THE PITTSBTJHG- DISPATCH, 'SUNDAY OCTOBER 11: 1801:
1 KING HARD TO GET,
onmania's Crown Has Gone a Beg
ging Heretofore and Is Yery
Likely to Do So Again.
lATUEAUZATIOI OF CHUTAHEIf.
Glimpse of the Wonderland Which liea
Xortb. of India and 'Which Is
Snoirnas Pamir.
ATITES OF LAXE TCHAD EJ AFRICA
M&srUie Kin? cf Wnrtralrarjr and the Accident
Which Ended a J. Dixon's Iifs.
tWEU'IU rOB THB MSrATCH.l
On the great plain to the south of Russia
a fiae country, watered by Fplendid rivers
and affording excel
lent opportunity
through its soil for
the production of
grains and fruits. It
is also an almost un-
sunassed region for
the rsisinrr of fine
r32a& 1 .i. (.
-W f,f Th country is fa-
1 miliarly known as
Prince yerdinaitd. ltouniania. It has
ting Charles L a scion of the house of
oheuzollcrn, who was elected to the posi
iOn 23 years ago. The powers had gome
ifScolty in getting him to serve after sev
ral other princes had the refusal of the
onor. Now the trouble begins
again.
'or some reason or another no one
nct the crown of Roumania.
ell known, King Charles and his
seems
As is
queen
re childless. Thev had one child, born in
C0 a little girl but she died four years
iter. It was then settled by the Govem
lent that in the event of the King remain
ig childless, the crown should at his death
j to his eldest brother, Prim Leopold.
The latter seemed satisfied with the
nor conferred upon him for a short time,
ut suddenly renounced it in favor of his
in, Trince Wilhelrn, the powers that be
ltifying the arrangement in October, 1880.
("ilhelm amused himself with his toy until
iree years ago, and then tiring handed it
rer to his brother, Prince Ferdinand, a
oung man of 26 years, who does not now
xhibit the same signs of ennui displayed
y his brother or father, but prefers to
larry the woman of his choice to having
crown, and therefore notifies the Rou
aiiiaas of his determination to relinquish
s claims if the sacrifice of his sweetheart,
He. Vr.careco, is the price of his retain
e them. There is still another brother
ft who will be given "a whirl" at the
onor, after whom the Roumanians will
av to begin somewhere else. However,
' they run short of material over there we
ave still a few nood ones left on this side
ho would be willing, I think, to accept
ne title, to say nothing of the modest
ages connected therewith, which amount
i nearly five time: that received by our
'resident in a year.
The Ittgbta of the Chinese.
Once before I have had occasion to refer
3 this column to Wong Chin Foo, the re
aed and highly educated Chinamaa who
dopted this country years ago and now re.,
ides in New York. "Well, "Wong Chia Poo
a a grievance. It relates to th-i new
nti-Chine.se bill, and its effect upon him
nd his countrymen now in the United
lates. In correspondence with an Eastern
ewspaper he tells his story and tells it
elL It remaias for intellfgent American
i izeno to determine if under a literal ren
ting of the Constitution of the United
Ststes he is not right. He says:
I have 3 nt Hcoveied that I am the only
ndlvtdual In New Yort that hasno country.
The verv thought of it knocks all the light
nd hope out of a fellow. A man without a
ocntrv, kicked out of China, disowned by
h" United States, and all for what? What
ind of a Ooverament is this, anyway, that
as its allatra so mixed that even Its serv
ntp rto not know how to net They would
t.lUnclv and unhesitatingly take a
"n 'Daman's cash when presented,
m 1 irive him a guarantee pa
w for his rirht-", and then their
'upertor officers proceed to confiscate those
wpers and rtpprjve tho holders of the rights
l.at h lenlly paid for. Tno authorities in
i public crrt m the Statu of Michigan in
lierar 174. jrranted me my naturalization
ape' anil DUblie'y and solemnly declared
jj tibea citizen of tho United States and
o have the san-e ri-rhta as any other man
ie-v. which conditions I havo been per
Tittff" toCDjoy fo- IS years until yesterday,
w r.rn I we suddenly deprived of tho privil-L-e
above ro'-.-vifd to by the Federal au
L' rius, said to come from Washington.
f to the legalltv of mv naturalization 1
would ask this question: Has the Federal
"iirt of the United fctates the right to make
& law which would bo retroactive as in this
-c, to strip me of my citizenship and fran--biT
I wa-" naturalized in a court of com
petent Jurisdiction. If I h-id no right to be
opie ft citizen of the United States, then
that court has enmm'ttted a misdemeanor or
i felony in takmc my money or fee for such
U1tral naturalization
There is food for profound meditation in
'Ms. It is time that intelligent Americans
'hoild have a voice mthe definition of their
National Constitution. Politicians have
molded it to suit their own ends for years,
n lone, 2nd so often, in fact, that more than
the Chinese are asking n common sense
translation of the article upon which this
(joverament is founded.
Tho Mysterious X-and of Pamir.
There is probably no sum: before the
public at present that is heard as often as.
trat of Captain F. E. Tounghusband, the
anng i.nglish trav
eler, whose czperi
:ace on the frontiers
X Pamir, at the
'.ands of the Russian
Government, has set
ruite a large part oi
the world's popula-.
uon to talking. Few
men attain such fame
at 24 years of age as
that now enjoyed by
this voung soldier.
w
Captain Younghnsbcmd.
Three years ago he made a daring journey
from Pekin to the Northern bordera of India
tc-jomnanied bv no one but a servant. For
t'ns feat he received a short time ago one of
the two goid meda s awarded yearly by the
Royal Geogranhical Society to the most dis
tinguished of recent explorers. On this ci
jKfl'tion the traveler passed over 7,000
m'les of territory iulcstedby wild and eemi
fc"ile tribM of Mongols; through the
Ii.'ert of Gobi and over the summit of the
M.'nagh Pass, which had never before been
t-o'iuen by man.
From thc cable dispatches it is learned
that Captain Younghusband is on the
f-mitier of Pamir, but, the Russians have
forl.idden him to enter that countrv. These
pt-onle have an object in everything they do
nd their act of lorbidding foreigners trom
rntering to see wnat they are doing, is evi
dence that they are engaged in important
work, although a first glance one can hardly
iniierstand what it can be. II anyone wants
.ntormatiou concerning Pamir, he will have
wnsiderable difficulty getting it Our best
yrlopedias have but a lew lines, and they
tre only seeping generalities. Chamber's
ays it is a mountainous region of Central
Asia, forming the nucleus of the Central
4sian highland system and thatlt is appro
priately called Bam-dunya, "Roof of the
A'orW." It is the place where the lofty
angesofthe Himalaya, the Kuen-lun, the
.lindu Kush and the Tian Shan meet, form
ing a tremendous conclave of mountain
witsmlsm
apypii
TOKW
heights of some 30.000 square miles in area:
but, few places being Wow 6,000 feet and
many as high as 25,000 feet above sea level.
That is the best information our usually re
liable books of reference afford. Soma
other source must then be sought out for
the desired knowledge. It is limited. I
know of but few, the most important of
which is, I think, .a book entitled "Journey
to the Source of the River Oxus," written
by Captain John Wood of the Royal Indian
Navy, who made a trip into Pamir 63 years
ago, substantiating some of the seemingly
absurd assertions of Marco Polo, but giving
clearer information on points of more value,
than those detailed by the ancient explorer.
In the main, however, and particularly con
cerning Pamir, "Wood agrees with Polo and
this is what the latter says about it:
In leaving Badashan you ride 12 days be
tween east and northeast, ascending-a river
that runs through a land containing a good
many towns and villages and scattered hab
itations. And when rou leave this country.
and ride three days northeast, always among
It Is said to he the highest place in the world!
And when you have got to this height, you
una a great lase Deiween two triages oi)
mountains, and out of it a fine river running
through a plain. The plain is called Pamler,
and you ride across It south to north 12 days
together, flndins nothing hut a desert wit h
out habitations or any green thine;; so that
travelers are obliged to carrv with them
whatever they have need of. The region 1b
so lofty and cold that you do not evenseo
anv birds flying. And I must notice also
that, because of this great cold, flre does not
burn so brightly nor glvo out so much heat
as usual, nor does it cook food so effect
ually. It must be a wonderful country, for both
travelers agree that there is nothing in the
world to compare with the vast solitudes of I
Silence reigned around silence so pro
found that It oppressed the heart, and as I
contemplated the hoary summits of tho
everlasting mountains, where human foot
had never trod, and where lay piled the
snows of ages, my own dear country and all
tho social blessings It contained nassed
across my mind with a vividness of recolleo
tlon that I had never felt before. It is all
very well for men in crowded cities to be
dissusted with the world and to talk of tho
delights of solitude. Let them but pass one
Si hours on the banks of the Slr-i-kol and it
n ill do more to make them contented with
their lot than a thousand arguments.
One naturally asks what object Russia
has for placing troops or fortifications in
such a country. That can be best answered
by tracing the country's history meager as
it is in a limited space. As long as the
time of Justinian, an embassy set out from
Byzantium, bound for China, but when it
reached the Colar mountains it became dis
couraged, turned back, and for eight cen
turies longer the land of tea and silk re
mained unvUited by Europeans. But, long
before that, according to Ptolemy the geog
rapher, the caravans ot faerie used this val
ley as a route to China. At that tima there
was somewhere in this region a fort called
the Stone Tower, which, from its position,
controlled the entire passage of the mount
ains. Geographers disagree as to its exact
position, but it is supposed to have been in
the defile leading down from Pamir. Know
of tliis fact, the Russians are evidently de
termined on taking advantage of it and will
securely close the country against visitors,
peaceful or warlike, for reasons politic.
Death of Itopewalker Dixon.
I read in a statistical work recently that
few persons die of the disease or accident
they fearmost. Rail
road men, daily in as
much danger almost
as a soldier in the
front rank of battle,
have come to their
ends from unex
pected sources. The
tame with mariners;
the same with min
ers, powder makers,
etc ifothing would
prove the truthful
ness ot tue statistics
better than the fate
of S. J. Dixon, the
S-J.lXxtm.
Toronto rope-walker,
xoronto rope-waiKer, arownea in wooa i
Lake. Canada, Monday last. There was an I
. .... . , , . . vt ,.. I
drowned
individual who had made himself famous
the world over as the most daring in his
business. On July 17 last not three months
ago Dixon accomplished the remarkable
feat of crossing the Whirlpool Rapids of
Kiagara on a three-quarter inch cable, sus
pended between 300 and 400 feet above it
One can imagine the daring of the feet, when
it is remembered that the crowd held him
by force from recrostinc; their nerves being
unequal to the strain of witnessing the act
repeated.
One would naturally expect that this
man's death would come 60oner or later
through an accident, while engaged in his
perilous occupation. But, no, the courage
ous fellow, alter all his triumphs, had to be
Feized with an ignominous cramp while
bathing and drown like a dog.
More Than They Bargained For.
About five weeks ago it was said that the
English had been too dilatory in their ef
forts to secure control of the region sur
rounding Lake Tchad in Africa, and were
likely to lose that much-coveted plum.
French effort had been defeated so often by
the opposition of the warlike natives that
they had practically given up competition,
leaving the field almost clear to the
Germans, who by persistency had succeeded
in advancing a strong force "so far ahead of
the others that they had virtually the fight
won. Xow it appears none of the countries
mentioned have the slightest chance of lord
ing over the Tchad region, and the coun
try England that seemed to have least to
Eay in the matter, was really nearest suc
cess, had it been possible. The Royal Niger
Company hadconimissioners quietly at work
among the people in the vicinity of Tchad
last year, while Germany and France were
principally engaged in making a noise. The
results of the British negotiations were not
satisfactory, the commissioners narrowly
escaping with their lives. They learned
this much, however, that a population of
Shu;ras and Mohammedans, numbering at
least .6,000, 000, the most intelligent native
tribes ot Atrica, surrounds Tchad. They
are violently opposed to foreign interfer
ence and will fight It will take at least
100,000 trained soldiers to overcome them.
England will not try to do so. France or
Germany may if they like, but it is not
probable they wilL
The Kingdom of "WnrtemburE.
Persistence is always successful in its
object, sooner or later. The King of "Wur
temburg has been
dying or the news
paper correspondents
conspiring to kill,
him for the last two
or three years.
Either one or the
other can now claim
success, inasmuch as
the aged monarch of
the Black Forest has
given up theghostat Xing of Wurtcmburg.
last The death of Karl L will hardly
affect the politics of Europe much. His
career has been practically uneventful, with
the exception of the years of 1S66 and 1870,
when he fought Austria and Germanv
respectively. The succeeding Prince "Will
iam will -assume control ot a country noted
lor the thrift, the industry and the wealth
of its people. Its history is clear for 800
years, at the beginning of -which Conrad,
Count of "Wurtemburg, possessed a castle
and considerable territory in the ncighbor-
noou oi v-aan5iaai. i'revious to that its
chronicles are lost in the uncertain tradi
tions of the Celts, Suevi. Aliemanni and
ifranks. "Wilkie.
Motors for Quick Tiring Guns.
' The application of the electric motor to'
the working of the Gatling gun, whereby
the gun is made automatic in its action, has
given surprising results. With a current
of 80 volts and about 30 amperes, the motor
making 150 revolutions, 1,500 shots per min
ute can be fired, which is far too rapid for
ordinary purposes. A regulator is now ar
ranged to diminish the rapidity of lire to
any desired extent.
A BIG BANK VAULT.
How the Largest Ever Contemplated
Is flow Being Constructed.
LIKE THE TEMPLE OP SOLOMON
The
rieccs Are All Fitted So It Goes
Together Without Noise.
FACTS ABOUT THE BURGLAE'S ART
tCORRESrOXDEITCE OP THE DISPATCH.
New York, Oct. 10. Most people im
agine that there is something mysterious
about a burglar-p"roof safe. I confess I
never look upon the internal arrangements
of one of these "gigantio aggregations," as
the circus poster has it, of chilled steel and
bolts and time locks and beetle-browed bars,
but what I feel an indistinct impression a
sort of fleeting shadow of mysterious mid
night visitors in black masks, of detectives
"in plain clothes," of drills and jimmies and
billies and handcuffs and newspaper articles
with "scare heads."
In some way there is associated quite pro
miscuously in the mind the cracksman
and his implements of trade along with the
miser's gold and the combination of metal
which human experience and ingenuity
have devised and perfected to preserve the
one from the clandestine clutch of the other.
This love of gold that takes possession of the
human breast can scarcely be more solemnly
tynified than in this eternal hammering and
bolting and welding together of iron and
steel for its protection.
LAEGEST VATLT EVER MADE.
"With thoughts akin to these I stood in
the glare of the furnaces, amid the clangor
of iron plates, down deep in the bowels of
the earth in the heart oi the city, witness
ing the details ot how to keep money The
noises that assail the ears at every step and
drown the roar of the street are not more
poetical than the sounds incidental to a
boiler factory; but somehow the conscious
ness of the wealth these same plates and
bolts are being tempered fo hold forces that
peculiar jumble of romanco and poetical
sublimity. That one-inch slab of combined
iron and steel, for instance, which is being
turned to a right angle in a powerful press,
is to be a part of the immense steel vault
now in course of construction on- the next
floor. This vault is for the great banking
house of Drexel. Morgan & Co. It is to be
18 feet long by 10 broad and 15 high. The
burglar who gets into this cage will want a
week or two undisturbed labor and a wagon
load of tools. I wanted to see this vault,
which is the largest, strongest and most ex
pensive ever constructed, as a matter of
curiosity and in the possible event that I
might want to get into it myself some day.
It would greatly simplify matters to see
how the thing was done.
KOT MUCH 8ECBECT -AITER ALI
Mr. Marvin, the President of the com
pany, probably never thought' of that, for
he politely turned me over to his superin
tendent, who not only showed me through
out the immense establishment, but per
mitted me to jot down all the weak points
in my notebook for future iise. This for
ever destroys my former belief in a secret
process, a hidden mystery or some hocus
pocus about safe oonstruotion. The follow
ing information may save burglars and other
people who have things worth burgling a
good deal of trouble.
Formerly, a vault lor a bank was made of
alternate sheets of iron and steel, one laid
on top of the other to the required thick
ness. The expert burglar could drill
through the soft iron with ease and break
the brittle steel with a' hammer. Now these
plates are constrneted of chrome or carbon
steel and iron welded a plate of steel, a
plate of iron and a plate of steel, etc to
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the uniform thickness of one Inch. This
a 1 w4 tnnnl. tint -.!. 4n.AA.1
creates s hard, tough plate "when tempered
that cannot be touched with a file. In con
structing a bank vault such as this Drexel,
Morgan & Co. affair, the entire vault is
built here and afterward taken apart and
set up where it belongs in the bank.
HO"V7" IT 13 PUT TOGETHER.
First, a detailed drawing is made, and
from this drawing every plate can be or
dered from the mill. These plates are yet
soft, and in this condition are accurately
trimmed under the powerful rotary shears
and double-headed planers, heated to a
white heat and bent to the necessary angles
and rabbeted and punched and threaded for
screw bolts. They must be laid in place be
fore the latter process and carefully fitted,
the rabbetted edijes closely joined and all
Joints broken, both as to the particular layer
and the ones beneath it. In vault architect
ure the workman proceeds in exactly the re
verse order pursued by the house builder.
That is, he builds the roof first, and all work
is done from the inside. The burglar is
compelled by force of circumstances to work
from the other direction at a carefully de
signed disadvantage.
On a thickness of one inch of steel and
iron plating, laid in a bent framework and
double comers of the same material forming
the outer shell, are a succession of layers of
lU-inch metal of the above description to
the thickness of three or more inches. On
top of this is a complete lining of half-inch
solid steel. All of these layers are screw
bolted onto the preceding one, with three-quarter-inch
bolts countersunk.
TE1IPEKEJO THE PIECES.
Now, when the whole vault is thus com
pleted the next step is to take it all apart,
send every plate and screw down below,
subject each piece to a white heat in the
great furnace, and then dip it into the big
vat of water. This is the tempering. "When
it gets through this process it is found that
plates have been warped and expanded by
the heat The great steel house must there
fore be rebuilt, and every piece refitted to
place. The material has now become so
tough and hard that nothing will touch it
but the emery wheel. No machinery can
trim it So the brawny workmen press the
edges and ends againBt the whirring wheels,
which cut the tempered steel into showers
of flying fiery Bparks and take off the trifling
increase.
The vault ii thus slowly rebuilt as it will
finally appear in the bank. "When it is fin
ished the next step is to take it all down
again. The pieces are transferred to the
bank building, and there in its place of
trust the structure is again and for the third
time put together.
DOOB OP THE BIO VAULT.
In the meantime the construction of the
massive door to this vault, a double, inner
and outer door, with its 24 bolts of two-
inchsteel, has been going on. There is a
detail drawing of this door showing every
piece and its relation to every ether piece.
The frame is of steel, 3x2J inches, and
the combination ot bolts and locks is about
the same as that of the plate vaults of the
United States Treasury; in Washington.
The Sargent-Greenlcaf time lock, with its
double combination and divided responsi
bility, forns the key to the financial situa
tion in this case.
From '30 to 40 men are at work on this
single vault, and it requires six months of
their labor to finish it This independently
of the mills that furnish the plates. There
are similar, but smaller, vaults in course of
construction and a little further advanced,
on the next floor.
"It is a race between the manufacturer
and the burglar," said Mr. F. S. Pownall,
the Vice President of the company, "and
the manufacturer is always a good distance
ahead. An ordinary burglar-proof safe is
supposeu io ue prooi again&t mc operations
of a burglar lrom Saturday afternoon to
Monday morning. If it won t stand that it
isn't a burglar-proof safe But
OnE A BUEOLAE TIME ENOUGH,
two or three days; or two or three weeks,
without interruption, and he'll manage to
ct into auy safe. So with that steel vault
To burglars ever lived who could get into
tliat vault in a week, unless they were per
mitted to work openly and allowed plenty
of necessary tools. But a vault must also
present reasonable- defense against a mob. I
The millions of dollars cash and .securities
that will be stored in such a vault would be
the first object of attack from a mob. But
when a mob can hold possession of this city
long enough to enable anybody to crack
that Bteel vault the city" is gone there
won't be anything else left worth having."
Five hundred men. running lathes, and
cutting steel and pounding plates of iron
ond goading emery wheels to red-hot anger
and guiding powerful planing machines and
other machinery can make a great deal of
noise. And this noise began loudest at the
bottom and tapered off to cabinet workers
and painters at the top of the building. One
noor is set aside lor ure-prooi saies in siock,
another for burglar-proof; other floors for
the construction of each. Then there is the
combined burglar and fire-proof.
BURGLAR AND riRE-PBOOI".
"A great many people confuse the one
with the other," continued Mr. Pownall.
"A fire-proof safe is nothing like a burglar
proof. The former is nothing but a light
cTinll IiVa iliio ' nA i fnftlr m in Ihf tin!-
low castings that were being filled with a
combination of asbestos, plaster of parisand
alum. "The lighter this iron shell is made
consistent with strength to hold together
when it tumbles o the cellar of a burning
building the better. It will keep shape and
not retain the heat But a burglar's drill
will sink right through that door, and a
little powder and a fuse and all is over. Be
fore the modern tongue and groove edgings
and air cushions and when theoldtfashioned
beveled edges prevailed even a drill wasn't'
necessary.
"Still, the fire-proof safe is not a burglar
proof. Nearly all of "the safe burglaries
you read about are cases of opening fire
proof safes. A merely burglar-proof safe
would not resist fire successfully. It takes
a month to put the bolt work on a burglar
proof and the Holt work on the fireproof
can be done in less than a day. The best
safes, of course, are the combination,
burglar and fireproof, and these -are now
generally used by small banks and other es
tablishments where safety from burglars is
just as important as safety from fires."
A NOVELTY FOB THE HOTELS.
One of the novelties I noted is a sort of
combination hotel office 6afe and depository.
It is about two feet deep and as hitrh as a
wardrobe. The greater portion of the in
terior is divided into small iron compart
ments, the same as in the vaults of a safe
deposit company's vauU, and the idea is to
permit a guest to hold the key to his own
strong box. Instead of passing over his
money and diamonds to the hotel clerk to be
chucked into a safe that stands open half
the time, the guest gets if private box and a
key. To this lock the clerk holds what is
called the "master key" with which the
lock is set so the holder of the other key
can open it. The clerk can't open the box
at all, nor can the guest, except with the
assistance of the master key.
This safe and miniature deposit company
arrangement is constructed for the new Hol
land House on Fifth avenue. There are tiers
of the regular vault boxes of highly pol
ished steel on one floor enough for a city
postoffice being finished for various trust
companies. You can get a box in one of these
outfits just about big enough to hold a
couple of deeds and a marriage certificate
without any coupons on it, or big enough to
hold a set of books.
There are 900 completed safes stored on
the top floor of this building. They come
up by elevator, in the row, soto speak, and
here "receive the interior cabinet work and
that artistic stripe and landscape finish that
is apparently necessary to the safety of the
modern safe. One mau does a certain line
of work only and the pay-roll of the paint
ers alone runs from (500 to $600 per week.
On the office floor nre lots more safes, and
on the ground floor some two or three dozen
more packed for shipment. They ran all
the way from a little fire-proof at $50 to a
combination eight-ton burgular-proof bank
safe at 5,000.
Charles Theodore Murray.
MALARIA, CHILLS AND FEVER,
JTEVEK A"D AGUE, DT73IB AGUE, ETTEBI
S11XTENT FEVEB,
A. -Brief Synopsis of a Medical Lecture hy
Dr. Hartman at the Surgical Hotel,
Colnmboa, Ohio.
Malaria is a poison generated by decay
ing vegetable matter, especially prevalent
in the hot months of late summer and early
fall. A sharp frost generally stops its rav
ages. It may be taken in the food, drink or
air. A large dose of the malarial poison
produces what is known as chills and fever
or fever and agne. The chills may occur
every day, every second day, or every third,
or even fourth day.
Large doses of quinine in many cases will
break up the chills and restore the patient
to health, but more than half of the cases
quinine fails to cure, or even benefit It is
not only the uncertainty in which quinine
operates to cure chills and fever which
makes this drug objectionable, but tho in
jury which this drug is capable of doing to
the -nervous system and brain. The remedy
Pe-ru-na, which i3 by far the most reliable
chill cure to be found, not only can be de
pended on every time to stop the chills, but
it does no harm to the nerves or brain, even
though it be taken in very large doses and
repeated a long time.
The dose of Pe-ru-na sufficient to break
chills is a wineglassful every two hours for
lour doies during tne intermission or remis
sion, followed byatablespoonful every hour
until tiie symptoms cease, and then a table
spoonful every two hours until the enre is
permanent No other medicine whatever
is required. Any medisine in this disease
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FOR TOUNG PEOPLE.
Charming Fairy Story From Paysie
About the Mountain Gnome.
AND IT-HAS A USEFDL MORAL.
How the Industry of a little Girl'Brought
a Beward to Be Proud Of.-
. E. CHADBOTIRN'S PUZZLE DEPAETMBST
WltlTTKN FOR THE DISPATCn.J
Three children, Theodore, Sidney and
Florence sat under a wide-spreading oak in
the forest, and talked over the trouble which
had befallen them, and the bird3 listening
to the conversation pitied the little sufferers.
The father of these children had been
obliged to leave his home and family to
fight in the fierce war, which was then
raging in the land. Shortly after he had
gone away, news came that he was severely
wounded, and the mother, leaving but
scanty provision for her children, went to
the distant camp to nurse the dear soldier.
Theodore and Sidney soon found work,
and could keep their sister from want; but
they were idle boys, disliking all kinds of
'labor, and they complained bitterly that
they must support Florence. The little
girl was much grieved shat she should be
such a burden to her brothers; but although
she sought everywhere for work, she was
unable to find any. , On this bright summer
day, Florence, with her brothers had
wandered into the forest to spend their
half-holiday. As they sat under the oak
tree, Theodore said: "This is miserable
life. "We have not had a good meal since
father went away. I am tired of porridge
and potatoes. If we could only have meat
and wine."
"Or some nice white bread," said Flor
ence. '.'What I need is a new coat," grumbled
Sidney. "See how ragged this one is. I
don't see why the great Friepold cannot
help us. "We hear that in some places he
has changed the coals in the stove to shin
ing gold and the Btones in the yard to dia
monds. I am sure we need help."
Friepold was a mountain guome who was
ever ready to help those who were industri
ous, but he had a great dislike for lazy peo
ple. Scarcely had Sidney ceased speaking
when the birds in the tree began to sing
merrily, the branches rustled, and 'before
tne astonished eyes ot tne cnuaren lay tne
meat and wine for Theodore, the white
bread for Florence and the new coat for
Sidney.
"What sweet wine," cried Theodore, as
he raised the flask" to his lips, "and this
meat is fit for the King."
"Eat some of this bread," said Florence,
as she gave each of her brothers a generous
portion, "I never tasted anything halt so
good."
But Sidney could think only of his new
coat, which he put on, and proudly walked
up and down. "When the children had
wondered over the gifts, and enjoyed tho
food given them, they cried:
"Many thanks, good Friepold, for yonr
kindness to us."
As soon as they had pronounced his nanre
the mountain-gnome appeared. He wore a
long, gray robe of the finest silk. He carried
no scepter as a sign of his power, but in I1I3
hand was a red rose.whichflowerhe loved bet
ter than all others. On his head was a crown
which sparkled as all kings' crowns do; but
the gems were tears of joy of those whom
the good gnome had befriended. Friepold
looked earnestly at the children for a
moment, and then said:
"I have granted your present wishes, and
now you may each make one other,request,
Which I shall fulfil."
"I wish for money," cried Theodore.
"And I wish for fine clothes," said Sid
ney. ' 1
"I should like to find some work," said
Florence, thinking that she wbiild, no longer
be a trouble to ber brothers.
"You have chosen best," said the gnome,
as he laid his hand lovingly on the little
girl's head. "Hero are three candles. As
long as you sew by their light, you will
never grow tired; but rememberto use them
only when working, and at night"
As the three children walked home they
talked of their meeting with Friepold.
"I think he is a stingy old fellow," said
Theodore. "With all his wealth he has
given me only this one bag of gold. I can
easily use it all in a month."
"And I am to have only three new suits
when I wanted dozens," complained Sidney.
"I think you are both very ungrateful,"
said Florence, as she carefully wrapped her
three candles in ner apron.
The two boys now decided that they
would not work until they had used the
money which the gnome had given them,
and the little girl was distressed over her
brothers' idle ways. Florence again deter
mined to seek for work, and this time she
was so successful that she had almost more
sewing than she could do. All day long she
stitched steadily, and when night came she
lighted one of her candies, and was sur
prised to find that it gave more light than a
score of ordinary candles, and although it
burned several hours, it did not waste. Sid
ney and Theodore were very much inter
ested in the magic caudle, and wished to
have it burn during the day, but Florence
remembered Friepold's words, and used her
candle only.'at night.
One day Sidney and Theodore prepared a
grand feast, to which they invited nearly
all the people, in the village. "When the
company nad assembled Sidney saidi "My
friends, we have a great wonder to show
you. I shall place a candle on the table
which shall give as much light as 20 other
candles and will burn all evening without
wasting."
Florence begged her brother that he
would not take her candle, as the gnome
had intended her to use it only when work
ing; but the boy would not heed his sister's
entreaties, and snatching the candle from
her placed it on the table. The feast lasted
for several hours, and all the time sounds of
gay laughter and merry voices could be
heard, when tbe guests were about to de
part suddenly a brilliant light flooded the
room and the gnome Friepold appeared.
He carried the red rose in his hand and
wore his sparkling crown, but his face was
stern and angry. Fixing his gaze on the
two brothers he said: "I have come to
punish you for your ingratitude, your indo
lence, and your unkind treatment of your
sister."
The gnome then disappeared, leaving the
company greatly frightened and wondering
at his words. Very soon after the departure
of good Friepold, the flame of the magio
candle grew larger and brighter. The boys
tried to blow it out: but although all the
guests joined in the effort, the flame grew
higher and higher until it reached the ceil
ing, and a moment later the house was in
flames. The fire raged fiercely, and those
who bad come to the feast barely escaped
with their lives.
As for Theodore and Sidney, they gave
no thought to their money and fine clothes,
but ran as fast as they could to the forest
Florence tried to get the sewing which-she
had left on a table near the window, but
the fierce flames drove her back, and she
was obliged to abandon her efforts, but she
did not cave the spot until the house was
entirely destroyed by lire. Seeing that
the little girl was deserted by her brothers,
some kind friends oflered her shelter for
the night. Florence slept very little. She
feared that some accident might befall Sid
ney and Theodore, and she thought how dis
tressed her father and mother would be if
they should return and find no home. Early
the next morning, after passing an almost
sleepless, night, the little girl arose and
walked slowly toward her home. As she
made hpr way through the village, she shed
many bitter tears, and wondered if her trou
bles would never end. Once she thought of
seeking Friepold and asking him forhefp.but
when slie remembered her brother's ingrati
tude, and that it was her candle which de
stroyed the house, she was ashirmpil to an-
' pear before the good gnome. Thinking such
jjxuuuij muujjuia me -iiiiie gin continued
her way to the spot where her home had
stood. Here she was almost overcome with
astonishment and thought she certainly
must be dreaming, for instead of smoking
ruins, Florence saw a neat, white cottage,
almost covered with vines. On the roof sat
two white doves, who said:
""Welcome home, Florence, this is the
good jferiepoia s gitt to you.
Florencetimidly entered the house, ad
mired the pretty, comfortable rooms, and
was pleased to find her sewing just as she
had left it, but her joy was unbounded when
in a cool, shady room, opposite the one she
had selected for her own, she discovered her
mother and also her father, who had entire
ly recovered from his wound and returned
to his family. Later in the day Sidney and
Theodore entered the house. They had
gone to the forest and begged Ffiepold to
appear. When the good gnome came to
them the boys, after promising to be better
in tho future, entreated forgiveness, which
was readily granted. It was a happy fam
ily that lived in the cottage, and the gnome,
Friepold, was a frequent visitor at their
home. Patsie.
SOME ENIGMATICAL NUTS.
Frizzles for tbe Little Folks That "Win Keep
Their Brains Busy for Most or the 'Week
If They Solve Them Correctly Home
Amusements.
Address communicaUona for this department
to K. Ii. Chaduoukx. Lewiston, Maine.
1756 TO A BACKSLIDER.
1757 COMBINATIONS.
1.
A piece of rind or outlola
With something hard unite,
And find a man whose money-bags
Compose his chief delight.
n.
A mass of hazy, vapory mlit
Add to a small degree.
And clear, unspotted azure dome
Above you you will see.
m.
A friendly man of olden times
Place with an insect busy,
And then disclose an ensign small
That floats from niaBthead dizzy.
lira. E.
1758 ADMIRABLE AT LAST.
Very, very few admire the first, so hard,
cruel and remorseless. Many admire the
second with its heat, and many charming
eights, and sweet sounds, although soma
Seople more admire its cold, stern brother,
ut none have vet been found who do not
admire the total, so soft and dreamy, like
the happy departing of some soul whose
earth-iife has been a joyful one, yet not un
mixed with pain. Ethyl.
1759 CHARADZ.
Xittle Jack Horner sat in a corner,
Engaged In an infantile cry:
flis mother came in with a big rolling-pin,
And out at the total he went on the fly.
She chased him around an acre of ground.
And he dodged like a wild kangaroo;
But she caught him at last, and the licking
was vast
That he got era the drubbing- was through.
Ho has never since run from his mother In
fun,
Or to save from his primal a blow,
Kor slips through the two, the town to go
through. Without leavesfrom his mother, O no.
Abfieo.
1760 OBLIQUE RECTANGLE.
1. A letter. 2. A beverage. 8. Shells. 4.
Cherishes. 8. A genus of small mollnsks. 6.
Inflictine. 7. Hows or trees. 8. Pants, (obs.)
8. A glutinous matter obtained by boiling
animal tissue. 10. Decides. 1L A pod-like
seed vessel. 12. To cause the death or. 13.
Furnished with holes for the reception of
pieces sliding into it. 14. Soilings. 13.
Affrighted. 16. A laka In Scotland. 17. A
letter. Sexex.
1761 TRANSPOSITION.
JPtrtf Is a fuel prized by some
Who, lacking its warm pungent smoke
Would have no Arc In their rude home,
These simple peasant folk.
Keit may be foolish or be wlset
Be full orempty, a wo hear;
Sut every roan his own does prise
As more than others dear.
A narrow band or fillet three,
For strings and such like comes in playj
Just mention wbat each word should be.
And there's no more to say.
Bitter Sweit.
1763 MT CONFESSION.
A beggar came to my door one day to ask
for food, and what do you think Ididt In
stead of granting his request I cruelly took
off his foot. Of courso my remorse was
great as soon as the deed was done, and as a
vehicle (which he in his cripnled condition
represented) was at that moment passing,
I helped him into it, and told tho driver to
take him directly to a surzeon. But, in
Bcme way, one end of the vehicle was lost
on the wav, anda ferocious domestic animal
appeared on tho scene, The driver with one
blow removed tho animal's head, and by
this time the forenoon was so far advanced
that he resolved to pursue his Journey no
farther. Ethyl.
1703 DECAPITATION.
Those who mourn in all.
Show a two of taste,
Vulgar as 'tis small,
Ir their garb is laced,
Flounced and furbelowed,
Bugled, feather, bowed.
Those who mounr In all.
Should do told that crape ,
Only can we call
Mourning; it should drape.
With its somber folds,
Those whose help It holds. A. S.
1764 SQUARE.
1. One who degrades. 2- A hydrous arson
late of copper. 3. Invitations to a poor
man's house. (Prov. Eng.) 4. A metrical
foot. (Pros.) S. A twilled cotton labric. 6.
Annual. 7. Persistent. (Bot.)
Tullt "W. Hoocn.
1765 ANAGRAM.
"Lot a sad priest" Is be
Whose teachings load a soul
Fnr from tho path nf right
His fate at last is whole. Mzsa.
ANSWERS.
1715 Is a bi Jew sharper that a tall Yan
kee? 1740 Lights, slight.
1747 Sailed, Delia's. 2. Tinker, reknit.
171S I'ear, trap, peat, tape, reaper, tare,
tear, pet, Pat, tea, tree. The watch Re
peater. ma-root-iight-iight-root.
1750 James G. Blaine.
1751- R
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17&J Because it is chased.
1754 tip, slap.
1755-jFiilr, air.
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WRITTEN FOB THE DISPATCH
Author of "The House at High Bridge," "Romance and Reverie,M
"The Adventures of a Widow," numerous song3
and poems and several plays.
SXNOPS1S OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.
The story opens with a ball Alonzo Ltspenard has given in his palatial residence ia
honor of his betrothed, Kathleen Kennatrri, the daughter of a cold and calculatin" mother.
In the midst of the festivities, Alonzo's Uncle Crawford arrives and informs him that by
the rascality of a member of his firm who has just committed snicide, his Immense fortuns
has been swept away. After the ball Alonzo Informs his sister, Mrs. Van Santvoord a
frivolous socioty woman who has set apart an allowance for her husband on condition that
he leave her free to enjoy society without his company. The news almost prostrates Mrs
Van Santvoord. At her home, Alonzo and her husband. Hector, qnarrel, the latter claim
ing Alonzo's neglect of tbe business made the defalcation possible, ilrs. Van Santvoord
restores peace and Alonzo goes back to his home to meditate.
chapter rn.
At about this time, as it happened, Mrs.
Kennaird committed the crowning mistake
of her life. Among the persons of note
who had most cordially greeted her on her
return was a stanch former friend, the
Marchioness of Dendndlon. The Mar
chioness was a woman of large heart,
though quick temper. She was famed for
the sincerity and tenacity of her likes and
dislikes, and Mrs. Kennaird had long stood
high on the list of the former. Lady Den
dudlon thought that Sir Frankland had
treated her friend with a sorry stinginess,
and very, freely vented this opinion. She
fell in love with Kathleen, and encouraged
an intimacy between herself and her only
daughter, Lady Guinevere Poindexter, one
of the reigning London belles. Twice she
invited the Kennairds to come and visit
her at tho most delightful of her several
country seats, Dendndlon Hall, near the
Devon Cliffs. It was during the second of
these visits that Mrsv Kcnnaird's fatal
blunder occurred.
Besides Lady Guinevere, the Marchioness
had two other children, both sons. The
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THERE'S AN END OF EVERYTHTNO BETWEEN TOT AND ME.
eldest, Lord Armitage, had lately married
and was traveling on the Continent. At
Dendndlon Hall, when Kathleen and her
mother made the second visit there, was
the younger son, Lord Egbert Poindexter.
Neither of the ladies had ever seen him be
fore, and for an excellent reason. Although
in his latter twenties and ot a marked per
sonal beauty, he lived a most retired life
on account of his lameness. An accident
in childhood had partly deprived him of
the use of both lower limbs, and he never
moved himself except with the aid of
crutches. His mother was almost fanatically
fond of him, and guarded him as the apple
of her eye. She confided to Sirs. Kennaird
that he was immensely rich, and would in
this respect far outshine his elder, brother,
even after he should becomo Marquis, for
an elderly aunt, pitying his juvenile misfor
tune, had left him a great property in Sus
sex, besides ample moneyed capital, to-the
rage and disappointment of a bevy of wait
ing heirs.
"It is a great chance," proceeded the
Marchioness, "for Egbert to show his fine
humanitarian spirit. He will.I am certain,
send his name ringing through the centuries
as a noble and wise benefactor of his race.
His marriage, you know, is impossible,
and"
"Why Impossible, my dear Lady Den
dndlon?" broke in Mrs. Kennaird.
The Marchioness' pure-cut, patrician face
hardened a little. "Oh, I should not have
said impossible, perhaps, but surely in no
sense probable. At least, not for years yet.
Egbert is still young. If he once reached
an age of sufficient discretion to make him
realize that the woman whom he asked
to become his wife might give him
fidelity, companionship, affection, without
a gleam of the sentiment which younger
men expect and demand, and if, so realiz
ing, he married as much with head as with
heart, why, then, I should put no obstacle
In the way of such a union. But now!"
And the Marchioness lifted one hand, wav
ing it before her face. "Plenty of giris
might say that they cared for him, yon un
derstand, but" here with a self-conscious
little laugh, she paused. "However, my
friend, let us talk of something else."
Mrs. Kennaird thought her prejudice a
most perverse and ill-advised one, which no
doubt it was, considering the gentle charms
of .Lord Egbert s conversation and marked
comeliness of his visage. More peo
ple came to Dendudlon Hall in
a day or two and the Marchioness,
occupied with other guests, failed to see
what swift and tender havoo Kathleen had
wrought in the breast of her younger son.
But Mrs. Kennaird saw, and tingled with
new, delicious hopes. The Kennairds were,
and yet were not a portion of the present
house-party, their stay had graciously been
taken for granted as an indefinite one.
Lord Egbert fell in love with a kind of
tumultous expedition. He sat beside the
object of his sudden passions as long each
day as the would let him, and when not
following her on his crutches he did so, as
far as feasible, with his poetic blue eyes.
The determination of his mother had thus
far never given him a thought; now he re
belled against the idea ot not being per
mitted to marry -when and whom he chose.
In a short time the Marquis, his father.
was expected back to his favorite home in
Devonshire, after a term of shooting on the
Scotch moors. A certain plan had entered
the head of Lord Egbert, and he at once
proceeded to carry it out He had observed
Mrs. Kennaird's power over her daughter;
he bad observed, too, this lady's marked
admiration for himself. Though youns,
he was wordly wise. It was plain, to him
that his parents would not sanction his en
gagement to Kathleen Kennaird, even if
they allowed him to wed at alL She was
not, from the Dendudlon point of view, his
equal, and the whole proposition would have
been met with dainty disgust.
So poor lame Lord Egbert stubbornly
made up his mind. One morning he hob
bled to the side of Kathleen's mother and
murmured a few words in the ear of that
lady. She listened, and even in listening
Margaretta Kennaird committed a speciei
of folly. But she did more; she lent her
self, befora five hours had passed, to a
scheme of elopement. EaTly the next
morning Lord Egbert and Kathleen were to
depart from the Hall together, only return
ing thither as man and wife. Kathleen,
when she was apprised of her mother's
fixed resolve, turned very pale and declared
that unless it were abandoned she would
acquaint Lady Dendudloa with the entire
affair. The girl was terribly in earnest,
and her auditor discerned it But Mrs.
Kennaird attempted no coercion. She lit
erally sank at her daughter's feet and im
plored her to yield. Then, with a retro
spective glibness- that sometimes narrowly
missed eloquence, she discoursed of her own
past the privation, the injustice, and the
pains of itl Kathleen barkened, and tha
spell began to work. Before her mother
had done with her she gave her consent, but
in a mood of conscience-stricken reluctance.
Of course two or three servants had to be
trusted, and one of these was Lord Egbert'
valet, a gentleman of conservative tenets
and wily diplomacies. In the autumn dawn
of the following morning Kathleen and her
mother descended from their apartments, to
find Lord Egbert waiting them. Outside a
vehicle also waited, and the three were
about to enter it when Lady Dendndlon ap
peared, accompanied by her husband, tha
Marquis, who had arrived on the previous
evening.
It is no exaggeration to state that the en
raged Marchioness now covered her offend
ing guest with the most furious invective.
Mrs. Kennaird and Kathleen were actually
hustled from the hall with as little cere
mony as if they had been two suspicious
tramps, and the wrathful revolt of Lord
Egbert was treated very much as if it had
been the clamor of a rebellious baby. Ths
designed elopement did not end merely in
detection, but in pitiless exposure as well.
The Marchioness, having once got rid of
two women whom she regarded as vipers
warmed at her hearthstone, proceeded to
bruit what she denounced as their wily
treachery from one end of the kingdom to
the other. She was an excellent hater was this
noble lady, as already has been chronicled.
She did not spare the Kennairds, nor did
her husband, whom she notoriously ruled.
Their acrid statements engendered a scandal
from which sprang the most hurtful odium.
Mrs. Kennaird's "matrimonial plot" was
soon on numberless lips. The society jour
nals had their fling at her, and she was re
ferred to as the "inveigler," and again as
the "American pnsher.-" To rally round
her a few genial adherents meant one thing,
to fight the powerful acrimony of the Den
dudlons meant another. She soon woke to
the fact that her attempt to connect her
child with the haughty house of Poindexter
had wrought for her dreadful contumely
and ridicule There is no doubt that she
had been cruelly treated, considering all tha
circumstances; but there is no doubt, too,
that in a measure she had brought upon
herself the punishment which had overtaken
her with such rude and public lash strokes.
In midwinter of the following year sha
returned to this country, settling in that
"detestable little Fifty-third street flat," to
which we have already heard her allude.
She mentioned to her New Tork friends
tha affair at Dendndlon Hall with mingled
sorrow and indignation. She had always
been a woman who would embellish and
manipulate facts with prettiest adroitness,
and ner "version" of the whole ill-starred
event was both self-exculpating and pictur
esque. It won her many sympathizers, too,
and these clad Kathleen and herself with
delicate mantles of martyrdom.
"I shall never return to that horrid
country again," she would say, with her
grandest yet most aggrieved manner." My
poor, dear husband lost his life there, in tha
first place, and now, in the second place, it
has made me the object of shocking slander."
To certain more intimate friends she
would occasionally murmur: "I don't
want it to be repeated, but that Louisa
Poindexter (the Marchioness, you know) is
the very most jealous of women! Dendudloa
(the Marquis), you understand, though for
years I always called him "Charlie," had,
of course, been sent off to Scotland on my
account solely. His sudden arrival at tha
hall was a great shock to Louisa, and well,
to cut an unpleasant story short, she lost
her head. But mind, now don't repeat this;
T tnll it in thp strictest confidence.
The confidence was frequently violated,
however, and with due effect of prestige for
her who had imported it; since some of the
New Yorkers whose ears these neat innuen
does tickled, failed to resist a kind of rev
erence, not to say awe, for anv compatriot
ever friendly enough with an English Mar
quis and his wife to call one "Charlie" and
another "Louisa."
Kathleen, for her part, would keep silent
regarding the whole subject It was a
silence that some persons tailed leniently to
construe. But the girl had said, to herself
that she would not lie; and so silence, as
she wisely held, was a discreeter course.
OHAPTEE IV.
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