Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1895, Page 15

“be able to render a great service to one of a THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1895-SIXTEEN PAGES. Se core OF THE TREATS (Copyright, 19 . by Irving I More than one attempt has already been fnade to explsin an incident which, at the time it took place, threw the whole diplo- macy of Europe into a state of not un- natural consternation. ‘The cne prominent ‘fact was as simple as it was astoundin Whie a congress was titting to settle the terms of a treaty between two belligerent powers, and the success of the assembled Giplomatistr was known to depend largely en their keeping their proceedings abso- lutely secret until they should kave ar- rived ut a definite result, a draft copy of the treaty suddenly appeared im the col- ‘umns of a well-known London newspaper. erbolt falling in their mid: have startled the plenipote more: In fact, for the moment this pre- mature revelation threatened to put an end to the congress altegether, as it seemed to point Inevitably to a breach of faith on the Bees ef one of the members. Of course an t eller.) t2mpt was made to disavow the draft reaty, and, as a matter of fact, this pre- mature publication rendered jt absolutely necessary to modify some of its provisions, more especially those of the famous thir- teenth clause. But, none the less, the draft treaty as originally published was known to be correct in all its main details, and the tion arose how it had been possible for ny newspaper to obtain a knowledge of hese details while the congress wus still iting, and all its deliberations were veiled in the profoundest secrecy. ‘As I have already sald, various attempts ‘more or less ingenicus—have been made to solve the mystery, but these attemp have all stopped short of the actual solu- ion. Many interesting details have been iven whigh were false, and some less { feresting which were true, but how t faptor quotidianus—the daily press—came to be able to carry off in its beak this most fecret of secrets has remained a puzzle to pver tats (except myself and two other en) up to the present day. It seems to me that the time ha length come when the lorg-desired re’ ion may be made without indiscretion. Originally there were four persons more or less concerned in the mystery, tloush only three of them, If so many, were in full po: session of the secret. Of these four, two are dead; another has entirely Gisappearec @nd I, the fourth actor in the drama, have fmade up ny mind to relate the circum- tances of this extraerdinary affair. How ever, even now I propose to proceed can- and not to define too Clearly either ividuals concerned or the countries Tepresented. T should mention at the outset—for it ts to ‘this circumstance that I owe- my connec- tion with the mystery—that I was at one dime myself In the diplomacy, as an unpaid @ttache. Whilst acting in this capacity, at @ foreign court, I had the good fortune to the ministers of state—a man of European eputation. He was more grateful than iplomatists are generally supposed to be, @nd honored me ever afterward with his affectionate regard. As I write I have on my finger a magnificent emerald he left to me when he died. It was owing to my In- timacy with him that I came to be mixed up with the affair of the tr 1 will call him Prince Schatzen At the time the congress assembled I hanced to be staying at the capital, where hey sitt! I was not elor fend named G was e was one of those men who wander about without an detiniie aim in life, but with ple of money fn the pocket, and who, sulfering at times @ little from the ennul of idleness, are zen- erally ready te take up with any new fad to diversify the routine of their existence. In my triend’s case the latest of these fads was raphology, which he profe: to have rought to a great pitch of perfection. This .as a science in which at that time I hardly Delieved at all, but circumstances afterward Jed me to think that in the hand of an acute and original observer it might be turged to good account. ‘The day before the congress was to com Mence Its sittings the diplomatists gathered toxetier from every part of Europe. In all Seven powers were represented. Amon, the plenipotentiarics was Prince Schatzen- berg, on whom I made a point of calling without delay. ‘The prince was staying at the Schwelzer- hof, and directly I sent up my card I was ad- Mitted to his presence. I found him lying on @ couch, and looking older and frailer than ‘when I had seen him last. But his manner vas as charming as ever, and I could enter- in no doubt that he was really glad to see me. He excused himself from getting up, but put out his delicate hand and grasped mine with a gentle but affectionate pressure. T notived it was the left hand that he gave me. . “So glad to see you again, mon cher,” he said. “Excuse my left hand; the right is crippled h the gout. I gave orders fhat no one was to be admitted, but, of course, that was not meant to apply to you. You always welcome.” been longing to see you, prince,” I “It ome time now since we met. ttut Iam afraid you are not quite so weil as I should lke to gee you. “Well, no, Iam not so young as I was, and the long journey has knocked me out. ides, I am tormented with my old en- € neuralgia in the face. There, take that fateull. You won't mind my finishing @ letter, I know, and then I can release my a@manuensis.”” i had noticed the amanuensis as I en- tered the room, and it had puzzled me to define his exact position socially. He was ® young man, about thirty, as L judged, nd quiet ssed, but he did not » to be quite what we Chiovroform. tleman. This surprised me, as the P secretaries were generally men of aristooratic birth. I noticed also that when the prince resumed the dictation which my entrance had inter:upted the amanuensis bent his head very close to the paper, as if he were short-sighted. It did not take long to finish thé letter. ‘When it was done the prince said: hank you, Maubeuge; 1 need not keep you any longer; I shall not want you again before 10." fhe young man got up, bowed to the prince and to me, and left the room with a notseless step. iy new factotum,” said the prince, when the door had closed behind him, “and @ perfect treasure.” “I thought I did not remember him,” I ‘No; I had Francois when you were with me last, but Francois was a Gaul of the Gauls. “He was always sighing for his be- loved France, and finding every other country triste in comparison. So at last I pad to let him return home. When he went thought I would get a valet who could do a little writing for me sometimes. Fran- cols was so good at that. Assis sous and a six sous were the same to him as far as spelling went. Of course, one has one’s Secretaries, but only at stated hours. Le- sides, there are letters It 1s not necessary that secretaries should see. And Iam now quite unable to write a line myself, owing to this gout In my hand. So I find Mau- Leuge very useful. Not so good a valet as rancols, but far superior in other way: and with no home-sickness. He Is a Bel gian, not a Frenchman. And he Is really well educated, so that, altogether, he suits me admirably. But what am I thinking of, a (- 5, DIDLOMATIC MYSTERY. BY Roy TEMLET to chatter in this way, instead of asking you about yourself? No need to inquire after your health—your looks are sufficient. Sut how have you been getting on? Tell me all about yourself. ‘There was not much to tell. The prince knew already that my father was dead, and that I had succeeded to the family es- tates. Nor did I wish to prolong the con- versation, for I could see that the prince reeded rest. So, after a few minutes, I 50. he said, “I will not try to detain . for we shall have, I hope, many ortunities of meeting. You must come ever you can. Au plaisir. w for a nap.” he spoke he took up a white silk hand- chief that lay beside him on the couch, cok it out, and poured over it some Hauid from a bottle on the table. As he did so the smell of chloroform diffused it- self through the room. ‘I can get no sleep without it,” said the i catching my Ieok. ‘Don’t be alarm- It is net a habit; it is only a tempor- ary resource whilst the neuralgia troubles me. It. Where the carcass is, there will the vult- ures be gathered together; and wherever diplomatists assemble for a special pur- pose, there you will assuredly find a crowd of special correspondents also. This was conspicuously the case on the occasion of which I am writing. Every great news- paper in Europe had sent a representative to watch the proceedings of the congress. Of course the watching had to be done from the outside, and very tedious and disap- pointing work it was. The plenipotenti- aries were-even more cautious and reticent than usual; they dropped none of those lit- tle erumbs of information on unimportant Correspondents. topics which keep the special correspond- ent from absolute starvation. They were watched as they went in to the sittings, and watched as they came out; but the keenest scrutiny was unavailing; an elu- sive smile baffled all observers. Prominent among these special corre- spondenis wes a man of European reputa- tion. He represented a famous English jourral, but whether he himself was an Englishman no one knew. He was pleased to call himself Le Grand, but It does not follow that this was his real name; he may have adopted it for the sake of the idea that it embodied. It was said that he was a native of the Channel Islands; his French was, however, the purest Parisian. But, then, he spoke with equal purity English, German, and, I dare say, various other languages in which I was less able to judge of his proficiency. Never was there a man more thoroughly cosmopolitan, and never was there a correspondent who exhibited greater enterprise and audacity in securing tid-bits of early Information for the paper he represented. He was personally ac- quainted with every prominent statesman in Europe, and had been admitted to confi- dential interviews with mary monarchs. On one occasion he had traveled tete-a-tete with a kjug across France, and on an- other he had forced his advice upon the most masterful of continental statesmen. When he chose, he could decorate his breast with an array of orders sufficiently numerous and distinguished to excite the envy of many a dipicmatist. Physically he was an Immense man, but his appearance was not distinguished. His broad, fat face was clean-shaven, perhaps to favcr the idea that he was an English- man ‘The feat.ures, taken as a whole, were commonplace; the eyes small and cunning: the mouth wide, the upper lip stiff and strenuous; the chin determined; the nose song and flexible, as became such ‘a seeker after pews. The head was massive, and suggested great intellectual capacity. His manners were charming, when he chose, but it belonged to the cosmopolitanism of his nature that they should be capable of great variation. He could at times be pos- itively haughty. As a consequence of his great stature, he had acquired the habit of looking down upon those with whom he conversed, and this physical necessity seemed to have engendered a corresponding oral attitude, for he affected to despise yLedy, even erowned-heads. His vanity indeed esregious, and this failing went r sometimes toward neutralizing the ef- fects of his extraordinary sagacity. and en- terprise, for, when he had achieved some #reat success, it was difficult for him to re- frain from hoastirg of it prematurely. On the present occasion he appeared on the scene in his usual consequential way. He went about saying the only point of real importance to be dealt with by the col how the various claims for compensation and indemnification were to be settled, and he boldiy announced his in- tention to publish these provisions of the treaty as s20n as the details should be settled. Of course this was mere brag; but if there was a man in Europe who could translate an Idle Loast into an actual per- formance, Le Grand was the man. For seven days the congress continued its tings whilst the world outside waited in y indication of the course which were taking. On the even- = of the eighth day I received a note from Prince Schatzenberg asking me to go to him as soon as I possibly could. T went at once, and found him, as T had found him on every previous occasion, re- ining on a couch, and looking as If he were In great anxiety. “I am afraid you are not so well, prince,” T said. “The neuralgia still troubles me, but it {: not that. I have been greatly worried. This business of the treaty has harassed me beyond measure. It has been on my mind night and day, and would have kept me awake without the neuralgia. But yes- terday T really thought that we had at last got into smooth water. All was settled to my satisfaction. And now—would you be- lieve it?—I greatly fear that all our labor has been in vain.” “In vain!” I exclaimed, ber” “You may well ask. I cannot imagine how it has happened, but it Is a most se- rious business, especially for me. You know Le Grand. Well, ha has just been here. I did not like to refuse to see him. One must keep on good terms with men like that. He came to ask mo if he could be of any use to me, and reminded me how I had once availed myself of his services. Of course, no one knows better than you, mon cher, the value of a ballon- d@essal. It 1s sometimes very desirable to ascertain the drift of public opinion before one commits oneself to a definite course. But this fs not the case now. Absolute secrecy is our only chance of accomplish- ing our atm. There are certain provisions which, {f they are divulged prematurely. would no doubt stir up an amount of op- position which would render # impossible to persist in them. But if they are not made known until the treaty is actually signed agd sealed, though, no doubt, there will be some grumbling, yet they will be allowed to stand. “Well, now, Le Grand, who fs always a dangercus man, has managed to excite the most uncorifortable susvicions in my mind. When he rose to take leave of me he said: “I must thank you, prince, for your courtesy in receiving me, and am only sor- ry that you do not need my services—not even with respect to the provisions of the thirteenth clause.” “I pretended not to have heard the last “how can that words and kept my countenance until he had left the room. But in reality I vps astounded and annoyed beyond measure. “TI think I can guess why,” I said. “Of col you see at once what it means. It is a fact that the clause which treats of the indemnifications, and which has given us almost all our trouble, is the thirteenth clause. Now, how could Le Grand ‘possibly have discovered this fact?” “It is, indeed, serious,” I said, “for it could not have been a mere gues: : “Oh, no; that is impossible. And his air of triumph and the significant emphasis which he laid upon the words were quite enough to convince me that he had some definite information. But if he knows this, he probably knows a good deal more. And should he publish his information, as, of course, he will, all our efforts will have been in vain. It is really a fatal business. ‘That man must be the devil.” (Continued in Tuesday's Star.) “ eases MINES OF PRECIOUS METAL. The Production of Gold is Increasing in This Country. Written for The Evening Star. Uncle Sam is to have a new coin factory right away. It will be lccated in Denver. Director or the Mint Preston has just re- turned from a visit to that city, which was made for the purpose of selecting a site. Work will be begun as soon as possible. the lest Congress having appropriated $500,000° to carry’ out the project. The new mint will coin nothing but gold. The minins country of which Denver is the center is no longer to be regarded as a great silver-producing field. Within the last three years, owing to the depression of the white metal, it has become a gold- producing region. Mr. Preston said yes- terday that he expects Colorado to yield during‘ 1895 quite $14,000,000 worth of the yellow stuff—the value of the latter proba- bly exceeding the entire silver output. New Mexico, eastern Arizona, Utah, Idaho, South Dakota and a part of Montana will feed the coin factory with a continuous flow of goli. These states ard territories will bring the total gold production of the re- gion up-to $24,000,000 for the current year. Mr. Preston says that the annual produc- tion of gold in the United States is in- creasing steadily, and will continue to do so for a good while to come. There are gold fields as yet undiscovered in this coun- try which are destined to yield wealth to fortunate prospectcrs and mine owners. Arizona end New Mexico are still to a great extent unexplored, and-their mincral resources ale cnly beginning to be known. There is a future in the working of the low-grade cres of North Carolina, Alabama, Virginia and rorthern Georgia. So greatly has mectzrical processes improved that ores which ten years ago were deemed wholly v less can now be turned to prof- itable account. Ores which a decade back could be made to give up only 80 per cent of their gold are now forced to yield 98 per cent with one-half the labor. Ores of such a nature as to be easily treated, though containing only $8 worth of gold to the ton, are handled at a profit. Recently valuable deposits of gold have been struck in Idaho, Montana and Cali- fornia. The sands of Snake river,-in ldaho, are being mined for “tour gold,” which is so called because it is so extremely fine. In former days it could not be obtained at & profit. The gold occurs in bars in the channel, and the methcds employed for se- curing it are quite simple. Powerful steam engines are mounted on big flathoats, and the gravel is fetched aboard in buckets that are attached to an endless chain. The buckets are dumped one after another Into a hopper, which acts also as an agitator. The gold being caught on copper plates by the help of quicksilver, the refuse passes overboard. In this way 100 tons of gravel can be handled in a day at a profit of $190, the work of only three men being required. The sands of many streams in Georgia, Virginia and North Carolina contain gold, but the metal is in little nuggets and would have to be sepzrated by other processes, What Is called the “unseen gold supply” is an important feeder of the mints. ‘This includes all sorts of old jewelry, which finda its way eventually into the meltinz pots of the government. No manufactured article of gold lasts forever. It may he preserved for some fime as a keepsake or an heir- loom after it has survived the period of its usefulness; but some day, inevitably, if not lost, it will be sold for old gold. The mints will buy such cld gold, but not less than $100 worth of it. Scattered over the country are thouands of dealers in precious metals who will purchase the smallest quantities—even a ring or a Lrooci that is good for nothing but to be melted. They are chiefly {nstrumental tn collecting the “unseen supply,’ which they dispose of to the mints. Nevertheless, the loss of gold to the world through its use in the arts, for gilding and otherwise, is enormous. Prac- tically all of the watch cases reach Uncle Sam’s melting pots sooner or later. Mill- fons of dollars’ worth of gold are used an- nually for filling teeth. All of this is lost, except what is taken frcm extracted teeth by dentists. Dental surgeons do not per- mit this gold to go to waste. —_—__ SAVED BY A LARIAT. the Lasso “as a Life Preserver. The Star writer had corralled a western man in a hotel lcbby and was holding him up for all there was in it, which was a good deal, considering that the man hadn't been east for ten years or more, and had never fallen into the clutches of the journal- ist in quest of an item of interest. “You were asking me awhile ago about the lariat and its uses,”” he said, “and it reminds me of a time on one occasion when it served an excellent purpose as a life pre- server?" “It isn’t always used for that, queried the writer. “Well, no,” laughed the westerner, “I've seen it do prompt service when there was no other rope handy and the noss thief was. But this time was different,” he went on. “I know because I was the one pre- served. We were up in the canyon coun- try looking for some cattle, and one of the boys and I had gone off the trail to a stream to take a bath, as you might call it in the east, for it was hotter than blazes and shade was not plentiful. We went into the water some distance above a turbulent rapid and a waterfall of twenty-five or thirty feet, and as we didn’t go to swim so much as to get cool, all we needed was enough water to cover us, and that's all my companion took. was, however, more ambitious, and having been a fine swimmer when I was in the east, I thought I would branch out a bit. I was socn branching out extensively, and the first thing I knew, the swift water caught me and down I went toward the fall. I tried to pull for the shore, but it was no good, and then I set up a yell that made the canyon echo, and my partner came after me along the shore. I was fifty feet out in the stream, struggling, and there wasn’t any more sign of sdlvation for me than if I had been in midocean. “Down I kept going, whirled and turned side down and fired around promiscuous- , until, about a hundred yards above the final fall, I caught on a rock. It was just high enough to keep my head out of water and I hung to it till my finger nails-seemed to be imbedded in it. My partner at this juncture showed the kind of a fellow he was in an emergency, for he appeared on shore with our two lariats tied together, and just as I wes about to let go and be smashed’on the rocks below, he swung that Jariat as cool as he ever did from the back of his mustang and it dropped square over my head. The rest of it I am not very con- sclous of, because by the time he had pull- ed me ashore by the neck I was about as near hung as I ever want to be, but he brought me around all right in the course of half an hour or so, and I was quite as good as new again.” “That was a narrow escape,” remarked the writer. “And that was an odd fellow who saved me,” added the westerner, “for he was so mad about the scare I had given him that I'll be blaraed if he didn’t turn to before the day was over and give me the worst licking I ever got in my life for scaring him so.” Qualities of is it?” ————— A Story of Mystery. De you know what a “Story of Mystery” is? It Is a continued story, of which all but the last chapter Is printed, and then guesses are made as to the solution, then the final installment is printed. ‘Early in October a most interesting mystery story, “When the War Was Over,” will be started in The Star, and five hundred dollars will be given for the first absolutely correct solution. In case no guess is abso- lutely correct the amount will be divided among those nearest to a correct solution. The guesses will be confined to women read- ers, Fuller particulars later. MARRIAGE @F LINCOLN ne Bat His Experiences in, Gpurtships and His Matrimoniaf Doubts, et. When the Guests Were Assembled to Witness His Mafriage With Miss Todd, Lincol® Was Absent. a “ Hog . Jobn Gilmer Speed in Ladies’ Home Journal. It has long been kng@wh somewhat vaguely that in his youth and early manhood Abra- ham Lincoln had a full share of those senti- mental perplexities which cast a glamor of romance over the early life of most young men. The more serious of Lincoln's biogra- phers have preferred to say yery little of his first attachment, and in this paper I shail follow their admirable example. In 1833 the father of Anne Rutledge, who was a member of the South Carolina family of that name, and who went from Kentucky to Illinois in 1829, kept the tavern at New Salem in the latter state. Miss Rutledge was the belle of the village, and had, in the young men who ooarded at the tavermésev- eral devoted admirers. Among these was Lincoln, who was her frequent escort to quilting bees and other such homely enter- tainments in that primitive settlement. There is a sto-y, entirely uncorroborated, that Miss Rutledge preferred another suitor to the ardent Lincoln, but that she was de- serted by him and did not accept Lincoln's proposal until the last chance of hearing frcm this man had vanished. At any rate, it was not until 1835 that she engaged herself to Lincoln, who, not yet admitted to the bar, was not in a position immediately to marry. A few months later Anne Rutledge died, ana her accepted lover was most deep- ly moved by the bereavement. ‘That he gave way to his melancholy in a fashion not com- mon among a self-contained people such as those with whom he lived, is unquestionably true, and his friends were alarmed at his condition. _He went into retirement for some months at the secluded place of Bowl- ing Green, and then returned to take up, at New Salem, the broken threads of his career. Not more than this is known of incoln's first attachment, for he never discussed it with any one in later life, and the most intimate friend he ever had told the writer twenty years ago that though he had heard of the affair he knew abso- lutely nothing more about it than that there was such a story. The next affair that Lincoln had was not nearly so bad—indeed, it is quite doubt- ful whether there was ever anything in it that was serious. Nowadays, I fancy, Lin- coln’s little passage of compliments in 18% with Miss Mary Owens of Green county, Ky., wculd be called only a spirited flirta~ tion. However, Mr. Herndon, who wrote a life of Lincoln, got the whole story from Miss’ Owens thirty years or se later. Miss Owens did not find that Mr. Lincoin had the refinements and accomplishments she desired in her husband, so she prevented him from making a declaration. Even af- ter half a century no commentator on man- ners can find aught in this save commenda- tion. That year, 1837, Lincoln moved to Springfield, Il, and was admitted to the bar. He took up his residence with Joshua Fry Speed, the only close and intimate friend that he ever had, and from the pa- pers and letters left by Mr. Speed a fuller light has been thrown upon the later and more sericus love affafr of Lincoln than from all other sources, He Met Miss Toad. In 1839 Miss Mary Todd of Kentucky ar- tived in Springfield, to vjsit a married sis- ter, Mrs. Edvards. At ithe instance of his friend Speed, who was also a Kentuckian, Lincoln became a visitor at the Edwards’, and before long it'‘was' apparent to the observant among those In Springfield that the lvely young lady held him captive. Engagements at that time, and in that neighborhood, were. not/#nnounced as soon as they were made, and it is not at all im- possible that Miss “Pod@ and Mr. Lincoln were betrothed many months before any other than Mrs. Edwards and Mr. Sp knew of it. At this time, as was the case ull Lincoln was elected fo the presidency, his one/special rivaP‘in Illinois was Stephen A. Douglas. chee es : Mr. Douglas had more of the social graces than Mr. Lincoln, and it appeared to him that nothing would be more interesting than to cut out his political rival in the affections of the entertaining and lively Miss Todd, and so he paid her court. A spirited young lady from Kentucky, at that time in Illinois, would have been al- most less than human if she had refused to accept the attentions of the two leading men of the locality. Therefore, Miss Todd being quite human, encouraged Douglas, and again there was what nowadays would have been called a flirtation. This course of action did not spur Lincoln on in his de- votion, but made him less ardent, and he concluded, after much self-worriment, to break off the engagemeht. Of this Lamon relates “At length, after long reflection, in great agony of spirit, Mr. Lincoln concluded that duty required him to make a candid state- ment of his feelings to the lady who was entitied to his hand. He wrote her a let- ter and told her gently but plainly that he did not love her. He asked Speed to de- liver it, but Speed advised him to burn it. ‘Speed,’ said Mr. Lincoln, ‘I always knew you were an obstinate man. If you won't Geliver it I will get some one else to do it.’ But Speed now had the letter in his hand, and, emboldened by the warm friendship that existed between them, replied, ‘I shall not deliver it nor give it to you to be de- livered. Words are forgotten, misunder- stood, passed by, not noticed in a private conversation; but once put your words in writing and they stand as a living and eternal monument against you. If you think you have will and manhood enough to Ko and seek her and speak to her what you say in that letter, you may do that.’ Lincoln went to see her forthwith, and re- ferred to Speed. She told him she knew the reason of his change of heart, and re- leased him from his engagement. Some parting endearments took place between them, and then, as a natural result of those endearments, a reconciliation.” The Bridegroom Was Missing. Mr. Lincoln was never, it appears, en- tirely happy after this reconciliation, and grew quite moody and depressed. The biographers who treat at length of the sub- ject declare that his mind turned back to Anne Rutledge, and the memory of her shrouded his heart in gloom. To all save Speed he was silent as to the cause of his melancholy, but he could not hide it. Miss ‘Vodd’s sister, Mrs. Edwards, counseled that the engagement should be broken or that the marriage should be indefinitely postponed. Other odvice prevailed, and preparations were made for the wedding, which was to take place January 1, 1841. The wedding feast was prepared, the guests were assembled, the bride was ready for the céremony, but the bride- groom did not come. After several hours he was found by his friends—beside himself with melancholy, with mortification and with shame. It was gvident that he was no longer responsible for hia own actions., His friends endeav- ored to cheer him up, but he was incon- solable. ‘They therefore watched him that no harm might come to him from his own hands. His friend Speed, writing of this time many years later, thus alluded to it: “In the winter of 1841 a gloom came over him till his friends were alarmed for his sife. Though a member of the legislature, he rarely attended its sessions. In his deepest gloom, and when I told him he would die unless he rallied, he said, ‘I am not afraid, and would be more than willing, but I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world Is a little better for my having lived in it.’ "” Mental Depression. During this dreadful fit of depression Mr. Speed, who had closed out his business in Springfield and arranged to return to Ken- tucky, urged upon Mr. Lincoln to accom- pany him thither in the hope that in changed surroundings he would find a re- lief denied to him in the place where every- thing he saw and all the people he met re- minded him of the cause of the sorrow that was welghing him down. And so in the spring of 1841 the two friends set out for Louisville, near which was Farmington, the Speed homestead. Here, amid most un- uecustomed scenes and surroundings Mr. Lincoln spent several months and regained in some measure His lost cheerfulness, and to a great extent, also, his” self-control. During this visit he endeared himself to all the mem:bers of the Speed family by his patient gentleness and his total lack of 2lf-consciousness, The writer remembers very well to have heard a very fastidious lady, a member of the Farmington household at the time of that visit, say, that though at that time he had none of the polish and gracefulness to be expected from those acquainted with the usages of society, he was one of na- ture’s gentlemen because of his kindliness of heart and innate refinement. And after saying this she recalled an inst@&ce of real good manners on his part. At dinner there Was a saddle of mutton. The servant after handing the roast passed a glass of jelly. Mr. Lincoln took the glass. and ate the jelly from it. ‘he servant got another glass and passed it around. Mr. Lincoln noticed that the others at table merely took a spoonful. Without embarrassment or apoiogy he laughed quietly and remarked, “I seem to have taken more than my share,” and then he went on with his dinner. Most persons, this lady thought, after committing such a solecism would have been covered with confusion and profuse in apologies. This incident bears out what Mr. Speed has said: “No matter how ri eulous his ignorar re upon any subject might make hin appear he was never ashamed to acknowle p jt; but he immediately addressed hinsscl? ‘to the task of being tgnoraat no longer Letters on Marriage. While Mr. Lincoln was in Kentucky his friend Speed became engaged to be mar- ried to the lady who soon afterward be- came his wife and who is now his widow. Previous to the consummati of en- gagement Mr. Speed was beset with all kinds of doubts—doubts of himself, of the genuineness of his affection, of his fitness for matrimony and so on. Probably the perplexities of his friend now made these doubts more bothersome than they othe wise would have been. In these atters Lincoln was his confidant, and it was his duty now, in turn, to minister to Speed. Their talks with one another were evi- dently long and frequent, and several Ict- ters were written on these sentimental sub- jects after Lincoln had returned to Mlinois. In February, 1 the next year, Mr. Speed was married, and Lincoln wanted particu- larly to know whether matrimony had con- firmed or dispelled the doubts of courtship. In one he says: “It cannot be told how it thrills me with joy to hear you say you are ‘far happier than you ever expect- ed to be.” That much I know is enough. I know you too well to suppose your expecta- tions were not, at least sometimes, ex- travagant, and if the reality exceeds them all, I say, enough, dear Lord. 1 am not go- ing beyond the truth when I tell you that the short space it took me to read your last letter gave me more pleasure than the sum total of all I have enjoyed since the fatal Ist of January, 1841. Since then, it seems to me, I should huve been entirely happy but for the never-absent idea that there is one (referring io Miss Mary Todd) who is still unhappy, whom I have con- tributed to make so. That still kills my | soul. I cannot but reproach myself for even wishing to be happy while she is oth- erwise. She accompanied a large party in the railroad cars to Jacksonville last Mon- day, and on her return spoke so that I heard of it, cf having enjoyed the trip ex- ceedingly. God be praised for that. One thing I can tell you which I know you will be glad to hear, and that is that i have seen Mery and scrutinized her feel- ings as well es I could, and am fully con- vinced she is far happier now than she has been for the last fifteen months past.” Then Lincoln Married. Eight months after Speed had married Mr, Lincoln wrote him: “But I want to ask a close question: ‘Are you now in feeling as well as judgment glad that you are mar- ried as you are?’ From anybody but me this would be an impudent question not to be tolerated; but I know you will pardon it in me. Please answer it quickly, as I am impatient to know.” Mr. Lincoln’s object in asking this ‘close question” is manifest. Mr. Speed gave the answer quickly and satisfactorily, and on the 4th of November, 1 one month ex- actly after the que: iad been submit- ted, Mr. Lincoln was married. ee Lincoln Gave the Words Life. To the Editor of The Evening Star: In your issue of September 14 Mr. Wm. E. Nott ascribes to Hon. Henry Wilson the origin of the expression employed by Mr. Lincoln at Gettysburg, and declares that the c.lebrated words, ‘government of the people, by the people and for the people,” should be placed between quotation points. Now, strictly speaking, “there is nothing Lew under the su! and the most original genius is only original in producing new combinations of old material. Mr. Wilson undoubtedly used the words thought criginal with Mr. Lincoln, but they fell dead from dis lips. Mr. Lincoln used them, and the scene and circumstances made the words living things. If these particular words in Mr, Lincoln’s speech should be put between quotation marks, then the whole speech ought to be, for.we may go farther than Mr. Nott and say that not an idea, not a sentence, not a word, employed by Mr. Lincoln at Gettysburg was original in any strict sense. The success of the speech was due to the fact that the hour and the man had met. Indeed, so far as Mr. Wil- son is concerned, neither the words or the ideas of the oft-quoted sentence were original with him. George Mason, echoing still older thought, had, nearly a century before Mr. Wilson, declared that “all power is rested in and derived from the people,” while Dr. Thomas Cooper, a prominent political writer of the revolutionary period, had, in in his letter on emigration, quoted by Mr. Weld in his “Travels in the United States,” used nearly the same words as Mr. Wilson, viz.: “The government of the United States is the government of the people and for the people.” Dr. Cooper would perhaps have thought the omitted words “by the people” grammatically super- fluous. Now, Mr. Lincoln meant to char- acterize the government in his address as the mere “agent and trustee” of the people. And yet the highest courts and ablest statesmen have continued to this day thoughtlessly ascribing sovereignty to the government of the United States. Sov- ereignty belongs to the people, and is their free will, and gannot be delegated to any government. If a people were to part with their sovereignty, thi ould part with their free will and their life. Mr. Lincoln himself, after laying down the true doctrine, frequently spoke of the sovereignty of the United States government. The sovereignty Kes with the states separately, or with the mass of the people of the United States. There can be no divided sovereignty, as the will of the people, being a psychological elemert, fs indivisible. The states cannot be partly sovereign and the United States partly so. LYON G. TYLER. —_=__ “House That Jnck Built.” From the Portland Express. I witnessed an incident, or a series of in- cldents, on Congress street today, which will remind lawyers of the famous “Squid case.” A driver of a package delivery dropped a somewhat sizable bundle upon the sidewalk. Falling with a thud of very considerable size it startled a dog, which in jumping to avoid the bundle ran against a woman, who, in her efforts to prevent her- self from falling, nearly overthrew another woman with whom she collided. This latter woman's parasol came in contact with a passing man, who dodged his head with sufficient force to shake off his eyeglasses, which, falling upon the ground, were stepped upon and ruined by a young wo- man who was walking up street with a young man for a companion. The whole train did not take a moment, but by the time the man kad picked up the now use- less frame of his former eyeglasses the bundle dropper was some distance down street_unconscious of the mischief his care- lessness had wrought, while the poor dog, as if certain he had done wrong, was rapid- ly sneaking up street. Her Clock Stopped When She Died. From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Miss Emma Halscher, aged twenty-four, daughter of Frederick Haischer, died to- right at 11 o'clock from a lingering bron- chial trouble. A clock which had been pur- chased as a present by the young man to whom she was engaged to be married was in the room near the bed, and had been running regularly until the moment the young lady died, when the clock stopped at the minute she drew her last breath. ]ofant. Health SENT FREE It is a matter of vast Importance to mothers. The manufacturers of the GAIL BORDEN EAGLE BRAND CONDENSED MILK issue a pamphlet, entitled “INFANT HEALTH,” which, beinevery home. Address, NEW YORK CONDENSED MILK CO., 71 Hudson Street, New York, ge | day Yea ‘@lendar Tells the day of the week w : every birthday since 1776 wiich and the pon which every date until 1976 - ~ will fall, In the October issue of THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL 10 Cents cn all News-stands The Curtis Publishing Company Philadelphia YOUR. 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