HARRISON
WORKS
LIKE CLOCK,
Crawford's Pen Picture of the
President and Estimate
of His Ability.
AXAXTE-CONYENTIOKTALK
There Will Bo So Dust on My Knees
if I im dominated, He Said.
Blaine's Favorite Story A Manuscript
vWhlch He Burned Hia Dinner Oppo
eit6 Senator Conkling Editor MedUl'e
Faith In Keely His Sample Drunkard
Murat Halstead's Fist-Fight With an
Unknown Man Harrison's Popularity
as a Soldier The Stories About His
Coldness Shooting: on a Steamboat
The Maine Man's Love of Dramatlo
Effects He's a Born Actor.
IWK1ITEX TOB THE DISPATCH.!
President Harrison, as he approaches the
close of his four years' term, has become
touch better known to the country, although
he is so reserved and cays so little about
himself that it is more from his friends
and associates that one obtains a complete
knowledge ot his character. I saw him the
other day in Washington, and lam sure
both his friends and his enemies would have
respected his attitude regarding the Minne
apolis nomination. He appeared to occupy
a very dispassionate position. He said
that he had no mortgage himself upon the
place. He was thankful for the confidence
of the people, and was willing to abide by
their decision. I shall quote only one
sentence of the Presidents conversation:
"If the nomination comes to me," said ho,
"there will be no dust on my knees."
I ill simply give a picture of the Presi
dent as he sat at his desk, going through
his morning mail He bears lightly his 69
years. He will have reached the limit of
three score with the close of his four years'
term. He is of medium height and quite
stout. His weight is in the neighborhood of
160 pounds; the shortness of his neck gives
him the appearance of not being as tall as
he really is. His actual height is 5 feet 7.
Elaine Watched the Manuscript Horn.
His head is large; his forehead is very full,
especially over the eyes; his hair is a silver
gray, just beginning to thin, and is combed
tmoothly and flatly over the full brow; his
eyes are a gray blue, intensely keen, and
some ot the politicians say at times intense
ly cold; his complexion is very fair, having
the healthy pink and white of a gentleman
ot clean living and high health; an iron
gray mustache and a long beard hide the
lower part of his face. His hands are very
plump and white. He was dressed in a neat
mourning suit of black with gray trousers, a
black cravat, snowv white linen, and care
fully polished boots completed his personal
equipment
Harrison Is a Rapid Talker.
His voice is deep and rapid; he talks with
the rush ot the rapid thinker. Even Mr.
Blaine himself does not talk as rapidly as
the President in private conversation. In
this conversation he showed no reserve. He
either talks freely or does not talk at alL
He is not a man of halt confidences; he is
at his best when he is with his friends and
the element of business is eliminated.
"When he is surrounded by his children and
family no one would think of calling him
a cold man.
I noticed in one of the Democratic pa
pers the other day a comment that the Pres
ident of the United States as a platlorm
speaker from the rear of a train was genial,
graceful, original, and that he alwavs made
a kindly impression; it ailded, what a pity
it was that he could not make as kindly an
impression upon'those who called upon him
at the White House, ft must be remembered
in this connection that the President when
he is out before the public is in the sight
and eyes of every one, and that no one
can be deceived concerning his real kind
ness and geniality of temperament, but
when lie is in the White House the politi
cians who call upon him are the reporters,
and it is to them that must be credited the
stories of his coldness. The President is
not a cold or unkind man. Whatever one
mav think of liun, a close study of his char
acter and his life will show that be is ex
ceptionally kind and sympathetic. Those
who saw hira working with his own hands
over the fallen form of the Secretary of the
Kavy at the time of the terrible tragedy at
the latter's house would not think of call
ing him a man of feeble sympathies. Tears
rained down his cneeks as he labored with
the surgeons to restore the unconscious Sec
retary. A Rule to Conceal TJI Feelings.
The truest stories concerning a man come
from those who are in his personal service,
and from them I have heard only stories
of his unusual kindness and unusual
ihoughtfulncss to tnose about him.
1 wish to avoid everything which can
savor of eulogy. A studv, however, of the
President's character, of the work he has
done, forces one to the point of esteem,
high repect and admiration. It will couut
for nothing in the history of the various ad
ministrations whether the President shook
hands well or whether he was able to im
press strangers pleasantly during a first in
terview. I think that the first impression
produced by the President upon a stranger
is not an agreeable one. He belongs to the
type of reserved characters who apparentlv
have made it the rule of their life to con
ceal their feelings.
The President upon the ordinary oooa
sions of life shows but little emotion. He
sits in his chair as President as he would if
he were judge upon the bench. He has re
fused many times to make concessions In the
way of appointments because he did not
think they were right, whereby be might
have made strong political alliances for the
future. I think it can be said truly and
Justly of Mr. Harrison that he has never
used the patronage of his place to advance
his own personal lortune.
The President possesses one of those rare
characters which improves upon acquaint
ance. He is always animated by a desire to
do right. In fact, the environments which
surround a President are to overwhelming
in their power it would take a verv bad or
weak man to go far astray in that omce. It
has been said of the executive office that its
responsibilities and requirements would lift
a bad man to the plane of the good; then,
to what an extent must its surroundings
support and strengthen a man who came to
it with such high notions as the President?
ITbat Democrats Far of Harrison.
Durine a recent visit to "Washington I
aBked one of the leading Democratic Senators
what would be the line of criticism on the
part of Democrats on this administration in
the coming campaign. He said frankly that
he would have to criticise more the party
which the President represented than the
President himself. He said that he would
be willing to concede his honor, his up
rightness and his good intentions, that he
did not believe any man would be permitted
to be better than his party, ana then he
proceeded with crest detail and categories!
clearness to give me the Democratic list of
crimes chargeable to the unfortunate Re
publican party. I give this illustration
Harrison Returned the Fire With Bit Revolver.
merely to show that the President's Demo
cratic opponents at Washington concede all
that is necessary to be said concerning the
President; they charge, however, in com
mon with some of the residents at Washing
ton, that the President is cold in hii man
ner. A distinguished official, who has lived
many years in Washington, in discussing
this seeming trait in the President's charac
ter, said that much of the dissatisfaction
felt with recent Presidents by those who
came in contact with them could be traced
to a very small cause. He thought that the
Presidents should receive their visitors sit
ting. Mr. Lincoln alwavs sat: he took a
position at the head of his table and had a
chair at his right for a visitor. General
Grant observed the same rule. The visitor
felt always more at his ease in this position,
and the strain upon the physical strength
of the President was not so great. It would
take no more time, because the President
always has the right to close an interview
when he pleases, but in later years the
Presidents always receive their visitors
standing, and this is snch an uncomfortable
attitude for most people. It sets np at once
such a barrier of lormality tnat no one ever
goes away pleased. You can never boast of
intimacy with a man who has only a stand
ing acquaintance with you. Mr. Stanton,
the famous Secretarr of War, inaugurated
this custom of standing to receive the many
people who crowded upon him dunng the war.
But Mr. Lincoln, who received equally as
many people, never followed Mr. Stanton's
example. "
Harrison's Majrnlfioent Equipment.
The ready utterance of President Har
rison and his easy flow of language comes
from his great reading and his great powers
of observation. His equipment is unusual
ly good. Few Presidents have been so well
prepared to administer any part of the Gov
ernment His military experience was a
very thorough one, so that he has the tech
nical knowledge required for the adminis
tration ot the army and the navy. In his
fix years in the Senate he made such a spe
cial study of the financial question that he
soon mastered the details of the Treasury
Department following Mr. Windom's sud
den death. Mr. Poster, wheu he was ap
pointed Secretary, went to the President
for his instructions and for his preliminary
training. Mr. Harrison has the legal re
quirements for filling any of the other Cabi
net offices, and this same legal knowledge,
combined with his powers of observation,
his logical mind and his enormous industry,
would make him a good Chief Justice.
These acquirements of the President are
plain and patent to everyone who knows
him in Washington. J
He has very decided literary tastes; he is
a wide reader of light literature as a means
of relaxation. He is very precise in his
habits and is always on time. He regulates
his duties with the accuracy of a machine.
He is fond of eating, sleeping and working
at mathematically regular intervals. He
has order and system to a great degree in
bis methods. He is a constant student, and
it is this wide reading and faculty of obser
vation which give him such readiness when
called upon to undertake unexpected duties.
When he made his trip to the Southwest
and West his speeches were not prepared in
advance. He did not know the exact route
of his journey until 7 o'clock the night be
fore he started. He took with him, as a
basis of his speeches, census reports of the
localities which he visited.
Trepared for All Emergencies.
This readiness and versatility of the Presi
dent's skill to rapidly master a case and to
prepare himself in a short time for au un
usual intellectual effort was shown in his
argument before the Indiana Supreme Court
in the case of the celebrated Republican
Lieutenant Governor of that State whose
election was contested by his opponents.
Mr. Harrison had only one'day on that case.
His argument was said to have been the best
that was ever made before that court Al
though the court was Democratic in its
make-up, it gave Mr. Harrison the verdict
of its opinion.
I know that it is fatiguing in these latter
days to talk about anybody's war record.
It is universally conceded that physical
courage is a common quality and to speak
merely of a man's bravery who served dur
ing the war is to pay him no special com
pliment I have heard just two points of
view concerning the President's military
service which were enough out of the com
mon to merit a pacing notice. I asked an
officer who served with him in the Seven
tieth Indiana Regiment to give me an idea
of Mr. Harrison as a soldier. His reply
was at first what I did not expect; he said
that he was perhaps the most unpopular
uuiuuci huu oyer weni out ot Indiana.
He knew nothing about military aflairs,
but devoted his entire time to stndying
them so at the end of two months he was as
competent to drill the regiment as any offi
cer in it He was too strict a disciplinarian
to be popular. There was a Lieutenant
Colonel in the regiment who had the love of
the men. He was a good politician and was
fond of sitting down with his soldier boys
as one of them. He was very careless in
his observation of military etiquette and so
for a time he was the most popular officer
in the regiment The soldiers, to affirm his
popularity and emphasize their dislike for
their Colonel, presented a beantiful sword
te the Lieutenant Colonel and asked the
Colonel to make the speech of presentation.
This he did with great cheerfulness and
showed no sip of feeling injured on ac
count of the intentional reflection npon his
unpopularity.
Harrison In the Army.
When the regiment entered into 'actual
service all this was speedily changed. The
regiment soon found that the Colonel never
asked them to go anywhere where he did
not lead, and hi, personal devotion to the
fortunes of his regiment which through
his care and drill was one of the most effec
tive in the service made for him a warm
place in his men's hearts. The full tide of
his popularity, however, was not reached
until the day that he charged the battery at
the battle of Resaca. There he went in at
the head of 600 odd men and out of that
charge less than 800 returned. The Presi
dent lead from the first and was one of the
first to enter the battle.
His love of fighting and his absence of
rear was illustrated in a story given me by
a gentleman in London, a Democrat, who,
when the news of the President's first nomi
nation was published there, said: "The Re
publicans have nominated a good fighter."
In explanation of this remark be said that
he saw Mr. Harrison once during the war,
but under such circumstances as to give him
an unusual idea of his pugnacity and cour
age. The story teller was a contractor on
his way North with cotton, The boat char
tered by him, upon reaching a certain point
upon the Ohio river, was stopped to take on
a number of Union officers on their way
home to the North. Colonel Harrison, who
was going home on a short leave, was with
them. The iournev of this steamer down
the river was not wholly without danger.
Every now and then an ambush of guer
rillas would fire at the boat The pilot kept
the boat as far away from the Kentucky
shore as possible, and every now and then
the channel would force them over in the
neighborhood of Kentucky, and the result
was generally an attack.
An Instance of Harrison's Bravery.
For several hours during the first day
peace and quietness reigned. The most se
rious attack came during the midday din
ner. The officers were seated at the cap
tain's table, wheu without any warning, a
volley of bullets came whistling through
the thin partitions of the saloon. This gen
tleman saia tne officers, as lar he could see,
went down upon the floor or crawled into
their staterooms, where they piled up their
mattresses for protection. The panio was
very great The story teller recovered him
self after a few moments, and crawled along
to a protected place where he could look out
on deck. Greatly to his surprise, he said,
he saw Colonel Harrison standing alone out
on the deck in full range ot everybody with
a revolver in each band, returning the shots
as well as he could, until the boat passed
around the bend and out of range.
Mr. Blaine, while apparently very ex
pansive in conversation, is really one of the
most secretive men in American politics.
This is his theory about keeping a secret
He said one day: "If you tell a secret to
one person," here he drew the fore-finger
of his right hand across the palm of his
left, as he added, "that is one." Then
making a second stroke with his finger
across his palm, he said: 'Tell the secret
to two and that makes 11."
Storrs Talking to Maine Audiences.
One of Mr. Blaine's favorite stories is of
the late Emory A. Storrs, the wittv lawyer
orator of Chicago. He came into the Maine
campaign when Mr. Blaine was the Re
publican candidate for the Presidency.
Storrs was boiling over with enthusiasm.
He was used to lervid Western emotional
audiences. The Mains andiences were a
great trial to him. They sat facing him
during his wittiest and brightest attempts
without displaying the slightest sign of
Jfurat UolsteatTt Hardest Fight.
pleasure or displeasure. It took Mr. Storrs
several days to discover just the right
depth of saturnine humor best adapted to
stir up the extreme New England mind.
Mr. Storrs used to say that it was a tre
mendous triumph for him to bring a smile
upon their stern faces. He observed, how
ever, that they seemed afterward to be in
pain, as if their facial muscles had under
gone unusual strain. '
After the people got to understand him
he had a very great success. He was at Bar
Harbor one night when the late Senator
Plumb, of Kansas, arrived for the purpose
of making a report to Mr. Blaine concerning
his view of the State. It was in September,
and the effect of the election in Maine was a
source of anxiety to the leaders of both par
ties. Senator Plumb was a man who always
looked on the gloomiest side of things. Mr.
Blaine sat with Mr. Storrs on the porch of
his cottage and listened to the report of the
Senator. Mr. Plumb said that he feared for
the result in the State.
"Why?" asked Mr. Blaine.
"The people are cold, dull and apathetic;
there is a lack of enthusiasm in every direc
tion." The irascible and impatient Storrs here
broke in with this question: "Plumb, have
you seen anybody but your audience?" and
that ended the Senator's report on the con
dition of aflairs and the State campaign.
Blaine I Not BevengafoL
There is apparently no malice in Mr.
Blame's disposition. He has a high tem
per and is a good vigorous enemy when
bis blood is warmed, but he never yet
has pursued a policy of revenge. He says
that it is one of the crudest wastes of a
man's meutal aud spiritual force to devote
any time or thought in following out a
policy of retaliation. Life is altogether too
short, said he once, for any kind ot revenge.
So, tnis being nis spirit, be was always
ready to make up the Conkling
quarrel which occurred when Mr.
Conkling and he were young mem
bers of the House of Representatives.
He would have accepted at any time the ex
tended hand of Mr. Conkling and would
have gone any time during the great New
Yorker's life half the way to the point of
reconciliation. Jut Mr. Conkling never
would make one step. Mr. Blaine always
regarded more of a bore than otherwise, the
fact that they were not on speaking ternfsr1
One of the most delightlul stories that
Mr. Blaine tells is where he gives an ac
count of a dinner given by a well-meaning
idiot in Washington, who thought he could
carve out a national reputation for himself
by being the means of bringing these two
statesmen together. His manner o doing
so was very original. He devised a dinner
party as the meeting place for the proposed
reconciliation. He notified neither gentle
man of his noble intentions. He first in
vited Mr. and Mrs. Blaine to come to dinner
without indicating in his invitation who
they would be expected to meet After he
had their acceptance, he sent out an invita
tion to Mr. and Mrs, Conkling. He made
the number ot the invited very small so that
of necessity they would be forced into close
neighborhood, and what the genial host
hoped would prove to be a mellowing at
mosphere, He carried his ingenuity and
originality to the farther extent of sending
Mrs. Blaine out to dinner on the arm of Mr.
Conkling and Mrs. Conkling on the arm of
Mr. Blaine. The two gentlemen were
placed opposite each other.
Beoonelled to Each Other's Wives.
During this lovely and eharming dinner
Mr. Blaine maintained an animated conver
sation with Mrs. Conkling and Mr. Conk
ling talked freely and frankly with Mrs.
Blaine. The majestie New Yorker, how
ever, was coerced in no way by the nearneis
ot his enemy and never remotely acknowl
edged the fact of Mr. Blaine's presence.
And so the dinner dragged its weary'length
along in as .delightful and agreeable fash-
C Wufi
f JG trLS f.St Mi S
i asflyy wit jf
ion as anyone might imagine who knew Mr.
Conkling and his peculiar wavs.
Mr. Blaine is not hat would be called a
professional story teller. He is not fond of
long stories. He is always pleased with
the dry New England humor and prefers a
thrust of wit to the broader touch of humor
itself. What he has to tell is done in a
dramatic and striking way, so that the full
value of the story is obtained. Mr. Blaine
is a natural born actor. By this I mean
that he has the artistic and dramatic qual
ity in excess, JSven the most simple acts
with him have, at times, a faint suspicion
of theatrical touch.
He has alwavs had a great liking for the
newspaper profession. When he was in the
Cabinet with President Garfield he was
very communicative to the newspapers.
There was no one in public life who under
stood better the value of newspaper publica
tion, or who knew better the proper time to
make such publication. When he has had
anything of importance to give out he has
always selected the press agencies. Those
who notice the dates of these will observe
that they are nearly always sent out Sun
day nights so as to appear in the morning
papers when there is generally less printed
to distract the attention ot the public.
Writing for the Correspondents.
Whenever in thosedays he used to give
anything to the special correspondents, he
would write out himself the dispatch. Then
Editor MedilPt Experimental DrunXard.
the correspondent would have to copy that
dispatchj leaving In his hands the original
manuscript of the paragraph in question. I
remember upon one special occasion, when
he was in the State Department, I called at
his house to ask him about a news matter;
he readily complied, giving the in
formation desired, but said he would
write it himself. I asked him to dic
tate it and I would save him the
trouble of doing the writing, but no. he
said he could not dictate anything which he
wished written with care. And so, for 20
minutes after, he scratched away with
lightning-like rapidity upon the paper in
front of him, and when he had finished he
tossed the manuscript to me as if it were a
bundle ot bank notes. I thought then that
I had a most valuable autograph manu
script of Blaine, but I soon found that I had
not, that I was to copy the paragraph in
question. After this was done I handed
the manuscript to Mr. Blaine. He ad
vanced with it in his hand to a gas jet over
his table; he lighted the paper and then,
carrying it as a torch, he walked with a
stately stride to the fireplace, which was
empty. Into its blackened mouth he hurled
the fierymass of burning paper and then
stood, with arms folded, looking down upon
it until it was burned to the last ash. It
was very dramatic very pictures", ue. and
so unstudied.
It is this element of the artist which
makes him so interesting to those who come
near him. The variety ot his moods, the
originality of his actions and the dramatic
character of his make-up combine to make
him a constant subject of interest to even
those who know him and his varying moods
best
Dr. Keeley Blse to Fame.
Dr. Keeley, who has gone to Europe to be
syndicated in various bi-chloride forms for
the benefit of a bibulous British public,
owes nearly all of his prominence and finan
cial success to the friendship and support of
Joseph Medill, the editor of the Chicago
Tribune. It was only a very few years ago
when Dr.Keeley was a country physician in
a small town of Dwight in the State of Illi
nois. There his so-called discovery cre
ated alter a time a local reputation. An
enthusiastic citizen of Dwight called one
day upon Mr. Medill to ask him to herald
this news of a great discovery to the world.
Mr. Medill, like most great newspaper edi
tors, is not over credulous. He said that
what was reported was interesting if true.
It was very easy for the Dwight enthu
siast to show whether it was true or not
Mr. Medill said that there was hanging
about the offioe a tramp-compositor who
had not drawn a sober breath for SO years.
During occasionally feeble lucid intervals
he was permitted to work In the composing
room. He was such a phenomenal, irre
deemable drunkard that the office took a
pride in him and oberished him as the most
frightful example of that period and region.
The Dwight enthusiast said that even
such a man as that could he cured.
"Well," said Mr. Medill. "ifthatcanbe
done. I will give Mr. Keeley full credit
But," he added grimly, "it will have to be
done first" In order to insure both sides
fair play Mr. Medill detailed two reporters
to take charge of the awful drunkard and to
get him into condition for transportation
and civilized handling.
Joseph aiedlU's Specimen Drunkard.
The example was fished out or some neigh
boring gutter and carted off toa Turkish
bathroom. After several hours of work he
was brought to semi-consciousness and was
clothed in clean garments bought from
various shops nearby. A barber com
pleted the work of restoration and then the
reporters, with their victim in charge, who
hadn't the slightest idea where he was go
ing was carried off to Dwight, I1L
Mrs. Medill informed me that the awful
example was positively cured inside of
four weeks' treatment and has never had a
relapse since, although this occurred some
three years ago. He is to-day one of the
regular printers in the Tribune office. Mr.
Medill was so impressed by this that he
gave great prominence to Dr. Keeley, and
vuruugu tun prumiuence given by Air.
Medill has come the great financial success
of the Keeley business. It is said that Mr.
Medill every time he sees this oompositor
come into the office has an artiele written.
At any rate, Mr. Medill has been most
generous, and has given up columns of
space to what he profoundly believes to be
a great and honest discovery for the benefit
of the race.
Murat Halsteai is a breezy, vigorous,
out-door looking man. He has the fresh
color of a man who spends his life in the
open air. His eyes glow to-day with a fire
that it would be hard to find in the eyes of
any of the younger writers. He is a man
of powerful physique, and would never
give a stranger the idea of his being a desk
or office man. He has the alert and active
manner and carriage of a cavalry officer
who takes good care of himself.
Marat Halstead's Unknown Assailant
He was evidently brought up in a vigor
ous school, judging by some of the stories I
have heard him tell of early editorial exne-
ii riences in Cincinnati. This town has al-
was been noted for tts newspaper fights.
Mr. Halstend says that in the early days it
appeared to be the fashion of someone in
the town to lick an editor at least once a
week. A reporter who had not been
thrashed half a dozen times within an inch
of his life was either a milk-and-water ama
teur or a beginner in the vigorous field of
Cincinnati journalism. An editor in those
days was often called upon without any
preliminary notice to defend himself. Mr.
Halstead says that the fiercest fight he ever
had in his life he once had with a stranger,
and to this day he does not know what the
fight was about; neither did he ever learn
the name of his vigorous enemy.
"This eventful fight," he said, ''took
place a number of years ago." He was
walking up the steps ot the Cincinnati post
office, and was alone.. Going up he saw
coming down a tall, powerful man, accom
panied by a small under-sized chap. Mr.
Halstead said that as he advanced toward
them he saw that they were very much in
terested in his personal appearance. The
tall and more powerful of the two men
coming toward him was making insulting
remarks. As he passed Mr. Halstead on
the way down his criticisms were of such a
personal nature that the editor, who had
tried to keep his self-control, concluded
that it was easier to fight than to try and
contain his rage. So he swung around on
one heel in the good old Cincinnati style
and struck the Ohio citizen who did not like
his appearance back of the ear. Coming
down with the full weight of his powerful
figure upon the descending body of his
enemy, the weitrht sent the fallen one clear
out over the curb into the middle of the
street where his bead bounded over a few
cobble stones before he came to a rest
An Expert In Banning Backwards.
He was knocked far enough away for a
moment for Mr. Halstead to turn to the
smaller man. He found him with bis hands
In his pockets comlnsr toward him. He knew
that this was not a good sign in a fight, and
so he made a rush tor the little man before
he would have a chance to draw a weapon.
As the gigantic editor came toward him
aflame with wrath and boiling over with
the sense of muscular power, the little man
performed a feat which I have never heard
reoorded in'any known history of athletic
feats. He ran at top speed backwards up
the steps without stumbling, ever keeping
his eves upon his advancing friend. Mr.
Halstead says that he ran backwards up
these steps so much faster than he could
forwards that he gave him up and turned to
meet the citizen whom he had knocked be
low, and who was now coming up the steps
in good courage and good pluck, ready to
destroy Mr. Halstead.
"Then," said Mr. Halstead, "a fight
began, the equal of which I have never per
sonally known. I had the advantage of
being on the upper side. We exchanged
some terrific blows. He hit me aoumber
of times on my arms. Each blow was so
powerful that it temporarily removed the
flesh, and the blow went through clear to
the bone. You have no idea how it hurts
to be struck on the bone of your arm in
that way. These blows were delivered
according to the best scientific methods
known at that time."
Mr. Halstead obtained the second knock
down, although before arriving at this
glorious result he received four or five body
blows; had one side of his back scratched
well up and had generally disarranged his
aress. As his opponent went down the
second time, the little man who had been
dodging around behind them again ran up
the stairs backwards.
Knocked Oat by a New Epithet.
As the man who had been sent to the gut
ter twice arose deliberately to come up for
another bout, Mr. Halstead's partner came
around the corner. He was an absent
minded individual who walked the streets
in those days twirling a penknife in his
hands. He came running with his knife in
his band, but before he cot close enouch
to come to the rescue Mr. Halstead's oppo
nent was back in 'front of him. The Field
Marshal said he was nearly spent at this
stage of the game. He safd he had just a
quarter of one lung left to breathe with.
The perspiration ran down his body in
streams, and at timeB there were acute pains
in his spine that he nearly soreamed. His
partner cried out as he came down, coining
a word which Mi. Halstead had never heard
before or since, exclaiming, "Get out, you
scurf."
Whether it was the sound of this unusual
epithet or not, the opponent was taken off
his guard and Mr. Halstead's huge fist
struck him under the nose. The thumb of
the fist went by into his right eye and the
knuckle of the left finger went into the
other eye. He again fell into the street
Then he arose, shook himself, and started '
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off on a dead run. as if he was thoroughly
satisfied with the morning's work. Mr.
Halstead was helped 'to his office, and it
was several days before he recovered from
the shock. But he never had the satisfac
tion' of knowing what the row was about
T. C CiiAwroED.
AM INCIDENT OF THE FLOOD.
Devotion of an .Express Memengsr lo
Bit
Mother TTho Lay Dying.
In the terrible calamity that visited Oil
City June 6, hundreds of instances of per
sonal bravery and self-sacrifice are cited.
John O. Leary, an express messenger, the
only child and sole support of his widowed
mother, was found kneeling beside his
mother's bed, both burned almost beyond
recognition. She had been an invalid for
some time, and could not be moved. Her
son, though implored by the rescuers to
save himself while there was yet time, pre
ferred death to leaving his mother die alone.
Mr. O. Leary was to have been married
about the last of June. It is needless to
say that mother and son were devoted to
each other, and both were most exemplary
Christian characters. The followingverses.
entitled "Filial Love in Oil City," are
from Mrs. M. E. Thropp-Cone:
Escape, my son. my precious son, oh haste,
thou must awavt
Thy mother's useless life Is spent, with her
tnou cun'st not star.
Ob, I had thought In death's dark hour to
know that thou werr nigh
To cheer me on the dreaded road that lead
eth to the sky.
But flood and flume are round us now; I can
not move, my son,
But thou must live, for thou art young; fare-
He kissed with tenderest love her lips, ca
ressed her silver hair.
Then knelt beside his mother's bed and
yielded lire in prayer,
Whilst other men, berolo souls, fought
Death for lives that morn,
Relentless Death, who rode o'er alhtriumph
ant through the storm.
Ob, they have shown, for others' lives what
men will dare and do;
We kneel in reverence round their biers,
the tender, brave and true.
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Annual Convention at Eoottdali
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Talk by Father Kittell.
The yearly convention of the O. T. A. U.
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Scottdale next Tuesday, June 14. An
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and the day will be made as enjoyable as
possible. The reports of the work accom
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convention will be interesting as well as
gratifying to the friends of total absti
nence. Without considering an increased
favorable sentiment toward the cause the
actual membership has advanced from 825
to 1,275, with a few societies yet to hear
from. At the different public meetings
more than 3,000 pledges were administered.
Notwithstanding the short time the pa
rochial school children's pledge cards have
been in circulation, 1,740 have been dis
tributed. Besides the regular work of the conven
tion a mass meeting will be held in the
evening. Some of the best men in West
ern Pennsylvania will speak. Arrange
ments for a special rate to Scottdale have
been made. A special train will be run,
leaving Scottdale at 10 P. M.
The eminent lecturer, Eey. Father Kit
tell, ofLovetto, will deliver a free address
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His subject will be "Intemperance as It
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SYNOPSIS OF lBEVIOU3 CHAPTER?.
Two lovers, Sir James MacEennon, Bart, and Miss Miriam Clyde, are standing by the
seashore, and the former is unrtng her to name the wedding day. She pleads for delay. In
the meantime an accident occurs, a soldier beiny wounded by a firing party. Miriam binds
up his wound and saves his life. Glancing at each other's race a mntual recognition takes '
Elace.. On arriving home the doctor who was summoned to the wounded man gave)
er a note which the soldier had hastily scribbled. It contains the words "For God's sake
keep my secret." Miriam, br means of Dr. Keed, sends to her soldier-patient a brief mes
sage, "i)o not be afraid!" which he receives as ha is lyinsr in the hospital. In the meantime
Miriam's mother, Mrs. Clyde, makes up her mind that her daughter shall be married to Sir
Jaraei in a month, and tells her so. But Miriam, thinking of a Ufa dearer than her own,
hanging in the balance, pleads earnestly for more time.
CHAPTER V.
JOAN.
Mrs. Clyde coldly withdrew her hand
from her daughter's impassioned clasp.
"Do not be absurd and theatrical, Mir
iam," she said, repressively. "Keep faith
with Sir James, indeedl What a ridiculous
speech from your lips!"
"You know what I mean, mother; Sir
James is, I believe, a great deal too good
for me, but I meant I would not willingly
make him unhappy."
"Make him unhappy? May I ask what
you mean?"
"I think it would make him unhappy if
our engagement were brpken off," said
Miriam, with some courage.
"Your engagement broken ofl!" re
peated Mrs. Clyde, in strong indignation,
and for once the even tones of her voice
were raised. "You must be mad, Miriam,
even to name such a thing."
"Yet, engagements sometimes are broken
off. mother," said Miriam, and as she spoke
she raised her dark eyes to her mother's
face, and for the first time in her life mi she
did so Mrs. Clyde realized that she ha.l to
deal with a different and stronger nature
than her daughter Joan's. Hitherto Miriam
had always been very obedient and sub
missive to her mother's wishes; therefore,
to Mrs. Clyde's mind her refusal to be mar
ried on the day Mrs. Clyde had fixed on,
seemed something very like rank rebellion,
which must be quelled and ignored accord
ingly. She was silent for a moment or two, and
In that moment or two she made up her
mind how to act.
"My dear," she said, resuming her usual
placid but firm manner when anything
serious was under discussion, "it seems to
me that this conversation is a very un
necessary and unprofitable one. Do you
imagine for a moment that either yonr
father or myself would allow an honorable
man like Sir James MacKennon to be
treated with discourtesy and dis
respect? You accepted him will
ingly as your future husband, and
the day of your marriage ha3 been decided on
by your father and mother and your future
husband, and to alter it, or postpone it. is
impossible, as it would be an insult to Sir j
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James to do so. Yon will be married, my
dear, on the day I have named; and it now
only remains to discuss the arrangement of
yonr trousseau. Your father, as I told you,
will give me 100, and I suggest as Sir
James is a rich man, that we should not buy
many things, but that what we do buy
should be very good. Do you think this
too, Miriam?"
Miriam did not speak. She knew she
might as well try to bend a granite rock as
her mother's will, but all the same she
determined not to be married in a month.
"I will ask Sir James to put it off," she
thought, and she had great faith in Sir
James. She indeed respected his character
she might, perhaps, have loved him but
not now.
"We must arrange to go up town to spend
our 100," continued Mrs- Clyde, pleasant
ly. "It is not so much, but'you will not
want much; I expect Sir James will be very
generous about pin money, etc"
"I think his nature is generous," said
Miriam.
"I am sure it is; you are a Inckygirl, in
deed, to have won such a man! He is not
only all one can wish as to character, but
his position and fortune are both so desir
able. Well, we must invite Joan and her
husband to the wedding in time. Joan
made a good match also, but not equal to
yours."
Again Miriam was silent No one knew
better than she did the result of "Joan's
good match;" no one knew better the secrets
of her brother-in-law's household. There
was a skeleton hidden away under General
Conray's roof a skeleton hidden, yet ever
present to the heart of the young wife. To
do Mrs. Clyde justice she did not know
this; she merely thought Joan was a foolish
young woman not to look perfectly happy
and content with the fate she had provided
for her.
"I will write to Joan to-day, I think, and
tell her it is all settled about your mar
riage," presently said Mrs. Clyde. "I was
so pleased Colonel Lonrey liked Sir James
so much. Colonel Lowrey is a shrewd man
acute and shrewd and I am glad he at
once formed such a good opinion of Sir
James."
"They seemed to get on very well to
gether," ans'wered Miriam.
"Oh, the Colonel was quite charmed with
Sir James, and so pleased that you will
have such a good husband. Well, my dear,
X think now as our little chat is over I
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