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ive un. I'm at Tour back, "and we'll pull
hro.igh, don't you be afraid."
When iie was goue, narrow wamca me
floor a good while, uneasy in his mind. He
aid to himself, "I'm troubled about him.
He never would have made a break like
that if he hadn't been a little off his bal
ance. But I know what being out of work
End no prospect ahead can do for a man.
First, it knocks the pluck out of him and
drags his pride in the dirt; worry does the
j-est, and his mind pets shakv. I must talk
1o these people. No if there's any Ini
manitv in them and then is at bottom
they'll be easier on him if they think his
troubles have disturbed his reason. But
I've got to find him some work; work's the
only medicine for his disease. Poor devil !
awy off here, and not a friend. "
Tlie moment Tracy was alone his spirits
vanished away, and all the misery of his
situation was manifest to him. To be
moneyless and an object of the chairmaker's
charity this was bad enough, but his folly
in proclaiming himself an eari's son to that
scoffing and unbelieving crew, and, on top
of that, the humiliating result the recol
lection of these things was a sharper tor
ture stilL He made up his mind that he
would never play earl's son again before a
doubtful audience.
His father's answer was a blow he conld
not understand. At times he thought his
father imagined he could get work to do in
America without anv trouble, and was
minded to let him try it and cure himself of
his radicalism by hard, cold, disenchanting
experienf e. That seemed the most plaus
ible theorv, vet he could not content him
self with it A theory that pleased him bet
ter was that this cablegram would be fol
lowed by another of a gentler sort, requir
ing him to come home. Should he write
and ttrike his flag and ask lor a ticket
home? Oh, no, that he couldn't ever do.
At least not yet That cablegram would
come; it certainly would.
So he went from one telegraph office to
another, every day for nearly a week, and
asked if there was a cablegram for Howard
ttracv. So, there wasn't any. So they
answered him at first Later they saidit
belore he had a chance to ask. Later still
they merely shook their heads impatiently
as soon as he came in sight After that he
"was ashamed to go any more.
He was down in the lowest depths of de
tpair now; for the harder Barrow tried to
find work for him the more hopeless the
possibilities seemed to grow. At last he
said to Barrow:
"Look here. I want to make a confession.
I have got down now to where I am not only
willing to acknowledge to myself that I am
a shabby creature and lull of false pride,
but am "willing to acknowledge it to you.
Well, I've been allowing you to wear your
self out hunting for work for me when
here's been a chance open to me all the
time. Forgive my pride what was left of
it It is all gone now, andl've come to con
fess that if those ghastly artists want an
other confederate, I'm their man lor, at
least, I am dend to shame."
"No? Beally, can ou paint?"
"N ot as badly as they. .No, I don't claim
that, for I am not a genius;- in fact, I am a
very indifferent amateur, a slonchy dabster,
a mere artistic sarcasm; but drunk or
asleep I can beat thoe buccaneers."
"Shake! I want to shout! Oh, I tell you,
I am immensely delighted and relieved.
Oli, just to work that is life! No matter
what the work is, that's of no consequence.
Just work itself is bliss when a man s been
starving for it I've been there. Come
right along, we'll hunt the old boys up.
Don't you leel good? I tell you I do."
The freebooters were not at home. But
their works were displayed in profusion all
about the little ratty studio. Cannon to the
right of them, cannon to the left of them,
cannon in front it was Balaclava come
ag.n.
"Here's the uncontented hackman, Tracy.
Buckle to deepen the seagreen to turf,
turn the ship into a hearse. Let the boys
hate a taste of your quality."
The artists arrived just as the last touch
was put on. They stood transfixed with ad
miration. "My bouIs, bnt she's a stunner, that
hearse! The hackman will just go all to
pieces when he sees that won't he,
Andy""
"Oh, it's splendid, splendid! HerrTraey,
why hef you not said you vas a so sublime
artist? Lob Gott.if you had liPd in Paris
you would be a Pree de Borne, dot's vot's de
matter!"
The arrangements were soon made. Tracy
was taken into full and equal partnership,
and he went ttraight to work, with dash
and energy, to reconstructing gems of art
whose accessories had failed to satisfy.
Under his hand, on that and succeeding
days, artillery disappeared and the emblems
of peace and commerce took its place
catt, hacks, sausages, tugs, fire engines,
pianos, guitars, rocks, gardens, flower pots,
landscapes whatever was wanted he flung
Jt in; and the more out-of-place and absurd
the required object was, the more joy he
pot out of fabricating it The pirates were
delighted, the customers applauded, the sex
began to flock in, great was the prosperity of
the firm. Tracy was obliged to confess to
himself that there was something about
nork even such grotesque and humble
w ork as this which most pleasantly satis
ed a something in his nature which had
never been satisfied before, and. also gave
him a strange, new dignity in his own
private -view of himself.
CHAPTER XV'IIL
The unqualified member from Cherokee
strip was in a state of deep dejection. For
a good while, now, he had been leading a
sort of life which was calculated to kill; for
it had consisted in regularly alternating
dars of brilliant hope and black disappoint
ment The brilliant hopes were created by
the magician Sellers, and they always
promised that now he had cot the trick,
ure, and would effectively influence that
materialized cowboy to call at the Towers
before night The black disappointments
consisted in the persistent and monotonous
failure of these prophecies.
At the date which this history has now
reached, Sellers was appalled to find that
the usual remedy was inoperative, and that
Hawkins low spirits refused absolutely to
lift Something must be done, he reflected;
jt was heart-breaking, this woe, this smile
less misery, this dull despair that looked out
from his poor friend's lace. Yes, he must
he cheered up. He mused awhile, then he
tair his way. He said, in his most conspic
uously casual vein:
"Er uh by the way, Hawkins, we are
feeling diaappointed about this thing the
vay the materializee is acting, I mean we
are disappointed; yon concede that?"
"Concede it? Why, yes, if you like the
term."
"Very well; so far, so good. How for the
basis ot the feeling. It is not that yonr
heart, your affections, are concerned; that is
to say, it is not that you want the material
izee itself. Ton concede that?"
"Yes, I concede that too, cordially."
"Very well, again; we are making progress.
To sum up: The feeling, it is conceded, Is
not engendered by the mere conduct of the
materializee; it is conceded that it does not
arise from any pang which the personality
of the materializee could assuage. Row,
then," said the Earl, with the light ot tri
umph in his eye, "the inexorable logic of
the situation narrows us down to this: Our
feeling has its source in the money loss in
volved. Ccme, isn't that so?"
"Goodness knows I concede that, with all
my heart"
""Very well. "When you've found out the
source of a disease you've also found out
what remedy is required just as in this
case. In this case money is required. And
enly money."
The old, old seduction was in that airy,
confident tone and those significant words
usually called pregnant words in books.
Tne old answering signs of faith and hope
how ed up in Hawkins' countenance, and
he said:
"Only money? Do you mean that you
know a way to "
"Washington, have you the impression
that I have no resources but those I allowx
the public and my intimate friends to know
about?"
"Well I er "
"Is it likely, do you think, that a man
moved by nature and taught by experience
to keep hi affairs to himself and a cautious
$
and reluctant tongue in his head, wouldn't
be thoughtful 6iiough to keep a few re
sources in reserve for a rainy day, when
he's got as many as I have to select from?"
"Oh, you make me feel so much better al
ready, Colonel."
"Have you ever been in my laboratory?"
"Why, no."
"That's it You see you didn't even know
that I had one. Come along. Jt've got a
little trick there that I want to show you.
I've kept it perfectly quiet; not 60 people
know anything about it But that's my
way, always been mv way. Wait till you're
ready, that's the idea; and when you're
readv, zip! l"t her go!"
"Well, Colonel, I've never seen a man
that I've had such unbounded confidence in
as you. When you say a thing right out
I always feel as if that ends it; as if that is
evidence, and proof, and everthing else."
The old Earl was profoundly pleased and
touched.
. "I'm glad you believe in me,. Washing
ton; not everybody is so just"
"I have always believed in you, and I
alwavs shall as long as I live."
"Thank you, my boy. You shan't repent
it And you can't" Arrived in the "labor
atory," the Earl coatiuned, "Now, cast
your eye around this room what do you
see? Apparently, a junk shop; apparently,
a hospital connected with a patent office; in
reality, the mines of Golconda in disguise!
Look at that thing there. Now, what
would you take that thine to be?"
"I don't believe I could ever imagine."
"Of course you couldn't It's my grand
adaptation of the phonograph to the marine
service. You store up profanity in it for use
at sea. You know that sailors don't fly
around worth a cent unless you swear at
them, so the mate that can do the best job
of swearing is the most valuable man. In
great emergencies his talent saves the ship.
But a ship is a large thing and he can't be
everywhere at once; so there have been
times when one mate has lost a ship which
could have been saved if they had had a
hundred. Prodigious storms, you know.
Well, a ship can't afford a hundred mates,
but she can afford a hundred cursing phono
graphs and distribute them all over the
vessel; and there, you see, she's armed at
every point Imagine a big storm and a
hundred of my machines all cursing away
at once splendid spectacle, splendid! you
couldn't hear yourself think. Ship goes
throuch that storm perfectly serene; she's
just as safe as she'd be on shore."
"It s a wonaeriui luea. .now ao you pre
pare the things?"
"Load it simply load it,"
"How?"
"Why, you just stand over It and swear
into it"
"That loads it does it?"
"Yes, because every word it collars it
keeps keeps it forever. Never wears out
Any time you turn the crank out it'll come.
In times of great peril you can reverse it,
and it'll swear backwards. That makes a
sailor hump himself."
"Oh, I see. Who loads them the mate?"
"Yes, if he chooses. Or I'll furnish them
already loaded. I can hire an expert for
575 a month who will load 150 phonographs
in 150 hours, and do it easy. And an ex
pert can furnish a stronger article of course,
than the mere average uncultivated mate
could. Then, you see, all the ships of the
world will buy them ready loaded, for I
shall have them loaded in any language a
customer wants. Hawkins, it will wbrkthe
grandest moral reform of the nineteenth
Ttvo Brothers of Vie Brush.
century. Five years from now all the
swearing will be done by machinery you
won't ever hear a profane word come from
human lips on a ship, Millions of dollars
have been spent by the churches in the effort
to abolish profanity in the commercial ma
rine. Think of it my name will live for
ever in the affections of good men as the
man who, solitary and alone, accomplished
this noble and elevating reform."
"O, it is grand and beneficent and beauti
ful. How did you ever come to think of it?
You have a wonderful mind. How did you
say you loaded the machine?"
"O, it's no trouble perfectly simple. If
you want to load it up loud and strong, you
stand right over it and shout But it you
leave it open and all set, it'll eavesdrop, so
to Epeak that is to say, it will load itself
up with any sounds that are made within
six feet of it Now I'll show yon how it
works. I had an expert come and load this
one up yesterday. Hello, its been left
open; it's' too bad; still I reckon it hasn't
had much chance to collect irrelevant stufE
All you do is to press this button in the
floor, so."
The phonograph began to sing, in a plain
tive voice:
There is a boarding house, far, far away,
AVnero they have ham and eggs three times
a day
"Hang it, that ain't it Somebody's been
singing around here."
The plaintive song becan again, mingled
with a low, gradually rising wail of cats
slowly warming up toward a fight:
Oh, how those boarders yell.
When tliey bear that dinner bell
"They give that landlord" (momentary
outburst of terrific catfight which drowns
out one word) "three times a day." (Re
newal of furious catfight for a moment
The plaintive voice on a high fierce key:
"Scat, you devils" and a racket as of fly
ing mis'siles.
"Well, never mind let it go. I've got
some sailor profanity down in there some
where if I could get to it But it isn't any
matter; you see how the machine works."
Hawkins responded with 'enthusiasm:
"O, it works admirably! I know there's a
hundred fortunes in it"
"And mind, the Hawkins family get their
share, Washington."
"O, thanks, thanks; you are just as gener
ous as ever. Ah, it's the grandest inven
tion of the age!"
"Ah, well, we live in wonderful times.
The elements are crowded full of beneficent
forces always have been and ours is the
first generation to turn them to account and
make them work for us. Why, Hawkins,
everything is useful nothing ought ever to
be wasted. Now, look at sewer gas, for in
stance. Sewer gas has always been wasted
heretofore; nobody tried to Eave up sewer
gas; you can't name me a man. Ain't that
so? You know perfectly well it's so."
"Yes, it is so, but I never er I don't
qnite see why a body "
"Should want to save it up? Well, I'll
tell you. Do you see this little invention
here? its a decomposer I call it a decom
poser. I give you my word of honor that
if you show me a house that produces a
given quantity of sewer gas in a day, I'll
engage to set up my decomposer there and
make that house produce 100 times that
quantity of sewer gas in less than half an
hour."
"Dear me, but why should you want to?"
"Want to? Listen, and you'll see. My
boy, for illuminating purposes and econ
omy combined, there's nothing in the
world that begins with sewer gas. And
really, it don't cost a cent You put in a
good inferior article of plumbing such as
you find everywhere and add my decom
poser, and there you are. Just use the or
dinary gas pipes and there your expense
ends. Think of it Why, Major, in five
?ears from now you won't see a house
ighted with anything but sewer gas.
Every physicyja I talk to recommends it;
and every plumber."
"Bnt isn't it dangerous?"
"O, yes, more or less, but everything Is
coal gas, candles, elecfricitT there ' Isn't
anything that ain't"
D mi
l" tc Ha) is"""-
"It lights up well, does it?"
-"O, magnificently."
"Have you given it a good trial?"
"Well, no, not a first-rate one. Polly's
prejudiced, and she won't let me putit in
here; but I'm plaving my cards to get it
adopted in the President's house, and then
it'll go don't you doubt it. I shall not
need this one for the present Washing
ton, vou may take it down to some board
ing house and give it a trial if you like."
Washington shuddered slightly at the
suggestion; then his face took on a dreamy
look and he dropped into a trance of thought
After a little Sellers asked him what he was
grinding in his mental milL
"Well, this. Have you got some se
cret project in your head which requires a
Bank of England back of it to make it suc
ceed?" The Colonel showed lively astonishment,
and said:
"Why, Hawkins, are you a mind read
er?" "I? I never thought of such a thing."
"Well, then, how did you happen to drop
onto that idea in this curious fashion? It's
just mind reading that's what it is, though
you may not know it Because I have got a
private project that requires a Bank of Eng
land at its back. How could you divine
that? What was the process? This is in
teresting.1' "There wasn't any process. A thought
like this happened to slip through my
head by accident. How much would make
you or me comfortable? A hundred
thousand. Yet you are expecting two- or
three of these inventions of yours to
turn out some billions of money, and you
are wanting them to do that If you
wanted 510,000,000 I could understand that
it's inside the human limfts but bil
lions! That's clear outside the limits. There
must be a definite project back of that
semewhere."
The Earl's interest and surprise aug
mented with every word, and when Haw
kins finished he said, with strong admira
tion: "It's wonderfully reasoned out, Washing
ton; it certainly is. It shows what I think
is quite extraordinary penetration. For
you ve hit it; you've" driven the center;
you've plugged the bullseye of my dream.
Now I'll tell you the whole thing and you'll
understand it I don't need to ask you to
keep it to yourself, because you'll see that
the project will prosper all the better for
being kept in the background till the right
time. Have vou noticed how many pamph
lets and books I've got lying around relat
ing to Russia?"
"Yes, I think most anybody would notice
that anybody who wasn't dead."
"Well, I've been posting myself a good
while. That's a great and splendid nation,
and deserves to be set free." He paused,
then added in a quite matter of fact way,
"When I get this money I'm going to set it
free."
"Great guns!"
"Why, what makes you jump like that?"
"Dear me, when you are going to drop a
remark under a man's chair that is likely to
blow him out through the roof, why don't
you put some expression, some force, some
noise into it that will prepare him? You
shouldn't flip out such a gigantic thing as
this in that colorless kind ot a wavi You ao
jolt a person up so. Go on, now, I'm all
ngnt again. Tell me all aoout it J. m ail
interest yes, and sympathy, too.
"Well, I've looked the ground over, and
concluded that the methods of the Russian
patriots, while good enough considering the
way the boys are hampered, are not the
best; at least, not the quickest They are
trying to revolutionize Russia from within;
that's pretty slow, you know, and liable to
interruption all the time, and is full of per
ils for the workers. Do you know how Pe
ter the Great started his army? He didn't
start it on the family premises under the
noses of the Strelitzes; no, he started it
away off yonder, privately only just one
regiment, you know, and he built to that
The first thing the Strelitzes knew, the regi
ment was an army; their position was
turned, and they had to take a walk. Just
that little idea made the biggest and worst
of all the despotisms the world has seen.
The same idea can unmake it. I'm going to
prove it I'm going to get out to one side
and work my scheme the way Peter did."
"This is mighty interesting, Rossmore.
What is it you are going to do?"
"I am going to buy Siberia and start a
republic.
to be continued next sttnday.
BAD ST0EY OF HAUPASSANI,
Morphia, Hasheesh and Ether Show TJrf In
His Last Story.
rCOBKKSPO'SDENCE OF THE "DISPATCH.;
London, Feb. 12. The inquiries that
have been made into the attempted suicide
of M. de Maupassant have revealed a sad
story of paralysis of the brain, resulting
from an indulgence in morphia and hash
eesh eating, followed by a consumption of
ether to enable him to work. He has for
some time past been subject to severe
nervous attacks, and his attempts to kill
himself were committed in a fit of violent
madness. He was engaged at the time of
his la st illness with his new novel, "L'An
gelus." He'had wiitten nothing for a few
days, and, on attempting to resume work,
Guy de Maupassant.
he found it impossible to ooncentrate his
thoughts upon the subject After an hour's
unavailing effort he became violently ex
cited, sprang from his chair shouting
"Another man overboard! Nothing leftnow
but to die!" brought his razor from his
dressing room and gashed his throat A
doctor was brought immediately and he is
said now to be calmer, but there is small
hope of his recovery.
Lt Figaro gives an interesting account of
poor Guy do Maupassant's strange phantas
magoric story "Le Horla," showing that it
clearly contains the germ of the brain dis
ease which has at length swept the un
happy man into an insanity which it is
feared will last hfs life. The symptoms de
scribed in the story exactly correspond with
the incipient stages of the ailment, and
must have been transcriptions from M. de
Maupassant's own experiences.
THE LOST CHORD.
London ranch.
Seated one day in my study,
I w as anxious and ill at ease,
And I tapped at the window wildly
And rattled a bunch i.f keys;
Unless I could manage to scare him,
All hope of renose was flooi ed,
Tor home like a wall on an easterly gals
I heard that dread "Lost Chord!"
I made unambiguous signals
That I wanted the tune to cease,
For I had my work to finish,
And he was a foo to peace;
But the jrrinder only answei ed
With a fixed demoniac gi in.
And steadily turned tne handle.
And poured his distracting din.
I know not of what he was dreaming;,
As softly I stole aside,
And thoughtfully lifted a scuttle of coals,
And openel the window wide:
Though I Judged from his satisfied simper
That his d: earns were of anything but
Of a blackened mound and a muffled sound
And a window suddenly shut
It may be they'll take the pieces
To his far Italian1 borne,
And carve from his bones mosaieal stones
To pave St. feter's at BOme;
Or If they don't It's the same to me,
Bat this I'm prepared to maintain:
That tho "Chord" lie started to play is lost,
And will never, be found again. ,
MNKING A DINNER
To a Gentleman the Diners Enow
Very Little About
WILL BE THE RULE TO-MORROW.
The Jewel of Consistency in Washington"
Birthday Celebrations.
DOW HISTOBY HAS GOTTEN TWISTED
pntrrrE-v tor the dispatch, i
O-MOKKO W is the day
we do not celebrate.
Here and there a politi
cal club, composed for
the greater part of men
who are such strangers
to truth that they have
to be introduced to the
lady every time they
meet, will get together
and drink a dinner to
the memory of the great
man whose distinguish
ing characteristic was
his inability to shine in
the 'principal accom
plishment of practical
politics.
Here and there some
indignant citizen, who purchases his stamps
in job lots of 2 cents worth at a time and
receives his mail at long and Irregular inter
vals at the general delivery, will lift up
his voice in unmuzzled wrath upon dis
covering that the postoffice is closed in the
afternoon, and in a fine burst of indignation
wijl threaten to report the postmaster to the
department, adding thereto boisterous hints
about "having a pull;" which statement
may be confirmed by the incredulous who
investigate his breath, and are thereby con
vinced that he has had two or three and
long ones at that
What Children Will Want to Know.
Here and there the school children will
be surprised to learn that a holiday has un
expectedly fallen upon the second day of
the week; why, a great many of them will
not know. On being told that it is Wash
ington's birthday, they will at once express
the liveliest interest in the affair, and with
childish eagerness demand to see the'baby.
Here and there some eager, inquisitive boy,
will ask his father when Washington was
born? And his sire will look over the top
of his newspaper and respond, "Hey?
What? Who? Oh. Washington? Why,
February 22; wliy, bless me, that's to-day,
isn't it?" And the boy will say, "Yes, but
what year?" And the father will be speech
less. N. B. If the grateful fathers of America,
at least such as are the proud parent of in
quisitive boys, do not send this office a little
hatchet for this pointer, republics are un
grateful. You know very well, you who
read these lines, that for the life of yon yon
cannot tell the year of Washington's birth.
Well, now you have time to look lt up
quietly before your son corners you.
There are some American citie, however,
in which the day will be joyously remem
bered. I will always hold San Francisco in
exalted esteem and profound affection as
the only city in which I ever saw an ob
servance of Washington's Birthday. I have
witnessed, and with thousands of Americans
have participated in the patriotic celebra
tion of Saint Patrick's Bay, Saint Bis
marck's day, Saint Olaf Olaffssonn's day,
Hi Wun Lung's birthday, and the natal
days of sundry other saints who haye a pull
in American politics, but Washington was
overlooked, until I happened to sojourn in
San Francisco one 22d ot February.
V How California Gets Patriotic
There was an American .holiday for yon.
The entire city poured itself out of town,
into the parks, out to the Presidio; out on
the bay; the very Chinese caught the patri
otic infection and made holiday in their
own way; military manoeuvres, games, par
ades, sports the Fourth of July wasn't a
preface to it It was the only time in my
Heyt Whatt What
life and I have lived in American nearly
48 years, that I ever witnessed a oelebra
tion of Washington's Birthday. The 49er
was the Pilgrim Father of the Pacific coast
And his children do what the rest of Amer
ica hasn't time to do; they lose a whole day
of business and wages every year to remem
ber the Father of his Country. We built
the Washington monument too soon; it
should have been' erected in Golden Gate
Park. Well, we can't all be Californians;
one has to be born that way. Or else
emigrate very young.
It appears to be very difficult for the
critic of this day to find a very satisfactory
place for Washington in the world's his
tory. There are few men in the United
States to-day who could not have conducted
the military affairs ot the country better
than he did. That is, they could now.
Thev couldn't have done it then, probably,
but that doesn't make any difference to a
critic. You may have observed that Provi
dence is very prone to keep back the great
est critics from being born until some time
after the events which they have criticised
have passed away. Nothing can be more
appaling to a critic than to be suddenly
confronted with a condition upon which he
has been theorizing, and which he has been
criticising for 20 years.
Painting Picture of a Good Man.
Such a thing is only resorted to by Provi
dence in extreme cases, and when there is a
critic whom it is necessary to fit into his
mummy case. Patriots ot to-day are very
apt to teach their children that Washington
was a good man, but, for "a man of his rep
utation, singularly deficient in the elements
ot greatness. When the child asks in what'
greatness consists the patriot gives him a
description of a truly great man, a descrip
tion upon which the describer himself could
be arrested ten feet away from the speaker's
stand. Washington was sadly deficient in
many things. It is probably that he didn't
know how to steal a Legislature or buy a
Governor. He was deficient in the art of
saving one thing while he was thinking an
other. He couldn't look you in the eye on elec
tion day and tell you that you were his
choice, first, last, and all the time, with his
rocket so full of the other fellow's pasters
that he couldn't walk straight The things
in which the Father of his Country was de
ficient would fill a book pocket book, most'
likely. He never stole a dollar; he wouldn't
lie to save his life; nay, more, not even to
save his hide. He s'wore a little, "on oc
casion, but only when the provocation was
so great and the crisis so imminent that
mugwump language wouldn't serve, and he
always swore at the right man. And while
there is but one instance on record of his
using week-day words, see how regularly
he Went to churc'i and how often he said
his prayers! Wrote his own, too. Probably
because he was too patriotic to use the
English prayer book.
His Noras ana His Body Guard,
There is one very large and continually
Increasing class of citizens to whom the
name of Washington will ever be an inspi
m
ration. It is the trass composed of the old
nurse and his faithful body servant.
Heaven and earth and the pension list may,
pass away, but when all things slide from
under them, the'nurse and the body servant
will be left sticking out in tiie air. Eng
land, ever short-sighted in dealing with her
colonies, missed her opportunity to strike a
terrible blow at our liberties when she
failed to smite these two immortal retainers
of a mortal hero. It would have been a
cold day for the colored people of this gen
eration had the founders of the race of
Washingtonian nurses and valets lost their
heads before establishing their dynasty.
Their occupation would have been gone
before it begun. And when a thing is gone
before it starts, the fellow who sets out in
pursuit of it is left indeed.
One of the wonders of history to-day is
not that Washington maintained the war so
long as he did, but that he should haye
been able to accomplish so much while sit
ting down. People who live in remote and
uncivilized portions of the universe of the
United States cannot understand this so
well as do the residents of Pennsylvania and
New Yolk. But the fact is, and it is at
tested by tradition, "which," as Agricola
Fusilier wisely observes, "is much more
authentic than history," the greater part of
Washington's active life was passed in sit
ting down and getting up again. He moved
merely to change chairs.
The Chain Washington Sat In.
We fancy that one pair of boots may have
lasted him clear through the war. But
what it must have cost that heroic man in
trousers would astonish Berry Walk Un
less he wasn't above wearing patches.
Which, being a Virginian, he probably was.
The Widow Curtis did not bring to Mount
Vernon that New England thrift and skill
and nervous industry that could set a seal
One of Washington's numerous Chairs.
brown pentagonal patch in the dome of a
pair of buff knickerbockers, and make it
look as though it had always been there; a
sort of a map of the seat of wore.
In making a day's pilgrimage among
Washington's chairs in the Pennsylvania
farm houses .where His Excellency loved to
sit, one is half convinced that he was the
author of the universal remark which in
troduces the performance of all respectable
minstrel companies "Be seated, gentle
men." But it seems that nobody ever sat
down except Washington. And, so far as
can be ascertained, the families which enter
tained the Commander and his stall never
owned but one chair. He got the only chair
in the house. When they had no company,
the family sat upon the floor and let their
feet hang over. But the poorest and hum
blest family In Pennsylvania always kept
one chair on hand for Washington to sit on.
And whenever he heard of a new chair, he
arose from the one he was then sitting in,
the buggies sounded forward, and the army
broke camp, Washington would fall upon
the unsuspecting enemy like a thunderbolt,
break his shattered battalions in pieces,
drive him back into his intrenchments, and
proudly sit in the chair, his valor had
wrested from the grasp of the invader. If
there had been more chairs, there would
have been more battles.
Why Lafayette Didn't Sit.
Once I was shown a chair atChadd's Ford
in which Lafayette sat. Lafayette wasn't
a very steady sitter. This is the only chair
I have seen that had been occupied by him.
I sat in it also by request; my own. I did
not sit in it long, either. I understood, as
I did not before, why Lafayette afterward
preferred standing when he stopped at the
farmhouse for s crust of bread and a glass
of milk. When I called, the children,
descendants of their ancestors, had been
having tljeir frugal luncheon upon the La
fayette chair. Prehistoric chairs and
cotemporaneous bread crumbs and treacle of
the peculiarly viscid and tenacious "black
strap" brand made a combination that is
more enjoyable in retrospect than realiza
tion. How singular It is that a man like Wash
ington, whose love for the trnth, pure, sim
ple and sweet, was a passion of his lite,
should have inspired so many people to tell
such "awfnl whacks. A "whack," you
know, is the mildest term you can apply to
traditions which you invent on the spot.
You know when you go to Mount Vernon
the guide, if you ask him to do so, will
point out the spot where Washington stood
when he threw a silver dollar across the
river.
One Story Knocked in the Head.
He showed me the place, and pointed out
about the spot on the other bank where the
dollar fell. I "poked, and it you'll believe
me and of course you will; you have to in
an article on Washington there wasn't a
living soul about there and it was 10 o clock
in.the morning. Of course, I didn't believe
a word of the story.
"But," the guide said, "that was 140
years ago."
I don't care if it was 500 years ago; there
would be people out there "every day look
ing for that dollar. Because there is no
record that it was ever picked up. I may
not know history very well, but I know the
American people. I know millions of men
who wonld rather hunt for a quarter for six
weeks than work two days for?8. Look-at
the people who are hunting for Captain
Kidd's money.
There may be some historical inaccura
cies in this brief paper, but if a perusal of
these lines shall inspire you to close your
store to-morrow, and to go home and read
Bancroft's history of the United States
through before you go to bed, it will have
accomplished a great deal more than the
contract calls for; So no more at present.
BOBEET J. BUKDETTK.
THBCAUsiorrooa.
Terrestrial Radiation and the Intermlngllnf;
of Air Currents.
Pearson's Weekly.
Fogs, during winter, are primarily due to
two causes either terrestrial radiation at
night, or to the intermingling of two cur
rents of air of somewhat different tempera
tures and different degrees of dampness.
The first cause terrestrial radiation is the
most general. With a clear sky, the surface
of the earth becomes cooled as evening
draws on by reason of heat being given off'
into space, and the temperature of the
layer of air in contact with the ground is
often fully ten degrees below that of the air
three or four feet above the surface. The
vapor thus held in suspension is visible,and
as night progresses this layer of cooled va-
E or which has become fog-deepens so that
y the morning it is dense enough to pre
vent the sun's rays reaching the earth.
The second cause of fog the intermin
gling of two currents of air of varying de
grees of temperatnre and dampness is
largely the result of our geograpical posi
tion. Unless when modified by particles of
soot and smoke in its slow passage over
large cities and towns, fogs thus generated
are not usually of the dense, pungent char
acter of those which originate from terres
trial radiation, and which assimilate the
smoke emitted from chimneys in the course
of their formation.
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A WHITE HOUSE JAM.
Bessie Bramble Gets Squeezed in a
Big Reception Crowd.
BAD MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBLE.
A Tislt to the' Home of the Wanamafcers
Very Satisfactory.
SPBAKEE CiySFS PLACB IN HISTORY
rcoRKxsroroxKCK or Tint dispatch.
Washington, Feb. 20. It is quite
likely that the recent reception at the
White House given by President and Mrs. '
Harrison in honor of the army and navy
will go down in history as a sort of com
panion picture to the inauguration recep
tion of General Jackson, where the halls
and rooms were packed by crowds of foreign
Ministers, diplomats, officers of the Govern
ment, and citizens, who made such a scene
of disgraceful disorder and wild scramble as
made Judge Story record it as the "reign of
King Mob."
At this notable assembly of General
Jackson's regime, refreshments were to be
served in lavish profusion, but the multi
tude growing impatient proceeded to make
a raid upon the provisions in helter-skelter
style, helping themselves to everything at
hand. Glass and china that had cost thou
sands of dollars; went to smash in the mad
rush. People had to climb upon the tables
and sofas to get out of the jam. To obtain
relief from the frightful pressure, thetubs
and barrels of punch that had been provided
were taken out upon the lawn. Altogether
the writers of those days gave it record as
an occasion of diabolical confusion and an
exhibition of barbaric human nature in the
meanest form.
He Was a Popular Idol.
"Old Hickory" was the President of the
people, who adored him as a hero. He
stood for Jeffersonian simplicity and Ameri
can democracy, and it is related that not
withstanding the inconveniences of travel
in those days, thousands of people went to
Washington to take part in the inauguration
and to see the idol of the country. At his
last reception on Washington's Birthday,
in 1837, the guests were treated to slices
from mammoth cheese weighing 1,400
pounds, sent by rural admirers from the
State of New York.
The "tumultuous jubilation" excited as
great an amount of talk, and very likely as
much adverse criticism as did the army and
navy reception last week. On this solemn
occasion the multitude was not composed of
the rag-tag and bob-tail of the city, but of
its highest classes of brains and blood and
wealth, with visitors from other places of
equal rank, who had received invitations.
Many of these would doubtless have re
mained at home could they have known that
three times as many persons had been in
vited as could find standing room in the
White House. As a result of tnis mis
management or miscount, or want of know
ledge as to how to get sis thousand people
into a space that could only give room for
two thousand, the reception to the army
and navy was the jammedest jam that could
be jammed into a given space. The crush
was terrific. The police were powerless.
Once in the crowd, it was impossible to get
either in or out People mourned and
groaned, or scolded and laughed, as accorded
with their temperament and frame ot mind.
They were not of the rabble pattern that
devastated the White House in Jackson's
day; they had all had their dinners and
weretnned up for enjoyment. They were
all as polite as their crushing environments
would permit save two or three officers in
blue and gold who needed some discipline
for good society.
Very Amnslnf After All.
A common crowd would have pushed
through the glass doors that barred admis
sion save to one or two at a time. Costly
fans were crushed, diamonds were dropped,
laces torn, gowns ruined, all sorts of mis
haps and misfortunes occurred, and still
there was lots of fun, plenty to amuse and
laugh at in this ever-to-be remembered af
fair. One Senator's wife said it was "out
rageous to treat invited guests after this
fashion." Another remarked it was "posi
tively atrocious," while another splendidly
attired being declared she would never at
tend another Presidental reception the
longest'day she lived.
In the hall were distinguished dames in
low-cut gowns and gorgeous diamonds, who
could neither get through the crowd to the
drawing rooms nor out of the multitude to
their carriages, borne lavored guests were
admitted by way of the back door. .The East
Boom was a "crusher." The contrast be
tween this cram and jam reception and
those of the olden time was forcibly in
view. Then the guests danced in
the East Boom and refreshments were served.
Now there is not even standing room for
those invited, and even a cup of cold water
cannot be secured. In the days of Wash
ington and Adams Presidental receptions
were very formal after the pattern of the
courts of Europe but under Jefferson they
became "free and easy." Mrs. Madison's
entertainments were devoid of ceremonious
etiquette. She made it a point to be popu
lar and to provide enjoyment for her guests.
Mrs. John Quincv Adams was likewise
famous for her cordiality and hospitality.
Mrs. Tyler gave splendid entertainments,
and at a grand ball at the White House just
before the inauguration of James K. Polk
she led off in the quadrilles with our Will
iam Wilbms. Then came Mrs. PolK, wno
introduced "puritanical austerity," and
would not tolerate dancing, or the vanities
of this wicked world. Her receptions were
cold and dull, but nothing is said by the
chroniclers of the times as to the1 levees and
receptions of the earlier Presidents, about
guests being compelled to stand out in the
cold for an hour and a half, and receiving
neither welcome nor courtesy after being
admitted.
A Bad Case of Mismanagement.
Considering all the talk about them the
ears of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison must have
burned the whole evening. They were not
to blame for the crush, the discomfort, the
ridiculous state of affairs, say their friends,
but as host and hostess they got it all the
same. Their delegated powers were evi
dently utterly incompetent to manage the
affair. The flunkys had plainly lost their
heads. Those clothed with a little brief
authority showed themselves to be blunder
heads. The whole affair was miserably
mismanaged.
The reception was announced from 9 to 11
p. M. and precisely at 11 the host and hostess
and family scuttled up the back stairs; the
lights were extinguished, the Marine band
played "Home Sweet Home" and every
body was only too glad to get away.
Strangers in the town who had hoped to see
the President, Mrs. Harrison and the re
ceiving line, thought that considering the
crowd and the circumstances, they might
have been courteous enough to extend the
the time. Another hour would not have
killed them and it would have been a great
pleasure and gratification to very many
people.
It is urged strongly that the White House
should be enlarged, or thai a new one
should he built better adapted to such occa
sions. While this is in "question, and an
appropriation to such end is under discus
sion, it is in order for the authorities to set
their wits to work in the meantime to insure
the-comfort and pleasure ot their invited
guests. It was certainly an outrage to keep
people standing shivering at the gates, when
the exercise of common sense could have
devised a way to avoid such discomfort.
More receptions and fewer invitations could
be given. American "royalty" should not !
be so chary of snowing themselves as
"lions." Such is one ot the penalties of
high position.
' Tendency Toward a Monarchy.
As wealth grows and luxury increases
there seems to be a constant desire among
many for a monarchy at least in society.
When Fanny Kemble visited Washington
in Jackson's day she gave it as her convic
tion "that America will be a monarchy be
fore I am a skeleton." Upon what indica
tions she founded this opinion is not stated,
but a close student of human nature can sec
them pretty strongly exhibited in Washing
ton among some of the women in society.
An education abroad is landed and magni
fied. Marriage with foreign dukes, barons
and counts however broken in for
tune or decayed in morality is
looked upon as a social triumph.
A title is so attractive that'society can be
as easily gulled as when, in Buchanan's day,
a romantic young Frenchman, who was
made a pet by the set which most prided it
self upon blue blood and exclnsiveness, and
whose opinions upon etiquette were re
garded as laws,, turned ont to be a cook in a
restaurant. Liveries are growing common.
Chaperones for girls old enough to be grand
mothers are deemed ai essential, as though
they were 16. Foreign fashions are the
rule. Drawing rooms conducted after the
exclusive style o the English Queen are
held to be the proper thing to keep ont all
save the higher classes.
Such views, however firmly they may be
held, can never find very firm footing in
Washington. Society changes in the Gov
ernment citv with every administration and
election. The great and growing West
sends here as representatives men of force
and enterprise. Their wives, as a rule, are
bright, clever and intelligent Only the
few manifest such longing for aotoriety as to
desire to have even their underwear written
up for the newspapers. Only a few show
ignorance of the history of their country. A
Senator's wife said the other day that she
"did not know who the Governor of her
State was," but it is likely that few in her
position show such indifference.
A Reception at Wanamiker'f.
Mrs. Grundy, of Philadelphia, has lately
given it out that "the Wanamakers are not
in societV" in the Quaker City; that Mr.
Wanamaker is only a shi xeeper and can
lay no claim to bine blac and aristocratic
lineage, and is withal a party who runs a
Sunday school. All of which may be true.
Nevertheless Mr. Wanamaker has brains
and culture, as a visit to his home in Wash
ington very well shows. Moreover, he has
a handsome daughter who did the honors in
her mother's absence at the reception given
last week as charmingly a any of those who
pride' themselves on ancient lineage and
noble birth.
They live in the house occupied during
jhe last administration bvMr. and Mrs. W.
C Whitney. The beautiful Whitney ball
room is now a picture gallery filled with
gems of art and the masterpieces of great
painters. Schreyer, Corot, Bougereau
Munkaczky and others are represented. The
Corot, we are told, cost $20,000. It is rather
a small picture, and where that amount of
money comes in is a mystery of high art
The subject is a tree, and what in the poor
light appeared to be one of the home-made
chicken coops improvised by farmers wives
for the fluffy little chicks a week or two old.
But the famous name of Corot is sufficient
to make any picture dear enough to rave
over. Shakespeare asks:
What's in a naniet That which we call a
rose
By any other name would smell as sweet
But there is a good deal in a name when
it comes to pictures. A tree and a chicken
coop by Corot is held to be worth $20,000,
whereas the same by some unknown John
Smith would scarcely bring $10.
Bible leading In the Gallery.
Some very fine and noble pictures there
are in Mr. Wanamaker's collection. One
of the most striking and pleasing is that of
a beggar girl by Bougereau. In this hand
some room, we were told, a Bible class
meets every Sunday afternoon, and this
lovely Bougereau, as a ladv observed, fur
nishes inspiration. Mr. Wanamaker was
present at the reception to make up for the
absence of Mrs. Wanamaker, who was too
ill to appear. He gave all a most cordial
welcome and made a most agreeable im
pression. In the dining room the table was
decorated with magnificent roses and loaded
with good things.
One of the most hospitable homes in
Washington is that of Senator and Mrs.
Stanford, who hold a reception every Thurs
day. Mrs. Stanford with all her wealth
puts on no airs. She well remembers, and
scruples not to talk of the days when she
lived in a little wooden house and kept but
one girL Mrs. Stanford is cordial and sym
pathetic in manner, and as one of her
friends says, "it is her happiness to make
others happy." An immense neV dining
room, done up in white and gold, has been
recently added to the Stanford house. The
beautiful china and silver and pictures ex
cite much admiration. In the drawing
rooms are many magnificent works of art by
masterhands that of themselves are a great
attraction and entertainment Mrs. Stan
ford's courtesy is based on good feeling and
a kindly spirit, and the true ring goes home
to her company. She shows not a trace of
that disease common among thSse who at-
tain to great wealth and known, in slang
as the "big head."
Consolation for Boss Shepherd.
It will be recollected that years ago no
one was more vilified and abused than
"Boss Shepherd," who had charge of the
street improvements in Washington, but
now it will be admitted that he deserves to
be canonized. He transformed the muddy
country town into the handsomest city on
the continent Up to the time of Grant's
administration its streets were mud roads
even worse than those of Allegheny county
deep with dust in the summer and of un
known depths of mud in the -winter. Gen
eral Grant, with the war off" his hands, set
to work to improjve the capital city. "Boss
Shepherd" was put in charge, and his work
talks for itself.
Beautiful parks have taken the place of
the commons once given over to weeds and
used as dumnintr t-rntmds. Trees, fount
ains, statues, flowers now adorn what once
were waste -places. Modern improvements
which were carried out with a
high hand despite the strongest op
position, have made Washington healthy
ands) handsome a cjty of delight How
some people do hate and resist innovations!
How loth to surrender old ways and take to
new. "Boss Shepherd" was as maliciously
maligned and as roundly abused by the
opposition as was ever General Washington
by his political opponents, but now the
beautiful city is his memorial and the proof
of his energy and ambition.
Crisp's Placa In History.
The new Speaker ot tire House, Mr. Crisp,
receives great attention. His manner is
firm and his temper seems even. He is
plainly a man of ability who'commands re
spect He has neither the ponderosity or
negressiveness of Speaker Heed, but so far
has won golden opinions for fairness, quick
judgment and capacity to rule. He was
one ot the stars upon the floor of the House
before his election as Speaker. In manner
he recalls Carlisle, who was a prince in
courtesy and a model of fairness.
So laraswehave heard, there are few not
able orators in the House. After the hot
work of the session begins there may be
some materialization of Henry Clay elo
quence and Daniel Webster genius. Pitts
burg has reason to be proud of her represen
tative, whose speeches have made a great
impression, and have marked him as one of
the most prominent members of the House.
His speech in behalf of Lieutenant Beiter,
invwhichhe "called down" Secretary Tracy,
made the House as quiet as a church in its
earnest attention. When such a noisy,
rackety, talkative body of men can be sub
dued into silence by a speech, that it is
worth listening to is a dead certainty. Cun
ning Senator Quay never says a word, and
Senator Cameron has such marvelous capac
ity for keeping his head shut in the nation's
councils that we are told he never made a
speech in Congress in his life, but is simply
content to pull wires. When citizens of
the grand old State of Pennsylvania go to
Washington and find themselves represented
as they are they feel sort of small and fond
ly long for a William Pitt or a Henry Clay
or some one after their pattern.
Bessie Beahbus.
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'AP
MOONS OF JUPflM
One Is E16nj-ated and Keeps Gne of
Its Poles to the Planet
THEIR PERIODS OP ROTATION.
EemarkaWe Geometric Arrangement of th
Cluster in Hercules.
DISC0TEEIES AT LICK 0BSERTAT0RT
CWBITTEN TOR THI DISPATCH.
The most generally interesting results re
cently reached at Lick Observatory are
those relating to. the motions of the first and
third satellites of Jupiter deduced by Profs.
Schaeberle and Campbell from their ob
servations of the past summer with the
great telescope.
Their observations show that the first
satellite of Jupiter (the satellite nearest to
the planet) is of an ellipsoidal shape, with
its longer axis constantly directed to the
planet's center, while all the other satel
lites are essentially spherical in form. The
ellipsoidal shape may very likely be caused
by the immense tidal forces exerted by
Jupiter on its nearest attendant The fact
that the longest axis is always directed
toward the planet's center shows that this
satellite revolves once about the primary
in the same time that it revolves once on
its own axis. The same fact has also been
shown by the same observors for the third
satellite, though in a very different
way. A long series of drawings of the
faint markings which are sometimes visible
on the very minute djac of the satellite has
been secured and a comnarison of these
drawings has shown that the third satellite
also constantly turns one face toward Jupi
ter, just as our own moon constantly turns
one face toward the earth. Such a condi
tion of things in the system of Jupiter has
long been suspected (on more or less suffi
cient testimony) but it is now established
for the first timel
Chance for Better Observations.
Markings have been seen on the other
satellites also, but not sufficiently well to
prove that they are subject to the same law.
The planet is coming into a more favorable
situation year by year, and it very likely
that it may be possible to establish this law
by actual observation for each one of the
satellites separately. These results are of
material importance in the theory of such
bodies, and they throw much light on the
question of the age of the system of Jupi
ter. This is not the place to do more than
announce the results of observation. Head
ers who care for more detail are referred to
papers by Prof. Schaeberle and Campbell
in the publications of the Astronomical So
ciety of the Pacific (No. 19).
During 1890 and 1891 the globular cluster
of stars in Hercules has been photographed
several times with the great telescope, with
exposure varying from 17 to 170 minutes.
The cluster has long been known as one of
the most beautiful of the globular groups of
stars. It is composed of a mass of very
minute stars closely packed together with
outlying wisps of stars on its borders. It is
a beautiful object even in small telescopes,
but it requires a large telescope to show its
manifold details. 0e of its very remark
able features is a system of three dark chan
els which meet at a point and form angles
of "about 120 with each'other.
An Arrangement Without a Parallel.
These channels or dark lanes were dis
covered by Lord Bosse and makethiscluster
especially noteworthy. Their regularity
and the equal angles which they make with
each other point to some law in virtue of
which they exist, and interest is at once ex
cited to discover some analogue or expla
nation. There is nothing exactly similar to
this in the solar system. The nearest analo
gue is to be found in the dark: .channels
which separate the bright rings of Saturn
or in the empty spacies in the group, of
minor planets (asteroids). One of the
nebulas (the trifid nebula, G. C 4,355) pre
sents even a closer analogy, for it consist
of bright lobes separated from each other by
dark channels which at once suggest the
channels of the cluster in Hercules and
which are arranged in a similar manner.
A careful examination of our negative!
showed that not only were the dark lanei
of Lord Bosse clearly exhibited, but that
many other sets of dark channels were to
be seen. We may define a dark 'channel to
be a space of considerable length, "empty of
stars, and bordered at least on one side by a
row of stars. In nearly every case there Is
a row of stars on each side. If we call the
intersection of such a set of channels a
center of force, and mark its position on a
chart by a dot, then I find no less than 13
such dots or centers on the chart, one of
which corresponds with the intersection of
the dark channels of Lord Bosse, and at
each of these dots at least fwo channels meet
at angles of about 1200 and nearly always
three channels meet at this same angle.
Characteristic Forms of the Cluster.
That is to say the characteristic form of
this cluster was repeated and insisted upon
over and over again nntil it was evident
that a definite law was acting to produce
this form.
In a globular system or cluster of stars
we may suppose the mass and the dimen
sions of each one of the individual stars to
be indefinitely small with reference to the
mass and to the dimensions of the whole
system, and we may also suppose the 'clus
ter to be so far removed from other systems
of stars that no influence is exerted by the
latter upon the motions of the components
of the former. The motions of the contitn
ent particles of such a system under the in
fluence of gravitation have been mathemat
ically investigated and they can be de
scribed as follows:
The orbit of each one of the individual
stars must be an ellipse whose center coin
cides with the center of gravity of the clus
ter. These elliptic orbits may lie in every
conceivable plane and they may be of all
conceivable shapes from ellipses so nearly
round as to be almost (or quite) circular, to
others so very much extended as to bt
nearly (or quite) rectilinear.
All Have the Same Periods.
The center of every orbit must celneidi
with the center of the cluster Itself. Each
individual star revolves once roundjts orbit
in a period which must be the same for all
the stars, no matter what the shape of each
orbit may be. If it is a circle, the star re
volves uniformly about the circumference
so many degrees each day. If the orbit is
a right line, the velocity of the star is a
maximum at the center and zero at the ex
tremity of the line where the star reverses
its outward swing in order to return once
more to the central. If the orbit is an
ellipse, more or less elongated, the velocity
is more or less accelerated. As the time of
revolution of all the stars is the tame, it
follows that at the end of one snch period
each and every star will have returned to
precisely the same situation which it occu
pied at the beginning of the period, and that
this periodic readjustment will perpetually
repeat itself.
It seems as if the phenomena were too
complex to be explained as the effects of
gravitation pure and simple. There is no a
priori reason why other laws of force may
not govern other systems than our own or
why such systems may not be involved in a
resisting medium. At the same time it
would be presumptuous to speculate on our
Ignorance. The true procedure is to collect
the facts as well as we may and to interpret
them as far as we safely can.
Edward S. Holdex.
Lick Obsesvatoky, Novembr, 1891.
Why Gladstone IJves So lonj.
Gladstone has the happy gift of sleeping
whenever he wishes to sleep, or changing
his current of thought at will, entirely ban
ishing from his mind what previously en
gaged him. That is the secret of his great
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Arnold in a recent nawspaper letter. .
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