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Russia Is Adopting "Uncle
Jerry Busk's System of
Doing Business.
CHOP BEPOKTS AEE GOOD
And a Becurrence of the Suffering of
1S92 Is Kot Feared.
WHAT THE GOYERHMENTHASDONE
Our Donations out a Drop in the Bucket
Compared With Its.
CARPENTER'S SKETCHES OF THE PEOPLE
fCOKBKSrOVBEKCX Or THB PISFATCK.1
St. Petebsbueg, July 15.
HE peasant! have sown
their crops and the pros
pect is that Russia trill
have a fine yield this
Tear. Thereports,which
are received daily here
irom the famine dis
tricts, are very encour
aging, and, though the
famine is still raging,
the backbone of the
demon of Russian starva
tion will, it is believed,
be broken by the 1st of
September, when the
a Policeman.
harvest wil lhave been gathered. Great want
and much suffering, however, will continue
to exist for the next year or so in many of
the states, and a drought this summer may
precipitate a second iamine equally as terri
ble as the present one.
Notwithstanding all that has been pub
lished concerning the famine, we in the
United States have but little idea of its ter
rible extent and of the wonderful manner in
which the Russians have handled it. No
countrr in the world, with perhaps the ex.
ctption of the United States, could with
stand such a strain as Russia is now under-
coinc. and there is no nation in the world,
except perhaps one, that would rise to the
emergency and do so much for its people as
Russia is doing.
Russia lias Done Tier Duty.
The contributions America has made have
been oi great good, and they are most thank
fully and, I might almost say, tearfully re
ceived, but tbev are only a drop in the
bucket to what Russia herself is doing. Our
and other outside gifts amount, all told, to
perhaps $750,000. Tne donations of the
Government and the people represent
in the neighborhood of 5350,000,000
and the Czar himself has given
about $10,000,000 out of his pri
vate fund. The Government loans to
the iamine villages amount to
more thaa $100,000,000 and these loans no
one ever expects that the peasants will
repay. It is a physical impossibility for
them to do so, and, as one of the chief offi
cials of the Government said to me latterly,
the Czar does not expect repayment. He
alwavs gives a present to the peopleupon
certain occasions, such as the coronation of
a grand duke, and at the nextsuch event
one of his presents will probably be the
forgiving of this debt.
This $100,000,000 was given almost out
right by the Government, but in addi
tion to it numerous schemes have been
favored and authorized by the Czar to get
monev for the sufferers, and the bulk of tne
gifts have come from the people. One of
these sAemes was bx a lottery under the
Treasury Department, the prizes of which
were guaranteed by the Imperial Bank and
the profits of which went to the famine.
Russia has no lotteries as the rule, and such
things are ordinarilr against the law. This
lottery brought in about $75,000,000 and all
classes patronized it, many of the wealthy
buying thousands ot tickets.
Lost Ten Thousand Dol'ars in a Lottery.
I know one man here who bought $10,000
worth of tickets, choosing scattering lum
bers, and he did not get a single prize. He
was twitted on his bad luck and replied: "I
don't care, I hare the satisfaction Of know
ing that my 20,000 roubles have gone to
help the famine." St. Petersburg is a city
of many rich people, and many of the
nobles here took Jrom $1,000 to $5,000 worth
of these lottery tickets, but the great ma
jority were sold to people of small means,
and the buying ot them was, eo to speak,
the fad.
Consul General Crawfoid estimates that
the gifts of private citizens in Russia to this
iamine have been not less than 350,000,000
roubles or the enormous sum ot $175,000,000.
The gifts almost surpass comprehension,
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A Peasant Woman.
and are told, notwithstanding the vast pop
ulation oi Russia, they amount, including
those of the Government, to $3 for each
man, woman and child in the whole Russian
Empire, or to $13 per family. "When vou
remember that of the twenty odd million
families that make up the Russian people
not many more than 1,000,000 ot them prob
ably has ever had $15 at one time in its
possession you get some idea ot the mighty
strain this has been on those who could
give and have given. The nobility have In
all cases led the list, and hundreds of well
educated girls and women of the best fam
ilies of this and other Russian cities are
now in the famine districts fighting the
demons of starvation, typhus fever and the
smallpox in behalf of the peasants.
Sacrifices far the Famine Stricken.
A number of these ladies have caught the
diseases of the peasants, and a Russian
Countess who went from St. Petersburg was
among those who took the smallpox. Al
most all of the great landed proprietors in
the famine districts are doing what tbey can
to help their people. I hear oi men who
have been ieeding and caring for 5,000,
10,000 and in some cases even 20,000 and 25,
000 peasants, and Count Bobrlnsky, who is
at the head of the transportation of famine
relief here, is, in connection with his fami
ly, supporting nearly 30,000 people out of
his pwn means, and at the same time aiding
in the distribution of the foreign and Gov
ernment relief fund among the people out
side of the estates. ,
The relief work is not done spasmodically
nor without system. There is a thorough
organization, and as good brains as you Will
find anywhere in the world are managing
PREVENTING
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it. The peasants themselves are like chil
dren, and they require the advice and the
care of children. These people of Russia
of the highest classes go and stay with them.
They visit them In their huts, take care of
the sick for there are but few doctors
and nurse them. "With them is the Russian
Red Cross, which has raised about $35,000,
000 for the sufferers, and which works, as
do all outside institutions, directly under
the Government
Adoptlnn Jerry Rusk's System.
The Government of Russia is planning
great works to prevent the recurrence of
such a condition as now exists. A fund of
$10,000,000 has been set aside to build ele
Tators and places for the storage of grain
in all of the various districts, and through
our Consul General, Dr. John M. Crawford,
the Interior Department has investigated
our system of crop reports, and has just now
decided to adopt this system for Russia.
Secretary Busk forwarded full information,
and from now on the same organized system
that we have constructed will be in force
here. Heretofore Russia has had no agri
cultural statistics and the peasants have
lived from hand to mouth. They are not
economical or thrifty nor accumulative in
our sense of the word, and it requires a
study of their character and their condition
to understand the situation.
Thirty years ago they were in the condi
tion to a great extent of our slaves at the
South, and if to-dav the negro and the
planter had been left to work out their sal-
vation at the close of the war without the
aid of the money and push of the North
they would probably be of somewhat the
same character as these people are here to
day. This statement may, however, be mis
leading. The two races are far different in
character, and after my journey through the
back districts and along regions oi the
Volga I will give a letter describing the
curious features of their life and character,
which are like those of no other people in
the world. My idea is not to write so much
A EUSSIAJT
of the Russian famine as of the Russian
people, and the great Slavic race is one of
the strangest and most peculiar on God's
green earth. They are the baby race among
the great races of the world. They are not
out of their swaddling clothes and into even
the knee pants of the boyhood of civiliza
tion. But for all that their limbs are mus
cular, their features are strong and thev
have the lungs and the staying power of the
bull ot JUasnan.
Something About the People.
Toil see the evidences of the happy-go-lucky
character of the people everywhere
you go. Their condition has been such that
they have never come to understand the
value of monev, and this has been the case
with both rich and poor. The rich have
been so rich that they had all they could
want. The poor have been so poor that
there was no chance for them to get more
than enough for mere existence, and so
with no ambition but for the day both
classes have been rushing madly along until
they are now at the end of their rope, and a
turn will have to come very soon. Said a
Russian bureau officer to me this afternoon:
"The trouble with us is we never think of
the morrow. If we have much to-day we
spend it, and if we have little to-morrow we
make the best of it. If I should give my
drosohky driver 100 roubles to-day it would
all be gone to-morrow, and our people have
not yet the least idea of accumulation and
thrift For this reason many of the best
business establishments of the country are
managed by the Germans and the English,
and most of the factories here are owned by
foreigners."
"But how about the future?" I asked.
"I think we are gradually learning," was
the reply. "The famine has'taught us much,
and there is a steady though very slow
movement toward better business methods
and better ideas of life. The Russian
peasant is, however, hard to change, and
the great trouble is that he Seems to have
an entire lack of ambition. He is satisfied
with his hut and his poverty. "When tou
can get our people to want socks instead of
rags about their feet, and when they think
they need drawers under their calico pants,
you will have made the first great step to
ward the Russia of the future. The spark
of ambition once kindled I believe we have
the foundation elements of one of the great
est peoples of the world."
How tli Russians Look.
No one who visits Russia can be unim
pressed with the strength of character seen
in the faces of the people. I first saw these
Russian peasants at Jerusalem about four
years ago. It was at Easter time, and they
had come by the thousands on a pilgrimage
to the holy sepulcher, and of the polyglot
humanity which was gathered there "iiom
the four quarters of the world there were
none sb strong in feature and in frame as
these Slavs. I see here every day walking
the streets of St Petersburg with bundles
on their backs, driving' cabs or droschkies
and working on the streets, men whose
nobility and strength of feature! would
create remark in any American crowd, and
at every corner you meet men whose faces
are such that you would be proud to ac
knowledge them if you found them among
your ancestral portraits.
Their foreheads are high and broad, their
eyes straight, honest and kindly. Their
noses are large and clean cut, and their
cheekbones often rather prominent Nearly
all are bearded and many are lonx-haired
and part their hair in the middle. Their
frames are as strong as their faces. They
are a big-boned, well-jointed race, and they
look as though they were made to stay.
The women are oi the same character as the
men. They are not handsome nor pretty,
but they look kind and motherly and what
we wonfd call fine-looking. They lack taste
in dress, have no ideas of the harmony of
colors, and wear I mean the peasants
handkerchiefs of all brightest colors of the
rainbow Upon their heads. Their dresses
are of red, blue or other gay colors, and they
are gathered in at the neck and waist, ana
fall to the feet in ungraceful folds. They
have no ideas of corsets and many of them
wear long aprons tied over the bust, gath
ered in at the waist and falling almost to
the feet over their gowns.
Men Tl ear the Flctnresqno Dresses.
lhey are sturdy of frame and rather dnll
and quiet in manner. They do as much
work as the men and the men and women
work in the fields side by side. The men of
the lower classes, as 'I see them Here, are
more pictureSaue in their dress than the
women. Russia is the land of the" cap, the I
long coat and top bdots, and the peasants J
THE
wear ooati of .homespun, with long frocks,
and even such m dress in sheepskin, with
the fur turned in, have their coats reaching
to below the knees. Here Jn St Petersburg
I see few without overcoats, but further
south the peasant man's dress is of red
calico, ihirt and pantaloons, the shirt com
ing outside the pants and belted at the
waist, and his feet are covered with a sort
of coarsely woven straw shoe and his ankles
are swaddled in rags.
The better class of poor people or the
ordinarily well-to-do men here wear long
coats, with top boots, and the national cap
is worn by nearly everyone. This is to a
large extent the costume of the rich, though
the wealthy all over the civilized world
dress much the same as we do. The differ
ence there is largely in the quality ot the
goods worn, and St. Petersburg may be said
to be a oity where the people wear ulsters,
caps and high boots the year round, no mat
ter whether it be as hot as Tophet or as
cold as Alaska. These Russian boots are
worth looking at. They are about the only
cheap thing in Russia, and you can get a
pair made to order for $5. The same leather
and the same work in the United States
would cost you $25, and the finish of the
best leather is as fine as that of a portfolio
or a pocket book.
The Boots Characteristic of Russia,
These boots reach to the knees, and the
best of them shine like patent leather. The
pantaloons are always tucked inside of tbem
and there is a fancy section about six inches
wide above the ankle ot every boot, in
which the leather lies In wrinkles with the
regularity ot a washboard. It takes at least
twice as much leather to make a pair of
Russian boots as it does an American pair,
and the same may be said of the Russian
overcoat. The droschky drivers wear more
cloth than any other cabmen the world over.
It takes more of good cloth for the blue
goods they wear seem to be of excellent
material to make a drotchky driver's coat
than to make a lady's trained ball dress, and
this coat has to be padded and quilted.
FABM SCENE.
This coat has long skirts, and It is made
very large so that' the cabby can stuff his
body out, and especially his back, to give
himself the appearance of prosperous fat
ness. Nine-tenths of these drivers are
padded in this way, and no well-to-do man
would own a lean coachman. Lieutenant
Allen, the military attache of our legation
here, told me yesterday that his coachman
appeared to be of dime-museum fatness when
he engaged him and that he supposed his
great lrame was that of nature, until one
day he met him before he had put in his
pads and he was as thin as a rail and looked
so different that it was some time before he
knew him.
Speaking of Russian caps, the officers
whom yon see here by the thousand all
wear them, and the most of the soldiers
have caps as a part of their uniform. Every
servant or messenger wears a cap, and the
boys from the age of four wear long-visored
caps and little" overcoats just like their
fathers. Even the little girls wear caps,
and the favorite head covering of the little
maidens of from two to six or seven years,
whom J see running about with their nurses
in the parks, is a jockey cap of the bright
est red, blue, yellow or green silk.
The colors of the caps of the men are
usually dark, though they are trimmed with
ail shades of borders and bands, and each
color denotes something. The policemen,
as a rule, have red bands about their caps.
Some of the private soldiers wear caps of
white. Others wear caps like Tarn O'Shan
ters, and the cavalry have as many different
kinds oi headgear as the infantry.
Some officers have green bands about
One of the Priest.
their caps and others blue, and
in short there is every possible
cap combination from the shaggy fur of the
peasant from the wilds of North Russia to
the brimless astrakhan, which, with its red
silk Crown, covers the head of the cartridge-breasted
Uau,cassian soldiers. The
overcoats of the people -from the different
parts oi the country are also different, and
the officers wear coats of different colors and
different grades of length, ranging from the
feet to the top of the boots in size. All told,
the drers of the men is the most picturesque
one of Europe, and the crowds which throng
the streets of St Petersburg are like those
of no other capital of the world. The men"
are naturally large and fine looking. These
long ulsters mace them look bigger, and the
general effect produced is that of a nation
of giants.
The church is perhaps the richest of all
Russian institutions, and the thousands
upon thousands of priests who are supported
by the people are, as a class, the finest look
ing men in the world. They never shave
nor cut their hair and their locks are as
silky as those of a baby, and they stream
down their backs, reaching often almost to
the waist Their faces are rosy and plump,
and showing out under the high black caps
which they wear ou the streets ind over
their long black gowns they look wonder
fully handsome and noble. During their
services in the churches they take off their
caps and their hair flows back .from their
high foreheads, making you think" of the
patriarchs of old, and during aany of the
services they appear in gowns of silver and
gold and wear great tiara-like hits' which
sparkle with gold and Jewels.
tfHAK fc Q. OABfrJtKiJiS.
PITTSBURG- . DISPATCH,
CROESUS IN OFFICE,
Not So Numerous as He Used to Be
in the Balls of Congress.
20 MILLIONAIRES IN THE 400.
Toe Letter S Standi for Shekels, in tne
Legislative Roll CalL
PAYING $1,800 A MOSTH FOE BOARD
CCOBBESrONDI3fO OV TH1 DISrATOft.l
"WASHINQTOH, July 23. "Millionaires!"
exclaimed Mr. Kenna the other day in the
Senate restaurant, "here in this paper is the
old charge revamped that the Senate is com
posed Of magnates and millionaires. I
don't believe there is a national Legisla
ture in the world whose members possess
less moneyl"
" 'House of Lords' they also delight to
call us," added General Manderson from
across the table, "when each of as repre
sents the people of a definite geographic
division and the House of Lords represents
nothing but prescription the entail of a
hereditary aristocracy."
"Yet there are doubtless some attorneys
of corporations, if not 'creatures of corpo
rations,' here," suggested a correspondent
sitting by.
"So there are in every Parliament and
every Legislature." answered Representa
tive Breckenridge, "but I judge from what
I have heard that almost all of the million
aires in the Senate began without a dollar,
as common workmen. And it is the same
at our end of the CapitoL"
"Two began with pick and shovel in Cal
ifornia, without a cent," said one.
"One began as a railroad brakeman," said
another.
raying 81,800 a Month Board. "
"One began by sweeping out a store at $2
a week," said another, "and the boy that,
having got to the top at last, has a perfect
right to pay $1,800 a mouth board at the
Arlington if he wants to; and they say that
is what he actually does pay for himself
and wife."
"And I have no doubt," said another,
"that a majority of the members of both
Houses depend on their Congressional sala
ries for a living."
This conversation set me to thinking and
inquiring, and herein are set down my
findings:
The Senate and House will not now foot
up in the aggregate eo much as they did two
years ago, within 50 or 100 million dollars.
A lew'rich men have come in, but more
have gone. Prom the Senate have departed
Joe Brown, who began as the poorest and
raggedest of Caroline crackers and became a
five millionaire; Farwell, of Chicago, nlio
has 5,000 miles of rail fences in Texas;
Hearst, the many millionaire of the Golden
Gate; Plumb, who had $2,000 a month rom
the "Small Hopes" mine; Spooner, who
earned a pile by hard knocks; Tom Scott,
who began by hoeing corn at 10 cents a day
and climbed upward till he counted his in
ceme at $5,000 a day; Spinola, who began
at the lowest round and climbed to the high
est on which seven figures were written;
Adams, with a $500,000 wife; and several
other suoh.
Money Bans to the Uetter 8.
An odd thing about it this year is that
three-fourths of the wealth in both Houses
belongs to men whose names begin with
"S" Sawyer, Stewart, Stanford, Sanders,
Sherman, Shoup, Spuire, Stockbridge,
Stablnecker, Stevens and Sam Stephenson
a formidable list of purse-bearers. And
Spooner, Snider and Spinola have just with
drawn irom the sibilant association.
The richest Senators are of course from
the Paclfio slope. Stanford is one of the
four or five richest men in the country, and
worries himself all the time about new
schemes forspending his income on his pet
university. I don't know whether he is
worth $30,000,000 or $100,000,000. but as the
larger amount costs more thought and at
tention than the smaller without furnishing
a particle more of comfort, it doesn't make
any difference. Stewart of Nevada, has
his ups and downs. The heathen Chinee id
habits the cattle which he built during one
of bis ups. He lost it all at that time, bnt
is pegging away again. He has a striking
physiognomy put a sardonic smile upon
Michael Angelo's portrait of Jehovah, and
you have Stewart He is ordinarily good
natured and sometimes rich, but he has been
brought to the verge of poverty by helping
his friends. His colleague belongs to the
wealthy wing of the Jones family, and
Felton, of California, has been a bold and
lucky speculator, and hit the bull's eye
during the oil excitement
A Car Lined Willi Solid Silver.
Mitchell and Dolph could foot up per
haps $100,000 apiece; Allen is a popular
young lawyer and gets large fees, and
Squire has no nightmare dreams of the poor
house indeed, one of the organs of the jaw
smiths recently announced that he came to
Washington in "a car lined with solid
silver!" Teller and Wolcott, of Colorado,
are moderately rich, that is, they have out
side incomes more than equal to their
salaries. The same can be said of Mander
son, who has made something in Omaha real
estate.
Almost all of the New England members
in both Houses began with nothing and
have held their own that is, they are de
pendent on their salaries for a living. This
is exactly or nearly true ot Prye, Dixon,
Chandler and the Massachusetts and Con
necticut Senators, but they are all hard
working men of large Influence. Hale ac
2uired about $750,000 when he won Zach
handler's daughter, and he has kept it
Morrill and Aldrich began as grocery
clerks, and they now count their wealth by
six figures. It is understood that Walker,
in the House from Worcester, is a million
aire, making his money in boots and shoes.
He started as a mechanic He could proba
bly buy out all of the highly educated
young Democrats thrown to the surface in
last year's eruption, whom he alludes to col
lectively as "very freSh" and "the Massa
chusetts kindergarten." Cabot Lodge is
said to be rich, as IS also Morse, of the Sun
rise stove polish.
Cleveland Has Hit the Bail's Eye. '
Neither of the New York Senators is
rich indeed, E Tarts was worth a good deal
more than Hill is. This may be the proper
Elace to say that Cleveland has quadrupled
is property since he became President,
and is how probably worth $280,000. The
House has two plumbers Felix Campbell,
ot New York, and Belknap, of Michigan.
Felix is happy in the consciousness that he
could pipe oil $500,000 irom his bank. Bel
knap is doubtless also in the proverbial
condition. Belden, of Syracuse, has-
amassed a million or so in railroads and
things. Boufke Cockran must be well
fixed, for he bought a $100,000 house here
last year, wnicn ne win nave newiy ires
oed when he IS elected Senator in His
cock's place. John R. Fellows, who dl-i
Vldes with Cockran the reputation of being
the most eloquent man in the House, has
scared the wolf way off. He dines on
Ohardberlain's terrapin and lies down at
night amid his varied sumptuosities, gets
big fees ior trying to hammer sense into the
skulls of a petit jury, and the other day de
clined the offer of a $50,000 salary to man
age a large property.
Lockwdod, oi Buffalo, professional nom
inator in chief to Cleveland, married rich.
Tracy, of Albany, can foresee the probabil
ity oi regular meals for a long time. This
gave him the energy requisite to success
fully lead the anti-silver hosts and to get
$2,600,000 in the reciprocal titillation bill
to improve the harbors along the tempest
tossed shores oi Troy and Conoea. Colonel
Greenleaf, who is cordially hated by all
the burglars and bank robbers In the world,
as the prbdocef of elaborate combination
and time locks, is worth only $500,006 or
51,000,000.
' 'J he Pttnsylvaft1an Id Congress.
The members frota Pennsylvania are gen
erally in moderate olttuhntances neither
SUNDAY, JULY 24,
rich nor poor. Don Cameron is the only
millionaire among them, and, by the way,
he is the only member of the Senate who
inherited wealth. His income is said to be
about $90,000 a year about $12 an hour.
He is quiet in manner and dress. Quay is
worth comparatively little. In the Honse,
John Datzell, of Pittsburg, is a thrifty law
yer and worth perhaps $250,000. McAleer,
flour merchant of Philadelphia,'is under
stood to be rich, and Shouk has touched coal
with profit
The New Jersey Senators are well fixed.
If Senator Higgins, of Delaware, is wealthy
he doesn't take any pains to show it His
colleague is said to be Worth $75,000. Ohio
has two Senators calculated to excite the
wrath of Socialists and Anarchists. Brice
is worth many millions made in railroad
ing, and Sherman is rich and would have
been a millionaire long ago if he had given
politics the cold shoulder. But he holds
that some other things are worth more than
money. The Eighteenth, Nineteenth and
Twentieth districts of Ohio are, curiously
enough, all represented by Taylors, and
they possess two-thirds of the wealth of the
Ohio delegation.
The Rich Men Named Taylor.
J. D. Taylor is quite wealthy; E. B. Tay
lor is one of the first lawyers in the State,
and V. A. Taylor is a successful manufact
urer. Senators Toorhees and Turpie, of
Indiana, are of moderate means, though
they win large fees; and none of the mem
bers in the lower House are rich. The most
active aud able of them all, Judge Holman,
is worth little more than his farm at home
probably not $15,000 in all.
In the Senate are three rich lumbermen,
McMillan and Stockbridge, of Michigan,
and Sawyer, of Wisconsin; they are trlll
ionaires. McMillan was, originally, I be
lieve, a railroad conductor, and he did his
duty and crept upward till he got rich as a
car manufacturer and lumber dealer. I
asked Senator Palmer if the Illinois State
delegation were wealthy. "Well," he said,
"we're pretty comfortable. I'll wager that
Collum and I can measure up $50,000 be
tween usl" The richest and perhaps the
ablest and certainly the best educated of
the whole Illinois delegation in tha House
is Robert H. Hitt As a stenographer 34
years ago he reported the Lincoln-Douglass
debate and afterward studied the modern
languages and was found very useful in
diplomatic relations.
One of Michigan's xumber Kings.
One of the wealthy members is known to
his friends as "Sam Stephenson," of Meno
minee, Mich. He made his money in lum
ber. Chipman and Whiting, of the same
State, are also raised far above any inclina
tion to be Socialists, add to request a
"divide." SenatorCasey is rich; so is Petti
grew; Davis insists that the most valuable
quality of money is its transferability, so
he enlists actively in the transfer business,
and though he commands large fees, has a
moderate bank account. Senator Vilas, of
Wisconsin, has as much as he will ever need.
Mitchell, of Milwaukee, is a several times
millionaire; and probably no other member
from the State except, perhaps, Barwig,
who has recently had a windfall, is worth
$50,000.
I asked Representative Breckenridge
how many millionaires there were in the
Arkansas delegation. "Not one!" he said.
"There are, perhaps, two or three ten
thousandaires, and I think there is one who
may be designated a hundred and fiftyaire.
We have hardly anything in Arkansas," he
said, laughing as he vanished within the
door of the House, "except wisdom and
virtue."
Tennessee Doesn't Grow Rich Men.
There is not a man here from Tennessee
worth $50,000, unless it is Senator Harris,
whose boys are running a big ranch down in
Texas that may sometime be worth some
thing, or Joseph E. Washington, who is tne
son of a wealthy man.
' Not more than three cr fonr men from the
South are worth $100,000 Senator George,
of Mississippi, being one; and I cannot
name another at this moment perhaps
Gorman and Ransom. Morgan cab make a
great deal of money, for he has a high rep
utation as a lawyer, and no man in the Sen
ate possesses more all-around information of
an exact sort;' but he probably has little
more than his salary.
Out of 400 members of both Houses there
are less than 20 millionaires; about 50 more
could be called wealthy; a hundred others
are in comfortable circumstances, and more
than 150 are poor and depend upon their
salaries for their support. How is this for
"a plutocracy?" W. A. Cboffut.
A PETRIFIED HTJMAH BODY.
It Was Found by Prospectors In the Bills of
South Dakota.
St. bonis Globe-Democrat.
One of the most wonderful discoveries
ever recorded in the Hills was made a f&v
days ago by some parties about ten miles
north of Hot Springs, S. D., near Wind
Cave. They were prospecting in the Hills,
and in coming down into a ravine saw what
appeared to be a fossil of some kind, similar
to those found down in the Bad Lands,
east of here. They proceeded to un
earth it, and to their great astonishment
found it to be the petrifaction of a man.
They have sold it to George Bronte, who
now has it on exhibition at Wind Cave,
where a large number ot people are going
daily to see it. The specimen is that of a
young man from 25 to 30 years of age, well
formed and fully developed physically. In
height it is 6 feet 1 inches, and belongs to
the dolicephals or round-headed race of
human beings.
The foot, the left one, the right .foot
being missing, must have worn a boot, as
the big toe is very much compressed inward
and the toe nails pressed flat on the top, the
contrary to those wearing no boots. The
left arm is brought down the side with the
hand resting on the abdomen. The right
arm has disappeared about three inches
from the shoulder, and it certainly appears
to have been lost prior to the interment, for
while the left band is securely cemented to
the body from the waist to the finger ends,
there is not the slightest trace of the Tight
hand in any way having touched the trunk.
Now with the right foot it is the reverse,
ior the heels have tonched each other, and
with the disintegration of time the right
heelias carried with it a portion of the left
on the extreme end. The calves of the legs
are securely cemented together. The lips
and eyes are closed.
On the. left arm, extending fonr Inches
above and three below, is what appears to
be a huge scar, probably caused by an ax or
cutlass, and under the left ear Is a small in
cision 1 inches long, which looks as if
caused.by a knife or dagger. The skin is
perfect in minute lines, and except a few
pockmarks, probably caused by insects, is
absolutely periect. it appears tnat tne
specimen is one of the Ango-Saxon race, as
all the characteristics oi an Iudian arc
wanting, mere can be no doubt but it is
one of the most periect petrifactions ever
discovered.
HE BECAME SUDDENLY BICE.
An Enterprising- Swede Goes West and
Acquires Valuable I'rbperty.
Chicago Tribune,- ,
The Norwegian colony along Milwaukee
avenue is now considerably excited over the
good fortune of Edward Olsen, who has
suddenly acquired wealth in a mining enter
prise. Olsen, a Swede, formerly Jived on
Erie street, between May and Curtis, and was
then a salesman in a tea and coflee house.
He left Chicago five years ago, went to
Denver, worked in a laundry, accumulated
a little money, and married. Then he went
on the road traveling and began dabbling in
gold and silver mining property a few miles
irom the hew mining town ot Creede. He
has refused a handsome sum for his claims.
.He reached Chicago yesterday in com
pany with his wife and lawyer to confer, as
to olostng out a bid made him for his min
ing property by Chicago-capitalists. The
price be asks now is, variously stated by his
iriends, all of whom say it runs away up
among six figures.
Volksbran.
Made from pnra malt and hops by Eber
hardt A Ober. Tne great hot weather dviuk.
Bottled or In bulk. On tap at all nrst-olass
restaurants and saloons. ttsu
1892.
OUR CRACK MILITIA.
A New York Exporter Writes Face
tiously From a Safe Distance.
LIABLE TO JERK THE TBIGGEK.
A fair of Socks and lots of Whisky the
Rations of One Soldier.
LITTLE MEN WITH PULL S1ZSI" G0XS
tCOItRISFONDINCE OF THE DISPATCH.
New Yobk, July 22. I was never so de
lighted in my life as I was when I got off
the railroad ferry boat at the foot of Court
landt street last evening and saw looming
np before me the fine physique of a New
Tork policeman. It was all I could do to
restrain myself from running up to him pre-i.
cipitately and grasping him warmly by the
hand. The policeman represented civil law
and order. Coming from the scene ot the
Homestead riots, where I had been on duty
for two weeks, and which I had left 13
hours before, the sight ot the policeman was
a welcome one. We are accustomed to think
lightly of the bluecoat There were times
at Homestead when I devoutly wished I
had with me a few members of the Gotham
foice with their clubs, and this was not be
cause I loved the whole cause of labor less,
but because I loved my life and the Integ
rity of my skull more.
The capture of the town of Homestead by
the Pennsylvania National Guard, or rather
the mobilization or the troops that pre
ceded it,shows that the organization is in ex
cellent condition. Twenty hours after Gov
ernor Pattison issued his proclamation
nearly all the bluecoats needed were on
their way to the scene of the trouble. They
could have been thrown into the town 12
hours before, or a large part of them could.
Teaching Strategy to the Eighteenth.
The Eighteenth Beglment, which belongs
in Pittsburg and whioh, by the request of
its Colonel, was given the right of the line,
was waltzing all around Homestead on a
railroad train on Monday night in order to
impress on the minds of its officers the great
lesson of strategy. People said sneeringly
that the Eighteenth was composed largely
of mill workers and rioters by nature, as
well as sympathizers with the Homestead
people, and it was to refute this charge that
the right of the line was asked by Colonel
Smith.
"We will show them whether wf abandon
our loyalty to the State of Pennsylvania to
oblige'our acquaintances," he said grimly.
The boys in blue did all the work before
them in a soldierly manner. They arrived
on the scene with no tents and little food,
altho&fth thev had been ordered to provide
themselves with three days' rations, and
when they marched into town they were
hungry as bears betides beinz sleepy. Some
critics found fault with the fact that they
went into saloons and consumed liberal
quantities oi beer. When it is remembered
that tbey were cooped up all night in cars,
many of which had in tnem neither ice nor
water, it is hard to say that they were not
entitled to a drink when they coulcTget it.
Some of the strikers said sarcastically that
the soldiers wore kept maneuvering around
Homestead all night on the trains Instead
of entering at once, so that they might
sober up, the story being that most of them,
thinking that tbey were perhaps going to
the slaugbtei, had a final bout with in
toxication before tbey reported for duty at
the armories. That does not accord with
my observation. The men were young and
many of them were thirsty, but as a whole
they were as earnest and sober a set of fel
lows as ever went under arms when they
entered the town.
Some of the Bnji Were Soared.
Each man was provided with 20 rouiids of
ball cartridges. There was plenty more
where that came from, as trouble had been
foreseen. When they went on picket duty
for the night they loaded their guns and
took their posts, some of them quaking.
They 'didn't know whether the crowds ot
women and children who had swarmed
through the cdmp during the day, peering
with curiosity into the camps and examin
ing the guns which might be used later to
shoot their husbands, brothers and sons,
would not be succeeded at night by
desperate men crawling in on all lours to
blow them up with dynamite bombs or
seize their arms.
One of the lieutenants attached to the
Provost Marshal's guard made a frank ad
mission to me during the dark watches of
Tuesday night. A report came down from
division headquarters that firing had been
heard in the town, and I marched up to the
Provost Marshal's camp, the nearest to the
town, to ask for information.
As I stumbled over the meadows I heard
a yell of "Halt! Who goes there?" and a
couple of little sentrymen pointed their
bayonneted rifles at me from a point about
ten feet away. The men were not more
than four feet high four feet each and, I
think, they had not been measured for
their rifle, for these were many sizes too
large, aud when later they shouldered
them, there was a topheavy effect extreme
ly ludicrous. The lieutenant happened on
my approach to be talking to the boys, and
I heard him whisper to tbem not to slay
me. x men snowea mm my credentials,
which he approved and gave me the infor
mation which I sought, which was that the
reported firing was the explosion of tor
pedes under railroads trains. Then he
thought he would give me a word of advice,
too, and this is what he said:
They Were 1,1 eh t on the Trigger.
JIv friend, we have on duty a number of
young men who never before held in their
hands a loaded rifle. They have nil sorts of
notions of What they came np here for, and
tliey don't know what they ate to expect on
picket duty. I would advise you not to go
up to the picket lines at nlghr, although 1
have no objection to your doln so. Ihe
doctrine of chance makes It certain, how
ever, that if you go up to the lines a suffi
cient number of times some enthuniastlo
member of the guald will shoot yon first
and then send for the corporal to ask: you
who you are. Ton will understand that I do
not want to be gnllty of an impertinent in
terference in the matter of your-life ana
death. It Is of no possible moment-to me.
but I felt that it might be to you, and so 1
tola you tnese lacts.
I thanked him and withdrew.
Thimblerig men and hucksters began td
arrive around the camp as soon as it was
founded. The hucksters brought no arms
with which to assault the militia, but they
carried the deadly watermelon and the in
digestible peanut. A soldier showed me a
harversack containing a pair of socks and
lour quarts of whisky, which wnS his idea of
the prime necessities of Hie. When I asked
him wbat he was doing with so many socks
ne explained tnat tney were meant to stop
the bottles fiom rubbing against each other
and breaking.
The Sewer Gni of flamettead.
Though tbey camp in inhospitable hilts
and though they may net net when it rains
and too dry when it doen't the militiamen
are much better off than thestranpra to the
town time live in houses. Homestead peo
ple breathe uu ulr of sewer castliatf trj
in;; to the stranger, and do what ho can he
is unable to biin htuuelf to like it. The in
habitants do, tllonjju. When taken nway
from Hbinestead they go and put their Iicnila
into culverts and hold them tlicro Mr Hours
when they feel lonesome and sick nt Heart.
It reminds them or their beloved town.
The Philadelphia City Troop, the crack
command from a tailoring point of view,
have a deep grudxe to settle with tha people
of Western Pennsylvania. When they last
went to that section of tne ct.Kntry the riot
els so oventwed them that they went home
in bonnetu and lrocka disguised as u young
ladles' seminary, so the story (joes. The
troopers called out by tho Governor, how
ever, are a little too touh looking to be able
to do thii again. It vim sitld that some or
them described the conduct of the. workmen
as ''disgustingly beastly" to raise a low just
as they weie paiking up to go tb Newporr iir
Europe.
. New York Sereid correspondent. ,
Mr, Lander lteetiminendatlon.
Mr. J. A. L&hder, a prominent citizen ot
Clarksburg, Mo., and widely known in that
State, says of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera
and Dlarrhcea Bemedyt "I have seen its
good results andean recommend it," jfor
sale by druggists; ' znwxhsu
WB1TTEN FOB
BY DORA
Author of "Footprints in the Snow," "The Broken Seal,
Track of the Storm,"
SYNOPSIS OB FBETIOU3 CHAPTERS.
Two lovers, Sir James MacKennon, Bart., and Miss Miriam Clyde, are standing by tha
seashore, and the former is roving her to name the wedding day. She pleads for delar. In
the meantime an accident occurs, a soldier being wounded by a firing party. Miriam binds
up hie wound and saves his life. Glancinsr at each other's face a mutual recognition takes
Eiace. On arriving home the doctor who was summoned to the wonnded man gave
er a note whioh the soldier had hastily scribbled. It contains the words "For God's sake
keep my secret." Miriam, by means or Dr. Beed, sends to her soldier-patient a brief mes
sage, "Do not be afraid!" which he receives as he is lying in the hospital. In the meantime
Miriam's mother. Mrs. Clyde, makes np her mind that her daughter shall bo married to Sir
James in a month, and tells her so. But Miriam, thinking of a lire dearer than her own,
hanzlnjr in tbe balance, pleads earnestly for more time. Mrs. Clyde writes to her other
daughter, Joan, who Is married to hard and stern General Conway, asking them to the
wedding. Conway thinks it's a good match, but pains Joan by Intimating that Miriam
should not so soon forjret another affair in which hit nephew was the hero. He and Mr.
Clyde agree it is best to hurrr the wedding for fear Sir James should bear of that. Miriam
is obstinate, and (rets Sir James to ask Mrs. Clyde for postponement. Colonel Clyde U
unable to chanare Miriam's mind. She worries herself sick, and Dr. Beed Is sent for. By
means of notes through him. Miriam and Private Dare arrange a clandestine meeting.
Miriam tells her secret lover he most leave the country. He says he would have to tray
his way out or the army. At her next rneetins with Sir James she asks him for the neces
sary money, and he gives her double the amount. Then she arranges another clandestine
meeting, and Just as she is returning to her room in the night Mrs. Clyde catches her. Mrs.
Clyde suspects the trnth, but Miriam refuses to tell her. Dare meets Ford and gives her
the money to sive back to Miriam. Mrs. Clyde decides to have the weading at London, and
she and her daughter go there.
COPTEIGHT, 1S92,
CHAPTER XVIL
A HAtnniiro dread.
General Conray slept little that night
He lay still, revolving in his mind the cir
cumstances of Kobert Conray's death. They
haunted hint with grim distinctness; he saw
again his dead nephew's ace; he heard the
evidence at the inquest, and the doubts as
to how he had died.
It had never been satisfactorily cleared
up. Captain Kobert Conway, a handsome,
distinguished looking young man, who at
this time held an appointment on General
Conray's staff, had one morning been found
dead in the grounds of Tyeford Hall, where
the General lived, with a bullet wound in
his throat. He had been dead for hours the
doctors said when he was discovered, and
whether he had died by his own hands or
been murdered remained a mystery, as his
wound, the doctors also stated,
blight have been self-inflicted. But
no weapon was found near him,
ana one witness an orderly, who was
passing through the grounds with the letter
bag containing the letters by the last post
ior the General stated that about 10
o'clock in tbe evening he had seen Captain
Conray in the grounds with a lady whom
he belieSed to be the General's wife. Bnt
Miriam Clyde then cameforwardand stated
that it was she, not her sister, that the or
derly had seen with Captain Conray. She
had met him in the grounds about 10
o'clock, and had parted with him an hour
later, leaving him alive and well. She
added that she was then engaged to be mar
ried to him, though this fact was known
only to her sister Joan. She was asked if
she had had any quarrel with him, and she
said no. And Joan had confirmed this
statement But after awhile grave sus
picion had fallen on a brother officer of the
deceased, named Hugh Ferrari. This
young man was known to be an admirer of
Miriam Clyde, and was said to have been
passionately in love with her. But General
Conray had disapproved of his suit, and
had forbidden him his house. And from
the morning that Bobert Conray was
found dead in the grounds of Tyeford
Hall, Iiientenant Hugh Earrars had disap
peared. At first this did not attract any at
tention. He had been on leave at the time,
ana only when his leave expired were in
quiries made about him. But these were
all in Vain. He had been staying in town
when he was last heard of, and his luggage
.was found at the hotel he had lived at, but
the man himself had vanished, lib had
never been seen or heard oi since the day
that Bobert Conray had died. He had left
the hotel that day, saying he would return
on the following day, bnt he never came
back. His people were communicated with,
but they knew nothing. His father was
the clergyman of a country parish in York
shire, and during part of his leave he had
been at home. Then he had gone up to
town, and they had heard nothing of him
since. Presently people began to talk of
him in connection with Kobert Conray's
mysterious death. Tbey had been intimate
friends, but if both had been lovers of
Miriam Clyde here was a motive at once ior
Bobert Conray's murder. At all events, a
warrant was finally issned for his appre
hension, but the police were completely
baffled. No trace of him could be found,
and he had passed away from the knowledge
ot his fellow men as completely as if he
were dead. His patents believed him to be
dead, and mourned for him, but General
Conway had never been quite satisfied on
this point. True, he might have been
robbed and murdered, and thrown into the
dark waters of the river, rolling noiselessly
through the great city, and hiding some of
its misery and sin. This was the theory of
the hapless country parson, who came up to
town to assist in, the search, and stood hope
lessly on bridge after bridge, peering down
into the Thames, believing that his son's
body lay somewhere in its gloomy depths.
All this had happened nearly two years
ago, and had faded out of the recollection
of most people, but General Conray had
never forgotten his nephew's sndden death,
and he lay thinking of it now, and the look
of fear in Joan's eyes when he had asked
her if she were dreaming of "poor Kobert,"
had driven an uneasy pang of strange doubt
into his heart.
And to Joan his words had brought abso
lute dread. She had told Miriam she was
always dreaming of Kobert Couroy, and
now she had spoken of him in her sleepl A
haunting fear oi this had possessed her ever
since his death. What it tuts grim secret
that the two sisters had hidden in their
hearts so long, were to be betrayed by bab
bling words she cbuld not control. Joan
shuddered when she thought of it. She
must not sleep she told herself; she must
lie awake if it killed her. And she did lie
awake; lay pinching the white flesh of her
arms to keep the drowsy feelings oi weari
ness away. OhI the long, miserable hoursl
The General slept at last, but not Joan.
The gloomy November dawn found her
pate, haggard-eyed, but alert. And she
noticed that during the day that followed
the General looked at her more than once
with an expression in his eyes she had
never seen there before. Could any sus
picions of the truth have entered his neort7
But no, no; Joan told herself this was Im
possible. Still her nerves felt shattered,
and her sleepless night had wearied her so
that in the afternoon she declined to go out
with either her mother or husband, but lay
down add took the rest she so much needed.
For she must not sleep during the night
Joan had Set herself this task, and for two
mere nights she kept to her resolution.
They were the last two nights they had to
spend in town, the Clydes returning to
Newbrongb-On-the-Sea, and the General
and his wile to Tyefbrd Hall.
Joan was delicate, and this enforced sleep
THE DISPATCH
RUSSELL,
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The
"A Jatal Fast," -Etc.
BT DORA BTJSSELL.
lessness told greatly on her health. Both
her mother and her husband felt anxious
about her during these last few days in
town; but Joan made no complaints. Then
the wedding party broke up, and Joan
and her husband started for Tyeford.
She felt so weary on the journey it was
all she could do to keep herself awake in
the train. Her eyes closed involuntarily,
and she could scarcely hold up her head. It
was late in the day before they reached the
station nearest the General's house. Then
came a long drive in tbe dark, and by the
time they reached Tyeford Joan felt com
pletely exhausted.
She sighed wearily as she entered her
comfortable and well-furnished home. The
General had taken Tyeford Hall when he
had been appointed to the Southern district
which he commanded, and he had brought
his young wife there as a bride. It stood
in extensive and well-kept grounds, and
from the upper windows you had a 'glimpse
of the sea. It was in these grounds that
the tragic death of Kobert Conray had oc
curred, and Miriam had never visited her
sister since.
Joan thought of Kobert Conway as they
drove up to the house; thought of him as
she entered the well-lighted hall, as she
walked up the broad staircase. To her the
whole place was haunted by his memory.
Yet she had never suggested to the General
any wish to leave it He had taken it for a
term of years, and it was conveniently situ
ated for his command, being only about half
a mile distant from the barracks.
A letter from Miriam, the bride, awaited
Joan. The General brought this up to her
after her had opened the letter-bag. Joan put
out hef hand languidly to receive it, and as
she did so herhusband noticed how extreme
ly pale and tired she looked.
"You are quite done up, Joan," he said:
"all this business about the wedding had
been too much for you; yon must have a
good rest to-nighL"
"Yes," answered Joan, all the while de
termined that she'would take ''L,m
"Well, what does theubMtfSrsay7Twent on
the General.
Then Joan opened her letter, which was
from Paris. Miriam wrote cheerfully, and
there was no allusion in it to the past, which
both the sisters regarded with such shrink
ing dread. She mentioned her husband's
name once or twice, and told her sister what
lovely furs James had bought her. "He is
very good and kind to me," she added, "and
very unselfish."
"She seems all right," said?oan, after
she had finished reading the letter, and then
she handed it to the General, who also read
it, and then laid it on the table beside his
Wife.
"Well, I hope she will be happy," he
said. "She has got, I believe, a good hus
band, and I trust she will make a good
wife."
Joan did not speak, and then the General
laid his hand upon her shoulder.
"And you, poor little woman," he said,
"must go to bed directly after dinner. Yon
are dead tired, and nothing but a sound
sleep will refresh you."
He left the room after this, and Joan
then took some sal volatile to keep herself
no. and dressed for dinner. And after din
ner the General insisted she should retire
for the night
"I have a lot of papers to go through'
he said, "and it will be 12 or later before I
bave done. But vou must go to bed at
once. Come, Joan, it is quite time you
were there."
And at this moment it passed through ,
Joan's mind she might indulge in tbe sleep
she so much required before her husband
came up stairs. She was utterly exhausted
and her eyes heavy with drowsiness, and
she felt she would give almost anything for
an hour's sleep.
"Very well," she said, "I will go;" and
she rose and left the room, while her hus
band went to the library to work.
Joan was so tired that three minntef
after she was in bed she was fast asleep.
Asleep when 12 o'clock came, and the Gen
eral quietly entered the room. She was
sleeping tbe deep sleep of utter exhaustion,
and she never beard her husband's foot
steps. She looked worn and white, he
thought, and he made as little noise as pos
sible, and very soon afterwards he also was
asleep.
When he awoke it was the morning. He
awoke with a start, and glancing quickly
round he beard Joan's voice speaking in
loud and unnatural tones. He looked at
her attentively, arid saw by the dim light
she was still asleep. She was dreaming,
but her features wore an expression oi
great suffering, even anguish.
"Don't look like that Robert! Robert!"
she cried. "Speak, speak to me say one
word!"
She stretched out her arms as she spoke,
as If entreatingly; her voice was lull of in
tense pain, and the General drew back In
sudden 'dread aud listened with bated
breath.
"Kobert!" she wailed out once more;
"Robert!" and then her expression changed.
"Why did von do it?" she asked, with
startling suddenness, as it addressing some
invisible presence. "He did you no wrong;
he was mine, not Miriam's only mine!"
There was silence in the room after this;
a silence that the sleeping woman broke no
more. But the gray-haired man by her
side rose ind crept away; the iron had en
tered into his soul.
CHAPTER XVIII.
A FEVEBED liHAlir.
Joan went down to breakfast at the usual -hour,
for her dream-haunted sleep had re
freshed her in spite of all its horrors. But
her husband was not in the room, nor did
he return during the day until dinner time.
This fritrhtened Joan, for the General was
always thoughtful of her, and she began to
fear that something was amiss. And at,,
dinner time she was sure of this. The Gea- .
eral was so cold and stern in his maaar,4
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