Evening Star Newspaper, March 5, 1889, Page 12

The Wealthiest City for Its Population im the World. TT HOLD MORTGAGES ON THE TOWNS, LANDS, AND INDUSTSUES OF THE WEST—A LOAN SHOP WITH 4 GILDED DOME—THE MOXEY IT LENDS MADE OVER THE COUNTER ORGINALLY. Bpectal Correspondence of the EVENING STAR. Boston, March 2° 1889. Boston may be regarded as @ sort of loan shop for the United States. Three gilded domes, instead ot one, would not inappropriately adorn the city, which has become the richest in the world, in proportion to its size, by lend- ing money. The boom towns of the west, 80 boastful of their mushroom growth, are built. with cash borrowed here at big rates of interest. ‘The railway systems that cobweb the new states and territories are owned in the modern Athens. The very farms of the agriculturists, from the Mississippi to the Pacitic ocean, are loaded with mortgages held by loca! capital. ‘The beginning or all this incalculable wealth was inthe shop. The Yankee is a born trader. In the art of buying a thing for one eent and — for two nobody can excel him. So it was tl the fathers and grandfathers of the present generation of rich men in Boston laid the fourdation of enormous fortunes by chaffer~ ing over a counter. Such matters, however, are not often referred to by their descendants, who live in fashionable splendor on Beacon street or Commonwealth avenue and consider themselves the most howling uf swells, Com- merce with foreign parts was the most profita- bie form of speculaiion in the old days, espe- clally the trade with China and India, whither all Kinds of New Engiand products were sent by vessels, which returned laden with marketable Oriental merchandise. The riches of several opalent families here were derived originally, it is said, from the business of smuggling opium into China, at the time when an embargo was laid by the emperor against that commodity. Daring that period the pious old duffers, unless Teport does them gross injustice, used to send their consignments of the deadly gum to the Flowery land in the same craft which conveyed their missionaries to the almond-eyed heathen. ‘a BIG TRADER AND HIS FORTUNE. In those days the biggest foreign trader by all odds was William F. Weld, grandfather of the present W. F. Weld, who is one of Boston's very rich men to-day. The old gentleman had more vessels afloat than were owned by any other proprietor or firm in the world. He was the beau-ideal of a Yankee trader. He was so that anybody that ventured into a deal with him was sure to come out at the smail end in some fashion, and he hesitated at nothing within the rather elastic bounds of shopkeep- ing ethics. Even the government suffered enormously through dealings with him. When @ommerce ceased to be profitable he went into western railway building, which proved so lu- erative that he left $18,000,000 behind him when he died. This vast sum was placed by his will in trust for his grandchildren. Of these William F. Weld is the most conspicuous. The latter was until recently commodore of the Eastern yacht club. He isa manof fashion and entertains largely. Just now he isoff ona trip witha party of friends in his yacht, the Gitana, for an excursion in the Mediterranean. Dr. Carles G. Weld is another grandchild, and another is a lit- tle girl named Pratt, who will have about $20,000,000, counting accumulated interest.when she comes ot age. Yhat a mark for noble for- tane-hunters from abroad to besure. At pres- ent she is‘always guarded vy two persons whenever she goes out, for tear lest she should be kidnapped by some speculative gang and held for the fabulous ransom she would com- mand. There is such a thing as being too val- uable for comfort. e THE RICHEST MAN IN BOSTON is supposed to be Mr. Fred. L. Ames. He lives in the finest house in the city, on Common- wealth avenue, entertains gorgeously, and is regarded as an aristocrat of the aristocrats. Nevertheless, his grandfather, old Oliver Ames the first, used to peddie shovels of his own handiwork inthis town. The shovel business ther utensils being well made, and was developed by the two sons, Oakes and Oliver tue second. The profits were largely in- vested in the Pacific railway, which, notwith- standing a certain awful slump in its stock, proved a gold mine. Oakes Ames’ son Oliver is ousin Fred. L., son of Oliver the second, who has not less than 20,000,000 of his own. And the shovel Other Instruments, agricultural, stil woes’ os, ments, agric still goes o1 enlarged toa gigantic scale.’ ie 4 RIVAL CRESUS. Many people think that John M. Forbes is even richer than Fred. L. Ames. He certainly has as much as $20,000,000. The finest summer estate In New England belongs to him. It is ‘an Island called Naushon, the whole of it is his , in Buzzard’s bay. In the warm season there on a baronial scale. One ean drive for miles and miles on the place, and’) harbor offers its hospitalities to a white-winged yachts at atime. There deer on the island, and communication Sy Up with the maniand by a steam launch. Mr. Forbes is quite seventy years old. He started as a merchant and went into railways afterwards. He ts called the father of the C., B. & Q., and it was his money that backed the Bell telephone business when it was getting upon its legs. He is still the largest stockholder in that vastly profitable monoroly. A SHIP CHANDLER'S FORTUNE. Albert W. Nickerson inherited the bulk of his , #4,000,000 from his father, “Old Joe” Nicker- son. The latter wasaship chandler or notorious imony and most eccentric habits. It Is said he used to pay his book-keeper extra for the privilege of swearing at the inoffensive em- . He began @ poor boy and preserved an estimate of the value of money to is told of him that on one occasion, & cow, he to permit the shipped’ until he had milked her, a mile to the wharf for that pur- & pail in his hand. Old Joe went into and is remembered as one of the hison men. The son, Albert. is a ee too rough in — manner to le great speculator, and has deal of cash for himself. great railway owner, the largest in- prietor of Atchison, is B. P. Cheney, who to drive a stage coach f living Sfty years ago. An express business laid the foundation of his tortune. He is short and stout, has but one arm, and his wealth is esti- mated at $6,000,000. THE NESTOR OF THE BAR. One of the most conspicuous men in the mod- I as Q. He is worth fully $10,000,000, nearly enough to retire upon; 30,000,000 fees for a few Judi- clous words of counsel assisted in the accumu- lation of this fortune, the bulk of which, how- ever. came from railway investments. He. thinks notbing of making birthday or Christmas ee apiece to members of his iy. A PROSPEROUS NOTE SHAVER. Joseph N. Fisk is appraised at $5,000,000. He is a noted character on “change.” He makes a business of shaving notes and lending money. His enemies, of whom he has pleaty, call him a “shark.” Certainiy he cares for Bothing else but money-getting. He keeps on hand great sums in readily negotiable collateral, on which he is able to borrow cash at smail rates from the banks. This le lends again at biz rates to ne- eessitous brokers and others, thus scooping ina sure profit. It is nothing unusual for him to run on to New York, borrow a couple of millions at a trifling percentage, skip back again and dis- tribute it all in loans within a few hours. Any , during business hours on State street, he be seen running frow one bank to another, collateral, with a few hundreds of theu- eands under his coat. Gathering of ducats is HE INHERITED IT FROM 118 FATHER. Se John L. Gardner is a man in the prime of —e STRUCK JD BOTH WAYS. Afiother rich man who both imherited and married wealth is the Hon, Robert C. Winthrop, well known as a scholar, ex-Senator of the United ‘States, and lex: Speaker of the House of ‘presentatives. His wife, who was of John E. Thayer, old Nat Thayer's brother, owns a noble estate in ar con ag enter- tains a great deal. Nubody seems now ex- actly how much the Wintbrops are worth, but Ott millions they certainly*have. ‘Nat Thayer's sov, young Nathaniel, inher- ited a large fraction of the $16,000,000 the father left." The money was made in railways origi- najly, in the west, and Nat, jr., has increased his share by investments in occidental property until it has come to be rated as one of the big- west fortunes in this city. He is six feet high, a club man, and keeps the best of yachts and horses. About a year age he married, a second time, Miss Pauline Kevere. a descendant of the patriotic metal-smith. He may be regarded, perhaps, as Boston's tuture Vanderuilt. THE ADAMSES areenormously wealthy. They have always been Money accumulaters. Millions in real estate they own, representing the appreciation in value of property held In the amily for generations. Charles Francis Adams, president of the Union Pacific road, is the head and chief exponent of the tribe at present. John Quincy Adams takes care of the property, and Brooks Adams devotes much of his attention to society. Theyall‘carry their heads very high, as befits people who can boast such great riches and so many grandfa- thers. ze be an ae Bosten is $2 be set ‘Up on an imaginary for the awed wor- ship of the vulgar herd. lenry Lee, of the banking firm ot Lee, Hig- ginson & Co.. is worth $4,000,000. Though nearly seventy-five years of age, he is one ot the handsomest and most distinguished looking men in Boston. He used to an excellent szaually 1ne-100K ; th qually fine-looking and perhaps equally rich, is T. Jefferson Coolidge, a deaendant of Thomas Jefferson and John Randolph. He inherited money and has made millions in cotton milis. He was one of the original Atchison men, and profited by the rise of that stock from two or three cents on the dollar to par. He has a a beautiful place at Manchester, Mass., and en- tertains a great deal. This is only a beginning of a list of Boston’s very rich men. But it is necessary to stop somewhere. One thing will be noticed, that their | money, as a rule, comes from the shop only a generation or so back. Notwithstanding its — to the contrary, the aristocracy of oston is of surprisingly recent crowth.- But those shrewd old Yankees of fifty years ago foresaw the future that awaited the wild and Woolly west, and they took the cash they made by selling what cost one cent for two cents and built up the country. They gridironed the beautiful prairies wfth railways, bought up the sites where towns were destined to spring up, and lent money on mortgages at big interest to the settlers, urban and rural. If the United States do not look out sharp, Boston will put them up at auction some day and sell them out to satisfy the claims of the loan shop with the sign af the gilded dome. = eeeeeslel John Eastman and the Bishop. ER SAVED EASTMAN’S LIFE AT THE OF ALL HIS WHISKY. | From the New York Graphic, Bankers, brokers, railroad men. lawyers, everybody whose business keeps them or takes them below Fulton street during the day, know John Eastman, sometimes tamiliarly called “Jim.” There are, of course, about such a well- known man hundreds of stories. The follow- ing is one of the latest: Eastman was in Nashville, Tenn , when the war broke out and he promptly enlisted in the first Tennessee regiment. The famous Bishop Quintard. of Tennessee. was the chaplain ot the regiment. Atone time during the war'’Burn- side and his army were pushing the conteder- ates pretty hard through Cumberland Gap and Crab Orchard. It was in the spring and horses were up to their bellies and the wagon wheels up to their hubs in mud. It was all they could do to keep ahead of Burnside and his pursuing host. John Eastman was toward the rear of the fleeing army, and after running as long as he could he laid down by the road unable and unwilling to run any farther. A few minutes later Bishop Quintard came along, and spying Eastman by the road, went up to him and said: “Here, boy, get upand mareh along or the Yankees will have you.” “4 t care; I can’t go any farther,” wasthe swer. The bishop was frantic and Eastman was lethargic. As a last resort the bishop said: “Look; if you wili get up I'll give you a drink of water. - Besides. we are going into camp right over there, the other side of the hill.” Now that story about going into camp was a regular army tale. Whenever anything was to be urged, the grounds were that the army was going intocamp. But the proffer of a drink of water was adding insult to injury. Eastman was actually lying in water. His boots were | full of water; so were his ears. He was water- logged. But suiting the action to the promise the bishop had drawn out his flask. taken off the cup and held it toward Eastman. The fumes of real Virginia corn whisky arose there- from. The next minute the flask was between his teeth. Throwing his head back into the soft mud, he held on, and meanwhile the whisky gurgied down histhroat. At the other end of the flask the bishop was pulling hard. “Here, here!” exclaim he, “hold on, boy. ‘Tut, tut, that is all I have.” But it was in vain. Eastman held the flask until the last drop was between his teeth. Then he released the can- teen suddenly. The honorable bishop sat down in the mud. ‘It was Eastman’s turn, and he arose. waved his gun and declared heworld lick the whole federal army. The bishop reasoned with him, and Burnside’s army coming in sight, he changed his mind. he and the bishop locked arms and mo ‘over the hill. To this day John n declares the bishop saved his life, and none of his friends will pass the bottle first to a man with such agrip. printerecd wheerem ot oertrss trata. ‘Women who “ Fight for Rights.” From the Philadelphia Press. Mrs. Crawford, the clever Paris correspondent forseveral papers, American and English, claims that women who fight for “ rights” become in- different regarding their personal appearance. “after all,” she remarks, “nature has given some share of brains to women, and cannot have them do They do not mind what their voots are, and positively seem @ Very ugliest sort of bonnets. What can their idea be i aking themselves super- fuously unattractive? They cannot imagine that they recommend their opinions by so doing. I shail never forget seeing three or four mem- beep of i house of commons Ural evening fly sw! and silently along a corridor, because a friendly warning had reached them that a certain strong-minded lady was been sittitig in the Ladies’ out for @ little when we saw this little annals of women’s rights. agine why the member ing su ly left oe and probably they have not. Still baseball has in Its ranks some yoong men who willin’ time: adorn the pulpit. The pulpit has among’its brightest orators some who have in past seasons graced the green-diamond field. . A bright young preacher; named Milton Merle ‘Smith, is coming to New York: - He ‘will be here on the Ist ot March, and. will take charge of the Central Presbyterian eburch, in 57th street, be- tween Broadway and 7th ‘avenue. Thisis one ‘of the most prominent places of worship inthe city. The Rev. Dr. Wiisom was tormerly the rach epa See soe fe ba MATES last iz the puipit has been occupied by s&ev- cugunicsien: Pine ‘Rev. Willard Parsons is a, regular attendant at the charch and has had in the last year ortwo considerable co! nce. with Dr. Smith. = “Young Smith isa brighé young man,” said Dr.. Parsons yesterday... ‘He has at various times assisted me materially in the fresb-air work in which I am interested. I have sent many poor children to Canandaigua, and Dr. ‘Smith has done much to find temporary homes for thechildren. He has been one meen as correspondents for some time. Sm muscular Christian of whom we may all be proud.” Dr. Smith’s salary will be $7,000 a year, sald to be the largest salary ever patd to a clergyman of hisage. He is just past thirty. The young man originally came from Elmira, but it was at Cleve- land, that he won fame as a clergyman. His family is highly connected, his father at one time being one of the supreme court Judges. His brother Walter at it oecuptes the posi- tion formerly held by his father. Milton Merle Smith graduated trom Princeton in the famcus class of 1877. He was one of the best oratora and athletes at Princeton, and was one of the most popular young men who ever attended that institution. He was a good scholar and writer, but it was in baseball that * Billy Smith, as all his college chums callea him, made his mark. He was one of the first college pitchers to solve the mysteries of the curve bali, and with his famous “snake twists” bowled. batters down as fast as they stoud up before him. His excellent pitching did much to win the baseball championship for the black and orange in two different years. Professional clubs offered Smith big salaries to join their teams, but he refused, He said he played the game for the love of the sport and the physical good it did him, and not for money. While a good ball-player, he was also ® thorough all-round athlete, but never forgot his religious views even in the most rough-and- tumble sports. He wes converted by Moody and Sankey during the visit of these evangelists to Princeton in 1886, and has always remained faithtul to his vows. Not only do many people owe their change in character since to “Billy” Smith, but he also did much good work among his fellow-collegians. He is still a firm believer in muscular Christianity and never pitched worse in orderthat he might preach better, He | was the class-day orator at Princeton and was as popular among the students there as Stagg, Yale's praying pitcher, is at the New Haven in- stitute to-day. His success as a preacher has not caused his love for the -national sport to subside. and it is probable that he will be a regular attendant at the Giants’ games next summer. It is possible that he may connect himself with one of the Young Men’s Christian association nines, and if he does the other nines had better look around for a strategic pitcher. . Alonzo Stagg is another muscular Christian and the most famous pitcher ever turned out by Yale college. Stagg is studying for the min- istry and is at present having religious talks with the members of various Young Men's Christian associations. He has done much to win the baseball championship of Yale during the last two years. He is a piteher of wonderful resources, as well as one of the best all-around players in college. He is aisoa regular mem- ber of Yale’s wonderful football team and did much to win the kicking championship for that college last fall. Several professional clubs have offered Stagg a large salary to join their teams, but he has always vefused. He will pitch for the Orange Athletic club this year. Manager Mutrie wants to make a giant of Stagg and may vet secure the famous praying pitcher for the New York club. Stagg is not tall, but is un- usually muscular. He is ‘a great tavorite with everybody who knows him. He is said to offer a prayer before he goes into the pitcher's box. Among the local enthusiasts who are regular attendants at the Polo grounds are Father Jas- per. of Manhattan college, and the Rev. W. War- ren Giles, of the Church ofthe Red . Dr. Giles’ church is in west 131st street th av- enue. He is another muscular young Christian and a thorough apostle of baseball. soe Belinda’s Vagaries. €rom London Judy. Short waists, long dresses, high hats, and stiff frills are the newest ‘‘fads” of female French fashion in Paris.—Daily Paper. Belinda’s hopes are very high, Belinda’s hat is higher, Which gives her greater altitude Than ladies need require. Belinda’s dress is very long, When up,and down she bounces, I'm reaily quite afraid lest I Should tfead upon her flounces. Behnda’s waist is very short; In vain I would exhort her To lengthen it. Belinda wont, Because her temper’s shorter. Belinda’s frill is very stiff, Belinda’s will is stiffer, And that’s the reason she and I Are apt so oft to differ. ieee Peay A Conjugal Reunion, Versailles Letter to Charleston World. The logicians who argue that marriage ts a failure can find sturdy refutation here in the shape ot Uncle Green Morgan, seventy years of age, who was to-day united in matrimony for the second time to the same woman, Aunt Pru- dence, whose kinky black hair the snows ot sixty-eight winters have failed to whiten or straighten, and this, too, after each of the par- ties bad been married to othersand had raised mance, going back to anti-bellum days. In 1858, during slavery, Prudence Morgan, the wife of Green Morgan, of this place, was sold as a slave to a Louisiana planter, separated from her slave husbaud, and taken to a planta- tion In Louisiana, Years rolled on, the war came and ended, slaves were emancipated, and peace came. But Morgan never heard of his wife, and finally gave her up for dead. He mar- ried again and raised a family, now grown. Last year the second Mrs. Morgan died. Uncle Green began sprucing up, and it was whispered in the church that the old man was looking for @ third wife. One day about a month ago he received a letter with a Texas postmark. It roved to be from his first wife, who was sold Enirey years ago as asiave. She was alive and well and wanted to Join the old man, who she had heard was sti!lalive. Shecasually mentioned that she.had married a man named Brown alter the war, and they had emigrated to Texas and raised a family. Brown had died a few months before and the children had gone into the family business for themselves. Morgan at once wrote to Prudence to come to him, and she arrived here last week. The meeting of the old Eee was an affecting one. They started in to live together, but to avoid complications concluded to have another ceremony performed, and this was done to-day. A Lesson in Colors, From Harper's Bazar. Asembroidery isone of the branches now taught more or less generally in our schools, it might not be amiss to teach some of the prin- ciples ofcolor with ft, or, as these are still to Sapee a5ee i i i : i a thele ances any | tion 0 - og to 1 | sevording tc rept tie to aN toners eer EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, _D..C.,- families now grown. The story is quite a ro-' eck er reyar jwrd ed envases.ia | ding 10 Joe 8 3 ne 89—SIX TEEN -PAGES. +) ae mind the two grand divisions among the old Irish, namely, the imaginative, persistent, stolid, Tevengeful, conceivable difference in the planning and building of houses as to the amount of work + ov. ''& PERERCT HOUSE, according to my idea, should always include in. it @ little compartment where plants can be kept, and have the sunshine and all the condi- tions of h. Peop'ehave generally sapposed @ cont to be one of the last of sharpness and stupidity in the peasant, aor will It be found on reflection hazardous to assert that the Irish*owe to the sturdy, plodding Ugrian element their ability to support suffer- ing and their dogged love for the soil—traits in fall of examples’ of tie "Kelie. pansion exam of the itie for roving about the world. It is an element that gives the counterpoise the hot-head. ness strong; it explains the caution ot many Scots and Irishmen; for both are apt to talk lence but to act with great circamspection. Tt may also supply the sad ical side of the It accounts best of all for theit essential law abiding character when humanely You have a bow window In your parlor. Leave out the flooring, fill thy space with rich earth, close It from the parlor by glass doots. and you ‘ep you gay and happy all winter, ex- pense is a mere trifle than that of the bow’ window alone. When the means do not allow even so small a conservatory, a recessed window mignt be fitted with a deep box, which should have a drain pipe at the bottom anda thick layer of broken charcoal and gravel, with a mixture of fine wood-soll and sand for the top stratum. Here ivies may be planted and nastu tlums will make winter georgeous with blossoms. 2 “The cheerfultiess that well-k plants im- rt to aroom comes not merely from gratifica- Hon ofthe eve there is a beautiful exhalation | £2f the virulence of class hatred in Ireland and for anomalies like the siding of the Roman from them; they are a corrective of the impuri- | Catnoite upper classes with the enemies of the ties of the atmosphere. nation, though the enemies are ali that is most 48 TO VENTILATION, bigoted in contempt of their old faith. But it the houses built by our ancestors were better no pee be ~netigrergpeamoeer — — arranged respect ith | me through these two pepers full of strange rare aesrerrt meena oe, looking names and, it is to be feared, weariso all their improvements. The sealing up of fire- arguments, that the key to the Irish nation Places and introduction of air-tight stoves may | more Il the tock of other doubtless be a saving of fuel; it saves, too, more OF lose well the sock of many pee les. The ancestors of every one of us have than that; in thousands of cases it has saved ht uered, in that endless People from all farther human trials and put an ae mevinpemn pm ee l betw A Turani which end forever to any needs short of six feet of | (uarel between Aryan and com 4 took place all over Europe and a large part of narrow earth, which are man’s only inalienable | asia, oan which still ent eam m the om of property. every Ameri vho is descended from that “Betier, far better, the old houses of the _ Hatley entre pnarrats hemee olden time, with their great roaring fires. Then, tes auemrstnans es ll to be sure, you froze your back while you Curiosities of Shakespeare. warmed your face, but you were able to look | cypress axp YEWS ARE MENTIONED M OFTEN out into Whitling snow-storms without a shiver, rf shclafelemgrceranigraenont ar and thought nothing of plunging through drifts | pom the Gentleman's Magazine. a3 highas your head on your daily way to school. You jingled in sleighs, you snow-balied and you | _ There are several allusions to the yew, and lived in snow like a snow-bird—at least this was | Senerally Ina funereal or quasi-tunereal connec- the case in my young days.” Mrs, Beecher ad- | tion, but none to particular specimens, whicheven ded, smiling,* ‘but things are somewhat | 300 years aco must have been nearly as famou as changéd now, and we are changed with them they are to-day. The best bows were made of yew perhaps; but in every house I have lived in I wood ; hence the expression “ double-fatal yew” ave always insisted upon having fresh air in ; —— ere the full rigor of the term.” (Richard II,” iil, 2). Its association with ponte 6s churchyards has always given it a sort of un- ___Isolated People. canny reputation among trees; the witches” cal- From the New York Ledger. dron, therefore, rally enough contains infer Men who isolate themselves from society, | alia, “slips ot yew”—* slips of yew, silvered in and have no near and dear family ties, are the | the moon's eclipse” (4 Macbeth,” iv, 1). The most uncomfortable of human beings. Byron Dmg ata Ee ple prmeepen fegigd See oj ” once, and “my shroud of white saya, “Happiness was born:s twin,” but the | Soo, 'sll with yew” (rwelfth Meher i, 4) tee Phrase, though pretty and poetic, does not go | very familiar line. The yew trees in the church- far enough. We are gregarious, and not in-| yard which wit the final catastrophe of tended to march through life in single or in | ‘Romeo and Ji are twice commended to double file. In pairing time, i. e., during the our notice (v. 3). honeymoon, individuals af opposite sexes may With the signification of the yew we commonly find it very pleasant. not to say delightful, to couple in our minds that of the cypress, the walk apart from the unsentimental world, two latter having been par excellence the funereal and two. But as a general thing they are ready tree of ancient times, and being still in high enough to rush back into the crowd when the | {¥9F in eastern countries, asevery Turkish ceme- billing and cooing season is over. , Petrarch tery shows us. Shakespeare has illustrated the would have grown tired 6f Laura, and she of paren eon. “In sad cypress 7 me be laid,” ¥ * Twelfth Night,” ii, 4. him, had they been condemned to a life-long | ®¥8,the clown’s song in tete-a-tete in the wilderness, and Sappho would | », °¥Press peng not s hosom have jumped into the sea to escape ennui, had mony. It may offer an explanation for the petty though vindictive nature of misdemean- ors, like moonlighting, houghing cattle, and destroying crops—traits which seem toreign to the Keltic genius. Moreover it affords a reason | hides my heart, in the same comed, . ili, 1). And * Suftolk,” in the course she been compelled to matrimonial solitude 4 “a damp body” of herself. , mn Oe “ Poison be their drink! It has been well said that the vital principie Gall, worse than gall, the daintiest that they grows weak when isolated. The man who cares fen ncbody, ead Se ore er = 5 has nothing to ‘live for that will pay for the trouble of keeping soul and body together. Their chiefest prospect murdering basilisks! You must have a heap of embers to make a Another ancient use of cypress wood is alluded glowing fire. Scatter ‘them apart and they be-| to by ‘*Gremio,” who mentions that he has come dim and cold. So, to have a brisk, vigor- | stored his most precious arms and emproideries ous life. you must have a group of lives, to| ‘in cypress chests” (‘Taming of the Shrew,” keep each other warm, as it were, to afford to | ll, 1). each other mutual encouragement and con- fidence and support. If you wish to live the life of a man, and not that of a fungus. be social, be brotherly, be charitable, be sym- pathetic, and iabor earnestly for the good of your kind. els ope Wagner’s Uufinished Scheme. From Scribner's Magazine. “Tristan” formed a part of a great scheme, which Wagner did not live fully to carry out. This scheme. which was purely metaphysical Their sweetest shade a grove of cypress trees! A Sharp Negro. From the Kansas City Globe. C. H.J. Taylor, the whilong minister to Li- beria, now of Wyandotte dnd Kansas City, Mo., is a quick-witted colored man. His famous speech at the democratic convention in Jeffer- son City will live in the memory df those who heard it, and has doubtless given him a wider reputation than any of his public acts. But he is as sharp as he is eloquent. Some time ago in its essence, was to include three separate oF perl amon dar —— sae geile go music dramas—quite unrelated in plot, action | or 399 slaves, Says the latte: iow, Taylor, I and legendary origin, but mystically connected | am glad to see you on the right side politically, by a metaphysical thread. These dramas are | I do like to see a democratic nigger. I beg your trpeeerer NATIONAL METROPOLITAN BANK ASH. eer orca INOTON 013 19th et oppeate U8 Trey “Old Smith will be wold; ned for stealing |" ee ~~ Receives. , Selle Bille of vy I I . . Exchange, and does s General Bank 4 IT guess I won't bid on Smith,’ ing Business. Jerr th prelate ma oy AERAT F ib frequent in this interesting state by a CoRsox. ano. ACER TEE, remarkable law, whose execution presents some re ‘: —_ of the various moods of CORSON & MACARTNEY, poe law sumeehing sections: and GLOVER BUILDING, 1419 F ST. x. w, “When any person shall be convicted of ra | ly after the conviction ny person of any misdemeanor, once to hire said person ont (if costs are not paid or secured) to ce or corporation.” “TAL Chatworthy of this city, is the victim of this process of authorized slave-trade, pach try wameps fd scene which his case present forms a ex] mtof the method employed in there antes, —— Mr. Chatworthy had found it expedient, in the interest of greater personal security, to carry arevolver on his person. This fact was developed in an unpleasant manner about a week pit and Mr. Chatworthy was brought up before Justice A.C. Horely. The case against him was , and according to the laws be Was find €50 and costs. making a total of $55.50. Mr. Chatworthy could not furnish the money or security for it and he was put up for sale. The event was duly advertised, and when the hour for the sale arrived it was found that the constable who was to do the “out-crying” was Sees teal | puppets evan See or Sele Erp probably never been duplicated tema Ce pea stand mp the Gaatchie bend oe Khe meet ieee Dorr T ne Wie Wou Ean. fered to pay 15 cents a day for the uge of Mr. | 208T 4 Rrrte me Som Some. Legit ie peli g Cpe TS ra quiries as to what the man been con- | adorae yon tin eyo Offices 925 F vt. mw, amined victed of. “What is the man’s offense?” he asked, “ jasted to youreyes as will “He was carrying « revolver on his » | Tect every optical defect, no matter how seemingly severe replied his colored confrere, the constable, lilustrated catalarue coptaining useful hints reward- Uthat settles it,” replied the tidder” “T ing the care of our eyes iree ts ‘auy eddrene upou ap- don’t want any hand to help me if he carries « —, reyolver.” The contest then narrowed down, and finally Mr. Chatworthy’s_ services were sold for the munificent sum of 25 cents per day. M-. Chatworthy is now serving his term. 415-3m __MEDICAL, &. ADIES WHO REQUIRE TBE SERVICES OF AN Waat do the of the east think i jeuced fetuale plyaician should + law? — “6 tle | OS Sisk Tieb ind Mes ne ee ond 31th eae eons ae and 12th sta'ne. Ladiesouly. Kemedy, 6s. £3 Ancient Advertising. Wiese cous: Ns VETERINARIA, " In Greece it was the public crier who an- | cure cmocnnlind une mteution give. nounced sales or bid the people come to the | 1*t*t-2. . ME, DE} LONG-ESTABLISHED, AND theater or visit the public baths. | ee BE t ell le Ladies’ Piiysician, bec ult In medieval times it was the public erier who | st her residence, 61.1" st uw Otice hours ftom went abroad enumerating the goods that a cer- | 12 P. m. with Ladies only. _ 37 18-Gen> _ tain merchant had for sele. | [LEAS AYER BEEN CONTRADICT The first authentic advertisement was pub- | MinjO THES i ¢ a lished in the Mercurius Politicus of 1652. In the year 1657 a weekly newspaper devoted to the | PAFScular attention ywid to all diseases peculiar to interest of advertisers made its appearance in | M@iii, 480d ursingle. Forty years experience, ondon. It was not until the eighteenth cen- | ¥raxnob MERTORED BY USING A BOTTA tury that newspaper advertising became the | Mrivocr De RhOTHERS Leary ee recognized medium between the manufacturer | Will cure any case of nervous debility nid ty Gaver. berve-power. it juparte Viger to HO eieeinnley The American Colony in Paris. Letter in the Philadelphia Telegraph. As the time approaches for the definite in- stallation of the Harrison admunistration the | members of the American colony in Paris are naturally becoming deeply interested in the question as to the new officials who are to be accredited to this goodly city. I think that the question is more replete with interest here | than in any other capital in Europe. @erlin, | ¢ Rome, Madrid and St. Petersburg the resident ISE—DR._ BROTHERS, 006 BST, pelore ine aud made oath thet be te wed Expert Specialist in tis city, a cure in all cases of jrrivate diseases Riek abd Turhish medicine, OF Be clare aud advice free et any hour of the dey. ped and sworn before ine by Dr. Bl AMUEL C. MILLS, a Notery Public, in and tor the Dartrict of Coluubks, this Ward day oi Suly, 1880. cin hee TEES ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PILLA ms Diamond Bre Original, best, only Ask for red_metatlie wate, accept rau At D 4 Lastebourd boacs, pink weap. Americans are but few in number and form but | puniterfelt. Send 4. stampa) a limited and uninfluential association, In | }0f, particulars MELIke FOR LADIES” in letter, by return inail 10,000 testincuals from LADIES who have used th "1 London the Americans mingle largely with RE English society, and do not keep together in a distinctive social group. But Paris has always | _ had her cluster of Americans who remain American in spite of the influences of foreign skies and foreign associations. Then, too, as a great educational center of art and science, x, Permanently cures it calls together, under the shadow of the ee tricolor, a noteworthy assemblage of students sor. 9th and F now. of painting and music and medicine from our shores, who are also awaiting with eagerness the announcement of the names of those gen- tlemen and ladies who are shortly coming to hold the leading social positions here. —— see The Emptiness of Life. cacteee ag? 4 a .. FLIPPIN, ROOM “You look unhappy to-night, Mrs. Swift. AM @. FLAPETM, ya 38, COME Your journey, from ‘Chicago hae probably We Engliail Prewch aod Spanish epcken wanb “Well, yes; and thenI feel terribly dis-| ¢J and fateut Attorney, 1008 aba 1010 Pet. new couraged. When I obtained my first divorce it | | Pructices before all courts in the ct, Maryland was the sensation of the day; the second at-|*™dVirgimia 0 0-ie tracted some attention; but yesterday there Pp ATENTS. W. X. STEVENS, Solicitor _ were not half a dozen people in the court 105 On. epoity UR fe room.” A personal interview is the best means mau's poility to serve you. Please call. AW OFFICE OF RANDALL HAGNER __ ATTORNEYS. “ A. GOURICK, (FORMERLY OF THE Philadelphia bar apd now publicher of Gowrticie D* Washington Digest) practices betore all the € te, office AUuntic Building, ¥5 F 26 eateah tae The Secret of Beauty. Wilfred Wollam in Cassell’s Magazine. I could not tell—I do not know “Tristan and Isolde,” ‘Parsifal,” and the prob- | Pardon, I mean colored man.” _ lematical “Die Sieger,” which Wagner cae “That'sail right, Mr. H.,” said Taylor. “You tions in his letters to Liszt. The first two he | Just say ‘nigger,’ for when you say it I know completed, as is well known; of the last, little | You mean colored man, and when you say col- is publicly known, save that he had sketched | @ed man I know you mean ‘nigger’ out the general plan of the work, and was A Mountaineer Moonshin er. ready to carry it out after the first performance From Atlanta G alien. of ‘Parsifal,” in 1882, when ill health and his death at Venice (February 13, 1888) ip . | He was a tall, long-drawn-out specimen of the He had, however, determined upon changing | mountaineer, whose presence is familiar about the title from “Die Sieger” (The Victor*) to | United States court during moonshine trials. “Die Busser” (The Penitedt). It is also known | His beard was strongly striped with gray, his that the work was on an Oriental subject. 5, P These last two facts, taken together with wat | 10ng form was noticeably bent, and- his clothes is known ot Wagner's philosophical tendencies, | Were in keeping with the great wool hat and are especially significant, and throw all sufficient | the heavy russet boots that completed his cos- light upon the main drift of his unfinished | tume. As he ae 4 against one of the steam drama. It isindubitable that, in thisclover leaf | heaters at the Kimball, he seemed the very pic- of music dramas, Wagner intended to illustrate | ture of discomfort. 1e the three cardinal points of Schovenhauer's | rounded him—he was 01 i philosophy. “Yaas,” he said, with a drawl The three metaphysical points “ ‘ner set | the illicit i himself to illustrate were: First, affirma- | ‘‘Yaas, reckon you all’s r tion of the will to live, the essense ot what in | me jes because I’m from the mountains, Idox Christian nomenclature is.called sin (“Tristan | often get here to Atlanty—haven't been here and Isolde”); next, compassion with the suffer- | since Aleck Stephens war governor. Aleck he ings of others—Altruism—which, according to | wuz the best them all. he wuz, an’ I hear he’s Schopenhauer, ts the basis of ethics Cee dead! The boys up in Ole Rabun will be pone fat”); last, the negation of the will to live—re- |.ful sorry to hear Tl bet you, for they all nunciation—which, also according to Schopen- | loved Aleck,” and old man wiped away hauer, 1s the essence of sancitit (“Die Bus- eng rer much atear, ser”). Thus in ‘*Tristan,” ‘“Parsifal” and “Die “I see B "8 wg Aothees rea yt sug- Busser” Wagner set himself to illustrate, sepa- alittle guano from ‘les- rately and in detail, the three great problems, wa e had “Blaine—who's Blaine?” asked the old man, Schopenbauer’s phil Y, d lustrated, as a whole, I ith less ypleteness | as he looked from one to another to see if they ibelangen.” ers soon sur- new to them. it savored of of good corn liquor. having lots o' sport w.th and clearness, in the * were joking with him. PRE aah CS. Rees “Surel, know Blaine, the great republi- The Aroma of Life. can?” A Sie f as From the Christian Union. Beauty has its charms, but the charms of gracious manners far outweigh them. The man-t ¢P* 4 . ners that express a kindly, sympathetic heart, pay ting od aN Taped open to the influence of another personality as | can ‘still our li: without troub! But the flower to the sun, and as unconsciously | I reckon the: for it me here. : "publican is back’ Well that is news “*Publicans an’ sinners. But what's ary iblican doin’ in office now? These yere Caplan pea a ge lle meg y sez we giving back its own fragrance, are « gift that | So the far outshines physical graces. for the Who of us have not torgotten » plain seen it grow beautiful under Mens beautiful manners, the expression of ised mind? Learnin; but he *‘wa’nt uainted with any of them enim, — he thought they yg x an ie | Sow dat bad formsea seeing garongh, the mountaineer went off to sleep in } pels H etre tn ~ erp a i erin ny a @7-3m* Removed to 408 Sth st classic lines, what curves of grace z ee . nn ya ‘ian Webster Law Building, $05 Det uw Wash To'make'a beauteous human face. Ngo tg ate I do not know—I could not tell, With all the lines and curves complete, What look within that face must dwell To make the faultiess beauty sweet. _PIANOS AND ORGANS. Unknown the laws that make it sweet, And fiour-like mould it as it grows; that when that face I meet YMAN. LEADL ‘NOS AND ORGANS. DECKER BuOS.. WEBER, FISCHER and ESTEY PIANOS, and i ESTEY ORGANS. ‘Pianos for rent and sold on accommodating SANDERS & STAYMAN, JAKVIS BUTLER, Manager, 984 ¥ stn. w., Washington, DO. 33% Guerin tt, Balumore, Ma. 217 Main st. Ricumond, Va. i ot nal The Place for her. From the Chicago Tribtt®. Wild eyed parent: “I want to bring my daughter, aged 15,, to this institution and have her closely guarded and given your best treat> ment for,about‘three years. Money is no ob- ect.” ’ Keeper of private lunatic asylum : “Is}she violent?” Wild eyeg parent: “She is ungovernable. She writes poems of passion.” Keeper form school is just across the way. Re EG Why She Won’t Go. for the From the Chicago Herald. n “Are you going to the inaugural ball, Flora?” Hiicsnd oa low prices. “No, I'm not. It isn’t high-toned enough for = me. G “Not high-toned eno Sa ent IT we may ask you to dance.” We you could decline, couldn't you, if Ye"Decline!_ How I would look President of the’ United States; and wv I would look waltzing man who can’t waltz!” a A Girl Barn Burner. A PRETTY GIRL OF SIXTEEN SAYS SRE SET FIRE TO HER ADOPTED MOTHER'S BARK, Miss Rosie Weaver, the Adopted } of Mrs. Peggy Wentz, whose barn, near Line- , Carroll Md., was = ieeninany eae arrested swat with and is alleged to ‘weeks has been, F paaenees iv oe wa ay the anhets