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had that to do with it? Oh, there was
never a star so kind, so considerate, so
good.
The papers said all this and more. They
eaid the season would be continued 'with
the talented Miss Granite in the leading po
sition Then they sketched the talented
Hiss Granite's career, and pave an account
of her countrv home which she had left for
a course nt th"e New York Lyceum of Arts,
her process there and so on, very much
like the other account. Poor Daisy sick
ened at it all, but Freda shut her teeth, and
said:
"It's good advertisement
The last few weeks of the season dragged
wearilv on. One-night stands were ire
quenttravel terribly hard and Kildare sav
agely sullen. 8
"Shall you be with him next year, ITreds?
Daisy asked.
"No."
"Do von know what you shall dof
"A dramatic agency has gotten me an offer
in a stock in California."
"Shall you take it?"
"I think so." She covered her eyes a
moment, then looking up, added steadily:
"Sticknor is in it.
"Oh, Freda! Shall your'
"I shall give myself a chanceto-be happy,
dear, thouch I am not worth it."
The last Sunday Freda sent for KTIdare.
Her trunks were packed and her room bare.
After a sharp knock he entered.
"I expected this before," he said.
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AV ' 1 r
THE GERMAN
EMPEROR
Bobw 18S9.
Even In the first of these
we see the aistmguisnea
monarch, characteristically
enongh.-ealutlng in military
fashion; and at the various
stages of his youth he looks
every men a
ages are:
No. 1, ace 3.
No. 8, age 7.
No. 5, age 10.
No. 7, ago 51.
"What do yon suppose I want?"
"To close fbr next season."
"I have already refused."
"You did the iame thing last teaso
Freda winced.
"Why not talk business-on theraln to
morrow," he added.
"I leave to-night."
"Ah," he returned mockingly, youhave
sent to say 'Farewell, sweet playfellow,
dear Herniia! How touching!"
"I have sent to know what Bird meant the
night she died."
Kildare stroked his chin. He had paled
a little, but his eyes were cold and steady.
"I may as well tell you. It may alter
your decisions in some directions. She
thought herself mv wife. That piece ot
paper would have been misleading to un
prejudiced parties."
Freda stared at him. Then she said
hoarsely;
"Have you no human nature in yon?"
"Very little, except what you can touch,
my dear."
She buried her face In her hands.
"Gomel Give up fighting it," said KTI
dare, his eyes gleaming. "The girl who is
dead need no longer stand between us. Yon
have stood by her like your brave, loyal
relf, but slie's gone. She was never any
thing to me, that you know. That is not
between us. Freda, dear one, listen to
vour own better nature; listen to your
heart"
She rocked to and fro, but did not speak,
and he went on gently: "You love me, yon
always have, you always wilL Some time
you muit come to me. Come now."
He stood beside her, his hand on her
Ehoulder. His face was very grave.
"I will not," she said through her clenched
teeth.
"Be in this the woman you are in every
other nav," lie answered gently.
"I will ne cr marry any one."
"You cannot marrv. for you love me. Do
not -wreck both our fives by a stubborn ad
herence to a benighted custom. Men and
women are not to be tied together save by
unity of purpose and of soul. Such bond is
between ns. You are mine."
The girl moaned.
"You can Jo nothing without me, he
said. "I cannot do jay best without you. I
sap from you your strength, your life even.
Place your hand in mine and all will be
well, dear one."
She beat her hands against her heart, an
ew erine, "No, no!"
"You love me," he went on. "That
should be your law."
She lifted her head and laughed, while
tears wet her face.
"How little you know me after all; your
wife or your sweetheart would be an equal
degradation. My love shall not be my law.
It is so that every drop of red blood in me
leaps at your touch; that at your voice the
heart in me crowds down to the place under
your feet where all who love you must
come, j et I know my love is the law of the
worst in me. "Weak as my woman heart is,
I tell you my soul sees you as you are. To
come to you 13 to degrade my" soul to your
level, and to the level of the depths within
me. 1 will not qo it I stand above you
now. and I will hold my place."
"You fight acsinst your salvation, and
for a sentiment"
"No, I fight against a curse, and I fight
for the womanhood in me, which is not
mine to degrade. A woman's purity of
soul is not Tier own; it belongs to God, and
to the man who one day may claim her by
a right her whole nature will recognize."
"I am lie," said Kildare, his grasp on her
ehouH'r tightening.
"No!" she cried, shaking herself free.
"You are not. If I lall now it is because I
am beaten down by the storm of my own
mad heart, not because you are he."
"Low as I am, we are one I say. The
better nature in you must lift me up."
"It is not true 1 Though my blood
clamors kinship with you, our souls are
etrangers, I could not litt you up, you
would only drag me down."
"There, then, is your place, in my arms.
Little girl, you beat against the cage that
surely holds you." He spoke tenderly, his
arms about her. Freda luted her head that
their eyes might meet
"Go "from me," she said weakly, 'T pray
you, let some good in you speak for me.
You do not lot e me, be merciful, forego the
hort-lived4riumph of-attaining; the-thing
you care for only to win. Robert, Robert,
let me go free 1 I will go away. I will
trust my strength no longer. Let me have
my chance at life and at happiness. Let
me shake off the curse that has fallen
on me !"
"You forget," he answered, "I want
you." At the change in his voice, Freda's
lips turned white and drew back from her
teeth as with deadly horror. She struggled
fiercely till he loosed his hold.
"Sou shall have your chance at life and
happiness but with me. I know,
about this Sticknor fellow, the man who
was in love with you, in the company last
season, and whom you mean to join in
California. Ton take your chance at life
and happiness with me not him."
He came toward her, his head bent for
ward. She lifted her arms as if to shield
her eyes, and in turning stumbled and fell.
He dashed cold water in her face. As
her breath began to come he lifted her hand.
"She is worth them all," he said huskily.
Bat the next morning Freda was gone.
CHAPTER XVm
, THE END.
Marguerite was married from her own
home, and Freda helped to throw slippers
after her. Fred Sticknor had come out to
the wedding from Chicago, where he was
doing a three weeks' summer engagement
"Do come often again," said Mrs. Gran
ite, when the wedding party was off, and
soiaier. nis
No. S, age i.
No. 4. ape 9.
No. 6, age It.
No. 8, ago SL
Fred began speaking of his return train.
"Do come often again. Miss Sonaday visits
me a few days to help me get over dear
Marguerite."
"I shall be glad," said Sticknor, gravely.
Mrs. Granite was sniveling. "If you will
excuse me I it's half an hour before your
train I will get you some lunch you will
entertain each other, won't you?. I you
have met before I mother's heart oh,
dear!" and Mrs. Granite, dabbing her eyes,
departed.
"Freda?" asked Sticknor, "have yon no
word for me?"
Freda lifted her brown eyes sadly, and,
put out her hand.
"Look, Fred," she answered. There was
an ugly, crescent-l've scar upon it "Let it
heal," she said, "that the hand may be
white when I give it There is a scar on
my heart, too. The best of my heart is
yours, but let the scar be outgrown first
Let me wait a little while, Fred."
IHI END.
THE NEXT BEBIAL STORY.
One or the most Interesting or American
novelists Is EDGAR FATVCETT. The best
work of his life ho has put Into a novel ha
has Just finished. He calls It AMERICAN
POSH, The hero (Llspenard) Is a rich New
Tork gentleman. Atthe opening or the story
he has Just become engaged to a Kiss Kath
leen Kennard, a yonnjrgirl with slight social
position and a tremendously ambitions
mother. Almost at once a financial crash
ruins Llspenard. He has been regarded by
his friends as a luxurious Idler, hut now he
rises to the situation and reveals great force
of character. In his sweetheart, Kathleen,
he reposes the utmost confidence; but, to
bis horror and anguish, she shows that the
sordid feelings or her mother have had
welghi with hef or at least he believes so.
An American friend ofLlgpenard's.namcd
Erio Thaxter, has obtained a position for
blm with the young King of Carpathia a
fin de slecle sort of King, whom Sir. Fawcett
merfhs to make a new and remarkable
character In fictional literature. Uipcnard
becomes a power behind the throne. Mrs.
Kennard, through her intrepid manenver
lngs, gains an audience with the King. Kath
leen Is self-disgusted and resolved that she
will never marry, now that her lover Is lost
to her, bnt she greatly fascinates the King.
Meanwhile the King's mother gets wind of
his attachment and nses potent means ot
anger and disapproval.
All this time Llspenard has kept In the
background, though he has watched the
machinations of Mrs. Kennard. He has
grown to greatly admire his royal patron,
and, though he still loves Kathleen, he has
a strong sense of contempt for her seeming
Infidelity. The little (mythical) German
realm is almost shaken to Its foundations by
the King's meditated decision to marry an
untitled foreigner. But suddenly he dis
covers that the American girl has through
out remained falthrnl to her early love, and
the story ends with the dramat"o defeat of
Mrs. Kennard'schemes, -and the noble
sacrifice and self-repression of the King.
This great story has been secured by THE
DISPATCH and 1U publication will begin
Sunday, September 27. It will be one of the
literary treats of the year.
BEGINS NEXT SUNDAT.
A FLOBAL BAEOMETEB.
The Flowers Change Their Color "When
the ITeather Changes.
New Tork Recorder. J
A small boquet of artificial flowers Is
made of white tissue paper a bunch of
asters,.for instance. "When finished they
are dipped in a solution of the following
ingredients: One grain of chloride of co
balt, one-half grain of common, salt, one
quarter grain of gum arabic, one-eighth
gram of calcium chloride and three grains
of water. Proportions can be increased ac
cording to the quantity desired to bo used.
The flowers of this floral barometer be
come light red in color when the weather
is damp. In dry weather they assume a
violet .hue, and in protracted spells of
drouth they show a beautiful deep blue. ,In
locations where great dryness prevails the
solution mentioned above must be mixed
rwith a few drops of glycerine.
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LDfCOLN II PERIL.
How He Was Smuggled Into Wash
ington to Escape Assassins.
COL. SCOTT WAS THE SMUGGLER.
The President Kegnrded It All a a Terr
Grave Mistake.
ITCLTKE'S MEETING WITH LTNCOIX
rwnrmx fob the nisrATCK.1
NEVEB met Abra
ham Lincoln until
yearly in January,
1861, some two
months after Ms
election to the
Presidency. I was
brought into very
close and confiden
tial relations with
him by correspond
ence during the
Pennsylvania cam
paign of 1860, hut never saw him. I was
summoned to him at Springfield by tele
gram, and it is proper to say that this invi
tation was in answer to a telegram from me
advising him against the appointment of
General Cameron as Secretary of "War.
The factional feuds and bitter antag
onisms of that day have long since per
ished, and I do not propose in any way to
riyive them. On the 31st of December
Lincoln had delivered to Cameron at
Springfield a letter notifying him that he
would be nominated for a Cabinet position.
The fact became known immediately upon
Cameron's return, and inspired very vigor
ous opposition to his appointment, in which
Governor Curtin, Thaddeus Stevens, David
Wilmot and many others participated. Al
though the Senate, of which I was a mem
ber, was just about to organize. I hastened
to Springfield and reached there about 7
o'clock in the evening. I had telegraphed
Lincoln of the hour that 1 would arrive and
that I must return at 11 the same night. I
went directly from the depot to Lincoln's
house and rang the bell, which was answered
by Lincoln himself opening the door.
DISAPPOINTED AT HIS APPEARANCE.
I doubt whether I wholly concealed lny
disappointment at meeting him. Tall,
gaunt, ungainly, ill clad, with a homeliness
of manner that was unique in itself, I con
fess that my heart snnk within me as I re
membered that this was the man chosen by
a great nation to become its ruler in the
gravest period of its history. I remember
his dress as if it were but yesterday snuff
colored and slouchy pantaloons; open black
vest,held by a fewDrass buttons; straight or
evening dress coat, with tightly-fitting
sleeves to exaeeerate his lone, bony arms.
and all supplemented by an awkwardness
that was uncommon among men of intelli
gence such was the picture I met in the
person of Abraham Lincoln. We sat down
in his plainly furnished parlor and were un
interrupted during the nearly four hours
that I remained with him. and little by lit
tle as his earnestness, sincerity and candor
were developed in conversation, I forgot all
the grotesque qualities which so confounded
me when I first greeted him. Before half
an hour had passed I learned not only to re
spect but, indeed, to reverence the man.
It is needless to give any account of
the special mission on which I was called to
Springfield, beyond the fact that the tender
or a Cabinet position to Pennsylvania was
recalled by him on the following day, al
though renewed and accepted two months
later, when the Cabinet was finally formed
in Washington It was after the Pennsyl
vania Cabinet imbroglio was disposed of
that Lincoln exhibited his true self without
reserva.
CONFIDENCE ROSE WITH THE TALK.
For more than two hours he discussed the
gravity of the situation and the appalling
danger of civil war. Although he had never
been in public office outside of the Illinois
Legislature, beyond a single session of Con
gress, and had little intercourse with the
public men of the nation during the 12 years
after his return from Washington, he ex
hibited remarkable knowledge of all the
leading public men of the country, and none
could mistake the natriotio rmrnoses that
Inspired him in approaching the mighty re
sponsibility mat naa Deen cast upon mm by
the people. He discussed the slavery ques
tion in all its aspects, and all the
various causes which were used as
pretexts for rebellion, and he was not
only master of the whole question, but he
thoroughly understood his duty and was
prepared to perform it. During this con
versation I had little to say beyond answer
ing an occasional question or suggestion
from him, and I finally left him fully satis
fied that he understood the political con
ditions in Pennsylvania nearly as well as I
did myself, and entirely assured that of all
the public men named for the Presidency at
Chicago, he was the most competent and the
safest to take the helm of the ship of State
and guide it through the impending storm.
I next met Abraham Lincoln at Harris
burg on th 22d of February, 1861, when he
passed through the most trying ordeal of
his life. He had been in Philadelphia the
night before, where he was advised by let
ters from General Winfidd Scott and his
E respective Premier, Senator Seward, that
e could not pass through Baltimore on the
23d without grave peril to his life. His
route as published to the world for some
days, was Irom Harrisburg to Philadelphia
on the morning of the 23d; to remain in
Harrisburg over" night as the guest of Gov
ernor Curtin, and to leave for Washington
the next morning by the Korthern Central
Railway that would take him through Balti
more about mid-day.
THEY FEARED ASSASSINATION.
A number of detectives under the direc
tion of President Felton, of the Philadel
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad,
and Allan Pinkerton, chief of the well-
known detective agency, were convinced
from the information they obtained that
Lincoln would be assassinated if he at
tempted to pass through Baltimore accord
ing to the published programme. A con
ference at the Continental Hotel in Phila
delphia on the night of the 21st, at which
Lincoln was advised of the admonitions of
Scott and Seward, had not resulted in any
final determination as to his route to Wash- 4
melon. He was from the first extremely
reluctant about any change, but it was
finally decided that he should proceed to
Harrisburg on the morning of the 22d and
be guided by events as they should transpire
there.
The two speeches made by Lincoln on the
22d of February -do not exhibit a single
trace of mental disturbance by the appall
ing news he had received. He hoisted the
stars and stripes to the pinnacle, of Inde
pendence Hall early in the morning and de
livered a brief address that was eminently
characteristic of the man. He arrived at
Harrisburg about noon, was received in the
House of Representatives by the Governor
and both branches of the Legislature, and
there spoke with the same calm delibera
tion and incisiveness which marked all his
speeches during the journey from Spring
field to Washington. After the reception
at the Honse another conference was had on
the subject of his route to Washington; and,
while every person present, with the excep
tion of Lincoln, was positive in the demand
that the programme should be changed, he
obstinately hesitated. Ho did nofbeheve
that the danger of assassination was serious.
IT -WAS DECIDED AT DINNER.
The afternoon conference practically de
cided nothing, but at dinner it was finally
determined that Lincoln should return to
Philadelphia and go thence to Washington
that night. No one who heard the discus
sion of the question could efface it from his
memory. The admonitions received' from
General Scott and Senator Seward were
made known to Governor Curtin at the
was discussed for some time by everyone
with the singloexceptlon;of-LlncohvHe
fl3?l& SvY. I
was the one silent man of the party, and
'when he was Anally compelled to speak, he
unhesitatingly expressed his disapproval of
the movement. With impressive earnest
ness, he thus answered the appeal or his
friends: "What would the nation think of
Its President stealing into the capital like a
thief in the night?"
it was only when the other guests were
nnanlmous in the expression that it was not
a question for Lincoln to decide, hut one for
his friends to determine for him, that he
finally agreed to submit to whatever was
decided by those around him. It was most
fortunate that Colonel Thomas A Scott was
one of the guests at that dinner. Ho was
wise and keen in perception and bold and
swift in execution. The time was short,
and If a change was to be made In Lincoln's
route it was necessary for him to readh Phil
adelphia by 11 o'elock that nifrht or very
soon thereafter. Scott at once became mas
tor of ceremonies, and everything that was
done was in obedience to his directions.
HOW THE CROWD WAS FOOLED.
There was a crowd of thousands around
the hotel, anxious to see-the new President
and ready to cheer him to the uttermost. It
was believed to be best that only one man
should accompany Lincoln In his Journey to
Philadelphia and Washington, and Lincoln
decided that Colonel Lara on should he his
companion. Colonel Sumncr.who felttnat ho
had been charged with the safety of the
President-elect, and whose silvered crown
seemed to entitle him to precedence, earn
estly protested against Lincoln leaving
his immediate care, but it was
deemed unsare to have more than
one accompany Lincoln, and the vet
eran soldier was compelled to surrender his
charge. That preliminary question settled,
Scott directed that Curtin, Lincoln and La
roon should at once proceed down to the
front steps of the hotel, where theTe Tas a
vast throng waiting to receive them, and
that Curtin should call distinctly, so that
the crowd could hear, for a carriajo and di
lect the coachman to drive the party to the
executive .Mansion 'mat was tne natural
thins for Curtin to do; that is to take the
President to the Governor's Mansion as
his guest, and it excited no suspicion what
ever. Before leaving the dining room Governor
Curtin halted Lincoln and Lamon at the
door and inquired of Lam on whether he
was well armed. Lamon had been chosen
by Lincoln as his companion because of his
exceptional physical powor and prowess,
but Curtin wanted assurance that he was
properly equipped for defense. Lamon at
once uncovered a small. arsenal of deadly
weapons, showing that he was literally
armed to the teeth. In addition to a pair of
heavy revolvers, he had a slnng-shot and
brass knuckles and a Huge knife nestled
under his vest. The three entered the car
riage, and, as Instructed by Scott, drove
toward the Executive Mansion, but when
near there the driver was ordered to take a
circuitous route and to reach the railroad
depot within half an hour.
SCOTT CUT EVERY WTRB.
When Curtin and his party had gotten
fairly away from the hotel I accompanied
Scott to the railway depot, where he at once
cleared one of his lines from Harrisburg to
Philadelphia, so that there could be no ob
struction upon it, as had been agreed upon
at Philadelphia the evening before in case
the change should be made. In the mean
time he had ordered a locomotive and a
single car to be brought to the Eastern
entrance of the depot, and at the appointed
time the carriage- arrived. Lincoln and La
mon emerged from the carriage and entered
the car unnoticed by any excepting those
interested in the matter, and aftern quiet
hut fervent "good-bye and God protect you,"
the engineer quietly moved his trata away
on its momentous mission. N
As soon as the train left I accompanied
Scott in the work of severing all the tele
graph lines which entered Harrisburg. He
was not content with directing that It
should be done, but be personally saw that
every wire entering the city was cut. This
was about 7 o'clock In the evening. It had
been arranged that the 11 o'clock train from
Philadelphia to Washington should be held
until Lincoln arrived, on the pretext of de
livering an important package to the con
ductor. The train on which he was to leave
Philadelphia was due in Washing in at 6 in
the morning, and Scott kept faithful vigil
during the j ntire night, not only to see that
there shourd be no lestoration of the '.wires,
but waiting with anxious solitude for the
time when he might hope to hear the good
news that Lincoln had arrived In safety.
To guard against every possible ohance of
of imposition a special cipher was agreed
upon that could not possibl be understood
by any but the parties to it.
PLUMS DELIVERED NUTS SAFELT.
It was a long, weary night of fretful anx
iety to the dozea or more in Harrisburg who
had knowledge of the sudden departure of
Lincoln. No one attempted to sleep. All
felt that the fate of the nation hunz on the
safe progress of Lincoln to Washington
without detection on his Journey. Scott,
who was of horoio mould, several times tried
to temper the severe strain of his anxiety
by looking up railroad matters, but he
would soon abandon the listless effort,
and thrice we strolled from the depot
to the Jones House and back again,
in aimless struggle to hasten the slowly
passing hours, only to find equally
anxious watchers there and a wife whose
sobbing heart could not be consoled. At
last the Eastern horizon has purpled with
the promise of day. 8cott reunited the
broken lines for the lightning messenger,
and he was soon gladdened by an unsigned
dispatch from Washington, saying; "Plums
delivered nuts safely." He whirled his hat
high in the little telegraph office as he
shouted: "Lincoln's in Washington," and
we ruhed to thcJones House and hurried a
messenger to the Executive Mansion to
spread the glad tidings that Lincoln had
safely made his midnight Journey to the Cap
ital. I have several times heard Lincoln refer
to this Journey, and always with regret. In
deed, he seemed to regard It as ono of the
frave mistakes in his public career. He was
ully convinced, as Colonel Lamon has
stated It. that "he had fled from a danger
purely Imaginary, and he felt the shame and
mortification natural to a brave man under
such circumstances." Mrs. Lincoln and her
suite passed through Baltimore on the 23d
without any sign of turbulence. The fact that
there- was not even a curious crowd brought
together when she passed Uirough the city
which then required considerable time, as
the cars were taken clear across Baltimore
by horses confirmed Lincoln in his belief
LINCOLN- WAS DISGUISED.
The sensational stories published at the
time of his disguise for the Journey were
wholly untrue. He was reported as having
been dressed In a Scotch cap and cloak and
as entering the car at tne Broad and Prime
station by some private alley-way, but there
was no truth watever in any of these state
ments. I saw him leave the dining room at
the Harrisburg depot and the only change
in his dress was 'the substitution of a soft
slouch hat for the high one he had worn
during the day. He wore the same overcoat
that he had worn when he arrived at Harris
burg, and the only extra apparel he had
about him was the shawl that hung over his
arm.
When he reached West Philadelphia hn
was met by Superintendent Kenney.whohad
a carriage in watting with a single detective
in it. Lincoln and Lamon entered the car
riage and Kenney mounted the box with the
driver. They were in advance of the timo
for the starting of the Baltimore train and
they were driven around on Broad street, as
the diiver was informed, in search of some
one wanted by Eenney and the detective,
until it was time -to reach tho station. When
there, they entered by tho public doorway
on Broad street and passed directly along
with otherpassengerstothe car, where their
berths had been engaged.
The Journey to Washington was entirely
uneventful and at 6 o'clock in the morning
the train entered the Washington station on
schedule time. Saward had been advised,
by the return of his son from Philadelphia,
of the probable execution of this pro
gramme and he and Washburne were in the
station and met the President and hs party,
and all drove together tp Wlllard's Hotel.
Thus ends the story of Lincoln's midnight
Journey from Harrisburg to the National
Capital. A. E. MoClubx.
BT8SELL 6AGFS LUCK COIHB.
He Seeps Them in a Little Bag and Always
Carries Them.
St. Lonls Globe-Democrat.C
Russell Sage, the millionaire railway
magnate, has 64 coins, ranging from pen
nies, which form the majority of the collec
tion, to silver dollars, of which there are
four, I have heard, that could not be bought
for a thousand times their face value, much
as the good man likes money. The collec
tion represents Mr. Sage's finds on the
the streets outside of the Wall street dis
trict. He picked the 64 coins up at differ
ent periods extending over SO years and
holds on to them like grim death to a negro.
As he found them he placed a mark on
them and put them into a little buckskin
bag which he always carries with him.
He regards them as luck coins, although
if taxed with being superstitious would
probably deny the charge. That bag con
taining the coins is never away from him,
sleeping or waking, and if some enterpris
ing highwayman wants to make a haul he
can do so by holding up the thrifty Mr.
Sage, and, securing the 64 coins, hold them
for a princely ransom. The first coin Mr.
Sage found was a penny one of the old
sort and he, of course, values that more
than anv of tho others. Next to the Iowa
J.-OentraLhe values thou coins.
EIYER BAMS CREEP.
For Tears They Have Been Gradually
Approaching Each Other.
THE DANGER LINE BEACHED.
How the City's Big Furnaces Dnmp Their
Eefuse Into the Water.
EECE5T ENACTMENTS OP OONGEESS
tWmU'llUI TOB TUB DISFATCH.1
STRAlTGEBwho
followed the course
of the Allegheny
river from its head
waters down to its
mouth in Pittsburg
not long since, shook
his head and ex
claimed: "Too bad;
too bad!"
"I mean the reck
less way yon are filling np your useful river
here, "he continued. "Above Pittsburg it
is a beautiful stream, and capable of great
utility. As I came down along its shores I
saw many rafts of timber, and looking out
upon its many majestio eddies and its 'safe,
gently-sloped banks, I said to myself: This
is surely a good river for these raftsmen no
rapids to shoot, no dangerous currents
to stemP But when I reached your
city, and saw plainly how the width of the
river contracted because of those solid banks
of slag and cinders from your great iron
mills and furnaces, and when I saw the utter
lack of thoughtfulness in your authorities
permitting the dumping of ashes and refuse
from tens of thousands of kitchens farther
and farther out into the river when I
beheld the result of this policy, why I re
marked to my companion that if I were a
raftsman I would keep my timber moored
up above Sharpsburg somewhere rather
than risk it down by Herr's Island in the
city. '
MAKXtTO IT A CHUm
"Why? Just because the river from the
Sharpsburg bridge down to the Point may
be designated a long, narrow chute, which
in flood time becomes a swirling, seething
mass of currents, too swift to be safe for any
craft. To a stranger as I am, following day
by day this river from its forest-clad shores
up around Warren down to Sharpsburg, the
stream suddenly assumes the appearance
that I describe by the word chute. You
have reduced its width until you confine its
waters too much, and it roars along in flood
time with a violence unknown above at
points where its spread right and left is un
restricted. Therefore I will venture the
assertion that raftsmen experience greater
difficulty in holding their lumber at Herr's
Island than they do above Sharpsburg.
They are in the very midst of this narrowed
channel, and consequently get more of its
force.
"Just in proportion as these cinders and
dirt encroachments Into your river increase,
the extent of damage done in your city by
floods is greater. The lower parts of your
two cities down around the junction of the
two rivers is inundated oftener than they
used to be, and each time the water is more
violent and deeper on your streets. Why,
MlegTtenff Htver, fbot ef Tenth Street.
in the name of common sense, if yonr au
thorities permit the iron manufacturers to
throw up these slag and cinder embankments
above the business part of the city, do they
not compel them to build embankments of
the same character and height along the
river clear down to the Point? That would
result in a system of levees or dykes to pro
tect your business front on the rivers."
ONLY BIGHT FEET OP "WATEB.
This filling-in of the rivers has a sort of
"double back action" result which the
stranger above quoted failed to note.
Colonel T. P. Roberts, the well-known local
engineer, puts it into words as follows:
"A shoal exists in the Monongahela river
above the Tenth street bridge, where for a
distance of about 400 feet the channel depth
is only eight feet when the Davis Island
dam is full. This particular shoal has be
come worsein recent years, the result of the
imprudent encroachments made by filling
out the river banks and making its waters
the receptacle for the ashes and cinders of
numerous large manufacturing establish
ments, and of the refuse coal from mines
along the river. Recent legislation has
been had from Congress looking to the cor
rection of the evils here complained of, and
which have been for years a source of an
noyance to the interests concerned in the
navigation of the rivers above Pitts
burg, and efforts are now being
made to have the law put in
1 Allegheny JMver, fbotcf GarrUon Attey.
force. If this were done, and particularly
if the banks ofkthe Monongahela were ex
tended out to properly prescribed lines, this
particular shoal would disappear of itself,
and in any event its removal by dredging to
permit of its passage by vessels drawing ten
feet of water, is a matter which would in
volve only a trifling cost."
SOME OIT THE ENCEOACHMEKT3.
One of the photographs accompanying
this article is of the south bank of the
Monongahela river, just below, the Tenth
street bridge. The fill-in of rolling-mill
cinders has been going on for so many years
that it not only extends out into the
water a considerable distance, but is filled1
up even with the mainland. The edge of
the embankment therefore presents a sheer
fall into the river of at least 20 feet, A
shantyboat, shown in the picture, has been
built on huge timbers and props to maintain
it on the surface of the "fill." Standing
just below this shanty-boat and looking up
river, I saw an embankment of cinders
had been built up pretty well under the
bridge, extending from the first pier td
shore. That represented a visible filling-in
of tho river of some 20 or 30 feet additional
to the encroachments already attained by
the cinder bank to the side of which the
shanty-boat clung.
.. Another of tho accompanying hfe-
Jill I J- . - - - i j
V
' . - ' ' 1
graphs shows the dirt and ash "dumps" ih
the Allegheny river at the foot of Tenth
street. If the reader will suppose himself
standing in the extreme lower left corner of
the picture, looking straight up along the
shore toward the P., Pt W. & 0. B. E.
bridge in the distance, be will at a. glance
see the way the upper piles of ashes and
refuse are insidiously creeping out into the
steam, each one a little farther than the
other. The lowerteft corner ofihe picture
shows the river clear to edge of the photo
graph. The dirt piles fill in the middle
field of the photograph on the left side.
TWENTY TEAE3 OB" rXLLUIO.
The third photograph illustrates the
heighth of the "made ground" on the banks
of the Allegheny river at the foot of Gar
rison alley. The shore was first filled in
and wooden piles driven on which to build
the freight branch of the Junction Rail
road. Below this again dirt and ashes have
been dnmned iraar oftai. -.AA n U iVia
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railroad seems quite a distance back from
tne river, x et Irom the ground beyond the
top of the flat cars standing on the tracks,
down to the edge of the water was once
free and sloping. The white-whiskered toll
collector at the Hand street bridgefjust
below here, says he has seen the river driven
back, yard after yard, in the 20 years that
he has been on duty at this point
On the north bank of the Allegheny river,
about a mile above the Forty-third street
bridge, a blast furnace company, finding
it had not room enough for some new build
ings and yards it was about to erect, com
menced filling up the river bank with slag.
As this bank extends farther and farther
out into the river, it adds to the railroad
track, which carries the dinky locomotive
and slag cars to the water's edge.
There the slag, still a red-hot
mass of molten stuff, is dumped oft. It rolls
down the embankment actually blazing, and
finally hissing In clouds of steam as it
touches the water. This is the same at
every other furnace along the Allegheny,
Monongahela and Ohio rivers. The sla" is
dumped while It is still red hot, and makes
the great artificial banks all the more solid,
the slag fusing together in an impenetrable
mass. '
THET HAYE2TT ENOUGH EOOai.
But, serious as this question of river en
croachments is, there is equal gravity in the
question, "What are you going to do about
ft?" Every large manufacturing establish
ment in Pittsburg and Allegheny Alle
gheny county you may almost say is
located upon the river banks, or in prox
imity to them. There are 15 miles of river
front on the Monongahela river in the city,
counting both shores. On the Allegheny
river in the city limits there are 13 miles
more, and on the Ohio from the Point to
Davis Island dam eight miles. That makes
86 miles of a river frontage for the two
cities, more than one-half of which is closely
occupied by furnaces, steel and iron mills,
foundries, brass and copper works, and
glass factories. What shall they do with
their refuse? With the exception of the
Edgar Thomson and Carrie Furnaces, these
corporations have room enough only to
store a month's supply of ore for their actual
necessities. Colonel Roberts says that so
mnch heavy tonnage business is nowhere,
perhaps, in the world transacted upon such
confined areas as about the furnaces and the
steel and iron mills of Pittsburg.
So greatly cramped for room for his actual
needs, what, therefore, is the iron carpen
ter Jto do with his chips and shavings it the
United States engineers, now at work on
the problem, build an imaginary fence
along the rivers? ' L. E. Stobtelj
1
THEY KEEP THE PIEES BUEHTHO,
And the Women of New Guinea Toil 3Tor
Their Absent Husbands' Safety.
Hew York Herald.
There is a beautiful custom among the na
tives of New Guinea which carries a valua
ble lesson in it. Once a year the men of
New Guinea set out on a trading expedi
tion. It is an enterprise of great peril, for
they are liable to shipwreck on the coast,
and to the attack of hostile tribes who
would capture their boats and property.
There is a prevalent belief that those who
stay at home their mothers, wives and
daughters have much to do with their re
turn. If, during the absence of their loved
ones, they keep the firo constantly burning
on the hearth the men will return in safety;
but, if, through neglect, the fire burns out
some evil will occur.
All the time that the expedition Is away
the women guard most jealously and in
person the burning fire, fearing to commit
the duty to others lest they, not having the
same affection for the loved one absent,
should allow it to go out. Thus they watch
and wait until the shouts of the villagers
give the glad news that the expedition is
returning, when they put on their best
attire and gladly go forth to meet the re
turning. Any woman who, during his
absence, has allowed her firo to go out is
held by her neighbors to have lost the love
of her husband.
There is a lesson here for both domestio
and religious life.
Fort "Worth's Flowing TTell.
Fort Worth can now boast of the largest
flowing well in existence, the largest hither
to known being at Bourni, Lincolnshire,
England, which discharges a half-million
gallons daily. At Aire, in the province of
Artois, France, from which province is de
rived the name of artesian wells," there is a
well from which the water has continued to
flow for more than a century, and at the old
Carthusian Convent at Lillers there is an
other whioh dates from the twelfth century.
But Fort Worth's well breaks the record.
It gives 600 gallons per minute, which
makes 864,000 gallons daily.
A Literary Light Extinguished.
Humboldt, just returned from his travels
Mr. EditW, I have a Journal of
Mr. Editor Thank heavent Jamest Show
this machinist where that new journal is
wanted on the broken shaft, and be mighty
lively about itl
A Wise Man's Discoveries.
WEITTXN FOB TIH DISrAT0n.1
What Massachusetts must have Haver
hill. A foolish group The Sciily Isles.
Always shows its teeth Tho rake.
A ship that doesn't sail The township,
A troublesome trio L O. U.
Bequires a tip The billiard cue.
A great French go Hugo.
Up in arms Babies.
Plenty of rocks In mid-ocean.
Abundant crops At the hnir cutter,
The pugilist's shell flsh The muscle.
Tho Bieat American if Taring
Frequently mixed Paints.
Not uecessarily a Chinaman Tan-koe,
Kivets his attention The bollermaker.
The public speaker's l umEostrnm.
Up for life The gallows.
A i;ood place for those desirlng-to marry
TJhiontown.
Another place Alliance.
Never blowsitsown horn The oow.
Up for assault Lot's wife.
Street of Wines on Pepsin.
Dr. Hugouneng. after experimenting with
artificial digestive fluids, concludes that all
old wines, without exception, interfere with
the action of pepsin, but it is found that the
acidity oi new wines u calculated to aid tne
Actios.
MmvmgcMa J&cor, Bouffisid.
FOE PKfflTERo M
Business Men of the TJnited States
Spend $114,000,000 a Year.
ADVEETISDJG IS HOW A SCIETCE.
The Middlemen or igents ire Kalcing iny
Amount of Money.
ODD PACTS ABOUT THEIE BUSINES3
rcORBisrouDfcscn or thi dispatcii.1
New Yoke, Sept. 19. The publisher of
the country newspaper who gets a New
York advertisement set in pearl or agate
type and an offer of so much job type at com
mercial rates, or a gross of patent medicine
in payment for a certain number of inser
tions at the top of column next to reading
matter; and who must set the same .matter
in nonpareil taking twice the space and
finds at settlement day that more than half
the time checked off against him by reason
of the "ad" not being set or inserted ac
cording to contract, knows what a New
York advertising agency is. A good many
other people do not. Yet the advertising
agent is now one of the most important fac
tors of all speculators in printer's ink.
Upwards of ?U4,000,000 are now ex
pended in the TJnited States every year for
advertising in periodicals and newspapers.
That is a very large sum, and if the cash
laid out in hand-bill poster, bill-board ink
and rock and fence paint were added the ag
gregate would be much larger. Advertising
expenses are now estimated by every busi
ness man as one of the primary and neces
sary items in conducting a successful busi
ness, the same as rent, clerk hire, etc
OEIGIK Off COLOSSAL FOBTUITES.
Yet modem advertising is quite as far in
advance of what it was a quarter of a cen
tury ago, as is the general character of com
mercial life itself. The shrewd business
men who have been quickest to recognize
this have made colossal fortunes; those who
have not caught the spirit of the times have
bepnleft stranded and broken upon the
shifting sands of competition.
The extraordinary growth of advertising
systems in this country is an index of the
modern commercial spirit and prosperity.
The fundamental principle was never better
expressed than to me a day or two ago by
one of the greatest and most successful ad
vertisers in the United States: "There is
more money in an indifferently good article
well advertised than in the best thing kept
in a corner."
There are now a dozen large advertising
agencies in New York besides numerous
lower grades, with an aggregate invested
capital of about 81,000,000. Thirty years
ago the advertising agent as such was un
known. Prom spasmodic and uncertain
ventures advertising has
' BECOME AST EXJLCT SCTEirCn
in the sense employed in commercial trans
actions. There are quite a number of New
York merchants who set aside from 520,000
to $50,000 a year for advertising expenses.
A. T. Stewart, in his day the most success
ful dry goods merchant in New York, used
to spend $100,000 a year in letting people
know what he had to sell. A score of the
best New York houses lay out about $25,000
each year in the newspapers alone and
rightly consider the amount well invested.
A new store of prominence goes consider
ably over that amount and from $40,000 to
$50,000 in advertising the first year is not
considered extravagant.
Among the many liberal advertisers In
the metropolitan press their efforts at $4,000
or $5,000 a month would probably not ex
cite remark. The competition of merchants
for space is what makes the immense
metropolitan Sunday issues possible and
profitable the subscription price scarcely
covering more than the cost of the white
paper. Two hundred dollars per column in
these issues is not thought too much lor the
returns on the expenditure. On evening
papers the prices run from $50 to $100 per
column.
ADVERTISING CONTDTUOUSLT.
This newspaper space is mostly taken by
local merchants and business men of all kinds.
But there are certain men and business
firms and articles advertised that are familiar
to every householder in the civilized world,
and these can be found in almost every
newspaper in the world, every periodical,
and on the rocks and fences wherever civil
ized people can be found. They are so com
mon that they even disarm the hostility of
the blue pencil of the editor, great and
small, who nas constitutional objections to
advertising anybody or anything except
through the commercial channels of tne
business office.
Mark the moral! Do these great adver
tisers act on the narrow principle of many
country merchants and cease or curtail these
vast expenditures on the ground that every
body knows them and what they sell, and
that therefore continued efforts in this line
is a wast? of money? Not a bit of it. They
know better. They not only keep at it, but
increase their advertising bills. They re
double their efforts and invent new schemes
with the dull season and thus stimulate
slackened trade. By doing so they add to
their fortunes.
ARTICLES THAT JTEVEE DEOP OUT.
What man, woman or child .of Intelli
gence but knows of Pear's Soap, Hood's
Sarsaparilla, Hop Bitters, Carter's Little
Liver Pills, Pyle's Pearline, Sapolio,
Beecham's Pills," Douglas' $3 shoe, Mrs.
Winslow, Mrs. Harriet Hubbard Ayer,
Lydia Pinkham, and scores of other similar
people and things that are flaunted in the
face at every turn? Do they drop out of
the list? Not at all. xetwuu.uuu a year
seems a very tidy sum. A man can get lots
of fun out of $100,000, and why put it in
printers' ink every year? Because experi
ence shows the money thus paid out yields
a rich harvest and that to withdraw the ex
penditure is to withdraw from the commer
cial race.
The newspapers who preach advertising
haw made money by practicing
what thev preach. From the first
grand efforts of Robert Bonner,
who advertised the New York Ledger
by columns and pages in his contemporaries,
to the rival daily newspapers of this city
who use each other s pages lor tne same
purpose every week, there have been con
spicuous examples of the newspaper faith
in newspaper advertising. When a metro
politan newspaper pays $1,000 over
THE COUNTER OP A EIVAL
for a single insertion of a display advertise
ment it is about the highest testimonial of
belief in the efficacy of ink. Bonner used
to place the opening chapters of his Ledger
stories in the most widely circulated pa
pers and pay reading-matter prices. He
paid out thus systematically all the money
received over expenses, and the result was
the founding ol a great story paper, and
finally a fortune that enabled him to pay
$50,000 for one of his pleasure horses.
Other story paper publishers subsequent
ly outdid Bonner, and one spent $75,000 on
a single issue of his paper to be given away
on the street corners in every city of the
Union simultaneously. The result was im
mediate, and the new paper became at
once one of the most widely read in the
United States. This is bnt an example
illustrative of newspaper faith in the adver
tising doctrine. Every -successful newspa
per in New York to-day owes that success
as much to its enterprise in letting the pub
lic know it existedand exists as in its en
terprise in printing a good newspaper.
And these great journals, homed in palaces
of stone and iron, never abating one jot of
advertising effort, are splendid monuments
of advertising shrewdness.
ABOUT THE MTDDLEJUEX
As before remarked there are now great
agencies, middlemen, who have come to
occupy a position between the advertiser
and the press that is very important. All
great advertisers, especially those desirous
of reaching the general public, operate
through the advertising asent. In New
LSoric cm-600 men- are engaged in the ad-
vertising agencies, while a good many news
papers throughout the country have their
own special men here.
Perhaps the aggregate salaries and com
missions of these men would not be over
stated at half a million per annnm. Some
of these agents make as high as $15,000 per
year in commissions a great number from
$2,000 to $5,000 which is more than most
first-class editors and general all-round
newspaper men get. This applies only to
the "hustlers" men who actually solicit.
The managers and firms realize considerably
more. They are generally wealthy. Their
fortunes are built upon from 10 to 15 per
cent of the advertising business they handle.
TUB WORK OP THE AGENT.
The advantage of the agent to the general
advertiser can be seen at a glance. If you
had a certain advertisement which yon
wished to place in a certain class of publi
cations it would be a long and difficult iob
Lto arrange with each of such publications
separately, and the aggregate cost would be
more thus taken, to say nothing of the dif
ficulty of watching your advertistment to
see that it appeared according to contract
in every issue. If you were using 100 daily
papers or more, it would be an impossibil
ity. So you hire a man to do it. That is,
you go to the advertising agent, who has a
long list of newspapers, magazines, eta
He can give you the relative value of each
as to circulation and importance for your
purpose, the rates in each and everything.
He will have an experienced writer of
advertisements get up your advertisement
and aclever artist draw the designs of your
cuts, if any are to be used, and he will have
these cuts made and a proof of the whole as
It is to appear in print, submitted to you
for your approval If the "ad" is for a
magazine, a cut of the page and a proof
thereof will be furnished showinor iust how
L it will look relatively with other adver
tisements.
WATCHING THE PAPERS.
Once approved the 'lad" will be sent out
to the papers and periodicals agreed upon.
When it has begun to run the agent will
inspect every issue in whieh it is to appear
under contract and the appearances will be
checked up in the books, deductions will bo
made where it has been left out or appears
in the wrong place, and the publisher must
make the error good. You have nothing to
do with it and don't have to bother with it
except in the trifling exception of settling
the bill on accSunt rendered. As in the
meantime you have became pretty busy
answering correspondence connected with
the "ad" you donH mind that
The benefits derived from this system are
not for the advertiser alone, but equally
accrue to the publishers, whose business
complications are greatly simplified. The
great advertising agents are to the business
office of a newspaper or periodical what tho
Associated Press is to the news depart
ment. The discounts are not larger than
the cost of special service. Some very re
spectable journals cling to their old tra
ditions, but the magazines have wholly sur
rendered to the advertising agents. Such
men as George P. Bowell & Co., J. Walter
Thompson & Co., W. "W. Sharpe & Co.,
Daucby & Co., the National Advertising
Agency, Prank Kiernan & Co. and others
of like respectability
LARGELY CONTROL 2TEW- YOZX
general advertising and cut a pretty wide
swath in local advertising outside of
"Wants" and "For Sales" end similar
items. It keeps the big papers busy, root
and branches, looking after these.
It is said by Mr. Hill, who has been with
the firm of J. Walter Thompson & Co. since
that establishment started seven years ago,
with two clerks and has grown to S3, and
therefore knows the business thoroughly,
that upwards of $000,000 a year in advertis
ing comes here from abroad. The English
advertisers, especially, are indefatigable in
reaching for our market. This is more no
ticeable every year. Several enterprising
Americans hae established agencies in
London with American branches, and sev
eral American houses have organized Lon
don and Paris branches. These make a
specialty of international advertising and
take in some $300,000 of our money every
year.
English advertising differs in sme re
spects from ours. The English postal laws
are not so stringent as ours in respect to ad
vertisements and you can stick an "ad" in
an English magazine anywhere. Philadel
phia and Boston divide tne greater part of
the advertising business of the country with
New York.
Charles Theodore Muerat.
Sirs, nenry "Ward Tleecber.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher"s 7Sth birth
day was pleasantly celebrated by that
charmlne old lady Wednesday, August 26.
Mrs. Beecher was her husband's senior by
ten month, but she never appeared young
er during the last ten years than she does
to-day. Mrs. Beecher's activity in literary
and social pursuits is as great as at any tinw
during her life.
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