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If He Will Seize Upon the Op
portunities in Mexico's
Unknown Lands.
MINES KEYER DESCRIBED..
Pittsburg's Interests in the Durans-o
Besion and Elsewhere.
A BIG MOUimiN-COMPOSED OP -TIN.
Great Possibilities In the Cultivation of
Coffee and Bananas.
THE BIGGEST FTEAIIID IN THE WORLD 1
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Tampico, August 27.
,NKNOWN Mexico.
This title might be
given to the whole of
the Mexican Bepub
lie. The country con
tains States whioh
have never been ex
plored. It baa vast
regions which have not been trodden by the
foot of the white man. The Mexicans
themselves do not know it and we Ameri
cans have not the slightest conception of it.
Look at the size of the countryl If you
will take all the Atlantio States from
Maine to Florida and sew them into a crazy
quilt your patchwork will not cover much
more than half of Mexico. It is one-fifth of
the size of the United States, including
Alaska, and some of its great States, whose
inhabitants are Indians, are as big as our
best Territories. Take the vast mineral re
gion of Snnora. It is as big as Kansas and
It has a climate and soil very much like that
of Lower California. It adjoins Arizona
&nd it ii saiil to be full of gold and silver.
GUE.VT MINES FULL OP GOLD.
t met an American miner who had made
something like 51,000,000 in mines in the
central part ot Mexico, and he told me that
the great mining region of the future was
Sonora, and that the greater part of it,had
neer been prospected. Such mines as
have been worked are not far from the sea,
and these ha e produced fortunes in the
pat. The Carmen mine was worked during
the years between 1820 and 1830, and it pro
duced dunng this time 525,000,000. The
Babicanora mine has already produced $31,
030,000, and there are other mines which are
turning out great quantities of ore.
Sonora has but one railroad, a branch, of
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe system,
which runs from the Southern Pacific to
Guavmas, on the Gulf of California. This
territory has other minerals besides gold and
silver, and is one of the favorite prospect
ing fields along the west coast Just below
it Is :he State of Sinaloa, not quite as big
as Ohio, which is also full of minerals. It
has cue mine which has produced 85,000,
000, and which still turns out ore yielding
from 5S5 to 115 a ton. Any oro that yields
over 530 a ton will pay by the rudest of min
ing methods in Mexico, and we mine a great
deal Of ore which runs less than 55 per ton.
There is another mine in Sinaloa that has
turned out 200,000 tons of ore, and this ore
has averaged at least ?G0 a ton. This is the
Tcjomine. Its present output is about 24
tons a day, and its ore will average at the
present 5125 a ton.
AMEEICAXS SEEKXXG FOETDXES.
There are many Americans now going
to Sinaloa and I understand that they are
engaged in lumber, as well as mining. The
State is full of dye-woods and hundreds of
tons are being cut monthly. It has some of
the finest of furniture woods, and mahogany
ana enony are usea oy tne poorest classes
in building their huts. The capital of the
state is Culiacan and there is a little rail road
running from the coast to it. There are a
number of American residents at the capi
tal and they have X understand given the
place quite a boom.
How many Americans have heard of the
State of Guerrero? It is one of the richest
mining regions of Mexico, and it is said that
its soil is a crust of silver and gold. Here
the first mines were worked by the Spani
ards, and the country contains hundreds of
abandoned mines to-day, It lies on the
Pacific, and it is only partially known. It
had one mine which produced 495,000 ounces
of silver in a few vears. and it is snr.
rounded by great States, which are now be
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in?, for the first time, carefully investi
gated. Oaxaca,j'ust below it, is now being
penetrated by the Mexican Southern Rail
road, and this will bring a vast gold-bearing I
rerion into the market The Sfntn ' tt,. I
one in which President Diaz was born, and
it is the one which will be on the Tehuante
pec Ship Eailway, if it is ever completed,
FOETUXES IX COAX MIXES.
It has vast areas of good land, and I know
a half dozen American capitalists who ex
pect to make fortunes out of the coal fields,
which they say they have discovered in it.
Coal brings about 526 a ton in the City of
Mexico, and there are said to be fine iron
deposits in near proximity to these coal
fields. The climate of all this part of Mexico
is very fine, and the capitalist who would
buy some of the agricultural lands along
this route would make a fortune. The pub
lic lands are worth from 20 to 45 cents an
acre, and they will raise coffee and sugarand
all kinds of grains. This new railroad will
and does already tap the mining regions of
the State of Pueblo, which contain both sil
ver and gold, and one of the finest specimens
of silver ever brought into the City of
Mexico was shown to an American business
man there by an Indian from this State
about a month ago. It was a nugget of solid
gold as big as your fist. The American
entered into a contract with the man for the
deelopment of the region, where it was
found, and traveled with him on horseback
for seieral days, when the Indian told him
that he had forgotten the place. This, of
course, was a lie.
Duraugo and Chihuahua are among the
better known of the mineral regions of the
Mexican States, and they are both being
worsen wiia preai pront. a.ne mine oper
ated by Boss Shepard is said to'Tje turning
ont $7OfO00 a month and it has turned out
300,000,000 in the past. The same State
has auothcr district which has yielded ?60,
000,000 of siUer and there is amine near
the city of Chihuahua which produced more
than SIO.000,000 a year for 30 years.
PITTSBimO AXD THE DUEAXGO MIXES.
There are a number of Pittsburg men who
are working the Durango mines, and capi
talists from Denver and Kansas City are in
vesting here. The Cindelaria mine in
Durango has yielded about 560,000,000, and
there are a number of old mines n hich are
beinR reclaimed in this district The State
of Coihuila, which adjoins Texas on the
north and which is bounded on the cast by
Chihuahua and Durango, is another good
mining region.
It has two mines which e average more
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than 5274 per ton, and the Santa Rosa mint
nfts produced as high as 55,600 a ton. An
American company is working the Santa
Gertrudis mine and this hag produced as
high as 51,090 a ton. This same State has
coal fields which C P. Huntington's Mexi
can road now taps and a new railroad will
shortly be built, I ara told, by him through,
this State to Monterey.
The State of Jalisco is another rich min
ing country and I am told that tin mines
have lately been discovered here. There is
said to be a tin mountain In this State,
which averages 55 per cent of pure tin and
with the rudest of methods they are taking
out about 600 pounds a dav. The mines are
about 160 miles from a railroad, but the tin
is so pure that thev are liable to come into
competition with the mines of Dakota and
Cornwall.
GREAT MONET IX COFFEE.
The chief .development of Mexico during
the near future will in all probability be in
the south or south-central part of the ooun
trv. Vast areas of land are now beinir
taken up bv foreign capitalists, and I find
Americans buvinir land everywhere. The
'field of coffee planting is a favorite one and
an aiong tne west coast in tne states oi
Colima, Michoaean and Oaxeca it is said
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that the finest of coffee can be raised. I
passed through thousands of acres of coffee,
land, as yet undeveloped, in the trip I took
v-.ul. uown tnrough Orizaba
and Cordova, and I found coffee growing
wild in my trip from San Luis Potosi to
Tampion, which I took yesterday. I met at
Jalapa, a New Orleans coffee merchant, Mr.
Westfeldt, who practically controls the
coffee export of Mexico. He tells me that
thebestcoffeeinthe country comes from
thewest coast and that there areplantations
In Vera Cruz which say a profit of from
forty tofifty thousand dollars a year.
It takes five years to make a coffee plan
tation, but it is no hard matterand the plants
are practically left to themselves. Thoy
are started in sprouts, planted 9 feet apart,
and thev grow to be bushes about ten
feet high and produce at the fifth year.
A EUTX OP
Bananas are planted between the rows of
bushes to shade them, and there is a profit
from the banana orchard as w ell as from
the coffee. After your plantation, is in
bearing each tree will produce from one to
two pounds, and it costs about 7 cents a
pound to pick it and get It to the market.
THE PBOniS IX COFFEE.
It Eells for 20 cents a pound, and yoa can
count on 12 or 13 cents a pound clear profit
every year. Coffee orchards in bearing are
hard to buy and they bring from one to two
and three hundred dollars per acre. I am
told that this unused land can be bought
for a dollar per acre, and there is no doubt
but that a portion of it wonld be sold in
big lots for much less. The coffee export
of Mexico ia steadily increasing, and the
United States consumes the most of it. The
prospect is that the American proprietors
wili Increase, as the plantations require
little attention after once well started, and
by spending a month or so in Mexico each
year one could attend to the gathering of
nis crop ana araw ms pronts regularly.
The Northeast horn of Mexico is one of
the least explored parts of the country.
Still I have met a great many Americans in
Mexico who have visited it and who have
explored its outer edges. Take Yucatan.
It is as big as South Carolina, and it is
about four times as big as Massachusetts.
It contains some of the richest soil in the
world, but only a small part of it is culti
vated. The whole country has only 300,000
Seople and the most of these are pure In
lans. They dress differently from the
people of this part ot Mexico, wear the
whitest of white, cottons and are notori
ously clean. The whole country lives on
the hemp plant and it sells 53,000,000 worth
of the dried teaves of this every year, lta
capital is a place called Merida, a town of
50,000 people lying 25 miles from the Gulf
of Mexico and connected with the shore by
railroad. The chief money used is the
American dollar, and the banking of the
town is done in connection with New York
and you buy drafts on New York instead of
on Mexico. The large part of the interior
of Yutacan is jungle. This is inhabited by
wild Indians, who scare the people of the
capital by threatening to come down and
take it, but who stick pretty well to their
own camp fires.
THE EUIXS Off SOUTH MEXICO.
The ruins of Yucatan and the southern
part of Mexico are among the most wonder
ful in the world. Yucatan was at the time
of the conquest about the most thickly pop
ulated part of the North American conti
nent, and there are now 60 ruined cities,
which date back to the days of the Aztecs.
There are undoubtedly -other vast cities in
the jungles of Yucatan, Tabasco and Cam
peache which are awaiting discovery, and
there is a ruined palace in Tabasco which
covers more than a acre and which stands on
a platlorm ot stone 40 leet high.
This palace is in the ruined city of Pa
lenque, and near this is another ruined city,
which was named after Pierre Lorillard, of
New York, who furnished the funds which
brought about its discovery. "Within 100
'milesof Merida there are hundreds of ruins
containing magnificent carvings, the re
mains of great temples, of palaces and of
sculptures, showing that the Toltecs had a
high state of civilization. And abont the
Cltv of Mexico itself VOIl find mnnv rnin.
which show you how little -ne know about '
these cultured Indians of the past. I visit
ed near Puebla the ruins of the pyramid of
Cholula. This pyramid had a base more
than three times as big as that of the Great
j'yramia wnicn stanas in the desert near
Cairo to-day. Each of its sides were over
1,000 feet in length, and it was 147 feet high.
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EVER 3UILT BY MAX.
It was an old structure when Cortes came
to the country, and it is now merely a vast
mound, with the brick walls here and there
showing out to mark its terraces. There is
a dlrtylittlo church on its top, where it ia
said that Cortes built . one and a little Mexi
can city lies at its base. A street car plows
its way through one aide of it, and a big
part of it has been torn down, and the space
covered by it turned Into a oorn field. In
going into Mexico City from Puebla yoa
pass the Pvramids of the Sun and the Moon.
which were places of worship when Monte
zuma lived, and which to-day are great
mounds of earth, one 150 and the other
more than 200 feet high.
About these pyramids In olden times'
there were other pyramids, and it ia said
that a holy city existed about them in times
past. There was a city of 150,000 about the
city of Cholula, and it was a sort of Mecca
for the Aztecs. Within a few miles of
Zacatecas there is another famous rnin, and
in every part of this country there are un
known fields to be discovered for the ethnol
ogist and student, as well as for the busi
ness man and the capitalist.
PUTUHB BEAPOET OP MEXICO.
I write this letter at Tampico, which Is
bound to be the great seaport of the Mexico
of the future. This place has one of the
finest harbors in the world, and were it not
for the bar in the front of it you could
anchor all the navies pf Europe in the
mouth of the Panuco river. This bar is to
be removed bv means of ietties. and Colonel
Corthell, the man who was the first lieuten
ant oi James B. Eades in making the jetties
of the Mississippi, is in charge of this work.
It is a greater v, ork than was the making of
tne -Mississippi jetties, and it is to cost
millions of dollars.
The ietties betrin at the mouth of the
Panuco river and run for 7,200 feet right
out into the sea. They are 1,000 feet wide
at the top and are walls of stone and wicker
matB, which will become by the drifting in
oi tne sana, solid ana permanent. When
they have become consolidated they will be
enclosed in a mass or Heavy conorete, and
they will be as strong as science can make
them. The Panuco river is one of the
biggest rivers in Mexico: it is about 1,200
ieei wine ana nas ior miles irom tnis point
an average geptn oi 33 teet. its waters flow
into the sea at the rate of 200,000 cubio feet
a second, and they go at such a rate that
when confined in such a narrow channel
they will carry the sand bar far out into the
sea, and vessels of the largest tonnage will
hove a safe locked harbor here at Tampico.
TTJCATAX.
The harbor at Vera Cruz is notagood onr.
The city is very unhealthy and it is out of
tne wav to get to it. Tampioo taps the cen
ter of the country. It has a new railroad
now being built from Monterey through the
rich State of Tamulipas to it, and another
fu -i t bo ProJeted south through one of
tie richest parts of Mexico to Mexico Citv.
Within a few months the Mexican Central
have opened their line from San Leuis
Potosi to it, and this harbor will make San
f ms Potosi the commercial center of Mex
ico. It will open up the agricultural in
terior pf the Panuco river which is said to
comprise the finest lands of the country and
will materially change all parts of Mexico.
.Leaving gardens, the road climbs up into
me mountains. It takes you into a rocky
region interspersed with patches of cultiva
tion. It winds about like a snake, crawl.
Mulling Gaffes.
tip great hills and goes at the rite of CO
miles an hour down Bteep grades. The scen
ery is peculiarly Mexican. Here you pass
afieldofvolcanio rocks. Adjoining it is
another ef soil as black as your hat in which
two peons in dirty white are scratching the
ground with wooden ploughs, and next to
this is a road over which a team of oxen
with the yoke tied to their horns is pulling
a wooden-wheeled Mexican cart. Next
there is a stretch of cactus, and all around
you are the rocky hills, bare of earth, which
make you think of the barren mountains of
the land of Judea. As you go onward the
soil grows richer, and you soon whirl
around a horseshoo bend and enter one of the
most wonderful gorges of the world.
THE GEEAT TAMOSOPO CAXOX.
This is the Tamosopo Canon. I rode
through it on the top of a box car, and it ia
the most wonderful ride on the continent.
Starting in an amphitheater of the richest
green, you shoot out over a waterfall into a
great gorge, and ride for SO miles along the
edge of precipices, besides rushing rivers
and through the wildest of forests, with the
mountains above and the earth thousands of
feet below you, until in an hour you find
j -. . vt icmperaie zone anouown
into the tropics, with vour eyes dancing
and your head buzzine in trvinr tn rotn
hend the kaleidoscopic panorama which
you have passed. In some places the rocks
were bare and great cliffs overhung the
road, roofed only by the sky. Here you go
into tunnels, and the smoke along the top
of the car makes you think that are at the
entrance of Dante's Inferno.
And so you pass on until' you find your
self in .forests of orchids, and your ears are
saluted with the rough voices of the birds of
the tropics. You are now in the low lands
&iiw!rtrt? th-T air has grown hot.
This branch of the railroad cost 10,000,000
to budd, and the line from Tampico to St.
Luia Potosi is perhaps the most expensive
railroad in Mexico. f
Pkaxk G. Cabpextee.
InShinr With the Month Closed.
Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat. J
The man who laughs without opening
his mouth Is like the man who laughs at
you with his eyes half closed, a good man
to watch. He may be a perfectly reputable
citizen, an honest man, a good neighbor .and
have many excellent qualities, but he is of
a profoundly secretive disposition, will not
tate : you into his confidence unless he has
use for you, and will cast you aside as soon
as yon have served his purpose.
( 0J Ci WOMAJN J5 llliCUllU.
The Story of an Old Lady Now Prac
ticing Medicine in Toledo,
LONG LINE OP NOBLE ANCESTORS'.
Wife-of Michigan's Famous Boy Governor
Whom She Won by a Song.
A WAR NURSE-DURING THE.REBELLIOlfr
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Toledo, O., Aug. 2a The life history
of Paulina Mason, n ho lives at Adams and
Tenth streets in this city, equals the most
elaborate works of fiction. From royalty
and wealth she has been leveled by circum
stances to the seclusion of poverty. This
seclusion might never have been penetrated
but for the accidental discovery a few days
aco of the fact that she was. formerly the
wife of Stevens T. Mason, the iamoua "Boy
Governor" of Michigan. Prom an inter
view with her, the object of which was the
possible discovery of missing links in the
annals of Michigan and the great North
west, the facts camo out. The story as she
tells it, runs substantially as louows:
"I was born 70 years ago last March. Our
family includes many famous names. My
maiden name was ReaufE That is taken
from my grandfather's name, Eeauffanqff.
My grandfather was a giant, both physic
ally and intellectually. He was over seven
feet in height, and he weighed about 350
pounds. He was a native of Russia. He
was the firm friend of Alexander I, and
when the opportunity came he was made
commander-in-chief of the whole Russian
army. Europe has had but one general
since then that could in any way compare
with him, and that was Count von Moltke.
My grandfather was a sort of tutor to !Vbn
Moltke, and it ia no doubt due to the les
sons in military tactics which he gave him
that the latter attained such great success.
Alexander H, "Von Moltke and my father
were sent to scnool togetner, ana were in
separable friends.
AX ESTATE IX HOIXAXft.
"As a reward for his services, Emperor
Alexander I gave grandfather a vast estate
of eight or ten thousand acres in the terri
tory which he had helped the French to
win. The old general resigned his position
in the army and moved to the new posses
sions, which became apart of Holland. He
had his sons complete their courses at Zu
rich, each of them taking up the study of
mining engineering. My father wooed and
won a niece of Paul the Emperor; she was
also a niece of Peter the Great I am their
child, and hence a grandniece of those great
rulers.
"But I didn't tell you how the Beauffs
came to leave Holland, did I? "Well, the
wabetween the French and English broke
out as a partial result of the war of 1812,
and the conflict of the merchant vessels of
the two nations. Grandfather was still
strong and energetic, although nearly 90
years of age. He owed considerable to the
French Government, and he promptly joined
its army. He was an old friend of "Napol
eon's and the latter made him one of his
greatest generals. He was finally taken
prisoner along with Napoleon and the rest
of the French. Napoleon was exiled to St,
Helena, and grandfather was given his
choice of going with him or going to
America, besides having his vast estates
confiscated. For his children's sake he
came to America,
THE FAMILY IX PEXXSYIJVAXIA.
"He brought all his sons with him find In.
koated with the rest of the Dutch In Pennsyl
vania ana new jersey, xnen sranutatner
and one of my uncles moved into Philadel
phia, where they lived on Chester street
until the old man died in 1834. He was
then 107 years of age. I was 13 years old
when he died, being the youngest one of my
father's family.
"My father and uncles became very active
In prospecting. They worked all over the
State. One of them acquired a competence,
and settled down for the remainder of his
life in Baltimore. Another became the
head of a great iron company, with head
quarters in New York. I think It was the
Holland Iron Company. The one in Phila
delphia took care of grandfather until the
latter died. There are plenty of BeaufF de
scendants in all these cities and scattered
around in their vicinities.
"When I was 16 years of age I was grad
uated from the convent. I was as highly
educated as one of that age could be in
those days. I suppose I was accomplished,
too, for I could play nearly every instru
ment there was, could paint pretty well and
do many other things.
"After I graduated I lived with my uncle,
right along. Then one day he got a letter
from Detroit, Mich., from Mr. Mason, who
had been chosen Governor, making a propo
sition to him to prospect in the upper pen
insula of Michigan, and ascertain It the re
ports were true as to its mineral wealth.
My uncle accepted the trust, and the next
summer he moved up there.
"I had not been in Detroit long when he
was visited by Governor Mason, old Judge
"Woodward and others. Among them was a
Mr. Pierce, who was appointed Superin
tendent of Public Schools by the Governor.
He is the man who founded Michigan's ex
cellent school system, reserving section 16
of everv township in the State for a publio
fund. They came up to see how uncle was
getting along with nis work. One Sunday
afternoon, wben I sppposed they were ail
awav somewhere. I got out mv guitar, and
was'slneing the German to what you call
Home,"Sweet Home.' My uncle sent for
me to come into the parlor, and there sat
the Governor and all the gentlemen.
a 'husbaxd with a guitak.
I was presented to them, and Mr. Mason
said he had heard the singing, and wanted
to hear more of it. It as a long time be
fore I would consent. I sung two or three
songs, and hen they went away, but Mr.
Mason watched me all the time he was
there. I didn't know what to think. I was
afraid I had done something I shouldn't.
He came next day and asked me to sing
again and the same thing the next day.
Well, it was the same old story. We wefe
married about six months after that, and
settled down to housekeeping at Detroit,
then the capital of Michigon. He had been
private secretary to Territorial Governor
Porter, and when the latter died in 1835,
Mr. Mason was left in charge for a short
time, pending thePresident's appointment.
Although he was only 20 years old and per
fectly beardless, he succeeded so admirably
that President Van Buren appointed him
Governor.
"My husband is a direct descendant of
one of the oldest families of England. His
forefathers were very near to tne English
throne at one time. The leader ot the
Mason house embarked on the Mayflower
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for America. Various members of tie
family became leaders of Newj England
politics during colonial time, when the
devolution broke out they were loremost jn
the fight for liberty. History telN ns of
General Mason, who wasUUe'd in the war.
Others of them were Governors, Senators or
Congressmen. Mv husband's father was a
general in the war of 1812
EXTERTAIXED WILLIAM HABEISOX.
"We entertained a great deal, for ths
"Boy Governor was not only famous, but
Tie was popular. William Henry Harrison,
who became President the next year after
we were married, was a frequent visitor and
a welcome one. Through him we got soma
property at Napoleon, O. Judge E. J.
Potter, the man who isvented the little 3-
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often at our house. He is is still alive and
lives In this city.
"After Mr. Mason's term he became In
terested with General John C. Fremont in
exploring the West He and Fremont
were students together and graduated side
by side. They forced a way through the
wilderness to the ooean, exploring the
region where San Francisco now is, and
north up as far as Columbia river, They
discovered some of the silver deposits in
Colorado and located several claims. One
of those of mv husband's was 320 acres, on
which part oi Denver is now built. It was
legally recorded and wo have a good title to
It. We got a Government patent. Bnt cir
cumstances afterward occurred so that I
could not attend to it, and the recorder who
Wrote down thn claim afterward took the
book home and changed the title to his own.
same, j.ms I aia noc una one sniu nnor
eevoral years, when It was proven in court.
Be sold it to a man who soon died, and this
man sold It to anotner named Terkes, who
still lives. The recorder died two years ago.
The case is now In the Chancery Courts of
Denver, and I think wo will soon win It.
One of my sons now lives In Denver, and ia
personally fighting the claim.
SEXAXQB PAYXE OXE OF THEM.
"I have another big case In the courts, too.
I, with several other descendants of the
Keauffanoff family, among whom is Senator
Payne, of Ohio, are the sole and lawful
helra to one square mile which ia now in the
heart of Cleveland. We obtain our claim by
right of a patent granted to Count Eeauffan
offby tho King of England, before the Eev
olutlonary War. The patent is a matter of
record and we have indisputable proof of
Its legality. Benator Payne now has the
case In the United States Supreme Court. I
do not suppose it will be determined before
I die, hut ft will be some time. General
Iteiuiffanoir was in the Russian army at the
time and got tho land through Alexander I.,
who made some kind of a treaty with the
English. Our right to It is as good as that of
tho Knickerbockers, Stuyvesants, Van
Burens and otlieia who. obtained patents
from the mother country.
"There is some more property which hy
right belongs to the Beauffs. That in tho
gi eat Holland estate. My husband died in
1853, and with two or three of the other rela
tive, among whom ia my cousin, Governor
Mitchell, of Oregon, I went to the old coun
try to see about it. Alexander 1L remem
bered the ciicumstances and promised to do
what ho could for us. no opened negotia
tions with the French and Holland Govern
ments, and was In a fair way of success
t, hen the Nihilists struok him down. That
took away our greatest hope and strongest
help, and nothing has been done about it
since. I do not buppose there ever will be
now.
A XTJBSE DUKIXO THE "WAS.
"When I got back from Europe, where I
had stayed long enough, to study medicine
at the Zurich Medical college, and to get a
diploma, I went West to see about our Den-
Mrs. Mason's Toledo Residence.
ver property. Here I met General Fremont
and wlfe.and with them went to Pike's Peak.
Trouble with the South then seemed immi
nent and tho Generals tarted for Missouri to
get his men together. Aftertheinaugration
of Lincoln and the mntterings of war had
grown almost into a tumult, the news came
of the fall of Fort Sumter. All tho old mill,
tary Are of my grandfather seemod to be In
me, and I could not stop. I hastened to St.
Louis and enlisted as a war nurse, the first
in the United States. I was detailed to go
with General Fremont's army. Wo went right
along with Grant's army, I was in tha
battle at Pittsburg Landing and also at
Shiloh. After we nad won the victory at
Shiloh and the Confederates had retreated,
I was busv attending the -wounded. It wm
about four hours after the battle when a
bullet from from some sharpshooter's rifle
struck me under the right arm. It glanced
upward, went through part of my lung,
knocked a piece off my shoulder blade, and
lodged In my throat J ust in front of the main
artery. Feel, hero It la."
Mra. Mason pointed to a lump half as
large as a lien's egg, on one side of her
throat.
PAtJLIXA OP THE POTOMAC.
"When I got out of the hospital at Cincin
nati, where they took me," sbe continued,
"I went to Washington and joined the Army
of the Potomac. The soldiers nicknamed
me 'Paulina of the Potomac' there, and by
that name I am often referred to In the his
tories of the war. The soldiers have otten
made inquiries about me in their papers,
but I have never told them where I -nas.
"After the war I came to Napoleon, O.,
and Toledo. I finished my medical studies
ao I could practice in Ohio, for I wanted to
keep busy, although I did not need to work
so far as money was concerned. But the
day came when my profession wa9 a valua
ble help to me. I had over $30,000 in tho
banks at Xapoleon and Toledo. The owners
of them were old friends of my dead hus
band's, and for 25 years or more our fam
ilies had been on intimate terms. I trusted
them to" properly care for mv money. Nine
years ago every bank failed, taking $33 000.
I apent $10,000 more trying to get tha rest
back, so now I am poor and nava a hard
battle to get along. It ia a fearful blow. My
only object in living now is to see my sons
as well situated as possible. One of them is
in Denver, one in Chicago, where he is on
Government business, one in Washington
and one in New York. They are all good
boya, and I earnestly hope that they will
not sully the proud name of cither the Keauff
or the Mason family. Never has there been a
black name among either of them, and my
effort as long as I live ia to keep the record
up. You see I am proud, if I am poor."
SHERMAN TO GET HER A PENSION.
The old lady la wrinkled somewhat, but
withal a lemarkably well preserved old
lady. She has a small practice in this city,
and tho infirmary directors do what they
can for her by giving her oity cases. She ia
said to be a good physician.
In connection witn her story Mra. Mason
exhibited the diaries which had been kept
by her grandfather, one from Paul the Em
peror, two from Napoleon and dozens of
them written by her uncle and husband.
She retains as heirlooms articles from tlio
Keauffanotf castle and gifts from the poten
tates of the European nations. She says
most of that which fell to ber lot, however,
is now in the possession of the sons. The
house she lives in is a story and u halt frame
cottage, plainly furnished. The gate is
rickety, the fence is rickety, many of the
alats in the.window shutters are gone and
the spikes in the short walks from the gate
to the door catch one's toes.- Mrs. .Mason,
after declaring for years that she would not,
has applied lor a pension and sons of her
friends here have gotten Senator Sherman
foisonally Interested in having it granted,
be bids lair to need one for many years yet,
for the longevity of her family seems to be
inherited in her. AttTntm Campuell.
Celery the Year 'Bound.
Celery in the midsummer market was
something unknown a few yeara ago, but
now it is as plentiful and nearly aa cheap aa
in winter when home-grown celery ia in.
Nearly all of thia celery comes from Kala
mazoo, Mich., where the raising of the suc
culent vegetable has been reduced to a
science, and ia kept up all the year round.
The celery growers are Swedes.
Badges for lodges and societies at Mc
Mahon Bros. & Adams', 52 Fourth avenue.
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A NEW OSCAR WILDE.
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The Sar .rosephin Peladan, Who Has
Caught tho Parisian Eye. .
POSES IN EUFFLESAND VELWS,
And Indulges in Twenty-Five Different Per
fumes All at Once.
EFFEMINATE SCHOOL OF P0ETABTEE8
(conBxsroxDBTCTO or tub dispatch.!
Paris, Aug. 21, Paris owns a gtranga
creature calling itself Josephin Peladau.
Bagging its pardon, calling itself the Saa
Josephin Peladau. Peladau holds to ths
Sar, especially. It is a fantastio title in
sound, but Josephin claims right to it u
being descended from Eastern kings.
You see from here how picturesque ia the
Image of Oriental ancestry evoked? Every
body in Paris has heard of the Saa Josephine
Peladau. Every one In Paris connected,
in near or remote fashion, with that life of
Bohemia that recruits, its ranka from lea
jeunes in literature and art has, seen him.
What Oscar Wilde waa to London and New
York ten yeara ago, he to-day ia to Paris.
A portrait of him in one of theapring exhi
bitions drew a curious and laughing crowd.
Imagine a small being in a velvet blouse
belted to the waist, with cuffs of old lace
turned up from wrists and hands nervous
and womanish. A face and head with a
black pair of eyes eaten up and engulfed
in a pent-house-roof of tangled black hair,
curling in a bush to the eye-brows, and met
by a aable beard, vaguely and Vandykely'
pointed.
BEVELS. XX ESOTEBIO LOBE.
The eyes, to an admirer of the Easare
supposed to look by the straighteat path
into all manner of transcendentalltiea. To
him Josephin ia streaked with a some
thing of Madame Blavatsky. Eastern in
sight into adept, esoterio lore of some"
shadowy sort or kind is thought to be his.
By word of the few courageous individuals
who venture to stand up ior him, the Sas is
a deeply original thinker and talker aa
well, one whom the common herd of men
may despise, but who holds himself serenely
far beyond the reach of sordid ridicule ana
vulgar contumely a gorgeous oriental
planet in purple velvet, knee-breeches and
feathered bat, spinning magnificently in
in apace above the head of the crude modern
man, who gets his clothes from London and
whose soul is dead to the subtle fascinations
of the poetry of the decadenta.
Not exactly that Josephin Peladan is a
decadent poet himself. That is, he is no
poet of any sort, if by the term one conceive
the doer of anything whatever, even of any
thing so unsubstantial as a rhyme. The popu
lace is given to understand that he nas
achieved somewhat or other. Bnt if a curi
ous seeker should try to put his finger on
the achievement it seems to result in noth
ing much more than that the bushy-headed
Sas has succeeded in using as many aa
twenty-five different sorts of perfumes
about his person at one ana tne same time.
I don't contest that this may not be a claim
to celebrity of a kind.
A STRIKING RESEMBLANCE
But Josephin Peladan has affiliations
nevertheless with the new and ineffable
school of symbolish and decadents, of which
no ordinarily-constituted mind pretends to
understand anything. It ia quite possible
that these progressive poets would scout
the connection. In fact they do. A derisive
cry goes up when the velvet breeches and
the birdieat head with a silver fillet through
it, saunters upon the scene of a Decadent
symposium. "The Phenomenon," hia com
pamona and acquaintances in circles of the
latest French literature designate him to
his lace.
But whether they approve of him or not,
whether or no these interesting young mem
give the stamp of their endorsement to the
Vandyke velyeta, and the lace rufflea, and
the 25 different sorts of perfumes, used at
one and the same time, there ia a family
similarity which yon can't prevent the
common mind from detecting. I won't af
firm that it goea any farther than the silken
and scented underclothing, which many of
these fin du siecle poets are said to affect,
finding in this elegance and softness ot the
dessous (aa the French have it in that in
imitable vernacular of theirs). A stimulus,
I believe, to a a hysterically acute sensi
tiveness of impression, hitherto held to be
roper to the weaker sex only. One can't
oubt that the picturesque Josephin ia
clad in purple and fine linen aa well within
aa without, ' ,
"WHAT THE SCHOOL PRODUCES.
Impossible to feel the texture of the same
fibre in the monstrous growth of emascu
lated egoism that ia Peladau'e, and that of
some of these minor French poetasters. Of
many of them, also, one hears much, with
out ever being able to discover that they
have written anything whatever- What
rott do read is in Inverse ratio to the ner.
fumed underwear. Its chief characteristic.
Is that it does not smell sweet. Tbo material
ism of Zola may he rank, but there is some
thing in the suggestlveness of the school
that seeks to supplant It in spite of much
swimming in the blue is ranker still.
It ia a sight, not for gods, but for the best
caricaturist procurable, one of tbese youth
ful, end Qf-tne century litterateurs of this
particular school, with white, soaked face,
neither masculine nor feminine, and a shock
of Samsonian hair, all rather than Sam
sonian in the effect of strength, atandlng
out on curly end, from under the hand-wide
brim of a chimney.pot hat. Marvelous,
these hatsl I have only seen them equaled
in tne green-bannerea processions of the
?;ood saint I'atricc on tne ntn day of March
u New York. The Parisian poet, wearer of
the Paddy hat, ia usually accompanied bv
some striklng-iooking woman who has the
niascnlinity of appearance while he has the
effeminacy.
And vet some of these clirarette-smoklnp
women do -wonderful things with their pen.
And some of the most stirring and adorable
Hne3 you get to read have emanated from
brains that, if not exactly belonging to the
shock of hair and the scented underllnen,
are first cousins to both. One has but to
mention Verlaine, who has nanght to do
with beruffled undergarments and two
dozen assorted scents, to be sure, being
usually recumbent on a cot in a hospital as
the result of a long-protracted spree! Tho
exquisite verses he writes have tobe rescued
from under the hospital cot mattrass. He is
at the opposite pole from Peladau, the later
Oscar Wilde, who poses much and writes
nothing. But betwixt the two there runs,
up and down, a gamut of personalities, some
repulsively ludicrous enough, some with
genius enougn, to repay tne pen or ualzac.
AG.
CBABBIUG 017 THE HUDSON.
A Harmless Sport That Seems to Please
New Yorkers Mightily.
If I were asked what the favorite style of'
fishing waa around the city I wouldn't stop
long to say "crabbing," says a Hudson
river steamboat captain in an exchange.
I get so tired of seeing people "crabbing"
I wish they'd all die off or invent some new
shellfish that was as easy to catch. As I go
up and down the Hudson every day, when
the tide's right I see an unbroken line of
"crabbers." I should say the dally catch
must average a great many hundred bushels.
Where the crabs all come from I can't
imagine. And thia SO miles of "crabbers"
ain't? as a rule, those that are catching them
for sale; they're just residents on the banks,
that come down to get a few for a little
salad thev're going to make.
Every Sunday thousands of people come
from tne city, swarm into the boats and
station themselves out in five or six feet of
water and fish for crabs all day, or as long
aa they'll take the bait. It isn't very dan
gerous sport any child can do it, and I
suppose that's what makes it so popular.
Most of the boats ore provided with five or
tLx lines, witha piece of meat on the end of
each, which lies on the bottom. They pull
up one after the other round and round,
tilljhey happen to find a crab on the end of
one. Then they net him and throw the line
overboard and go on. Sixty craba are a
good morning's catch.
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A STORY OF THE-AMERICAN STAGE.
WRITTEN-FOE THE DISPATCH
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CHAPTER IV.
A CHAPEROXE.
Kildare stood stunned and blinking; then
a panic at bcin; so dreadfully misunder
stood seized him.
'My dear girl, you don't know what you
are talking about," he protested.
"Oh, yes yes I am right," said Daisy
gently, "and you must not hurry me. That
would be unfair to -me."
Kildare felt ho must set himself right,
but he found it Impossible to be too candid.
Besides, he was too much of an artist to
disturb the harmony of the scene.
"Little one, artists are different from
other people," he explained. "Certain
ties "
"I know," she interrupted. "Yon would A
aay that one must be the more careful about
forming ties, That is why I will not bind
myself by any promise not till I am snre.
Nor shall you bind yourself, either," ,
Kildare felt himself getting desperately
Involved, but the girl went on : "I don't
even know yet that I can love yon," ahe
faltered prettily over the word, "and maybe
you are mistaken, too. Maybe I am not the
woman you take,me for at alk"
Kildare wiped the perspiration from hia
forehead, and to himself confessed himself
beaten at least in that direction, but be
had much confidence in contact.
WTTH A IXTNOINO OPJ5JT
"My darling," he said, and strove to
take her in his arma again. She waa ahy
and swift aa a wild bird. Then, her tender
heart fearing she had hurt him, she reached
ont her hand and said wistfully: "Mean-.
while, be friends, please be friends."
He clasped the hand in an absent-minded,
half-dazed way. A bright voice broke in:
"It ia I Freda. Daisy, run up to the
train. I will come in a moment."
Freda's air of confident authority induced
obedience, and Daisy was glad to escape.
Kildare stood stroking hia chin and
smiling. When Daisy waa well out of
hearing, he.said pleasantly: "Listening?"
"I did not need to. I know what you
were saying."
"You ought to," Kildare admitted.
"Yes, as you say, I ought to. Aren't you
ashamed? and a girl who might believe
youl"
"She did. She says she can't be my wife
now. nut x am utterly unprotected ior tne
future. Can'tyon help me out?"
"What a laudable lot you men are I"
"We are hardly as interesting as yon
women yourself in particular."
"Have you no decency?"
"I bathe regularly, my child."
f'flr honrt?"
Or heart?
"I believe I possess yours, dear.
Freda glared a minute, her color waver
ing, then sbe laughed lightly. "Only that
I am fond of Daisy I should not have lost my
temper. Yon are not worth it. Now, lis
ten. , Daisy ia a lovely girL"
"Didn't you observe my appreciation, of
the fact?"
"And ahe ia bo simple-minded and good,
that with all your- devilishnesa I don t be
lieve you could make her love you."
"I could try."
"Give it up."
"I can't. Fascination."
"Why?"
"Hang it all, ahe will expect me to go on-.
I believe, yes, I believe waare engaged."
Freda ground her teeth. "For Heaven's
sake, don't be so irritating. Nobody knows
you and Daisy were together. They all
think I waa with her."
"By the way, why did you come back?"
"I walked up past the train. When I
came back to the car, Charlie said you had
gone down to the falls, and asked me about
Daisy. 'She ia just behind me,' said I, and
sent nim Into tho car. Then I tore back
here."
"Hm aatnte kidl"
"Daisy will neyer aay anything, and don't
vou dare to. You let Daisy alone!"
"Do you consider yourself eligible fori
chaperone, tspitnrei"
"Ughl What a contemptible thing a six
foot man can be!"
"Whither away, fair Ophelia to a nun
fiery?" "I am going to overtake Daisy."
"We will go together."
"Are you earning!"
"I see so little of my pretty pepper box.
She must not begrudge me tnese few mo
ments." "Thanks, I wouldn't touch your arm. I
wonder how it feels to feel as yon must."
'iFascination." murmured Kildare. "I
should like to kiss you."
Poor Daisy was uncomfortable in cumu
lative fashion as the next few weeks passed.
Kildare had received the manuscript of a
new play, and in the interest of study the
little episode with Marguerite passed from
hia mind. She fonnd herself included in
the abstracted manner he showed every one.
Sometimes ahe was tortured by a fear that
he awaited some' word from her; again, a
humiliating doubt of hia sincerity arose.
No woman ia above feeling chagrin to fancy
herself made love to carelessly, above all
when she has accepted the advancement in
good faith. To do her justice her sense of
obligation to Kildare weighed chiefly. Aa
weeks passed she realized how little her
heart felt for him. She began to upbraid
hers,ein Her words to him there by the
falls now seemed culpably due to the mere
Impulse of the moment. Yet she had prom
ised to try and love him. Her cheeks
burned. The more time taugh her that to
love Kildare was an impossibility, the more
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urgent ho felt the need to speak to him at
once. Yet, how could she?
Somehow, she felt her obligation a thous
and fold when a letter from Henroyd Bre
ton advised her of hia intended visit durintj
the company's stay at Washington. Be
sides; there were other reasons. The sight
of Miss Ellaine caused her a guilty sense of
discomfort.
Miss Ellaine grew more wraith-like each
day. A sad hunger showed from her eyes.
Sbe was ill no doubt of that, and Daisy
felt aa if she had helped to make her so.
Miss Ellaine loved Kildare. there waa no
doubt of that, and Daisy felt herself a low
down traitor. Ah! if she could see her mar
ried to Kildare I She could not content
herself with Freda's philosophy. "2evet
meddle with what ia none oi your business,
never worry about what yon can't help.
She felt a desire to meddle and she did
worry. Her heart warmed toward Bird.
Falling Into this state of mind an.d sympa
thy ahe fell herself involved in the wicked
ness of it alL At last she went to Freda
with some of her perplexity.
At mention of Bird's sorrow Freda's color
rose. "How do yon presume to judge her?"
ahe said ahortly.
"But, Freda, sbe has thrown herself at
the feet of a man who doe's not love her.
Freda, don't get angry with me. I do want
your help. I don't know What to do, or
What I ought to do. Mr. Kildare "
Freda's eyes flashed upon her, and nar
rowed. Tha nansA wm Ti&infiil. hnt Afar-
I gnerite's glance did not fall. Presently
dW THE DOOR SHE CAME.
Freda, with a rather mirthless lau-jh, said:
"Look here, Daisy, In thi8 ataje lifo
illusions must go sooner or later." Forgive
me for dispelling perhaps one or two of
yours. I fancy Kildare haa been giving
you the usual dose."
"The usual dose, Freda?"
"Yes. For instance, you have heard ua
apeak of the girl whose place you took
Josephine Davis."
"Yes."
"Dear old Joel Wish you had known
her. She would have been a liberal educa
tion to you. Dairv. She wore shirt fronts.
f and scratched matches on the heel of her
boot As straight-forward, honest and
manly a girl as ever lived. She had been
in the company about three weeks last sea
sou when Kildare told her now much he
needed some one to .sympathize with and
understand him, and how he felt her the
only woman in the world to help him in hia
work."
"What did ahe aay?" gasped Daisy.
"I belieye," said Freda, musingly; 'Ahl
she waa a girl, waa Joel I.believe ahe said
'EatsI" '
Daisy covered her face with her hands.
"When it came to contracts for this sea-,
Bon he started in again. He asked her more
or less delicately what ahe would do if hu
put her in Misa Ellaine'a place, as leading
actress of the company. She necked tha
ashes from her cigarette and asked sweetly,
What would I do if I were in Misa Ellaine'a
place?' 'Yes,' aaid he. Then spoke Joe
again, smiling straight in Kildare '3 eyes:
'What would I do if I were In Miss Ellaine'a
place? I would make your life a torment
and she puffed some smoke in his face. Ah!"
and Freda sighed ostentatiously, "Joe was
a very level-headed girl, If it did cost her
an engagement."
Daisy was white to the lips, and her eyes
were strained. Perhaps Freda noticed itK
for ahe went on more gently: "I have been
.through the same thing, my dear. Maybe
it hurt me a little; it only amused Joe. I
did my best, however, to meet it in a matter-of-fact,
business way. I explained to
Mr. Kildare that I understood he waa sug
gesting for me the honor of a matrimonial
engagement and that "
"Daisv burst into tears. In tha same zno-
ment Fre'da's arms were around her.
"There, dear, I know it is all hard for you
to bear. I have tried to save you aome of
the bitterness of experience. Don't judge
all men by Kildare, and don't bother any
more about it. For heaven's sake, you don't
care about him, do you?"
"No," sobbed Daisy, "that waa partly
what was making me miserable. I I
thought I ought to, and that I ought to tell
hiii I couldn't."
"Well, you can make up your mind com
fortably that you oughtn't to, and that you
need tell him nothing. The woman who.
finds herself cursed with a love for such a
man had better die." Freda clenched her
hands, and said again, "Had better kill her
self. "Freda, how good you are, and how
kind."
'I am only kind to those I care for. You
must not judge any of ua, Daisy. Remem
ber, women who work In the world must all
fight the same battle, and must each fight ft
in her own way. You must not judge you
must not judge."
There waa an appeal in the girl's voice.
CHAPTER V.
A LITXPE SUPPER-
J'You should not have done it," aaid
Henroyd Breton.
Daiay flushed angrily- "You are quite
wrong," ahe said; "it would have been
cowardly for me to refuse thia chance, when
money is ao much needed."
"But the companionship the associa
tions!" "Oh. I get along very welL" Daisy felt
half pleased at Breton's expression of in
terest in her. Something in bis protecting
manner Sjavo added gentleness to hia air of
an old friend, and both Daiay found good,
after so many months among new faces.
"Dear Marguerite, I have known you
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