When the raft is ready
for its oars, we go out and cut down e young
pine tree. The widest part of the trunk is
slit, and into it is fitted a big plank, which,
as vou see, has first been tapered off in the
Kawmill from thick at one end to, thin at the
other. That is the 'blade.' Each raft must
have eight of these oars. That means eight
pine trees and eight huge planks. It would
Drifting With tht Ovrrtnt.
be tco good freight for the railroads. Bo we
eboie to cut down more pines every time
than coin money for the railroads."
How tha Steersman lt
And now as the raft glided softly with tbe
sluggish current the steersmen sat idly upon
their oar handles. Each man bad a bit of
board ready, and as he rested from steering
for a spell he stood the hoard on end and
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bringing the end of the oar handle down
upon it, formed a very comfortable seat.
Most ol the river timber that now goes t
the Pittsburg marKet comes out of the
Clarion river. It is put into that stream
from the woods of Clarion and Forest coun
ties, 40 and SO and GO m "lies above the mouth
of the Clnriiiu. In lorraing a Clarion river
"package" about 1 hemlock logs are lashed
together by means of pme strips. The wo6d
for this purpose is selected and sawed into
small strips with great care. When dry
then can be twisted into a hoop without
breaking. A pine bough is laid along the
ends of 15 loss. In each log a hole is bored
on either side of this bough and then the
pliable wooden strip looped over the
bough, being held in place hy stakes driven
into the holes. These 15 logs furm a "plat
form." A "package" consists of six "plat
forms." This is floated down the Clarion
to the Allegheny river, und upon reaching
that wider stream the real rait is made up.
A. Clarion river raft, or the six platforms
containing about 100 logs, is steered beside
another one and Jashed toijt by means of
larger boughs aud larger pine loops. Four
of these "packages" complete an Allegheny
river raft, and the rait thus formed usually
contains from 400 to 500 logs, and so remark
able is the economy of the construction, of
the temporary craft that not afoot of rope
or a pound of nails has been used. Yet it Is
securely and saiely lashed together.
Floating; the Dressed Lumber.
Boards, or dressed lumber, are bnilt into
rafts on a diffeient plan. -A "platform" is
ouilt eight boards high, and fastened together
bv stakes mortised through all of them.
One platfortn contains 50,000 or 60,000 feet
of boards, and as it takes nine platforms to
make a complete board rait that would
represent a large amount onioney.
"For instance, there is an immensely
valuable raft of pine boards," reuiarfced my
rftsmau host as we floated pt Lngan!s
eddv, the next day. "It contains 400,000
or 500,000 feet of boards, besides the shingle,
lath, etc, lying on top. Pine is the bonanza
in the lumber market at Pittsburg tins ye ir.
Just think of ill That there rait of 400,000 ;
TILLAGE OJT THE "WATES ABOVE
feet of boards yon Bee is worth 15 cents per
foot. And what's more the owner is Andy
Cook, ot Cooksburg, on the Clarion, and he
will get full prices for it It took all year
to cut, slide, hew, saw, plane and raft that
one lot of boards, and Andy's usual custom
is to tie up at Logan's eddy, 14 .miles from
Pittsburg and wait until your city lumber
merchants are readv to accept his prices.
He would let the raft rot there but what he
got what he fixes bis heart on. But then
'Andy is rich and can afford to hold his
lumber all year if necessary. We poor
jobbers can't." f
Some TTell-Known Raftsmen.
"Yes, Cook got rich on lumber. Do you
know, sir, the first 1,000 that ever went up
into Clarion county came from Pittsburg?
It was taken back by raftsmen and we're
still at it. It's true that Clarion county has
made money out of oil, but her real wealth
had its origin in her trees. You Pittsburgers
ought to be familiar with some names con
nected with the Allegheny river rafting
business. There was Sam Short, and Joseph
Hyde and J. Cobb. Did you ever hear how
Short lost $41,000? I guess not. You'retoo
voung. He had that nfoch gathered to
gether to raft to Pittsburg, when the great
flood of 1865 occured. It took away every
log. Hyde lost a lot, too. The two agreed
to divvy with Cobb it he would start down
the river In search of the lost logs and gather
them up. He recovered a good many thou
sand dollars worth, but before the division
was made Cobb failed and Short and Hyde
got nothing.
"Ah, yet, my friend, hemlock is not worth
much this spring," and the genial raftsman
surveyed his great raft of hemlock logs du
biously. He paused, as though calculating
the tremendous amount of bard labor ex
pended in bringing them down from their
virgin condition to this perfected state. "But
MAKING TXP THE SAM! AT
they were cut aud so we hare to sell them
for what we can get.
"Now, you see, the fates were against us,
one way or another," he continued. ''Win
ter before last we had no snow, and couldn't
get to the rivers with our logs. And here
the past winter we had .entirely too much
snow. The hemlock market is practically
elutted,.I henr, the lumber bringing only
Gyi and 8 cents. Oak brings 9 and 10 cents,
and pine, which is scarcest, is selling for 15
cents. But last year pine sold for 20 cents
and oak for 13. Andy Cook is said to have
secured 22 cents for his pine in 1890."
IJvInc; lu a Floating Xlonse.
Probably half the rafts on the Allegheny
this year carried shanties aboard. These
often housed women und families of
children bound for Pittsburg on their only
excursion of the year. The shanties are put
together of dressed boards as temporary as
possible so as not to injure tbe boards lor a
sale. In a .shanty is a portable cooking
stove, a kitchen, and three or iour bunks.
There is a community of these shanties
on the rafts that mske their rendezvous
between tbe Forty-third street bridge, and
Pine creek, at Pittsburg, which is a verita
ble village on the water. One day last week
it had a population of 100 souls.
From Logan's -eddy down to Herr's Island
a distance of 14 miles there was some
where in the neighborhood of three-quarters' i
ot a million dollars worth oi timber rafts
and lumber moored last week. Next to
Logan's eddy,' a favorite ierminus-for rafts, J
is Muiingr eddy, opposite iiulton; sharps
burg, Pine creek", Lawrenceville and Herr's
Island. Leaving their rafts at these near
points above, the owners come on to Pitts
burg by rail and negotiate for tbe sale of
their lumber. Back and forward the rafts
men and purchasers flit on the railroads,
and at last when tbe dicker is completed the
raft is broken up and' floated down to
Duqnesne way in small sections.
A 'ide on a raft is uK&tialljr without In.
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THE
cident Shut your eyes and you could, not
make yourself believe yon are on anything
moving. There is no noise because there is
-ibsolutely no friction. Not even a ripple
in the water is heard. But with open eyes
and a keen appreciation ot the rugged scen
ery of the Allegheny Valley on a balmy,
supny spring day there is ample enjoyment
in the experience.
A Pleasure to Travel So.
Farm houses, aud trees, and people do not
seem to be whisking past you in the
twinkling of an eve as they do when seen
from the windows of a railroad train. There
is not the ceaseless' throb and vibration of
the floor beneath you that racks the nerves
aboard a steamboat. No jarring thing dis
turbs one on this journey by rait. It ie a
genuine panorama that is passing on either
shore, because we glide by houses, trees and
people so slowly that there is time for the
eye to absorb them all. The charm of it,
though, is in the indescribable quietness
which seems to invest everything. W.e are
driiting with the current, and the current is
almost imperceptible in its movement.
With the softest glide we round tbe sinuous
FORIT-THIKD STREET BRIDGE.
bends of the river. On and on we go, and
all without a sonnd, without a tremor and
apparently without motion.
The eddies are the favorite haunts of the
raft. Between the mouth of Clarion river
and Pittsburg the names well known to
raftsmen are Miller's eddy, Gray's eddy.
White's eddy, Logan's eddy and Hulings'
eddy. The last two named are in Allegheny
county and arenamed after families cele
brated in the history of the Allegheny
river. Logan's eddy is jnst below Logan's
Ferry. Alexander Logan settled there and
established the ferry in 1786, clearing a
large plot of forest three miles in extent
and trading with the Indians. Hulings'
eddy is named after Major Hulings, grand
father of the present Colonel Willis J.
Hulings, of Oil City, who was also an In
dian trader, and who purchased from the
savages the first lot of timber ever rafted
down the Allegheny. L. E. Stofiel.
YOU KAY KEEP THE CHAHG2.
A Pretty Little Ragamuffin Who Was Ont
on a Big Spree.
New York Herald. 3
She was. about 9 years old, and she was
swinging along lower Broadway with a great
air of taking everything in as she went
along, aud enjoying herself very much.
She did not seem to think about herself or
mind the fact that one toe was coming out
ot her shabby shoe, or that there was a bole
in her old, faded woolen hood, from which
waved a small plume of flaxen hair, or that
her soiled cotton dress was not a very warm
covering uqsuppleniented by any wrap in
the raw, damp air that lovely spring, was
just then treating us to.
She plunged into the crowd around some
workmen who were lajiug a pipe; she crit-
THE CLARION'S MOTTTH.
ically examined the leg of the man who ex
hibits some form of masculine garters on bis
own person, and then coming to an apple
stand kept by an old woman she did the
thing that makes her worth "nutting in the
paper;" she laid down a coin, a nickel, I
suppose, and picked up an apple.
Just as she was getting ready to plant her
teeth in it the old woman held out her hand
with the cjiange and now if I could just
show you the happy, the magnificently kind
gesture with which that bjessed ragamuffin
of a young one took that old woman's wrist
and pushed it back she was not going to
spoil her spree taking penny change from a
poor old woman, not much that was what
the movement saidr-and then she moved off
a step, aud after stopping an Instant to take
a monster bite she swung on down the street
with never a glance backward.
DBEW f ICIUBES OF GEEELET.
A Story Told of the Splendid Woman Who
Was Mm-xied Jtccontlj.
New Yorlc Tress.
When Horace Greeley was a regular at
tendant at Dr. Chapin's Church, there was
always to be seen at his side a bright-eyed
little girl. She was a mischievous young
ster, and the people in surrounding pews
Sometimes discovered that, with a paper and
penoil in hand, she was drawing a picture
of her dear old father nld-nid-nedding in his
seat Borne of the very strict churchgoers,
who believed that no sin was excusable in
church except that of going to "sleep, pre
dicted a very bad end lor the mischievous
little girl; but, is tht fairy books' say, she
grew and she grew, and afterward became a
very good woman.
Thisself-same mischievous girl is Miss
Gabrielle Greeley, who became the wife of
the lie v. arrant Montrose Clcndenin Xhurs'
day, April 22,
Tht Iloatmg Shanty.
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PITTSBURG DISPATCH.
WEALTH'S PENALTIES.
New York millionaires Coyer Their
Houses With Bolts and Bars.
DOK'I DAEE SIT IN THE WINDOWS.
If tbe World Knew Jay Gould Better It
Would Think More of fllm.
RICH MEN WHO ARK 'DEMOCRATIC
tCOHRlSFOHDENCa OT THS PISrATCS.l
New Yoek, April 25. A short, very
slight man, with the build .of a girl, was'
leaving a brownstone mansion, at Forty
seventh street and Fifth avenue, the other
morning, when a very buxom young lady
cantered her horse to the curb In front of
the door and '-dismounted, with the aid of a
groom who bad beeu riding another horse
by the side of hers. The operation of aid
ing the young lady to dismount consumed
something .like a minute of time, and this
was sufficient for the assembling of eight or
ten pedestrians, who formed two thin lines
across the pavement, on either side of the
front stoop and the carriage block.
It was very natural that these spectators
should linger there, for the mansion was
Jay Gould's, the man was-Hhe millionaire
speculator and the young lady was his only
daughter, Miss Helen. In New York we
do not see as much of our fellow-citisens as
if the town were smaller. We get lost in
our own crowds. Even to me, who am
about all the time, it is an event to run
across Gould, as I did on this morning of
which I speak, or to chance upon Grover
Cleveland plodding down Broadway with
his still faithful Colonel Lamonf, or to be
hold from afar the gloss and sheen of
Colonel Elliott F. Shepard, by far the best
dressed and neatest man in town.
Go aid Isn't Very Accessible.
But I could not help feeling, as I pansed
for an instant while Jay Gould waited to
kiss his pretty daughter good morning, that
the instant ol publicity was one of great un
pleasantness to the millionaire. It is not
merely mv own but a general estimate that
he is personally the most cautious of his
surroundings among all of our great men.
He has had some cause to mistrust the gen
eral hodge-podge of humanity, because
early in his great career he was violently
assaulted, and since then he has been an
noyed by cranks in some instances that have
been made public, and I snspect in more
that the publio kuows not of. For these
reasons it is, I suppose, that be is next to
never seen alone, that he employs detectives
for his safety and that it is easier to see the
raw gold in tbe vaults of the sub-treasury
than to get access to him in his office or his
home. ,
lu one respect Mr. Gould is like Mr.
James G. Blaine, lor they both give their
acquaintances the impression that they
make the most of their slightest ailments.
Perhaps it is not fair to compare Gould, who
is only slightly dyspeptic and who keeps
about all the time, with Mr. Blaine, who
I Almost a Monomaniac
with regard to the variations of his pbysioal
condition. The slightest Indisposition alarms
the great statesman exceedingly, and it is
said that lie will shut himself up in his
home for four days when he has a sligh
cold, or for a whole day if he is threatened
with a headache. Mr. Gould' keeps to his
private car for bed and board whenever he
travels, solely because of. the systematic care
he believes it'is necessary to exercise to keep
his health.
It has always seemed to me a misfortune
that he thus,' for one reason or another,
retires so completely from the scrutiny of
the public. It is a misfortune because,
from what I hear of him, I have drawn the
conclusion that he has many personal
qualities that would attract publio ndhiira-
lion, if there was ahy public knowledge of
them. It has lately been the custom for
the very rich men on Fifth avenue to bnild
extensions of glass and iron to their houses,
always opening out of their dining rooms
and always filled with flowers and 'palms
and ferns. One deep philosopher friend of
mine calls these extensions the abdomens
of tbe avenue," because tbey are usually
arched lite an alderman s corporation and
because they mark the location of the
dining room in every case fit monuments to
what Carlyle called "the age of the belly."
Jay Gould and His Flowers.
Of all these flower-crowded extensions.
Jay Gould has the largest and the one that
contains the choicest collection of not:house
treasures. It is lit that this should be so,
for among all our rich and our great men
none is more lond of flowers or better versed
in their study than he. His neighbors on
the aveuue make their dining rooms the
chief features ot their bouses, und use the
extensions and the greenery within them"
merely to enlarge and to beautify these ban
queting halls.' The flowers serve as screens
behind which to hide a handiul of musi
cians in some houses; iu others, the main.
purpose or the extension is to provide a
place for the keeping of the palms, lilies and
ferns that are set upon the tables on great
occasions. As Hamlet said of the play,
"the dinner's the thing" in all these bouses.
But it is not so in Mr. Gould's case. He
likes the flowers for their own sakes. His
nature 'goes out to them; he fondles and
trains and studies them; and at his summer
home in Irvington he keeps every sort of
flowering plant that his money can buy and
that will endure artificial conditions.
There must ba-a broad strain of gentleness
in such a disposition, and it is evidenced
quite as strongly again iu Mr. Gould's fond
ness lor his home and his family, within
whose circle he is idolized in return for his
devotion to it.' Better'yet, he must be cred
ited with children that are as sensible as any
rich man's children iu the town.
An Ago of Household Armor.
It seems to me that a timid millionaire is
a p'er'ect representative of the wealth of New
York City. There is no other wealth like
it. It lives behind bolts and bars a forti
fied, prisoner-like existence. You sec the
houses of dukes aud earls in Belgravia in
Loudon, and of princes in Fans and Berlin,
but you see nothing about those mansions to
give you the idea that the people within
them are leading a frightened existence.
Good and plentiful police without and hosts
of servants within give those aristocrats a
sense of securitv that has never been dis
turbed in time of peace. But "on Murray
Hill and on Fifth and Madison avenues
iron bars and gratings confront you on every
house.
Between the formidable portcullis that is
lowered across Mr. Tiffany's doorway at
night, and tbe huge bent bars of iron that
cage the windows of Henry Villard's base
ment, there is every sort and gradation of
household armor on Murray Hill against
the thieves that break through and steal.
So far as I know, without exception, every
rich man's house has all its lower windows
barred with iron' and every one has either
solid or grated basement doors, both front
and back. The second-story windows are
mainly free of these devices, but even some
of these are grated, and you will scarcely
find one that has not got a
Fan-Shaped Guard of Spiked Bars
set in the window corners to keep thieves
from stepping upon tbe window sills to cut
out the panes of glass aud let themselves in.
The doors have innerdoors and bolts and
chains, like prison gear, and inside shutters,4
otten lined wun iron, are sunsuiuteo lor tbe
outer shutters of olden days. High and
massive walls of masonry surround the
yards, and savage-pointed railings surmount
the walls.
These devices reveal better than words can
tell the uneasiness and anxiety ef the aver
age rioh New Yorker. It is a heavy interest
that men and women pay upon wealth,
heavier than usurers extort, even though it
be not measured by dollars. -I often think
of this cost of carrying riches when I see
the Tanderbilt. Astor and other millionaire
women going in their carriages to ex-Post
master James safe deposit bank in Forty-
jjkoeo. street jm sacs ino (jjamonds ana 1
STJNDAy, " APEIL '25,
other Jewels they have taken out to wear at
a ball or a wedding. The safes at their
homes, in which the minor jewels of everv
day wear are stored, must be in themselves
a source of deep anxiety, and it is with a
vast sense of relief that tiiey see the bulk of
their jewelrv locked up in the vaults of cast
steel in Fortv-second street before they-de-part
for Europe or their country houses in
the summer.
Couldn't Look at the Procession.
I thought in a new way of the penalty of
riches as I stood watching the pageant in
which General Sherman's casket was the
most conspicuous object. It happened that
exactly opposite where I stood, on Fifth
avenue near Thirty-fourth street, was the
mansion of William" Astor, whose son's
marriage with Miss Willing recently" took
placejn "Philadelphia. All the shades in
the windows were pulled down except in the
basement, .where the servants were massed
and were looking out at the parade. The
little vagrant street boys had packed them
selves on the grand staircase oi brown stone
and a few stood on the stone balustrade.
Every now and again when ajiew burst of
music heralded the approach of a band lead
ing yet another division of the grand pa
geant, I would see the shadesfin the upper
windows pulled a trifle to one side and some
members of the great laud baron's family
would furtively peep out upoa the grand
moving scene of uniformed meg.
A code of etiquette all their own made it
impossible (or undignified, which is the
same thing in their case) for an Astor to
deliberatelyvsit iu a window and enjoy the
rare spectacle, yet thej were human and
they could not resist stealiug an occasional
glimpse. at that which they knew was inter
esting the whole nation and had attracted
between 800,000 and 1,000,000 s'ouls to line
the route ot the parade. The ragged street
boys who trespassed on their stoon could do
what the Astors wanted yet did not dare
to do.
Channcey Depew's Easy Life.
We have some very rich men who do not
allow their riches to hamper them in these
ways, to be sure.' . Chauncey U. Depew, for
instance, though not himself a millionaire,
is the custodian of more millions not his
own than any other lawyer in America. He
manages tnose ol the Vanderbilts and those
of the estate of the late Horace F. Clark, as
well as of other old or departed friends, but
he ha"s never altered the easy-going, com
fortable habits of his hardest working days,
and you will meet him on foot ten times to
once that yon sec him in his carriage.
Just now he has been having an experi
ence that mu6t seem very queer to him, con
sideiing that he is the best known man in
town. He has long been a member of ie
Century Club, as he has of a score of leagues
and clubs and circles. For years he cotild
not go to the Century Club because it was
down town and he was up town, hut since it
has opened its new house- iu Forty-third
street be has been dropping around there lor
a midday bite once in awhile. The few who
lounge there in the daytime have happened
to be
Men Who Do Not Know Him.
and he has had the astonishing experience
of walking through the rooms and sitting
down to bis luncheon without being recog
nized. Not only that, but when he asks for
his account the waiters say, "Your name,
please?" just as they would to some beard
less young fellow who has just been elected
and is making his bow to the premises.
The famous .Rockefeller brothers, Will
iam and John D., are very plain and
natural in their wavs and mingle freely
with the medley of humanity that make's
up Dr. Armitage's old Baptist Church on
Fifth avenlie. If is a thoroughly demo
cratic sight to see "Brother William"
passing thj plate on Sunday mornings, but
one can no., help wondering what he must
think as he rakes all the pews on his aisle
to find at the end that he has only collected
?20 or 525 when his own income in the same
number of minutes amounts to a larger sum
and when he could put his hand in his
pocket and buy the church itself as you or
I would buy a popcorn ball. Hi WW
John attends "class meetings" end relates
his religious experiences, precisely as he did
when be was a poor and struggling man.
When he Speaks of his wealth he refers to
ninisen as "tne trustee of the Lord" or as
"the custodian of the Lord's wealth," and
those who know of his extraordinary bene
factions are not quite as strongly inclined
to smile at the words as those who think
them mere empty phrases.
Wnys of Spending Money.
"Uncle Russell Sage continues to be as
democratic as 'any millionaire the town
boasts. I saw him the other day, under his
slouch hat, iu his old-fashioned carriage,
leaning out and bandying chaff with a lot
of young hoodlums whose talk amused him.
The city has had little influence upon Mr.
Sage. I wonder the bunko men ' do not
sometimes mistake him for a stranger. So
far as our born New York millionaires are
concerned, I do not know one whose wealth"
has puffed him upor made firm timid. Tbey
bar and bolt their houses, however, and
build them as near like burglar-proof safes
as they can. A little knot ot Standard Oil
and other millionaires, who live near one
another on the sound, keep a private car,
fitted up like a clubhouse, to be bitched to
whichever train they all agree to take into
and out of town every night and morning.
This is not done forexclusiveness so much
as for sociability and comfort.
The same sort of arrangement is provided
for on tbe'new Long Branch steamers. Pri
vate cabins cost as high as $500 for the sum
mer in addition to the fare, but they find
plenty of takers among the verv rich men
who live along the .coast. Some like to
gamble, some like to drink, others like to
take tneir hats and coats off and. lounge
about, and still others like to be exclusive.
It is with money as it is with war. The
stronger you make armor the more powerful
do the missiles become, and the more rich
men there are the more varied are the de
vices of the world at large for making them
spend their money. Julian Ralph.
THE QUEER BATHED UT BLOOD.
An Old Dutch Legend That Originated a
JUethod of Punishment.
Tne Dutch, who settled ju-Elizabethtown,
N. J., in 1786, brought with them from the
Fatherland a mode of execution that was
tbe result of an old Dutch legend, which re
lates that in olden times a reigning queen
had a habit of bathing daily in human
bjood, says the New York Press. No
me(bod was then known of extracting all
the blood from the. body, so that hundreds of
lives were daily sacrificed to satisfy Her
Majesty's eccentric desire. As there was
great danger ol depopulating the whole
country, the court lool conceived the idea
of the "zffrow," a wooden shell shaped like
a woman and lined inside with hundreds of
daggers.
The victim was placed inside, and by
touching a spring trap the machine would
close violently and riie unfortunate wretch
would be pierced through and through with
hundreds of holes, through which the life's
blood vould.swifiIy pass out. The blood,
would pass down through a pipe
leading to the Quceu's bathtub, and when
sufficient was in She would bathe. The ma
chine sacrificed thousands of young maids
and boys, whose blood the Queen preferred
to tbe blood of adults. Following the
regime of carnage, the machine was used
for the execution of criminals up to the
eighteenth century, when it was discarded
in this and the mother country.
Hard to Capture.
Jewelers' Weekly.3
A New York firm a few days ago re '
ceived an order for a souvenir spoon to
gratify the whim of one of the natives of
New Jersey. The emblem required was a
mosquito. .Considerable trouble, it is said,
was experienced in finding a satisfactory
model tbe text books on Insectology fur
nishing, it seetis, very meager illustrations
of the famous and greatly feared disturber
of men's dreams. Alter a diligent search
and tnuoh Inquiry it was discovered that an
adventurous apprentice of the company had
eaptured a fine specimen of the insect dur
ing tbe summer and had preserved the con
quered free lance impaled
nnnn a nfn
Thereupon there was "great rejoloing iri'the
"factory and the- Jersey customer was made
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1891.
SPIRIT OF OLD ABE.
Analysis of the Speech Fat in His
Month by MrF. Richmond
IT DOESK'T READ LIKE LIHC0LS.
Kone of the Marljr Fresldent'i Story and
Simile in tbe Effusion.
WHAT HIS GHOST MIGHT HATB TOLD
IWMTTE1C TOB THI DISPATCH.!
The latest new thing perhaps in Spiritual
ism recently published is a discourse from
Abraham Lincoln relating his experiences
in the spirit land. This speech was given
by Mrs. Cora Richmond, who claims to
have been possessed by the spirit of "good
old Abe," wha came from beyond the stars
somewhere, and furnished the brains and
the inspiratiop.
Those who have been looking forward to
this revelation will be wofully disap
pointed for a much dryer'or more tedious
five columns of verbiage, it would be hard
to find outside Of the long drawn-out doc
trinal sermons of the old-time preachers
who were paid, as Mrs. Richmond is, to set
forth all .the mysteries and miseries of
the unknowable, What is truly, won
derful is that anybody can believe
that putting off tbe mortal form could
make such an amazing change in
the powers of the great war President.
When he made speeches here on earth be
was eloquent by sheer force of truth and
plain speaking. He rarely failed to point
a moral and adorn a tale by a little story a
touch of pathos, or quaint humor, but he
seems to have grown strangely dull and
pompously solemn in bis utterances as an
angel. Some of the sentences afe as many
as 23 lines long, and tbey have to be read a
half dozen times or more before the point
when point there is is discovered.
Requires Culture to Comprehend.
To reach what he is driving at it is neces
sary to be familiar with the profoundest
conventional cant of Spiritualism, and must
have embraced heresy of tbe wildst type
and be prepared to accept as solid truth a
contradiction of the most orthodox articles
of belief. If be had talked as he did on
earth with what gladness and deep interest
would his countrymen listen to rcmarksl If
be had given token that since putting on
immortality he had lost none 6i his power
of Impressing an audience, if, he had
marked the paragraphs that were especially
intended to be forceful and convincing with
a preceding typographical fist or index fin
ger as he usually did, if he had sat down
upon some of the fanatics of to-day, as he
did upon some of the rabid Abolitionists of
his time", if it could have been
shown by .Mrs. Richmond hat it was
really the bona fide spirit of "Father
Abraham," held in such patriotic remem
brance, that possessed her, and was speaking
for the benefit of the nation he so much
loved, the speech would have been published
throughout the country, and filled the round
world for that matter with transcendent in
terest. If Mrs. Richmond is familiar with tbe his
tory of "good old Abe," when in his boy
hood he was rescued from ignorance and
degradation by his saintly stepmother, Sally
Bush when he practiced law obscurely iu
Illinois when in the fall glare of public
life he achieved fame and obtained a place
in his country's story second only
to that of Washington, she could
hardly have represented him as
prosily tiresome in his speech on
the government of the world beyond, as was
Senator Blair on tbe educational bill when
he meandered along at such length of bore
dom as to empty the Senate chamber every
day for weeks, and made it a cause of won
der that tbe verv chairs and desks did not
cry out against Boch infliction.
One of Old Abe's 'Earmarks.
Mrs. Richmond might not thought It Was
nice to introdnce any of "Old Abe's" good
stories Into, a speech on so grave a subject,
but it would have been a real relief from the
deep solemnity and spiritual stuffing if he
had answered the conundrum, with which,
as Ben: Perley Poore relates, he used some
times to stave off persistent office-seekers and
to which no reply has ever been given so far
as we know: "What is the difference .be
tween an Amsterdam Dutchman and any
other"dam' Dutchman?" Some such illus
tration of "Old Abe's" characteristic style
would have enlivened the discourse, made
it more true to nature and supported the
testimony of DryJen and spiritualists
themselves when he says:
We snlrlts have jnst such natures
We had for all the world, when human crea
tures. Lincoln passed the barriers between this
earth and the world invisible on tbe 14th of
April, 18G5, and returned in spirit on the
15th of February last in Chicago. Whether
he ever was down before we do not know,
though, judging by what the spiritualists
tell us, he spends the main portion of his
time in "England. In his Chicago address
he announces that wheu he" so suddenly
found himself transported "beyond the
beautiful river" he had three distinct causes
of regret.
The Martyr's tQhree Kegrets.
The .first was because, in the fulfillment
of the duties assigned him, he bad not been
more perfect or brought more perfect powers
to tbe solution of such gigantic problems.
This is sad. It seems to give a little color
ing to Wendell Phillips estimate of the
President that "he was a small man that as
a pint p'ot he was full, but as a quart meas
ure he was not so full." But tbe world
knows of no man that could better have
filled the place of Lincoln in the great
Civil War.
The second regret was the Arrow of the
family, friends and the nation. The.third
was that the human fqrra, that had become
useless by its occupant no longer existing in
it. should have been .made the subject ot
such 'ostentatious display, such long con
tinued exhibition, while the living spirit,
grieved by apparent neglect, waited recog
nition by the fires of the nation's altar.
"Many spirits," he adds, "feel this keenly.
That the physical image receives such adu
lation, while the spirit, flooded with its new
'lound light, scarcely receives a thought, is
indeed a subject unworthy ot considera
tion."
What the lamented Lincoln really meant
by this reproach is not very plain to see.
Ingoing honor to his remains the country
Was certainly living up to its light, and as
to his spirit "not receiving a thought, it Was
universally set down that no man was more
entitled tb the glory and happiness of
heaven than be.
No Chance to Praotloe lair.
It will strike the denizrns of earth as
strange that-according to his statement,
given through Mrs. Richmond, Mr.LincoIn
finds his.occupation as a l.urver gone in the
"world over there." There is no formality
of law in the new state. Mock courts and
legislatures are held by those still tethered
on the border land .by some earthly weak
ness or ambition, but they are only such as
school boys or amateurs play tit here below.
This will be news for the lawyers.
He also said that spirits are naturally at
tracted to their homes. The Northern
spirits went to the North, 'and tbe Southern
spirits to tbe South, but there was no war
fare among thenu In the further state
ment that tbe spirits of Italians and Hun
garians 'and Chinese would naturally go
home, there will be found comfort for many
in this conntry.
One of the strange things told by the
spirit of Lincoln is that "spirits assooiate
together from similar conditions, tastes and
desires. They may not ha've known each
other on earth, while those who have been
associated iu reUtionahip or necessity in
this mortal lite will sometimes not
find themselves together in the .spirit
life; indeed, many never . see each
other at all." This will be good
news for those unhappily married. The
wife who has been wedded to "a clod.
Ojrtiea ihejpuiej bejg-i.dyjw TU will jfeidJAuBHS?A 93-34 Wsjterjtreet, aajo Mho did hie dinner,
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her soul's mate, while "the clod" will link
to the condition of congenial clods.
He Knocks Dante Out.
.Another piece ol information is the same,
in different words, to wit, that there Is no
"great white throne" to be found- any more
than an orthodox eternal fire, where, among
the flames, there'will be wailing and gnash
ing of teeth forevermore. Dante was wrong
when he peopled the Inferno with souls lost
forever. These, according to the spirit of
Lincoln, are' only for the time being inlfill
ihg the conditions incident to their earthly
states. Milton was wrong when he made
Hades a permanent place instead
ot a transitory one between
the earthly and diviner, kingdom.
The purgatory of the Roman Catholic is
sufficiently extensive for, him to repent of
all his earthly sins. The purgatory idea is
correct, and tho Andover heretics are all
right as to the "state of probation." These
conditionslast in the spirit world only until
they are outgrown.
Another interesting fact as reported is
that the "congress of spirits" are not both
ering themselves much about the Govern
ments of America. Europe or the Orient,
but "are intent upon impelling minds on
earth who are in positions of Influence and
power and are sufficiently intelligent to
draw from the knowledge of the skies and
the moral resources ot the universe such
thoughts as shall make the law makers of
all countries seek to legislate more nearly
like those of tbe skies, and asa shall tend to
give mankind a broader opportunity for tbe
highest that is within humanity. Instead
of troubling or caring for the puerile
schemes of commerce and the worship of
Mammon this "congress of spirits" wait
sometimes silently and sadly above the halls
of legislation for one to rise who may be in
spired with a better word and a higher
truth to manhood.
He Is Something of a Socialist.
It may be inferred from some of his re
marks that "Old Abe" has growh to be an
Anarchist, and is now an upholder ot the
red flag of Socialism. However, as he con
cludes' that this heavenly condition of
thing? can scarcely be expected to come for
100 years or more, it is hardly worth while
to dwell bs be does so lengthily upon this
theme. It maybe said that the gist of his
whole argument is" thatonly "Spiritualism"
can be relied upon to get the world straight.
But, alter all, Lincoln's coming down in
the spirit would have beeu decidedly more
interesting if he bad jjiven his personal ex
periences, rather than a dissertation upon
spiritual government. Who would not like
to have heard of his meeting with "led
and "Willie" of his seeing Sally Bush aud
his first love, whose death embittered his
earljrlile of bis talks with Stephen A.
Douglas, of his encounter with Horace
Greeley and Wendell Phillips and Simon
Cameron and Conkling? Who would not
like to hear reliable news of Secretary Stan
ton, Chief Justice Chase, Charles Sumner
and bluff Ben Wade? Who would not ap
preciate news concerning the present goings
on of Grant and Sheridan and Hancock and
Sherman? '
A Grand Reception to Sherman.
By the way, although the spirit of Lin
coln said nothing of his friends and com
panions in the spirit land, a medium iu are
cent spirit circle in Detroit.who was possessed
by tbe ghostof asoldiernsmed Charles Hblt,
who was killed at Cold Harbor, gave the in
formation that a grand reception was given
to Sherman in the spirit land'on the night
-of February 16, at which all the soldiers on
that side were present. The sight, be says,
was beyond description." Sherman was re
ceived by Lincoln, Grant and Sheridan
first, and then treated to a rousing welcome
from all the assembled spirits ot tbe rank
and file. Speeches were made bv the snirit3,
songs were sung and "Sheridan's Ride"
was recited. Doubtless "Marching Through
Georgia" was shouted by these heavenly
hosts, although this fact is not mentioned
in tbe account. All the spirit soldiers from
the different worlds are said to have been
present on this occasion. One of tbe spirits
located ou Mars has promised to relate his
experiences on the red planet. His story
will be awaited on "the tip-toe of expecta
tion. A."
With ail these wonderful manifestations
aud communications from the- "great
beyond" it seems clear that the world will
soon be well posted on the subject of ghosts,
and be able to call up spirits at' will for all
the information tbey desire on what goes on
beyond the blue. It may be that the time
will come when Spiritualism can show itself
to be based uporr something more substan
tial than the jugglery now manifested by
way of daik cabinets and slate writing.
Indian spirits and "s&b," but it has not yet
arrived.
How people can be taken in and deluded
by rappings, table tippings, projections
through stone walls ol live terrapins and
flowers, serving up of letters every morning
from the Empress Josephine, and all the
varieties ot delusion and illusion is past the
comprehension of reasonable people.
Be-jSie Bramble.
. THE MEECrFULAU"ACOHiA.
A Fable Built 'After the Style Invented by
One JEsop.
Somervllle Journal.!
A Fawn was bounding along the edge of
a thicket, when an Anaconda sprang forth
and seized him; and, winding his body
around .the unfortunate creature, held him
fast in his coils. The poor Fawn, after
struggling in vain to escape, cried out:
"Oh, sirl have pity, for even now, asl
passed tbe jungle, something struck me in
the side, and now you cruelly detain me."
At this remark the Anaconda glanced at
the Fawn's side, when be saw that a wound
bad been, made there by a poisoned arrow;
and having an aversion for tainted meat, he
released his hold, and said, with quiet dig
nity in his tones:
"Go, sir, to your people, and tell them
from me that the Anaconda has soft spots on
his heart and knows when to be merciful."
On hearing these words tbe Fawn glee
fully fled; but died upon reaching the
threshold of his home. Whereupon, the
Anaconda, in lieu of a meal; found amuse
ment iu tying himself up in a very peculiar
kind"of a'knot, which he had learned from
a shipwrecked sailor.
He is indeed audacious who expects a
reputation as a philanthropist for limply
being good to himself.
FOUND TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS.
A Maine Lad VTho Could Have Had a Small
Fortune If He Had Ueen Dishonest.
"Walter Mills, a boy employed in Adams
Brothers' boot and shoe store, Bangor, Me.,
was walking on one.of the streets the other
day when he saw an ordinary-looking pack
age on the sidewalk, which be picked up.
A moment's examination showed him that
it contained a big roll of bills, and before
disturbing them he looked around to see if
the owner was uear. Just ahead of him was
a stranger, and the boy, much excited at his
find, rail ahead and touched hjtu on the arm.'
The man turned and young Mills said:
"Have you'lost anything, sir?"
The hands of the stranger flew to his pock
ets, and his face paled as he exclaimed,
"Great God. I have lost $2,0001" -
Mills asked no more questions, but thrust
tbe package into the bands ot the lucky
man, who proved to be Ira W. Davis, of
Eas Co'rintb, brothcrof ex-Governor Davis,
and a country lawyer, who had come to
Bangor to transact some business. He of
fered the boy a liberal reward, which was
immediately refused. The money belonged
to other parties, Mr. Davis merelyhaving it
in trust, and this, of course, added to his
delight at recovering it.
The Judge Gave It Up.
New Tork Morning Journal.
Police Justice Duffy had a difficult ease
to settle between two tough women who had
been arrested for fighting. Tbe Judge had
a hard time in trying to get an intelligible
account ol the trouble between them, and at
last said sternly to one or the women:
"Now, Maggie, answer my question
plainly. What passed between you?"
"Stove-lids, Your Honor." Then 'the
Judge gave it up.
'FtTHiriTTjliB packed, stored and shipped.
BL00JI IN A DESERT'
Arizona Has Mo?t Fruitful Lands Be
sides Its Burning Sands.
RIVALS CALIFORNIA FOR FRUI1,
Its Oranges the Sweetest, and Figs TlrlT
as in the Orient.
WHAT TO B0 WITH THE EEDSK1S1
iconnisrosDENCTK or the oisrATos.i
Tombstone, Ariz.", April 21. Much of
Arizona is a desert that it is completely a
Sahara must be stated to the contrary. Tod
often tbe impression is left that it is entirely
void of vegetation an uninviting field savt
to the gold and silver prospector. The)
prejudice formed will soon dio away when
one beholds its immense plains covered with
luxuriant herbage, intermingled with
flowers ot every hue a land of eternal sum
mer, where the orb of day is scarcely eve
dimmed and whose skies rival even thost
of Italy's serene aqd placid clime.
Taking into consideration the whole aspeet
of this remarkable territory, there is hardly
another portion of our vast domiin so capa
ble of arousing the curiosity. Who does not
fall to wonder on beholding for the first time
the petrified forests, and those peculiarly
shaped buildings and canals, that bear wit.
ness to a bygone civilization! Not alone
tli!3, but here natural scenery abounds of
which the eye can never grow weary, a vai
riety being lis most pleasing leature.
Seated on sure footed bronchos we slowly
wend our way along the slopes of thoss
wondrous mountain ranges rugged in their
loruiation, yet at once picturesque and awe-,
inspiring. A lofty peak is climbed, front
the sunimit of which a matchless view II
obtained, while oiten the attention is dl
recte'd to a strange phenomenon one of
those beautiful mirages, lor which this re
gion is famous. Where no water is, a lake
can clearly be descried. Now a city may
be discerned, the outlines ot the buildings
appearing distinctly. Many have known
towns and other objects hundreds of mile
distant to be brought before their gaze but
alter all this may not carry much weisrht,
for the mind is too often liable to conjurv
up a resemblance.
The Bain Comes Too Irregularly.
To be convinced that this country is not
altogether a barren waste, it should be
visited shortly after the rainy season, say ia
the commencement of August. Sufficient
water is all Arizona needs to make it prod
uce the most plentiiul supply of cereals. If
the terrific rain falls, which at certain
periods convert ail the deep ravines into
roaring torrents could only be retained ia
large reservoirs, to be dulv distributed over
the land during other portions of the year, -the
land would blossom as the rose. The
trouble is too much of the precious fluid is
wasted it comes in larger quantities than
is necessary at the time beiuj.
Tbe day is not fur distant when tbe In.
genuity of this thrilty people will assert
itsell by making a net work of dams and
water ditches throughout the territory.
Already several of these cisterns have been
constructed at a cost of several millions,
showing that tbe inhabitants are fully alive
to its importance. The system of irrigation
bringswith.it untold benefits, and it has
beeu pretty well demonstrated that in this
Fdr West, where from necessity it mnst be
depended upon, the yield is greater than ia
those districts which rely ou uncertain
rains.
The business of agriculture and stock"
raising are both lucrative, the latter is still
in its infancy, but is making rapid head
way. A lair estimation of the number of
cattle grazing ou the different ranches at
the present time places it between 7,000,000
and 8,000,000. As there are no snow storms
here, there will never be anv loss of cattle)
byexposure. The mines of the Territory
contain untold wealth, notably those in the
southern part, which produce abundance of
silver, and mushroom millionaires are nnmj
erous. The lruit growing industry front
present indications will, in the near future,
outstrip California's. Salt River Valley
has the finest specimens ot peaches and apn.
cots I have ever seen. The fig also growl
luxuriantly. Only lately the orange was In
troduced and it nas exceeded the expects
tions of the most sanguine.
A Solution of tho Indian Problem,
Looking at the Indian from the stand
point of an Anzoni citizen, I can safely as.
sert that patience has ceased to be a virtue.
We can never tell when these Government
wards will creep Jrom their reservations to'
enter upon thefr work of carnage. The few
troops that are placed in the Territory are
insufficient to cope with them in cases of
emergency.
On, you sentimentalist?, at home iu the
quiet of your firesides, whining over Indian -right-;
you fain would excuse tbe villainous
Apache iu all bis deviltry. Witness his
handiwork in the hundreds of unmarked
graves that dot the hillsides of this smiling
land, then go back and preach, if you dare,
of the injustice done to the murderous
Apache. Arizonians will 'not forget tha
howl of rage raised by the maudlin Indian
sympathizers concerning -the price which,
was placed on the head of that arch scoun
drel, Geronimo. No name was bad enough
lor the citizens who offered the reward to
rid themselves of bis presence, and finally,
when he was captured by General Crook,
instead of being banged like any ordinary
criminal, the protestations of his white)
friends succeeded lu getting him a com
ortable berth in Florida. I understand ha
is noW a Sunday school teacher, and on tha
fly leaf of his Bible are written the words'
"Jesus loves me; this I know."
I think the best policy would be to divide
the unruly tribes into small bands and seat
ter them through tbe difierent States, where
they can do tbe least harm, fqr as long as
they remain iu a country like this, with so
many natural strongholds, they wijl never
cease to be a dangerous element. There is
some talk of the At ar Department enrolling
tbem in the army anything at all, so as ta
get rid of them.
There Are Some Good Indian.
While writing on this matter it is fair td
acknowledge ("hat there are Indians and In
dians. The Papagqs and Navojos are not to
be reckoned in the same category with tht
foregoing; they are quiet and law-abiding)
and are making rapiu strides toward civili
zation. The Utes, of Colorado, may also be
included iu this list they have advanced
considerably within the last few years. X
am glad that tbe bill introduced fiito Con
gress to remove them from their good land to
a wild and mountainous region in Utah was
defeated. They are becoming self-support .
Ing where they are why should they be -transferred
to a'barren trjet, where they will -retrograde
into barbarism, and become pan !
pers at the expense ot the Government. Too
much credit cannot be given that 1'itubnrger
who foughtao nobly in their defense, and to
whose efforts more than any other is due the
defeat of this.outragrqus measure. TJuliks
many Eistern folks who never saw an.
Indian (except a wooden one), he does not
suffer from intellectual dyspepsia occasioned
by an overdose of Fenimore Cooper's tales.
Having lived iu the wilds of Utah and Col- "
orado for years be had an opportunity to
study the question; ia a broad and liberal
sense. The last time I met him be ex
plained in the following words bis position
toward Poor Lo: "Do not misunderstand
me. I have no sympathy to waste on an
Indian, but in simple justice both to. him
and the Government, I would mate tho red
devil work for his living."
My readers will agree that this is the trot
'solution of the problem.
J. M. MoAuniZB,
An Unfortunate Simile.
Boiton Htr.ld.3
Ethel Aud because he isn't sentlatatsl
or sssthetie, yon have broken off the engsgt
ment? Tell me about it.
Maud Well, one day, just to try hiss, X
told him I didn,'t think he cared very muds
about me.
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