1ST
MOBS OF A CENTURY.
The Bloody KiotsThat Have Occurred
in This Free Land.
WASHINGTON'S HOOSE STORMED.
How the Keystone State Has Figured in
the Record of Disorders.
CAUSES THAT LED TO UPRISINGS.
"This free country," says a writer in the
New York UurM, ""where law has always
triumphed in the end, has Been many
bloody mobs from the beginning of its his
tory. Some ot them are almost forgotten,
end are worth recalling.
"One of the problems which beset the
early politicians was the aggressive and
brutal custom of England in impressing our
seamen on the high seas. It so happened
thai abont 1793, when the question of im
pressment was particularly agitating the
public mind, Enclaud and France became
engaged in open warfare. "Washington de
cided upon a policy of neutrality. The gen
eral ieeling In the United States, however,
was with France. The tri-color repre
sented liberty, and as such was popular
with us.
"At thU juncture florid.fat, fanatic
Frenchman appeared in America as the ac
credited representative of France, or of the
Girondists, who were uppermost at the
time. Citizen Genet, as he was called, had
a dangerous duty to perform. Secretly he
proposed to get America to assist the
French against England.
"Genet" distributed a number of letters of
marque and reprisal to such A'merican
ship's captains as his glowing oilers of re
ward could allure into a system ofpiracv
directed against Great Britain. The news
came to official ears. Genet promptly de
nied his act of treason. He explained that
the commissions were not given under au
thority of the French, but under seal of pri
vate French enterprise; but all this only
made the matter worse. In due course the
Little Democrat as fitted out as a pri
vateer.
VI Bthington Threatened by a Mob.
"Genet came on to .New York, where he
net nith an enthusiastio reception. A
trusted official in the employ ot the Gov
ernment called on Citizen Genet and asked
an explanation of the fitting out of the Lit
tle Democrat. In wild rage the Irate
Frenchman threatened "Washington, declar
ing that he would appeal from the President
to the people. Messrs. Henfield and Sin
gleton, alleged pirates, were promptly ar
rrsted, and subsequently they were dis
charged. This was a new victory for Citi
zen Genet, who sat in the old Tontine coffee
house, New York City, laughing gleefully,
while outside Irom the flagstaff flaunted in
the breeze the red cap of liberty and the
French flag. He called the proposed piracy
'serving France.' He said that the United
States in prosecuting was guilty of 'the
crime of abandoning lriends.
"A placard was carried through the streets
representing "Washington on the guillotine.
Excitement rose to such a pitch that for
days lully 10,000 people stood under "Wash
ington's windows, before his house in Phila
delphia, threatening to drag the President
through the gutters. "Washington was on
the point of ordering Genet out of the coun
try when word came that Genet's party had
gone to pieces in France. He was forced to
abandon his mission to become a private
American citizen.
Mobs In the Keystone State.
"Pennsylvania, the seat of many riots,
was the first State in the Union to witness
a general uprising. In March, 1799, the
Germans of Eastern Pennsylvania resisted
the officers who came to take the measure
Ot the windows in their homes. A direct
tax had been levied on window glass.
Thirty citizens were arrested. Thev were
conveyed to jail to await trial. Suddenly a
body of horsemen, headed by one Fries, ap
peared, surrounded the prison and effected
the release of the prisoners. The militia
v as promptly called out. The mob reigned
for some days all through Northampton,
Bucks and Montgomery counties. .Fries
vas captured and placed on trial for trea
son. It as the first time such a charge
hail been'pressed against a citizen of the
1 nitcd States. He was convicted, pleaded
lutid lor a second trial, and was finally con
d raurd to death. At the last moment
President Adams came forward with a par
don. For this he made many political ene
mies. "In Baltimore, August, 1891, the first
blood was shed by a mob after the revolu
tion. A newspaper of that city violently
attacked President Jefierson's embargo,
v Inch stopped the foreign commerce of this
country. One dark night a mob broke into
the office ot the paper, smashed the presses
and sacked the building. In the course of
the not 11 men and women were ruthlessly
shot down.
"The abduction of the poorBatavia brick
layer, William Morgan, is still surrounded
with some mystery, but not the disorders
which preceded it. Morgan had just been
initiated into the secrets of Free Masonry.
He was needy, and thought that he might
make a little money by publishing some of
WITH IRON WILL:
CHAPTEK L
Sly boat is lying motionless in a Bh&dy
nook, and I am looking down dreamily into
tlie stream. Scarcely a cloud crosses the
blue depth of sky, and the reflected sun
light finds its ay Detween the shadow of
branches and clusters of leaves. It is an
ideal landscape a landscape trembling in
liquid light end shade. I am still looking
downward into this sunlit, leafy scene, and
living more within to than in the material
world around me, when I became conscious
of maiden eyes gazing up laughingly into
mine. 'ever was lovelier face mirrored in
nature's looking glass. The eyes are large
and dark, with a liquid light of their own
beaming between the black, quivering
laiheb. the iull lips are halt-parted with in
quisitive surprise, and round the oval face
there is a halo of reddish-brown hair re
sembling the autumn foliage in its russet
tint
The face is gone. A slight movement of
my boat has blurred my watery mirror; and
there is nothing more to be seen down there.
So I return to earth. I glance up at the
high bank under which my boat 'is moored,
v here the pendant branches almost meet
overhead. I look around me with the taint
hope that the face is not a disembodied
shadow a mere "creation of a poetic
lancy." The landscape, which I had seen
repeated in the river, is visible in all its
actual beauty, with the sunlight breaking
in between 'the leaves. But no laughing
eyes now meet mine.
I ;ink down into my boat, but not with
any sense of despair. I am hopeful of
uieeting rar water-nymph again. I loose
my boat and let it glide of its own free will
downstream; I have no thought of hurrying
Lway. I m still in the deep heart of the
v ood, and this shady stream is its life,
Honing geUlj through it.
1 came out of this deep solitude at last.
The river broadened and I pulled vigor
ously up stream in the hot, dazzling sun
light. Presently a pretty riverside inn was
reached and I was greeted by the landlady
with a long, pitiful lace. Not that she
suspected me of possessing a spark of ro
mance. It was my dinner that troubled
l.er. It had been "put back," as she ex
pressed it, a dozen times and was nearly
spoiled. Nor did matters improvo when
she discovered that I had lost my appetite
and nai even less inclined than usual to be
talkative, or, more strictly speaking, to
tolerate her talk. Sho naturally concluded
that her cooking was at fault. I hastened
the 'secrets of the order. As he had a
turn at writing, his task was filled. ' In due
course the manuscript was handed to a
country printer.
"The affair came to the ears of the local
lodge. The Free Masons broke into the
printing office, smashed the presses, stole
the manuscript, and finally burned down
the building. Morgan was brought to trial
and finally discharged. Alter, that he dis
appeared from the sight of men. The result
was that other mobs rose and denounced
Free Masonry all over the union. Morgan's
book was a feeble effort, after alL
"As a result of the Morgan excitement,
the Phi Beta Kappa Secret Society was
expelled from Harvard in 183L Free
Masonry became a political issue.
A Great Tear for Blot.
"The year 1831 is notorious for its rials.
Political" excitement was roused by Presi
dent Jackson's Tefusal to recharter the
United States Bank. A worthless paper
currency soon menaced thousands with ruin.
The April elections in New York City
witnessed some Bevere rioting. For four
days troops were quartered in Washington
Square trying to qnell the violence ot the
mobs.
"In October oT the same year the City of
Brotherly Love was shocked by terrible
riots. The mob destroyed 30 buildings,
among them two churches. An old negro
was made to leap out of an upper story
of a high building. The ringleaders were
convicts and miscreants of the worst kind.
"But this riot was less disgraceful than
the attack on "the Ursullne Convent at
Charleston Heights, near Boston, which oc
curred in the same year. Somehow a story
spread that a young girl who had taken the
veil had been so abused that she had escaped
to save her life, but had been recaptured
and now was inured in a dungeon under the
convent. The story was utterly absurd. As
a matter of fact, a girl, delirious from fever,
had wandered away and had returned volun
tarily, under the care of her brother. A
band of fanatics, dressed as ,for a mas
querade, surrounded the convent one night
and ordered all the inmates to leave in halt
an hour, under the penalty of death. Then
the building was burned. The work of de
struction was continued for hours. All the
sacred vestments, the altars, the hymn
books, the religious libraries, the personal
effects of the inmates, were dragged to the
lawn, heaped up and destroyed by fire.
"But the outrage did not end there. A
year after ths burning of the convent the
anniversary was celebrated by the populace
of Bunker Hill, who gave a grand picnic,
with a shooting match, an effigy ot the Lady
Superior or the convent being used as a tar
get. The Bread Riots of 1837.
"In the year 1837, owing to commercial
distress, mobs fought for bread in the
streets of New York. A year before, on
December IS, 1833, a terrible fire occurred
in the vicinity of "Wall and Pearl streets.
Over 700 stores were destroyed, valued at
$20,000,000. Large quantities of merchan
dise on the docks ready for shipment were
licked up by the flame's. The season follow
ing was one of great suffering. That winter
there were mass meetings and denun
ciation of the high rents. Af
fairs came to a climax when it was
tainted that certain dealers had cor
nered the fionr market, in the hope of
squrezing the last penny out of the people
already on the verge of starvation. A huge
mob formed near the New York City Hall.
It descended on the warehouse of a flour
dealer. The doors were broken iu; the
windows were smashed; the famishing peo
ple broke through the walls. Then they
knocked in the heads of the barrels and
rolled them into the gutter. 'Old crones
darted forward like birds of prey,' says a
historian of the hour, 'and filling baskets
and aprons with the soft drift, which lay
knee deep on the pavement, whiter than
snowflakes, made off to their homes.'
A Gallows for Early Abolition Editors.
"The methods of that earliest ot Aboli
tion editors, "William Lloyd Garrison, con
duced to mob violence. One of Garrison's
schemes was to print the picture of a slave
on a handkerchief, roll it in a wrapper and
send it, along with inflammatory tracts, to
slave owners in the South. On one occa
sion a mob of 3,000 tore open the United
States mail bags in Charleston, seeking Gar
rison's tracts. Not long after that he im
ported a hot-headed Englishman, named
Thompson, to stir up matters by pub
lic addresses. Thompson spoke so well
that one, night Garrison found set
up before his door a gollows in
the streets of Boston, an ominous warning
of his fate. The next day a furious mob of
over 5,000 people chased the editor through
the streets. He was caught and a rope put
around his neck. There were loud cries
that he should be hanged. The Mayor in
terceded and Garrison was arrested as a
feint to get him out of the hands of the
mob. He passed the night in jaiL The
streets were thirsting tor his gore. But he
was spirited away and lived to see many
another mob.
"There have been other mobs within the
memory of persons who are now only middle-aged,
including the draft rioters.'
Gold Bullion
Is attraotlve, but Its hue In the skin and eye
balls Is repulsive, and indicates biliousness,
a malady, however, easily remediable with
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, nausea, sick
headache, pains through the right side and
shoulder blade are manifestations of liver
complaint, dlsmissable with the bitters,
which also banishes malarial, rheumatic
and kidney complaints, nervousness and
constipation.
to assure her that it was "the weather," her
cooking hsd nothing to do with it She ap
peared pacified and I now took the oppor
tunity of putting a question which had been
on the top of my tongue all dinner time.
"Who lives" and I tried to speak with
as much indifference as possible "who
lives in that fine park with a white house
on the slope? That little river down stream
whatever it's called runs through the
property. Anyone of Importance?"
"Why, that's "Wakering Hall. Colonel
Hethersett lives there."
I allowed an exclamation of snrprlse to
escape me, of which I soon repented. Not
that I wished to hide from the landlady, for
any deep reason, that ttje name of Hether
sett was familiar to me. But I quickly re
alized that I had lossened her tongue. I
knew all, more, at least, than she did
about the owner of Wakering Hall; I was
quite convinced of that The question was
how to put an end to loquacity? I dispensed
with ceremony, if any was expected of me;
so hastily left my seat at the' table and
broke up the "conference" by politely ask
ing for a match. Scarcely pausing to light
my cigarette I made an escape into the
open air and turned my steps in the direc
tion of Wakering HalL
Some ten years ago, while I was still a
student at St Bartholomew's, London, a
serious affair had come under my notice. A
man was brought into the hospital late one
night, seriously injured. He had been
found in. one of the by-streets in the neigh
borhood of Smithfield in an unconscious
state. It was apparently a case of attempted
murder, though what the would-be assassin's
actual motive had been for tbe attack
whether revenge or robbery was never
clearly ascertained. No robbery had been
committed, and when mv patient recovered,
after some weeks of suffering, he threw no
light, on the matter. I was In constant at
tendance upon him, and it was my unex
pressed belief that he could have partially
solved the mystery if he so disposed. But
he volunteered no explanation. The busi
ness was, so he declared, in his lawyer's
hands; and it did not appear to be anyone
else's right to interfere. And yet I was
deeply interested, not only in the case, but
in the striking appearance of my patient
and many remarkable traits in his charac
ter. A word, often a mere look irom him,
would instantly obtain obedience. He never
showed 'a sign of ill temper; and yet be
made one feel that he was naturally pas
sionate, and that to provoke him would be
a dangerous txperiment His very voice
expressed his indomitable will. His name
was Hethersett, as I now distinctly reftnem
ber Colonel Hethersett, of Wakering,
THE PTTTSBUEQ .
BY SAD SEA WAVES.
Gath Tells Why Some Watering Places
Are Not Patronized.
THE TARIFFS ARE TOO HIGH.
Enough to 'Ftart a Country House Is
Consumed In a Few Weeks. .
T,0XG BRANCH A TEBR1BLE EXAMPLE
Mr. George"" Alfred Townsend, who has
been at Long Branch, has written a letter
for the newspapers, in which he makes it
perfectly clear why our watering places are
declining in popularity. He says:
"I said to a hotel man who was straining
every nerve to have a good season: '"Why
don't you drop yonr prices to what they
were before the war somewhat? Modify
your bill of fare, and fill your honse at $2 60
a.day, instead of having only fifty guests at
$4 60 a day.'
" 'I can't do it,' said he; 'it costs me too
much.'
"Said I : I don't see how it can cost you
so much. Labor may be higher than before
the war, but I see nothing else that is
higher. Beef Is no higher. Fish may be
higher, but that is only because you do not
keep a boat to go out there to the banks
and catch them. A party of your ex
cursionists came in here yesterday with 400
pounds of fish and gave them to you, and
yet you are buying fish frora New York and
send it 200 miles where you are catching
sharks right off your wharf here. Furni
ture is half the price it was before the war.
Carpets are less than half the price they
were. I don't believe that clerical hire is
very much higher than it was. Ypu may
have to pay your cook more, but that
is because you did not train one of yonr
sons or daughters to be a chef, which is one
of the best salaried places in America now.
Twenty-five Cents for at ehavr.
"After this conversation I went around to
the barber and he charged mo 25 cents to
shave me. The same barber in a place an
hour distant, from which he came, was glad
to get 10 cents for a shave. It did not strike
me favorably that he put 15-7 per cent upon
the price ot a shave. In the hotels these
days the porter never blacks your boots if
you put them outside of the door. Morn
ing after morning you must ring your bell
in order that he may send up and get his 10
cents. The reason 'is that the proprietor
does not pay him a lump sum to black boots,
but allows him to forage on the guests.
Twenty-five cents a drink for whisky,which
at the highest costs 6 a gallon, is somewhat
excessive, particularly when we know what
an immense storage of whisky is in this
country. There are four quart bottles of
whisky to a gallon, worth at 0, SI 60 a bot
tle. How many drinks to a bottle the bar
keeper cannot tell, but there should be more
than six.
"One cause of the high prices at summer
resorts is the inequality ot means and hab
its among the guests. Here is one man who
will open four bottles of champagne a day
for a round of a week, making over two
cases of champagne, with a profit of per
haps, $1 60 a bottle. In few other countries
wonld this sort of man exist, but as we are
all equal here a rich and liberal man likes
to spend his money for the benefit of his
friends. At the same time he is making it
hard for those who cut out a steady line o'f
expenditures to keep within their means.
Why Steamships Are Filled.
"The very high prices charged at all our
summer resorts, big and little, large and
inferior, have tailed the steamships going to
Europe, and upon these steamers there are
no extravagances of food. The onlv ex
travagance I know of on a steamship fs the
buying of an officer's room at double price.
Steamship fare is about the same on all the
lines, exoept perhaps the French line,
which gives wine. I should think 'that a
cabin passenger might be led for a dollar a
day upon a steamship. Hence, if you can
fill the steamships at 10 a day you can
make ?8 or 9 profit over the expense of
subsistence. The passenger commonly pays
the table waiter and the bedroom steward,
and also the smoking room steward. If
there be musio on board they make a col
lection and pay themselves in that way.
"A passenger at sea saves from one-half
to the whole of his daily incidental ex
penses on land. He does not have to ride
in carriages, to treat females or friends, to
order game suppers or anything of that sort.
The highly democratic leveller called sea
sickness comes in and makes too much eat
ing out of the question. So $10 a day at
sea is the equivalent of $25 ashore at a
watering place. Many of the passengers
aboard pay no such sum as $100 for a berth.
I am rather of the opinion that 550 comes as
close to the standard cabin fare as any sum
that might be named. The steamships can
extend their cabin service into the second
cabin "by merely moving the barrier for
ward, lor there is no difference between
second cabin staterooms and first cabin In
size. Not only have the Atlantic steamers
been enlarged in size and in number until
nearly every nation has its steamship line,
but greater aqd greater steamers are being
built, and the Americans at last have got
Hall; and on taking leave of me he ex
tracted, a promise that should I ever happen
to be in the neighborhood of Wakering I
would pay him a visit His name, even
the name" of the village, had almost en
tirely escaped my memory. Ten years in
the midst of a busy professional life in Lon
don will force a man to torget everything
except his immediate surroundings.
The twilight is nearly gone; the last rays
die out as the clouds raise and cover the
sky. The day is over, and when I gain the
high road, dark and lonely with its steep
hills on either side, it is night. At a turn
in the road, and only a few yards ahead ot
me, I observe a broad streak ot light stretch
ing across the highway. On the hillside,
at the point from which the light appears
to issue, bluish transparent flames rise like
lambent tongues of fire toward the dark
sky. As I approach nearer and come within
the space of light, I find that it proceeds
from a large limekiln standing back some
Eaces from the road and built against the
ilL A man springs up suddenly from the
ground. I accost him with a cherry "Good
evening." The watchman, as I conclude
him to be, gruffly echoes my greeting.
"Why, my friend," I venture to remark,
"you re warm enough here to roast an oxl"
"It is warm," replied the watchman.
"But it is worse much worse on a blaz
ing hot day, I can tell you. And that," he
adds, "is one reason why I choose the
night"
I begin to feel that this great furnace by
the roadside has a certain fascination for
me. Its huge iron doorway is red-hot, and
the fire within roars lustily.
"Does it need much stoking?" I inquire.
"It looks furious."
"Ay; more stoking?" says the man, "than
you might suppose. I seem always at It I
never think o' taking a wink of sleep all
night long. I lie down and smoke and
watch. That's what I do; smoke and watcn
that fire. He needs feeding five or, maybe,
six times the hour. Looks hungry now,
don't he?"
Tbe man approaches the kiln as he speaks
with a long pole in his hand. It looks to me
like a barge pole with Iron hoop and pike.
"Do you live here?" I ask him tot I am
prowing'interested in the man as well as
the fire. '
"Why, yes; that's my home," and he jerks
his thumb over his shonlder toward a
small wooden hat beside the kiln. "At
daybreak my mate relieves me and I turn
in. You'll not often catch me coming out
ot my Kennel, as he calls it, till after dark."
"The life seems to agree with you," andl
glance while saying this at hfs muscular
figure.
"Agree with me ?" he repeats, with an
odd laugh. "Ay; it suits my purpose,
guv'nor. I don't complain."
And now he pulls open the iron door, and
through the chinks between the bars the
DKPATOH. ' THURSDAY.
their two principal ships under their own
flag and have contracted to build four more.
A Very Costly Outing.
"So I would say that the American hotel
keeper would do well to take a fool's ad
vice and get down to prices which prevailed
before the war, if he expects to make his
property continuously valuable.
"If you take the case -of a man with three
grown daughters and a son and wife, which
ib not uncommon, constituting a family of
six persons, and bring him to a hotel where
the minimum charge Is ?5 a day, that man
must spend $30 without his extras, and he
will not get away under $200 expenditure a
week. For eight weeks this will make
$1,600, enough to start his country 'honse,
and by building on that conntry house for
three years he can have all the house he
wants.
"When his children were little, they were
ready to go to modest places; when the girls
grow up they want to go to fashionable
hotels. The father, anticipating that time
of growth, builds his country nonse, and
then his children can invite their beaus to
come on Saturdays, and now and then to
spend a week, and bring on that intimacy
which leads to matrimony. Youlookaround
Long Branch and you see very few hotels
left in solvency compared to the great num
ber of cottages."
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Crespo is advancing on Caracas.
Rumored that ex-President Bog ran, of
Honduras, has been killed.
There is truce in Morocco pending pro
posals of surrender by the rebels.
United States authorities in Texas find
that Qarza revolutionists aie quiet.
It is believed the Earl or Aberdeen will
be the next Governor General of Canada.
A Southwest Silver Convention has been
called to meet In El Pa9o, Tex., Decembers.
Bristol is the latest English port to be
come a candidate lor transatlantics steam
ship line".
A strange and virulent disease has be
come epidemic in Persia. Most ot the cases
prove fatal. .
The wealthy postmistress of Leo,Mo.,has
been arrested lor abstracting merchandise
fiom the mails.
John Beed, a prosperous Beaver county,
farmer, has been missing since August 5.
Foul play is suspected.
Fltty persons wore hurt by the collapse
of a grand stand at Lanuemezan, a summer
resort in the Pyrenees.
PresidentvIIarrison has been accepted ns
arbitrator in the boundary dispute between
Biazll and Argentlnia.
Constant Bossa, for two years manager
of a large business in Cincinnati, has been
found to be a Digamist.
There is groat destitution on the North
ern Mexican border, where several deaths
from starvation have occurred.
Eleven-year-old Ilnrry Jackson, of East
Liverpool, 'while bathing Tuesday was
seized with cramps and drowned.
During a fire in a Parte coal cellar U fire
men were suffocated to unconsciousness.
Three are still in a critical condition.
At Tredegar, England, four porsons per
ished in the burning of a "model" boarding
house. The 70 sleeping inmates had a nar
row escape.
The body of Jesus Mano, a well-known
Mexican hunter, was lecenlly found tied to
a stump near Asencion, Mexico, and hor
ribly mutilated.
The faith enre doctrine has killed another
victim, Mrs. Jnmes Stain, of El wood, In d.,
allowed her babe to die without calling med
ical assistance. The neighbors are in
censed. The Harlan family held its biennial
national reunion at IMohmond, Ind., Tues
day. The entire number of descendants is
8,000, several hundred of whom were pres
ent, representing almost the entire country.
Minister Tupner, of Canada, says of the
Bering Sea arbitration: "The case will be
presented and served on the 17th of Septem
ber. A counter case will be filed in about
tlireo months and then a written brief is to
be filed, so that the arbitrators may meet in
March."
It is said hat Consul McCreery will re
sign his post at Valparaiso as soon as the
pending investigation is closed, for the rea
son that he is tired of life in Chile and is de
sirous or lesutning business In the United
States. He li said to be confident of a com
plete vindication of his official conduct.
The Association of Weather Services at
Rochester, if. Y has ohoseii the following
officers for the coming jear: Picsidont.
Major H. II. C Dunwoody, of the United
States Weather Bureau: Vice Presidents, B.
3. Pague, Oregon, and G. M. Chuppell, Iowa;
Secretary, it. . Kerkam, Washington;
Treasurer, W. L. Mooie, Wisconsin.
The Economic Entomologist Association
at Rochester, N. Y., elected the tallowing
officers for the ensuing vear: President,
Proiossor S. A. Forbes, Champaign, 111.;
First Vice President, C. J. S. Jiuthune, Port
Hope, Out.; Second Vice President, C. II.
Tjler Townsend, Los Crnoies, N. M.; Secre
tary, Henry German, Lexington, Kv.
The preliminary stipulations of the
Franco-Uussiun defensive alliance has been
agreed upon, to continue five jears, on con
dition France grants Russia a zone on the
Bed Sea, with Russia's right lecoznlzed to
protect the orthodox church in ADyssinnla.
France also promises to give assistance in
aiding Russian enterprises in Africa.
Julia Robinson came to the authorities
at Richmond, Ind., Tuesday, lor protection.
Sho said that as asoldier's orphan sho draws
a pension. Bev. Benjamin Smith, her uncle
and guardian, draws the pension money,
using it ror bimseir. He forces bis attentions
uponherand recently assaulted her. She
had kept quiet, as be threatened to kill her
if she exposed him. He recently gave her a
savage beating. Smith is pastor of a col
ored Baptist cnnrcli.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrnp for chll
dreu teething gives quiet, helpful rest. 25c.
fierce fire lights up bis face. I have fol
lowed him while talking; but the intense
heat forces me to step some paces baok. He
is in his shirt-sleeves, which he rolled up
almost to his shoulders. He is certainly a
remarkably, powerful-looking fellow, with
the arms of a stalwart blacksmith. His
beard is thick and intensely red; and his
small eyes have a fierce expression which
he may have caught irom the fire glitter
ing under red, bushy eyebrows; and as he
presently lifts bis cap aside to wipe the
perspiration from his brow with the back of
his hand, I notice an ugly scar across bis
forehead.
He appears disinclined for further talk,
so I bid him "good-night" and go on my
way.
When I reach Wakering Hall a few
minutes later I am shown into a luxurious
smoking divan. The room, is lit with lamps,
the green shades being of 'some semi-transparent
texture which gives to every object
a subdued appearance. The walls are
thickly ornamented with spears and guns
and a dozen other warlike implements. I
have scarcely time to glance about me, and
get confused ideas of hunting scenes and
jungles, when a step on the terrace attracts
my attention. A gentleman comes in at the
open casement He looks at my card,
which he holds in his fingers looks at me
and then steps quickly forward.
"Sherwinl"he exclaims, seizing my hand.
"Why, you're the surgeon who saved mv
life I This is a pleasure."
He ib a man of about. 60, not strikingly
tall, but with an appearance' of unusual
breadth and strength. Ten years appear to
have wrought little ohange in him, certainly
no change for the worse. It is the same
handsome face, the same firm and fearless
expression tnat I now recall to mind as it it
were only yesterday. He waves me toward
an armchair near the window, brings me
cigarettes, remembers my favorite iced
drink and in a word makes me as welcome
as if I were bis own son.
He has been walking about tbe room,
principally occupied in looking after my
comforts, talking the while about matters
of little or at least no special importance.
At last he lights a cigar and sinks down
upon a tiger skin on an ottoman faclnc me.
He now, for the first time, speaks of him
self. ''Didl'ever tell you, Sherwin, howl
came to receive that knock-down blow?"
"Why, no. I thought the whole affair
inscrutable."
"So I suspect it is," he answers, "so far
as the world in general is concerned. But I
can make it clear to you in a few words.
Will yon listen?"
I express myself most willing and Colonel
Hethersett begins: "While stationed at
Cawnpore some 13 years ago I had a very
unruly man kervant The fellow was quite
incorrigible Moat men would have sent
AUGUST 18, 1892.
A GALLANT REGIMENT
Holds tbe Most Successful of Its
Series of 'Reunions.
THE DEATH ROLL OP THE 102D
Tells the Story of the Bravery Displayed on
Hard Fought Fields.
FLAG AND BADGE PRESENTATIONS
l
The most successful reunion ever held bj
the One Hundred and Second .Regiment,
Pennsylvania Volunteers, was held yester
day afternoon in Cyclorama Hall, in Alle
gheny. There were present about 100
members of the regiment, and in addition
their wives, children and friends to the
number of 200 more. Major James A. Mc
Laughlin, superintendent of the Allegheny
Bureau of "Health, was chairman of the
Committee on Arrangements, and all the
details of the reunion were well provided
for. Captain S. N. Duval was made chair
man of the meeting, which was organized
soon after the copious noon lunch provided
by the ladles was eaten.
Councilman C. W. Gerwig, an old soldi er
of another regiment, made a touching ad
dress, referring to the remarkable r ecord
made by this regiment. Some things that
have been published concerning the regi
ment have been misleading. In the record
of regimental fatalities, compiled since the
close of the war, the One Hundred and
Second Eegimeut ranks sixteenth in both
armies for hard service and loss of life. This
regiment went into the service as the Thir
teenth Beglment, of three months men,
with Thomas A. Rowley as Colonel. At
the expiration of its time it was organized
as the One Hundred and Second Pennsyl
vania Volunteers, with 12 companies and a
complement of 1,150 men. During the
Peninsular campaign the regiment served
in Keyes' Fourth Corps and was' afterward
put into the Sixth Corps, where it saw some
ot the hardest service of the war. After
Burnside's Fredericksburg assault and
Hooker's disastrous advance on Chancellors
ville, in both of which engagements the
regiment was under fire, the Sixth Corps
was transferred to the Shenandoah Valley,
where it went through the fire with Sheri
dan. After that the command was in all
the slaughters of the "Wilderness, Peters
burg, and Appomattox round-up. Before
the close of the war the regiment, by reason
of hot service, was so depleted that its ranks
were filled up by substitutes and drafted
men.
The firstjColonel of the .regiment was
Thomas A. Kowley, who died during the
past year. On his promotion to the posi
tion of Brigadier General he was succeeded
by Colonel Joseph Kincaid, who died'dur-'
ing 1863. His successor was Colonel J. W.
Patterson, killedin the 'Wilderness. Colonel
William Mcllwain was 'then promoted
to the regiment command, and he fell at the
short but awful engagement at Cold Harbor.
The last commander was Colonel J. W.
Patchell, who is still living and was present
at the reunion yesterday alternoon, coming
from Terre Haute, Ind., to see his old com
rades. At the service yesterday afternoon the
members of the regiment who have died
during the year were read, as follows: Gen
eral Thomas A. Bawley, Colonel James A.
Kincaid, J. F. Stewart, Company A; Sam
uel Matthews, C; John Suthern, C; "Will
iam Peterson, C; Captain James Bishop,
E; B. F. Hunnewell, E, and James B.
Moore, E. Appropriate resolutions ex
tending sympathy to the families of the
bereaved were adopted. Captain Fullwood,
in behalf of George H. Stewart, presented
to the regiment the original flag ot tbe
Thirteenth Regiment, and John "W. More
land, in a neat speech, presented to Captain
Hamilton the corps badge of Company F.
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him about his business within a week. In
fact every one had done so who had been
unlucky enough to have him in their
service. But I bad a fancy to tame him.
I could see that he thought himself my mat
ter. I resolved to prove to him the con
trary, cost what it might"
He speaks in a low, distinct voice that is
very impressive But his look is more im
pressive still. The intense gray eves, the
stern mouth and contracted brow indicate
the willful, dauntless nature of the man.
"Most of us," he resumes, "choose the
wrong vocation in life. I was a born lion
tamer. The fact is, Sherwin," he adds, as
though it were hardly worth mentioning,
"I don't know what fear means."
He pauses for awhile. I am on the point
of making some inconsequent remark, when
my ear is touched by the sonnd of music. It
floats out airily upon the night, and seems
to mingle harmoniously with the reflection
of light that falls across the terrace irom
the windows adjoining the divan.
"One day," Colonel Hethersett continues,
"one day "Kenrick, as this man was called,
refused to obey rae. It was the first time in
my life that I had ever met with serious
opposition. The look on the man's face told
me that he felt he had gone too far. But
repentance had come too late. Had he
Instantly gone down on his knees and begged
my pardon it would still have been too late.
My passion had got the better of me. I
seized the first thin; that came to hand. It
was the most terrible weapon, I am sorry to
say, that could possibly fall within an angry
man's reach. It was a thong ot buffalo hide.
I struck him across the forehead," and he
indicates the spot by quickly touching his
own forehead while he speaks. -"He drotfpul
at inr feet as though he had been shot"
1 cannot utter a word. I hear no music
now; no sound but loud throbbings in my
ears. The colonel rises hastily and paces
to and fro with a quick, firm step.
I have risen, too. I am standing at the
window, and now glance eagerly out. The
light thrown upon the terrace irom this wir
dow and the windows of the adjacent room
findla limit against tbe terrace balustrade.
Beyond, the darkness is intense; but in the
midst ot this darkness, on the distant- high
road, pale-blue flames are lapping at a space
In the night It appears quite near though
it must be at least half a mile away so near
that the soft wind, this sultry autumn even
ine, seems to contain its warmth as it
touches my cheek.
The Colonel tapB mo gently on the
shoulder nud steps lightly out upon the ter
race. I look quickly into'hls lace. Every
trace of severity is gone. "Come," sayshe,
in a lively tone, "let us go the drawing
room. Svbil will be wondering who "
"Stay!" Jrinterruptedthe Colonel; "one
moment This must be the man who struck
you down the man who made the attempt
on your life in Smithfield ten years ago."
A MILLIOHAIBE'S BTJDDEN DEATH.
Heart Failure Carries Off J. A. Bostwiek
Daring; a Disastrous Fire.
Mabaokeck, N. Y., Aug. 17. A fire
broke out shortly after midnight in the
handsome stables of John A. Bostwiek, of
tbe Standard Oil Company, at bis summer
residence on Oriental Point, overlooking
Long Island Sound. The fire departments
of the surrounding villages hurried to the
scene. When they arrived, however, the
Bostwiek stables bad not only been gutted
but the flames had communicated to the
stables of Mr. Constable, of Now York.
After the fire had burned out it was learned
that Mr. Bostwkk's coachman and footman
were missing. An examination of the
ruins was made as soon as possible and
their charred bodies were found among the
debris. Soon after the fire broke out Mn
Bostwiek hurried out on the piazza, labor
ing under great excitement. He had been
in ill health for some time, and when he
saw his stables on fire he suddenly fell
backward and became unconscious. He died
before medical aid could reach him. Death
is supposed to have been caused by heart
failure produced by undue excitement
Eight valuable carriage horses and a nuni-
ber ot carriages and carts were destroyed.
The stables were completely gutted and
nothing of tbe contents was saved. The
loss is estimated at 150,000. The Constable
stables were also destroyed, together with
the contents, including several horses and
handsome turnouts and harness.
A JEALOUS HUSBAND'S BLUHDEB.
Be Shoots a Woman IMiom He Mistook for
Bis Wife ami Her Lover.
Philadelphia, Aug. 17. At midnight
last night Joseph C. Bailey shot Mary
Carney, whom he mistook tor his wife; next
he shot Paul Ginther, who was in his supposed
wife's company, and then sent a b'ullet into
his own head.
He has been insanely jealous of his wile
for some time. He is still alive, but his
chances of recovery are slight. Miss Carney
will recover and Gintlier's wound is only
slight.
A Large Somber
Of dyspeptics lack the necessary
power to digest solid foods, and as
stimulants merely excite and weaken
the stomach, therefore the immense
value of the genuine Johann HofFs
Malt Extract as a nutritious tonic
cannot be overestimated. It not
only acts as a tonic, but as nutrient
as well, and the most stubborn cate
of dyspepsia cannot withstand its
wonderful power. Write to Eisner
& Mendelson Co., 6 Barclay St.,
New York, for a descriptive pam
phlet. Look out for imitations. They
are dangerous. The genuine must
have the signature of "Johann Hoff"
on the neck of every bottle. Th
WATCH CHAINS. .
We will, for this week only, sell a Ladies' or Gents' Rolled Plate
Watch Chain, WARRANTED FIVE YEARS FOR WEAR, at the un
heard of low price ofS1.50 each-
SIMIXT'S,
w
E'D rather take
and $25 Suits better value than ever. Same can
be said of the $5, $6 and $7 Trousers several
dollars reduced.
warn
ANDERSON BLOCK
"Of course! How can you ask me?" He
speaks with a slight impatience. But that
does not check my questions.'
"Have you seen him since?"
"No."
"Nor suspected his whereabouts?"
"No."
"Colonel Hethersett," I resumed, "I can
tell you where he is. I have seen him,
spoken to him, only this evening."
"Where?"
I point across tbo terrace into the night
"There! He is watchman at the limekiln
fire."
Not eyen now does Colonel Hethersett
evince the least shade of surprise; nor does
the weird light that seems to me like a
threatening torch lifted up in the black
night by some invisible trembling arm, en
tice him to take his eyes offme.
"You knew him by the scar," he quietly
assumes.
"Yes; I knew him when vou touched your
forehead a moment ago," 1 reply. "It's a
hideous mark."
The Colonel looked troubled. "Poor fel
low! But I mum tame him now," he says,
with a sudden cbauge in his face, "or he'll
spring at me again behind my back."
"Do you really mean," I say in a tone of
reproach, "to take the law into your own
hands?"
"I mean to tame him," he replies in a
firm voice.
His manner is polite, but so decisive that
I make no attempt to utter another word. I
stand there, and his eye is still upon me. I
feel powerless in the presence ot this
strong-willed man. He flings away the end
of his ciear and beckons me with a playful
wave of the hand. I follow.
"Sybil, my dear," I hear the Colonel say
ing, "this is Philip Sherwin, the gentleman
who saved my life."
I am standing in a brilliantly lighted
drawing room. A yotrhg girl in pale green
attire is rising from the piano and is
coming toward me. I cannot be mistaken.
It is the lovely face that I had seen only a
few hours ago mirrored in the midst of sun
light and foliage by the river side.
To Ba Concluded To-morrour.
xpmltlon Stand for fair.
A nearlv now stand, pood location, In tho
Exposition building will be sold for less
than one-half its value. The .owners busi
ness requiring a largor space for their ex
hibit, have secured another stand, lience
the sale. Addekbs Box 733.
JVtll Overcoat.
It will soon be time for fall overcoats.
Tonrs may need denning. Ffelfer's, Hi
Smithfield strcot, 1C0 Federal street, Alle
gheny, does this. Wo tepalr them also.
Best work. Tel. 1264-3403. Trsu
I5UGI3E kills roaohes, bedbugs and all in
sects instantly. la non-pobouous. 2S&
ftETW ADYETISEMENTB.
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gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
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aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the moat
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have madg it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50o
and $1 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
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THE SMALL ADVERTISEMENTS
Are continually increasing. Com
parison with July last year shows a
gain of 2,523 for the month. The
figures are:
July, '92 6,040
July, '91 3,517
Increase 2,523
The Dispatch was never more de
servedly popular than now.
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TBAIH EOBBEES DBIVEN OFF.
One Brave Passenger Fires Upon T&em
Through a Forest orHeld-Cp Hands.
Gbeely, Cor, Aug. 17. Last night a
the Denver and Cheyenne passenger train
on the Union Pacific stopped at the coal
chutes at La Salle, two masked men entered
one of the cars and with loaded revolvers
ordered the passengers to hold up their
hands.
Hands in profusion went up instantly,
and the fellows were on the point of col
lecting toll from the astonished passengers
when one of the latter opened fire from his
gun on the hold-ups. The latter returned
the fire, but one ot them getting hit, they .
both jumped from the car and fled. The
man on the train who opened fire on the
hold-ups is a member of a Wild West show.
THE HOYAI. BLUE UNE.
What an Eminent Kullroader Thinks of It
Those who have used the Boyal Blue Line
between Philadelphia and New York welt
know that that line U deservedly accredited
with beitijf tne finest piece of railroad in tho
country: tnat its coacues are the most mag
nificent, and thatlt trains runmore stnooth
lr and are tho fastest in the world. To
those, however, who have never used the
Hoyal Blue Line, the following abstract
from a letter written by an eminent railroad
authority to a eentleman, connected with
the Beading Kailroad System will doubtless
prove Interesting. After the usual formal
greeting, tho letter reads: "I have Jus
taken niy first ride on tbe Reading, having
come over Irom New York this morning on
your 1LS0 a. m. Koyal Blue Lino train, and I
cannot refrain Irom congratulating you on
being connected with so superb a raliroaa.
We m-de mile alter mile in just W seconds,
and tbe train ran as smoothly as though i not
exceeding ten miles per hour. The appoint
ments were flrst-class. and I nevo,r"l
better dinner or one better served on any
dining car." , ..,.-
It has always been the aim of the present
Beading management to ProyljJ;nLT!
best fo? its patrons, and the ervJco on tha
Koyal Blue Line, as well as on other portions
o "the system, is conclusive , evlde nee of
success in mamirecnuu. """;:V71
Inating public appreciate these efforts la
"""" J'"' ,, ;;..,. iv increasing bnil-
ness on tnat line.
Poor Floor Won't MUe Good Bread.
Everybody wants good bread. This is why
grocers receive so many calls for and are
Sellinz so much of tho cefebrated. "Kosalia"
and "Onr Best" brands of flour. There is nc
better flonrtn the. world. Tho Iron City
Milling Company manufactures It rra
Why Not to Yon?
You certainly want good boarders and
roomers. How to secure them? A few small
adlets in The Dispatch cent-a-word adver
tising columns have sent them to others.
Why not to yout
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