Evening Star Newspaper, November 23, 1895, Page 23

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1895—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. DOLLARS WILL ‘Yi Wh) BE GIVEN FORAY We) CORRECT SOLUTION ij OF THES STORY, ‘SS \ BEFORE THEY WERE MARRIED. LA HENRYC.PARKER s AUTHOR OF . “SCORNED TOTHE END; “ARBITRATION &C3 CONDITIONS OF THE STAR’S GREAT OFFER. 1. The Star will pay $250 in gold to the reader from whom It receives by mail, at the Publication office, Pennsylvania avenue and Mth street, the complete and absolutely correct solution of “Before They Were Mar- ried,” as it shall be disclosed in the final chapter of the story, to be published Satur- day, December 14, in The Star. If two or More complete and absolutely correct solu- tions are received the $250 in gold will be divided equally. 2. 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The names and addresses of the winners of the cash prizes will be published in The Star at the earliest date possible after the publication of the final chapter. No condition of subscription to The Even- ing Star is imposed. Guessers must be wo- men and girls and necessarily they must be readers of The Star, but they may read the story in The Star taken by any member of the family and need not be regular subscrib- ers themselves In order to enter the sompetl- tlon. While only women and girls may guess and win the prizes, they can receive help as to their guess from any member of their family or from all the family. = i INSTALL : CHAPTER XIII.—WHAT BETSEY SAW. “Your honor,” said Lawyer Levy, “it 1s approaching noon, the customary dinner hour, I beileve, in this town. My examina- tion of this witness may be at considerable length. In view of that fact, and the ab- sence of Professor Drummond, who, I am told, may return on a train due in about an hour, I suggest that we take a recess until 1 o'clock.” “There are other witnesses present,” sug- gested the magistrate. “Yes, and still another absentee—Betsey Hubbard. I will not deny that I do not really expect either of the absentees to ap- pear at this hearing, and will base my mo- tion for a recess solely on the ground that in view of the eatraordinary character of the evidence just given, I should lke time to prepare my questions. Time will be saved in the long run, your honor.” “It is a reasonable request,” said Squire Taylor. “Adjourned until 1 o'clock. Jurors and witnesses will please be prompt.” Dr. Williams heard this motion and order Bore Her From the Room. with keen dismay. The agony of the or- deal itseif, he thought, could not be greater than that of waiting for it through more than an hour, during which the lawyer would be so arranging his questions that not even a secret surmise of the doctor's would escape scrutiny. "The doctor had had little sleep during the night for thinking about the inquest. He had considered every possible question and had prepared his answer for it; if he could not give a truthful answer, it was his in- tention to remain silent and suffer such punishment,as the court might impose for Contempt. That this in itself would be damaging to the professor he was well aware, but he could see no other porsible course. He dreaded now the sensation that his action would cause, and the probability shrewd lawyer would arrange his that the arran is tions in such an order that when poet to a critical one no answer would be as convincing as one categorically given. ‘He turned with forced cheerfulness to Loulse a3 the people began to crowd to- ward the door, and was Instantly struck a change in her spirlt and demeanor. Bee had not been altoxether unaffected by Stark ther’ strange death; «au 2k to take alarm, she could be as quickly paci- fied, and her mind dwelt persistently upon the pleasant side of things; hence her ap- parent divmissal of the gruesome tople from her thoughts as soon as the first great shock was passed, followed, as It was, too, by ma of lively and real interest—Phil- brick's adventure, the doctor's proposal and the coming of Mrs. Williams to Fairview. Nevertheless, she had not once set foot in the corridor where Starkweather fell since that fatal day, and she had not yet brought herself to sleep alone. She had shuddered Amelia suggested that they re- go when gume the former habit of occupying sepa~ Tate chambers that her cousin withdrew the suggestion without argument. “I want somebody near me," said Loutse. In that desire she summed up a great art of her character. She needed compan- jonship, and her attention was so easily taken by people eround her that there was fo room for morbid thoughts or unpleasant reflections. Companionship she had had in @bundance ever since tha day of Stark- weather's death, and as that subject was geldom or never mentioned In her presence, and as she never Invited tt, the first tm- pressions of tragedy and mystery had faded away. They were all brought back by the scene In Squire Taylor's court, for which the doctor's kindly forethought had ured her. not only that the witness re- called the shocking features of the tragedy and the apparently unfathomable mystery +t! vectators themselves, that att : ances at her and thelr half sd remarks, gave her a giimpse of that had not theretofore so much to her in the guise of a dream Ag the light began to break, she shut her ¢ yes to it, she would not have It. It was horrible, Wicked, Imposslble! Her father this was lght that defied all barriers; it was flame that burned its way jousness, and at last, when De- los Hawkins asked his suggestive question, she saw and understood It all. She knew then that these villagers had jammed them- selves into the stuffy court room from more than morbid curiosity about the death of a man almost unknown to them. They be- Meved that murder had been committed. It was no comfort that technically no charge had been or could be made as yet; her fath- er was accused of the crime as clearly now as if he had been called to the bar to plead. Amelia instinctively perceived the change stealing over her cousin, and when Delos Hawkins asked his question she felt Louise start and saw her fix her eyes in a stony stare upon the dcctor. He did not venture to look her way urtil the announcement of the recess had been made. They were but a few feet apart, and though the doctor saw at once that she had been greatly a‘fected by what had transpired he was far from guessing just what she felt. He went close to her.and satd: “Well, they've let me off the rack, in or- der to make it worse for me when they begin again, I suppose.” He smiled as he said it, as if to make light of a disagreeable matter. Louise’s face re- mained hard and expressionless. “I sheuldn’t think you'd care,” she re- sponded, and then turned away and slipped her arm through her cousin's. A look of intense pain crossed Amelia's face. She locked helplessly at the doctor, who seemed stunned. He dimly perceived the dreadful meaning back of Louise’s words. She felt that he was making the case look as badly for her father as the known facts would permit. So imperfectly did she grasp the significance of the facts that not an inkling of the doctor's efforts to shield the professor appeared to her. If she could have expressed the feeling that had chilled her heart she would have said: “Why did he tell so much? Why could he not keep silent? Every word he had uttered appeared to her now like a blow aimed directly at her father. Amelia, who understood the doc- towS attitude, though she knew little of what he migkt have told the court had he choser to speak freely, felt as if she, too, had been stabbed, for she had not dreamed that Louise would so misinterpret the doc- tor; ail too clearly she saw how hopeless was the situation she had created, for neither she nor the dcctor himself could explain to Louise how loyal he was to her interests without at the same time setting before her the facts in such a light that she, too, must feel that there was reason to suspect her father. Regret. regret that she knew to be vain, overwhelmed Amelia. She knew not what to say or what to do. The doctor, too, while he longed to assert his loyalty, to explain himself and at the same time to comfort Louise, saw the utter hopelessness of any such attempt. If his lips were sealed as to what he knew to the court, a thousand times more so were they to her. Moreove: the time and place precluded the possibility of explanation. Temporary relief and escape from a pos- sible “scene” came through good Parson itakcr, wko pushed through the crowd stegested that the young ladies go to his house during tke recess hour. Amella promptly accepted the kindly invitation for herself and Louise, and they started out with the parson. Constable Minot Hawkins had had his eye on them, and even his rather dull under- standing was impressed by the fact that scmething was wrong. “Looks ¢s if she'd cut him,” he reflected, and, fearful of his ofticlal position, he hus- tled his way to the door, intercepted Loulse and Amelia and presented them with the papers that required their presence at the hearing. i “Just to make sure that you're here in the afternoon,” he said. “You ought to have given them to us last evening,” returned Loulse. The constable stared, but made no reply. He tried to speak to the doctor, but the lat- ved him impatiently aside. Other Villagers, life long friends, fared as badly. The doctor was In no mood for gossip. He was only dimly conscious of what. was go- ing on around him. His thoughts were on the Fairview tragedy, that grew blacker and blacker every moment. ‘The people by whom he was surrounded were but unim- portant details of the picture. He saw them without knowing what they did. He went down to the street, answering none Betsey Was Sworn. who addressed him, and saw Charles Stark- weather, Lawyer Levy and Mr. Philbrick go Into the hotel together, chatting as if they were old friends, but the sight failed to impress him as significant. He walked rapidly out of the village to a little used road that wound Its way up to a high hill, and spent the entire recess time in tramp- ing back and forth where no man saw him. When he returned to the court room the erowd had reassembled and proceedings ap- parently were waiting for him. The per- sons most concerned in the affair were in the places they had occupied before. “I hope, your honor,” stammered the doctor, as he edged his way to the witness chair, “that I am not In contempt. I meant to be in time.” You escape by a narrow margin, doc- tor,” replied Squire Taylor, smiling, as he glanced at the clock. “We are all ready, I think, Mr. Levy?” The lawyer stood up. There was a hush all over the room, every person present being acutely anxious to hear his questions and anticipate the revelations that would surely follow from a rigid cross-examina- tion. He waited a moment—to be more im- pressive, the doctor thought bitterly—and then in a manner that seemed embarrassed, asked: “Is there anything in the circumstances as you know them, Dr. Williams, to pre- clude the theory of suicide as an explana- tion of this matter?” The magistrate’s face expressed surprise at the question, but before he could inter- pose a word the doctor had answered in a low but distinct voice: “Nothing, sir.” Lawyer Levy fingered his watch guard reflectively a moment, then nodded his head, remarked composedly: “That is all, your honor,” and sat down. The astonishment in the court room was tco intense at firat to find expression in even a rustle. After an instant of profound silence, however, there was a mumur of excited comments that the squire promptly subdued by pounding on his table with a gavel. Then he cleared his throat and looked very much perplexed. “I am disappointed.” he said presently, “fn the turn the examination has taken. It is hardly proper for me to ask for opin- ions on this matter, and yet, doctor, as you are tke only witness available—”" & commotion just outside the door caused him to stop speaking. A woman's voice was heard saying, “I must get in, I'm wanted there, and Louise, grasping Amelia’s arm, whispered, “Betsey!” The crowd made way, and Betsey Hub- bard, flushed and nervous, came forward. The doctor hardly knew whether to fear or rejoice at her coming. His amazement at Lawyer Levy's course was followed by a hope that the inquest would speedily be ended. Now, although Betsey might say much to clear away the mystery, he could not hut dread lest her revelation should condemn the professor utterly. “T heard I was wanted,” panted Betsey. “You may step down, doctor,” said the savire. Betsey was soon sworn. “Now, Mrs. Hubbard,’ began the squire, “how long have you been employed by Prof. Drummond? “What's that got to do with It?” she snap- ped in reply. “I was hired by him to take Mr. Philbrick Leaned Over and Said Something. * charge of Fairview if you want to know.” The spectators tittered, and Squire Taylor aguin had recourse to his gavel. “I must remind you, Mrs, Hubbard,". he said, “that you are in a court now, and your remarks must be whoily confined to the questions put to you.” “Well,” she remarked humbly enough, “I was told that I was wanted to tell what I knew about the death of Harry Starkweath- er. I'm here to do it.” “Who told you?” “Mrs. Appleton. I just got back, and I saw her outside.” “I suggest, your honor,” said Lawyer vy, ‘that the witness be asked to tell her ** responded the squire stiffly. “I was coming down stairs,” said Betsey, promptly, “when I heard a sound as if some- Lody had fallen. I was at the top of the first flight and stopped there, frightened. I saw Prof.Drummond run in through the din- ing room from the piazza. He went into the back hall, as I could tell from his steps. Pretty soon he came back with Mr. Stark- weather in his arms. I got out of his way. He spoke to me and told me to stay. I was iervous and started down stairs. I saw him take Mr. Starkweather inte the little cham- ber near the head of the stairs. Then I ran cut of the house, for sudden death always upsets me, and that's all there Is to it.” “Were you certain at the time that Mr. Starkweather was dead?" asked the squire. “He looked it,” sald Betsey. “What did Professor Drummond do after he had taken Mr. Starkweather into the chamber?” “J don't know. I heard him calling after I'd got out of the house, but I didn’t look *round.” The squire glanced at Lawyer Levy, who turned to Charles Starkweather and whis- pered to him. Mg Philbrick leaned for- ward and said something. Mr. Stark- veather nodded. Then the lawyer stood up. rs. Hubbard,” he said, “as far as you know, were the relations of Professor Drummond and Mr. Starkweather friend- ly?” \ *ipecidedly," she answered. “I never saw the faintest sign of a falling out between them, “Did you know the deceased well “Mr. Starkweather? Pretty well, consid- ering. He was always very pleasant. I did his mending for him, and he told me a good deal about himself. “Ah! Did he ever tell you anything that led you to think that he was very un- happ: Betsey turned her fingers together ner- yously and answered “yes.” “Tell the court about it, Mrs. Hubbard.” “He said,” replied Betsey, after long hes- itation, and speaking slowly, “that if it got so he couldn’t bear it, he should put an end to himself; and he said, said he, that when he did, nobody would ever find out how ‘twas done.” A gasp from the front row attracted gen- eral attention to Amella. Her head had fallen forward. Parson Whitaker and the doctor bore her from the room, Louise fol- lowing. They heard Betsey sobbing hyster- ically as they passed through the hall out- side to an adjoining room, and the voice of Lawyer Levy making somo kind of state- ment. ‘Those who remained In the room heard him declare that his client was entirely sat- isfied to let the inquiry rest there. They had no disposition to rake up the unhappy past of the deceased, and, although circum- stances had at first pointed to a possible other outcome, they would be content now to accept the verdict of the jury as the only one that an intelligent community could arrive at. Somewhat confused by the commotion and what appeared to be a complete change of front on the part of the deceased’s family, the squire briefly charged the jury to bring in a verdict in accordance with the evidence adduced. This they did without leaving their seats, and, stripped of its bungling verbiage, It meant suicide. By the time Amella recovered the Inquest was over, and the crowd was going down- stairs, discussing the unexpected outcome. None, apparently, were more surprised than the jurymen themselves. “I'm afraid we've missed {t somehow,” whispered Delos Hawkins to his brother, “but what could we do in the face of the squire’s charge, and what the lawyer said? I should just have liked a chance to examine the professor, thoug! Perhaps Delos imagined that he would not be abashed a second time. ~ The spectators had not all left the butld- ing, and the crowd had not begun to dis. perse when there was another commotion. Professor Drummond himself drove down the street in an open buggy, his horse foam- ing from exertion, and pulled up before the entrance to Squire Taylor's court room. (To be continued next Monday.) 2S Only One. From the Louisville Truth. Wifey—“Do you think there 1s a man that could conscientiously say to his wife, ‘You are the only woman I ever loved?’ ” “Only one that I can think of.” 2y—"Who? You, dearest?" Hubby—"Oh, no; Adam.” ee A Miss in the Mail. From the New Yok Journal. Friend—“If you are so bad off why don’t you apply to your rich brother in Boston for assistance?” Poor Man—“I did write to him to assist me, and what do you suppose I got?” “I have no idea.” “He wrote to me that my letter asking for assistance had not reached him.” a Se Oa Links and Links. From the Yonkers Statesman. Crimsonbeak—"There’s a man who has done some good work on the links!” Yeast—‘He doesn’t look like a golf playe: “He's not. He manufactures sausages. Saag earn The Cost of Each. From Lustige Blaetter. Gentleman—“Excuse me, madam, I paid half a crown for admission, but cannot see anything. owing to your ha Indignant Materfamilias—' times as much for my hat. ‘Sir, I paid ten | STANTON AND A SPY ‘A War Time Incident in the Seo- retary’s Office. THE WAR DEPARTMENT MAIL BAG Interesting Recollections Told by Mr. Stanton’s Confidential Clerk. A REMARKABLE ORDER Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. One of the first doings of Mr. Stanton when he became Secretary of War, Jan- uary 13, 1862, was to invoke the counsel of the congressional committee which had been investigating the War Department to advise him of any facts which they knew of secret enemies in the department. He wanted to know particularly if any- thing had been disclosed against the hon- esty of a certain high civilian official, very near him, and if there was anything against the honesty of a certain high offi- cer of the army, who occupied rooms on the floor below him, He wanted to know if there was anything against any of the per- sons whom he had to trust, and if there was, they must go before he began. He could have no suspect in the department. He wanted to know if, in their investiga- tions, anything appeared against the offi- cer in thg room below, whom he had to trust with business of the last importance to the government. He had heard his name mentioned in connection with the disclosures of army movements to the enemy. F About a month afterward both of these persons were relieved from duty in the War Department and sent way down south to make very extensive investigations and reports. One of them never returned to the department, but sent his resignation with his report. The, War Department Mail. Certain clerks were known to be in col- lusion with the high civilian officer who wes sent away in defrauding the govern- ment in contracts for supplies for the army, and Assistant Secretary Peter H. Watson at once set about to get evidence of such frauds. In this business I was to take an important part. The official mail of the Secretary was used by these clerks in their frauds with contractors. The mes- senger who had charge of the Secretary’s mail, in bringing it from the post office, would empty it from the pouch on a table in the corridor, and distribute the letters which were addressed to the clerks of the Secretary’s office. The mail pouch hung open at the messenger’s table, in the cor- ridor, and was the receptacle for collecting letters brought in by people almost ddfly, addressed to people in Maryland, who sent them to Richmond. This messenger was relieved from this duty, and I was put in charge of the mail by Mr. Watson, to tem- porarily perform this messenger’s duty. I daily gt the mail from the post office, and took the outgoing mail to the post office. I had to walk, andj often found the pouch quite a load to carty. One day Mr. Watson told me to empty the letters from the pouehjon the table when T reached the post office and to pick out and bring him two letters which I would find addressed to certain. persons whose names he gave me. He told me that he had ar- ranged for my searching for the letters with Mr. Lambert Tree, the then city post- master. I found the letters, and as I was putting them in my breast coat pocket I saw a number of clerks in the large distributing room looking at me with wondering eyes, and which I returned, with manners and with looks that told the story of duty. These two letters were the evidence upon which Mr. Watson.at once ordered the ar- rest of two officers of the army, who were directly involved in the frauds. By these frauds the government was being swindled out of large sums of money by the collusion of clerks and a high oificial In the War De- partment. The persons arrested were of considerable importance, politically, and President Lincoln's influence was invoked in thefr behalf, but Mr. Watson was inexorable. The two clerks who wrote the letters were dismissed, and I afterward learned that they were appointed to positions in the Treasury Department—one of them to an important position. The high c an offi- cial Mr, Watson cpuld not dismiss, but told the Secretary thaf one of them would have to leave. When preparing to leave, this High official was asked by the President, who happened to be there at the time, where he was going, and the reply was, “I am xoing up in a balloon.” I never knew how Mr. Watson found out that the two letters were in the mail pouch that day, but I think his informant was a clerk. This ended my duties as mail messenger for the Secretary, and several months after Mr. Stanton had me transferred into bis own room as his confidential clerk, where I remained until after he left the department as Secretary. While I was doing messenger duty I was at the same time making the telegraphic history of the war, yet I had not received any appointment, nor taken the required oath of office, passed any examination nor received any pay for three months. I had to borrow money from Mr. Watson to buy bread for my home. When. the safety of the republic was at issue and the control of an empire was to be Getermined by battles between the great- est people of the world, what a relief it is to find in that dark period the republic had at least two honest servants in the persons of the Secretary and his assistant. ‘The Secretary's first order was to close the department four days in the week, giving Monday to the public and Saturday to mem- bers of Congress and Senators. He Cleared the City of Officers. The city was full of idle officers, and the Secretary issued ar order that sent them very quickly to their camps on peril of being dropped from the lists. The camp, he said, was the place for the preparation for the business of war. In his first order of January 22, giving thanks to our troops who had vanquished a greatly superior force, he said: ‘That alacrity, daring, courageous spirit and patriotic zeal, on all oceasions and under every circumstance, was expected from the army of the United States, and that the people would rejoice to honor every soldier and officer who prov- ed his courage.” Nothing gave him more pleasure than to promotg a soldier for courage and patriotism displayed in some daring act. A Spy in the Secretary's Room. On the night of Saturday, February 8, 1862, a tall, fine-looking man by some means passed the watchman at the door, came up to the second floor, and entered the room of Assistant Secretary Watson, which then adjoined the room of the Secretary. This man at once engaged Mr. Watson, and had a long talk with him. The Secretary was alone at the time, but Mr. Watson held the man in conversation 48 long as he could keep him talking, intending himself to an- nounce his presence to the Secretary and to warn him against \the man. Suddenly, the man came to me| at my desk tm the room, and handing jena card, asked that it be taken to the Secretary. Not thinking of any wrong, I tgokt in and the Secre- tary gave him auflienee. As soon as the man had gone intd the room and the door was closed, Mr. Watson became very angry, and, turning on me like a tiger, told me I should have given hintthe card, and never to do such a thing again. When the man left, Mr. Watson went into the Secretary's room to advise him of the character of his visitor. That night Mr. Watson called in the services of a(detective and sent him after this spy. This man was Dr. Ives, a correspondent of the New York , Two days after this the man was arrested by order of the Secretary. A Remarkable Order. “Ordered, That-a person calling himself Dr. Ives, @ native of a rebel state,whose brother, lately in the military service of the United States, is now an officer of the rebel army, and who pretends to be a special rep- resentative of the New York —— for Wash- irgton, be arrested, and held in close custody at Fort McHenry, as a spy, and for violating the rules and regulations of this department, in this, that on Saturday, the 8th day of February, 1862, against public and well- known regulations for the safe transaction oT congressional business, he intruded him- self in the War Department, and into the chambers where the Secretary and his as- sistants were transacting business with members of Congress, for the purpose of spying, and obtaining war news, and intelli- gence in respect to cabinet consultations, telegrams, etc., for publication, which he knew was not authorized to be published, and, having so intruded, he conducted him- self insolently, making threats to an assist- ant secretary, Peter H. Watson, of the hos- tility of the New York —— against the ad- ministration of the War Department, unless he was afforded spectal privileges and fur- nished intelligence in the department in re- spect to cabinet consultations, telegrams, official communications, and all news the moment it was received by the department in advance of all other papers. “The War Department is the place where the President, commander-in-chief of the army and navy, and his subordinates, the Secretary of War, and other public officers are earnestly engaged in the business of overcoming treason and rebellion against the government of the United States; and it is not a place where spies or traitors, or any person, but for public purposes, can be suf- fered to enter or harbor. i “Newspapers are valuable organs of public intelligence and instruction, and every proper facility will be afforded to all loyal persons to procure, on equal terms, informa- tion of such public facts as may be properly made known in times of rebellion. But no matter how useful or powerful the press may be, like anything else it Is subordinate to national safety. The fate of an army or the destiny of a nation may be imperiled by a spy in the garb of a newspaper agent. The ration is in conflict with treason and rebel- licn, and may be threatened by foreign foes. The lives and fortunes of 20,000,000 of peo- ple, and the peace and happiness of their rcsterity in the loyal states, the fate of pub- lic liberty and republican government, are staked upon the insiant issue. The duties of the President, his secretary, of every offi- cer of the government, and especially in the War Department and military service, are at this moment urgent and solemn duties—the most solemn and urgent that ever fell upon rian. “No news gatherer nor any other per- son tor sordid and treasonable purposes can be suffered to intrude upon them at such a time to procure news by threats or spy out official acts which the safety of the nation requires not to be disclosed. For these reasons the aforesaid Ives has been arrested and imprisoned, and all per- sors so offending will be dealt with in ike mapner.” That day and night the department was closed against the public. The prohibition occupied a conspicuous place in The Star every day, and a notice was on the door that the day was set apart for Congress. Of course, the office was open night and day to the President, the cabinet, members of the war committee of Congress and the general-in-chief of the army, and some of them were there every night. But no per- son not privileged ever got into Mr. Stan- ton’s rooms at night during the war. The watchman knew nothing of the entrance of Ives, but, as there were two entrances, one at the west, the main one, and cne on the east side of the building, through which the President would come, the man may have come in as a member of Con- gress. At that time I was in Mr. Watson’s room and had charge of all telegrams that were daily received and sent, and of which I told in a chapter in The Star some years ago. After this order war correspondents were very scarce at the War Department, but the New York — daily thundered its broad- sides against Mr. Stanton. It was then the most powerful and illustrious paper in the country, The Order Had Another Meaning. But this order had a far more significant meaning. It was Intended for the eve of a suspect in high position in the War De- partment, and the very remarkable terms of the order were aimed at him, but his name was never mentioned, and I never heard any of the clerks speak of him in connection with the order. In after years, when Early came so near capturing Washington, and communication by rail with the city was cut off by the burning of the Gun Povder bridge, that civillan officer heretofore mentioned as sent away sent a telegram to the Secretary offering to send supplies for the people of Washington by water; while in the Secre- tary’s trouble with Prasident Johnson, that high army official took sides with the Pres- ident against Congress, and wanted to “kick Stanton out" and to turn the govern- ment over to the people who wanted to de- stroy it, The War Department on Fire. It was on one of those days when every- thing went wrong, and after the Secretary had gone to dinner, that an orderly dashed up to his house, on K street, with the alarming words that the War Office was on fire. He sprang from the dinner table and told his drive~ (Irwin, who. always in waiting) to “go quickly to the office.” That carriage dashed down 14th street into the avenue and past the White House at full speed, for even the horses (aithough a hired team) had some of the Secretary’s fire. At the office he found a room near his own and the corridor filled with smoke. Inquiry revealed the cause of the smoke to be the burning of a lot of rubbish and papers in a fireplace, which had been set m fire by the pipe of Gen. Mr. Stan- on was %n a rage. He sent for Adjt. Gen. ‘Townsend, who was home at dinner, and, coming quickly to the office, Mr. Stanton toia him to “turn out that d—d fellow with his pipe; find quarters for him outside of the building.” ‘The old War Department was almost in a condition of dry rot, and nad the fire reached the floor nothing could have saved it. After that buckets of water were kept in_all the corridors. Except on a subsequent occasion, in which Mr. John W. Garrett, president of the Bal- timore and Ohio Railroad Company, was telling Mr. Stanton how a certain Balti- morean was abusing him, I never heard him swear, although there was not a day in which he did not have to contend with some harassing trouble in the affairs of his great department, with armies and with men. The Secretary had the control of billions of the people’s money, and when he laid Gown his commission and left the depart- ment on the demand of Gen. Grant, he had $4.76 as a-balance from his salary for the last month he served es Secretary, and by my confidential relations with him I know he had not another dollar. The Secretary’s Sollcitude for the President. The safety of President Lincoln was al- ways a matter of solicitude with Mr. Stan- ton. When the President, in the,summer, sought relief at the Soldiers’ Home, two miles in the country, the road to which was lonely at places and invited the hiding of assassins, he had no guard, not even an orderly, and as soon as Mr. Stanton heard of this danger to his great chief, and with- out the President's knowledge, he ordered a mounted guard to attend him. When the President went to Fortress Monroe to meet the confederate peace commissioners in Hampton Roads, Mr. Stanton sent Assist- ant Secretary Eckert with him, with an injunction to “keep very near the Presi- dent,” not only in the deliberations of that distinguished conference of enemies of the President, but to keep near the President in all his movements while there. But Mr. Stanton’s solicitude reached its extreme tension when, in April, 1865, upon the evacuation of Petersburg by Gen. Lee, the President, who was then at City Point, advised Mr. Stanton by telegram that Gen. Grant was pushing forward to cut off Lee’s retreat, and that he would start at once to be with Grant in the final struggle. In this Mr. Stanton saw imminent danger, and sent to the President the following protest: “Allow me respectfully to ask you to con- sider whether you ought to expose the na- tion to the consequences of any disas‘er to yourself in the pursuit of a treacherous and dangerous enemy like the rebel army. if it was a question concerning yourself only, I should not presume to say a word, Commanding generals are in the line of their duty in running, such risks, but is the political head of a nation in the same con- dition?” To this the President sent his thanks and said: ‘I will take care of myself.” Before this the President had advised Mr. Stanton that he was within a few miles of a battle, and the prisoners captured (1,600) had passed where he was. The Secretary, an- swering this, said: “I hope you will re- member Gen. Harrison's advice to his men at Tippecanoe, that they ‘can see as well @ little further off.’ " Mr. Stanton’s devotion followed the Pres- ident wherever he went, and when the bul- let of the assassin had done its work of murder Mr. Stanton went to minister to him and by his dying bed directed the affairs of the nation. While Mr. Stanton was kind and gentle in THE ON WITH RICH CHOCOLATE FLAVOR, cases deserving such treatment, he had no mercy for those not deserving it, if the matter was against the discipline of the army, or against patriotic and honest con- duct. When Richmond fell and Lee had surrendered, Mr. Stanton's change was sud- den on the side of mercy. There was no kindness that he did not extend to the peo- ple of Richmond, who were in deep distress and wanted bread. Concerring our prisoners in Richmond and elsewhere suffering in the south, he asked Gen. Grent to effect their instant release. Mr. Stanton.sent the werds of joy to all the governors in authority through the north, and the answers came back quickly, “Glory to God in the highest.” He ruied the War Department with brains, courage, energy snd will power, without the least regard to personal or political con- sequences. He was the autocrat of the na- tion and the people, and the army knew it and felt it. The President knew and had the wisdom and the greatness to encourage it while himself sorrowing over the calamities of war. The greater the abuse of the Secre- tary the closer the President clung to him, and in history these two great men will live side by side until liberty shall perish from the earth. Stern as the great Secretary was, he loved Lincoln, and in the last moments of this marvel of greatness and goodness Mr. Stan- ton bent over him in grief and sorrow, his head resting on his left hand, as portrayed in the portrait which now hangs above the desk of the Secretary of War, by the side of the flag which covered his noble chief, and as the soul of this now the tenderest mem- ory of the nation passed into eternity, said of him: “He now belongs to the ace: H. JOHNSON. IDENTIFIES HIMSELF. John Smith Has Hix Letters Addressed With His Photograph. Statistics of nomenclature would be in- teresting. John Smith, a traveling man from New York, who was at the Rigzs House yesterday, states that one person out of each one hundred bears the same name as himself. This psed to be a source of great armoyance to him, but he has proved equal to the emergency by inventing a new and attractive mode of identification through the medium «f photography. 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