Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1896, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY. JULY 18, 189 THURLOW WEED. JAMES GORDON BENNET, SR. FOUR GREAT EDITORS In Their Day They Made and Un- made Presidents. GREELEY, BENNET?, WEED, RAYMOND A. Oakey Hall Gives Some Recol- lections of Their Methods. =e NOTABLE QUARTET A F COURSE FRED- rick Hudson's Hi tory of Ameri Journalism has m the world acquainted with those Washing- ton editors, Duff Green and ~Francis P. Blair, st, who made or unmade Presidents in ante- bellum times; yet more conspicuous than they in Prest- dent making and un- making were the members of what may be termed New York's great editorial quartet, Thurlow Weed, James Gordon Bennett,sr., Horace Greeley and Henry J. Raymond. Before referring to them personally in detail it can be prefaced that political his- tcry makes Thurlow Weed entirely ac- countable for the respective nominations and elections of William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Millard Filimore and An- drew Johnson. In their respective cam- paigns Thurlow Weed was the manager of their party machine in New York state, and through his influential delegation and personal magnetic Influence—the more po- tent because he never sought political pre- ferment—both Webster and Clay, the real party favorites in 1540 and 1848, were set aside in favor of Harrison, the hero of Tip- pecanoe, and Taylor, the hero of Buena Vista. Although both Fillmore and John- scn were elected Vice Presidents, and suc- ceeded to the White House by deaths. it had already become recognized as a politi- cal Nestor, and Messrs. Bennett and Greeley had also ‘been already acknowledged as potent monarchs in the realms of journal- ism. Editorial Warfa: Messrs. Weed and Greeley had, then al- ready become acknowledged makers of gov- ernors and Presidents, and Mr. Raymond had taken rank as an Albany legislator, at an era when a new radical state constitu- tion had calied for the services at the state capitol of the most capable politicians in both whig and democratic parties. Mr. Ben- nett, then, as always afterward, stood with- out active political affiliations, but with ten- dencies somewhat antagonistic to the whig- gery of the other three. His favorite edi- torial amusement was to pet one party on a Monday, for instance; the other party on a Wednesday, and on a Friday knock their heads together in mischievous and piquant editorials. In him a strong tendency to mischief-making always existed. Enemies had called him malicious, but never a grain of malice was in his heart. They simply mistook mischief and practical jocundity for malice. Both Messrs. Weed and Greeley Were very serious editors, but_ Raymond combined a slight love of mischief and satire with a preference for serious views of life and its vicissitudes. The personality of each editor so strongly infused into the newspaper directed by each of the quartet that until their deaths the sayings by any one quoting either paper was “Bennett, or Weed, or Raymond, or Greeley, says so and so this morning.” New York city finally became the journal- istic workshop of the entire quartet, by the removal to it of Mr. Weed on purchase of the oldest daily newspaper in the state—the Commercial Advertiser—whose conservative history suited the conservative leanings of Mr. Weed in his declining years. Not a Congenial Group. Although one would surmise that co-op- eration in similar grooves of occupation might be calculated to draw the members of the quartet together in personal friend- ship, the singular feature was presented of their non-assimilation. While Messrs. Weed and Raymond remained upon the most amiable terms throughout their edi- {torial careers, the utmost personal antag- onism ensued between Messrs. Weed and Greeley, and between the latter and Mr. Raymond; while Mr. Bennett, who had never except casually met any of the others, constantly waged a guerrilla war- fare upon all three with his editorial pen. For them he prepared nicknames; thus Weed was to him and Herald readers the “Albany drummer’—in allusion to the en- listment of the Albany editor during the war of 1812 as a boyish drummer. For that service Mr. Weed yearly received a pension to the date of his death, 2nd which went into the conduit of his well-known and systematic charities. Mr. Raymond became in Herald verbiage “Abelard,” in HENRY RAYMOND. HORACE GREELEY. Mr. Weed who selected the former and fairly forced him on the nominating con- 1 in case of Johnson set a: mbent, Hannibal Hamlin, against sympathy and political strength. y enough, by Taylor and Lincoin, political the deaths of Harrison Mr. Weed vastiy ‘aylor, his and Johnson were no power than they pany with Mr. Weed. . two of his candidates, and G Fremont in sful, and again lost him hed aims in to William H. de governor of e in 1S) and placed on the nanship—were also un- ever thereafter his pelitical ded. 2 Van Buren, and aided the fortunes of his sarcastic iidate, Gen. Scott, to quet of Save the soul ers," that disadvantageously m throughout his disastrous in 1556, when Pierce de- Mr. Bennett turned against actically unmade him, while s Buchanan in his then powerful newspaper, the New York ley shared with Mr. Weed the of Harrison in 1S40, of Taylor in in 186u, but sadly failed ndeavors to unmake Pres!- t in a second term. . Raymond had his full share in naking of ¢ s, and in the making of Lincoln eceived, against Raymond's influ- he nomination—and also of General nt in his first term. When Mr. Weed and a large section of the party of Andrew Johnson deserted him, Mr. Raymond's pen was that President's support in what might be termed his remaking. But Mr. Ray- mond, unlike the other three of the quartet, never had a share of unmaking any Presi- dent. Founding of Four Great Dailies. Although all of this famous editorial quar- tet are dead, each lives to a marked extent in the journals that each founded—the Al- bany vening Journal, the New York Herald, the New York Tribune and the New York Times. It was my good fortune to know personally all of them, to have been on intimate terms with three of them. Mr. Bennett was a native Scot: Mr.Greeley took birth among the granite hills of New Hampshire; Mr. Weed under the shadows of the Catskill mountains about the time Rip Van Winkle was still sleeping there, and Mr. Raymond's infant eyes first opened on the Green mountains of Vermont. Circumstances strangely threw together the quartet at the very commencement of In_1840 Messrs. and Greeley were editorially co- ting for the cause of “Tippecanoe and ler, too.” Mr. Bennett had been serving for the same cause as_subeditor to thes| Courter and Enquirer. When Mr. Bennett quitted that employment to found—like Greeley—one or two minor and compara- tively unsuccessful journals, and next, In 1885, to originate the New York Herald, Mr. Raymond succeeded him in the Courier some years later, and next, leaving that post, took employment under Mr. Greeley on the Tribune. Thus Mr. Raymond, when starting the Times, had acquired reminiscent knowl- edge of both Bennett and Greeley’s journal- istic trends, as had the editor of the Tribune of the newspaper methods of Mr. Weed. Nevertheless, it is notable that each, in early as well as in later newspaper conduct, struck out original methods, imbued with Personal idiosyncracies. At the time Mr. Raymond, in 1857, in connection with the late George Jones as a business partner, founded the New York Times, Mr. Weed their journalistic caree! Weed allusion to some correspondence had with a lady contributor (Heloise), which had been surreptitiously obtained and publish- ed in a garbled form. Mr. Greeley was similarly referred to es the ‘“white-coated losopher’’ in allusion to the traditional light-colored overcoat that the Tribune or had adopted during his New England youthful days and always wore in after | life. Upon one occasion Mr. Greeley’s pen j termed Mr. Weed a “leper of the lobby,’ alluding to the latter's persistent interest in the doings of the legislature. On an- other and notable occasion Mr. Greeley in an editorial denominated Mr. Raymond as the “little villain.” In Personal Appearance. Allusion_has just been made to the ec- centricity in dress of Mr. Greeley. Through- | cut life he was addicted to loose and ill- fitting garments. Indeed one of his biogra- =| phers gave an instance of Mr. Greeley’s losing a job as a printer because of his al- leged slovenliness in attire when he came sking employment. His enemies—who de- fared Diogenes to be really a coxcomb in affecting odd costume—contended that Mr. | Greeley tock as much pains in making him- [self negligee as Kaymond did in obeying | the celebrated lines of the English poet: ‘Tho’ wrong the mode, comply: more sense is shown By foliowing others’ folly than your own. Yet Greeley was always neat and as never about him the Grub street air that belonged to the HMterary men of Dr. Johnson's era. Mr. Greeley was, as Carlyle has phrased it, “internally clean” also, for he abhorred wine, spirits and to- bacco, and preferred a vegetarian diet. Mr. Weed to an extent shared Mr. Greeley’s Gistaste toward dress, and his gray shawl and sloyiched Kossuth hat became in time @ portion of his personality in public. Mr. Bennett was exceptionally well dressed at all times, and perhaps his immaculate long- tailed frock coat was a reminiscence of his priestly youth; and his stereotype trousers of shepherd's plaid a tribute to his native Scotia. In general appearance the quartet widely differed. Mr. Bennett was Romanesque, tall, and of distinguished appearance; not at all marred by a tendency in one of his Piercing eyes to strabismus. Mr. Raymond reminded a tourist of some dapper habitue of the Champs Elysee of Paris. Mr. Weed, although naturally tall, became shambling in galt. He was strongly featured, and his eyes were pecullarly searching under shaggy eyebrows. He might have been taken by a stranger as the personification of a trained police detective, even watch- ing and “wanting to know, you know.” Mr. Greeley often suggested in his ap- pearance @ Mohammedan pilgrim fresh from a mosque. Mr. Weed had hesitancy of speech—often of grcat value when he desired to weigh words—and he was a combination of Sphinx and Argos. Mr. Greeley uever laid aside the Yankee drawl of his boyhood. but always spoke to the point and often with impolicy. Mr. Ben- nett when excited or interested would re- lapse into Scotch accent, and although unusually reserved in conversation was when he talked as when he wrote lucidiy epigrammatic. Mr. Raymond was gifted with a melodious voice and a discreet volu- bility which increased his oratorical pow- ers when he became a Heutenant governor, a speaker of the assembly and a Congress- man. Editorial Methods. Both Mr. Bennett and Mr. Raymond knew how to keep the editorial finger on the popular pulse, and allow his newspa- per columns to beat with it; when and how to administer news, and to prescribe its proper quantity and quality; how to acquire it and to suitably use it; how to use fertility of suggestion to assistants; how in the news hopper to volt chaff from the grain; how to sometimes fuse news in an apprepriate crucible; how to weigh news in the editorial scales with discretion while adjudging whether to employ as it were troy or avoirdupois weights ly as the demands of the da want And, finally, = slpeles to sraduate news or comments to the many men of many minds who Newspaper ei aan readers. Both appreciated it news events needed to be assorted like as the roprietor of a bazaar alertness, a What wisdom ‘was impli the Latin saw, carpe diem. They editorially prac- ticed upon the maxim “the lew favors the vigilant and not sleepers.” Each possess- ed journalistic enthusiasm and diffused it among their staff. While they believed in division of labor, each felt the necessity of an impress of the one man power. Mr. Bennett was the greatest editor of the quartet because—paraphrasing the line of Edward Dyer, an Erglish poet of the sixteenth century—“My mind to me a Kingdom 11 he felt y newspaper is my kingdom.” The Herald from the first day of his founding it and then becoming in his own person its editor, its staff, its business manager and its salesman;. and from the very hour when he published his small sheet in a Wall street basement, un- til the day of his death; When his sceptre wielded then in an editcrial marble palace was passed to his namesake son, remained as his kingdom for his exclusive regard. Mr. Bennett's thoughts, aims and purposes Were concentrated upon that kingdom; while the other three of the quartet were more or less also immersed in political Management and were using the sword of partisan organizaticn therein in com- pany with the mightier pen. When ten- dered by President Lincoln the post of.a foreign mission in apparent acknowledg- ment of the editorial services that his per had rendered during the early dark days of the civil war, Mr. Bennett remarked to me: “Who has a greater scope for diplomacy than the proprietor of a daily American Lewspaper?” Wherefore he declined the mission, = In this turn, Thurlow Weed during half a century of his eventful participation in litical movements declined many ten- lered offices, various and honorable in scope. He preferred to be a Warwick to being a crowned political monarch. But at the inception of the civil war he accepted along with Roman Catholic Bishop John Hughes and Protestant Bishop McIlvaine a designation as a private commissioner to the English and French governments to- ward averting their presumed intention of preclaiming international belligerency be- tween northern and southern forces. Traits and Eccentricities. It may be observed that Mr. Weed’s per- sonal magnetism became peculiarly potice- able by every one brought in contact with him. They all recognized what we now call the hypnotic eyes that shone so caressingly and the magnetic habitual touch of his fingers on the arm of him who he collo- quially addressed. “How could I resist him?’ said on one occasion a candidate at a political conven- tion, who withdrew his name to the con- sternation of his supporters—‘‘for when he bressed my arm and whispered to me ‘for the good of our party,’ I became the unre- sisting victim of his will power.” Animal magnetism was undoubtedly the great secret of his unvarying success as a political leader. He had no need to take election as a governor, for political tradi- tion embalms the fact that during the gu- bernatorial terms of four chief magistrates of NewYork state he was the guilding power behind their chairs. This same tradition narrates that Williem Henry Seward when first governor, and almost boyish in appear- ance, was on one occasion passenger in a stage coach seated beside the driver, who was ignorant of the rank of his box seat neighbor. That in the course of box talk Mr. Seward delicately hinted to the coach- man that he himself was governor. Where- upon John scornfully laughed and con- mptuously flicking his whip remarked: No, no, that won’t go down. Any fool knows that the name of our governor is Thurlow Weed.” None others of the quartet possessed per- sonal magnetism. Mr. Greeley was apt to become aggressive in manner; Mr. Ben- nett’s cordiality was restrained by a habit of suspecting motives; Mr. Raymond was urbane and popular, but never magnetic among men. Men of mature years may be generally divided into yesterday or tomorrow men. One class, for instance, fond of memories and reminiscences; and. another addicted to anticipations. One class—to quote the title Uf a popular novel—looking backward, and the other looking forward in prefer- ence. Messrs. Weed and Greeley were to a large extent yesterday men; but Messrs. Bennett and Raymond decidedly were to- morrow men. Every editor must, of course, be both a tomorrow man and a yesterday man while he views a today. His vocation and his newspaper so demand. But Mr. Weed and Mr. Greeley were habitually prone to refer to the past, while Mr. Ben- nett and Mr. Raymond seemed to ignore it and pay great.attention to the future. In private conversation the two first named lingered on the “what has been,” but the other two on the “what is to be.” To a certain extent the two firat named were inclined to pessimism; but the other two were optimists. Mr. Bennett was es- pecially given to editorializing upon ex- pected events and to prognostigations. He hailed novel schemes in social progress, in- ventions and scientific advance. So far as his potent pen is concerned he may have been said to have laid the Atlantic cable. In its darkest hours he persistently com- mended and advocated it. Doubtless, youth- ful memories of his gire’s enthusiasm on the matter inspired the namesake son to create that. European cable system with which the name of Bennett is indissolubly connected. I heard Mr. Bennett pere pre- ict that great worldly gains were in prog- ress from the use of electricity, and in his mind's eye he foreshadowed the idea of the telephone. But he did not lve to see the marvelous fulfillment of his crude predic- tions, under the almost magical genius of Edison. Editorial Policies. The quartet varied in their estimation of the requisites for editorial life. For In- stance, when Mr. Raymond believed that he who had no ccnvictions was the best editor, Mr. Greeley awarded the paim to the editor who held streng convictions. ‘The ideas which Messrs. Weed and Ben- nett shared on the subject were that the best editor was he who followed the trend of popular convictions tn the majority upon pending questions. They each put great j editorial reliance on vox popull. But if Mr. Greeley did not approve of that vox he honestly endeavored to hush it. A fa- vorite expression of Mr. Bennett was that one province of an editor was to put scenes of life into the minds of readers without re- quiring them to think much as they read. Each of the quartet became popular with his staff. Mr. Greeley for his frankness, quaintness and simplicity; Mr. Raymond for unvary- ing urbanity and consideration for the feel- ings of others; Mr. Weed by reason of his Personal magnetism and his recognized good judgment about men and events, and Mr. Bennett for his grave, courteous dig- nity and his valued sententious and mar- velous spread of information. He was gifted with a Walter Scott life memory, and was to his staff what I may term a peripatetic encyclopedia. Mr. Weed and Mr. Greeley shared distaste for details, and lef these wholly to subordinates; but the other two editors, while believing in division of labor among assistants, readily grasped details in newspaper management, and to a large extent shared in arrangement of these. With that most necessary adjunct to a successful journal, the business office, Messrs. Weed and Greeley held no connec- tion or supervision. Mr. Raymond enjoyed the co-operation in the business depart- ment of the Times of his partner, the late George Jones, who was in his day unde- niably the most capable newspaper pub- Usher that any country ever knew. In the business department of the Herald Mr. Bennett took pains to employ men who in the slang of the present day are felicttous- ly styled “hustlers,” but he personally su- pervised the business details of the Herald. It was a misfortune in Mr. Greeley’s life that he never had the slightest aptness for business in its commercial senses. Upon a particular occasion at one of the well- known evening salons that the literary Carey sisters weekly held in their cozy house on Lexington avenue, where the rep- resentative literati, artists and music lovers of New York city assembled, the topic arose whether Dickens really drew the character of Micawber from his own father; and Mr. Greeley sald, ‘‘My paternal was a veritable Micawber himself, His love of indorsing notes for neighboring farmers in our village of Amherst reduced him to bankruptcy and compelled his emigration to another state.” Oddly enough, this same trait crept into Hditor Greeley’s career. He lost large sums through his New York residence by indorsing commercial paper that he was compelled to honor, Hé was the only impulsive member of the quartet, and impulsiveness in business matters is not a desirable trajt. So it came to pass that when Mr. Greeley died he owned only six shares of the capital stock of the New Seek Tabane cat of the avery number o! a once A. OAKEY HALE. MILLIONAIRE, PAUPER. ible, nce} Worth se seeioStimad Sia Remee Brom the Sen Francisco Chronicle. How fickle is the goddess of fortune was never better shcwn than in the case of Al- exander Gamble, seventy-three years of age, an inmate of the city and county alms house. Forty years ago he was re- puted to be worth between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000, being reckoned off one of the ml wealthiest men in Califor Away back in the later fifties, when ible was the owner of extensive mining properties up in ‘Nevada, one of the many men who worked for him in the diggings was Patrick Red- dy, then a day laborer. Now, after the lapse of two score years, Reddy fs at the head of the institution which shelters Gam- ble. In 1849 Gamble came to California from Belfa Me., bringing with him nothing put a pair of strong hands and a college education. He was sober and industrious, and within a few years, by hard work, di- rected by superior intelligence, gained a controlling interest in several of the rich- est mines in Nevada. These were the ‘Wide West, the Del Monte, the Sunrise, the Find, the Honest John and several oth. ers of lesser note. They were all at Auro- ra, Esmeralda county, Nev. At that time Gamble was on the crest of the wave of good luck. His credit was almost without limit. He could borrow thousands of dol- lars from the banks of this city on the se- curity of his mining properties. Gamble availed himself of his ability to borrow, and obligated himself for upward of $150,000 for working his mines and accumulating valuable realty hoidings. In 1865 he bought part of the great Pul- gas ranch at Menlo Park, and expended over $100,000 in stocking it, with fine cattle and horses and in erecting on it pretentious buildings. But just at the dawning of the seventies Gamble’s fortune was reversed. His mines depreciated in value, his cred- itors pressed him, he found himself unable to meet their demands, and the inevitable followed. His creditors sold him out, and he was left with what he had when he first entered the state, twenty-five years before —a pair of strong hands and a college ed- ucation. To those possessions, of course, was added the experience he had gained in the intervening time. At the time Gamble made over his property to his creditors he was indebted to the Bank of California about $150,000. In 1817 Gamble graduated from Water- ville College, Waterville, Me. This school is now known as Colby University. Gam- ble is & member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of the university, and only yester- day he recetved a letter from the society’s secretary regarding its affairs. After leay- ing college Gamble taught for one year at the Corinth Academy. That was just be- fore he left Maine for California. Gamble is a native of Ireland. He came to this country when he was eleven years old, and settled with his people at Linneus, Me. There was founded the Gamble hum stead, and there still resides a married sis- ter of Gamble. Gamble paid most of the purchase price of the homestead from his earnings as a school teacher and’ as a miner in Nevada. He thinks that probably he has an interest in the property on that account, but he does not worry much about it, as he has passed that period in his life when money could give him pleasure. Gamble has living two sons, Ivan and Theodore, aged, respectively, twenty-four and twenty-two. Ivan is au actor in a New York theater and Theodore ts a musician in Seattle. oe Embalming Instead of Amputation. Fiom the Hospital. A new and simple mode of. treatment has been introduced in France, by which, it is claimed, a large proportion of injured limbs now usually amputatéd can be saved. The method, which 1s due to Dr. Reclus, was recently described before the French congress of surgery, and is thus explained: “Whatever the extent 6r gravity of the lesions, he (Dr. Reclus) hever, under any circumstances, amputates the injured limb, but merely wraps it in antiseptic sub- stances by a veritable embalming process, leaving nature to separate the dead from the living tissues. This method of treat- ment possesses the double advantage of be- ing much less fatal than surgical exaeresis, and of preserving for the use of the patient, {f not the entre limb, at,any sate a much larger part than would be left after ampu- tation, He advocates this very conservat.ve treatment on account of “the excellent ef- fects of hot water, which ‘hé uses freely. After the skin has been shaved and cleang- ed from all fatty substances by ether, etc., in the usual way, a jet of hot water 60 to 62 degrees C. (140 to 144 degrees), but not higher, is made to irrigate all the in- jured surfaces, and to penetrate into all the hollows and under all the detached parts of the wound, without exception. This is the only way of removing all clots and to wash away all foreign bodies, to- gether with the micro-organisms they may contain. The advantages of hot water at this high temperature are threefold: (1) hot water at this temperature is antiseptic, heat greatly increases the potency of anti- septic substances; (2) it is hemostatic (that 1s, stanches the flow of blood); (3) it helps to compensate for the loss of heat result- ing from tne bleeding, and especially from the traumatic shock. After the ‘embalm- ing’ process, and the dead tissue has been separated from the living, the surgeon has nothing to do except to divide the bone at a sultable spot. According to Reclus, the results attained are remarkable. See No Bravado There Now. From the Utica Observer. It was a sad Fourth that young Hildreth, the train wrecker, passed in Auburn prison. A visitor from Utica saw him during the service in the chapel yesterday morning. There was a crowd in the visiters’ gallery when the great body of prisoners entered and took their places. Those who are un- der Mfe sentences came last and occupied places in the rear. There were ten or twelve of these, among them being the lad whose trial at Rome is still fresh in the public mind. Never since he gained his unhappy notoriety did he appear to be suc a child. His companions for life were big men, and in the same prison garb Hil- dreth, among them, looked pitifully small and young. It was difficult to realize that he was there for life. Hildreth’s spirit is broken; his nerve is gone. The buoyancy which carried him through the jast few exciting weeks which he passed outside of Auburn vanished as a realization of his life approached. His whole attitude shows that. He followed the services with apparent interest. When the congregation arose at the doxology the Httle prisoner bent and hung his head over the pew in front as though in fer- vent prayer. That was a strange picture of Hildreth. The change that has been wrought is complete. Hobart’s Blind Horse Could Work. From the Asbury Park Journal. Some years ago, when Senator Bradley started the five-cent stage line that ran the length of thé Park, the route became pop- ular at once, and every available nag was put in service to accommodate the travel. One day a man came along with a large blind horse, which he wanted to sell. It was truly a fine animal, but being blind its value had depreciated. w “How much?” said the Senator. “One hundred dollars,” replied the dealer. “No,” said Mr. Bradley) “Fifty dollars is the outside price of a} blind horse, no matter how many good points he may pos- sess.” tc 0 you know,” the horse dealer asked, “that only a short timeiego! that horse was one of a high-priced team'/belonging to Senator Hobart?’ “ Mr. Bradley was firm im his offer, and $50 was all he would gtve ‘for Hobart’s cust-off. dit So the blind nag was bought and went into the stage business, Alt ths close of his firet day’s work the driver reported that he did all the pulling; in fact; the horse drag- ged his mate along, and was a perfect steam engine. Mr. Bradley tried him to his buggy, and the familiar gnort and long strides of the big horse will be remember- ed for pany &@ day, He was used the buggy for years, and literally died the harness, showing wonderful grit to the very last. UL the next presidential race,” Mr. Bradley predicted, “the onginel owner of the blind horse finish at the post seo- ond only to his mate, McKinley,” Far From Fashionable, ‘From the Somerville Journal, Mrs. Hicks—Mra. Wiggles evidently thinks that she is pretty high up in the world, but I can’t see that she really has the least pretension to called fasis fonabdle.”” Mrs. Wicks—“Nor I. Why, she doesn’t even call her servant girl her ‘maid!’ DESCRIBED BY SYMPTOMS YOUR CASE CAN BE CURED The Knowledge Which Enabled Doctors McCoy an@ Cowden to De- scribe Diseased Conditions Has Con- tributed to Their Superb Mastery Over Them. HOSTS OF PEOPLE SUFFER FROM THE VA- RIOUS MALIGNANT POISONS IN THEIR BLOOD, WHICH -PRODUCH OR RESULT FROM CA- TARRH. MANY OTHER PERSONS SUFFER FROM NERVOUS DISEASES, LIVER DISEASES, KIDNEY DISEASES AND SKIN DISEASES, AS. THE RESULT OF IRRITATING CRYSTAL POI- SONS IN THE BLOOD. A MAJORITY OF SUCH SUFFERERS £O NOT HAVE A DEFINITE UN- DERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF THEIR AFFLICTION, THE FOLLOWING SYMPTOMS HAVE BEEN AIRANGED BY DOCTOR McOOY TO ENABLE SUFFERERS TO UNDERSTAND JUST WHAT IT IS THAT AILS THEM. AL- THOUGH WRITTEN AND COPYRIGHTED BY HIM, THEY HAVE BEEN EXTENSIVELY COPIED BY OTHER CONCER: THE PROPER COURSE OF THOSE AFFLICTED IS THIS: READ THESE SYMPTOMS CAREFULLY OVER; MARK THOSE THAT APPLY TO YOUR CASE, AND BRING THIS WITH YOU TO DOCTORS McCOY AND COWDEN. IF YOU LIVE AWAY FROM THE CITY, SEND THIS BY MAIL AND ASK FOR HOME TREATMENT. DISEASE OF HEAD AND THROAT The head and throat become dis- eased from neglected colds, causing Catarrh when the condition of the blood predisposes to this condition. “Is the voice husky Do you spi! up siim “Do you ache all over: “Do ‘you snore at night?” you blow out seabs “Is the nose stopped Does your nose distharge? Does the nose bleed easil Is this worse toward nigh Does the nose Iteh and burn Is there pain in front of head? “Is there pain across the exer Is there tickling In the throw Is your sense of sinell leavin; Do you hawk to clear the thro: Is the throat dry in the morning Are you losing your sense of tast Do you sleep with the mouth oper “Does your nose stop up toward night?” Do DISEASE OF THE EARS. Deafness and car troubles result from catarrh passing along the Eustachian tube that leads from thé thront to the enr. r hearing falling Do your ears dine De and sealy 7 ‘Have you pain behind the et “Is there a throbbing “Is there a buzzir Do you h Are there crackling + Is y Are there seunds like a “Do your cars burt when you “Do you constantly hear noises in the * Do you hear better some days than * Do the noises in your ears keep you awak ** When you blow your nose do the ears cra “Is your hg Worse when you have a cold? “Is there rouring like a waterfall in the head?’ DISEASE OF BRONCHIAL TUBES. This condition often results from catarrh extending from the head and throat, and, if left unchecked, extends down the windpipe into the bronchial tubes, and in time at- tacks the lungs. “ Have you a cough?” “+ Are sou losing. fes “Do you cough at night?"? “Have you pain in side +: Do soa take cold easily 7 Is your appetite variable? “ Fiave you stitches In side? “Do u cough until mu raise froth “ Are + Do you spit up yellow matter ou low spirited at times?” “Is your cough short and hacki * Do you spit up little cheesy lumps ‘Have you a disgust for tatty foods “Ix there a tickling behind the palate: Do you feel you are growing weal is there a burning pain in the throat ¢ you pain bebind the breasthon: do You cough Worse night and morning “Do you have to sit up at night to get breath DISEASE OF THE STOMACH. This condition may result from sev- eral causes, but the usual cause in eatarrh, the mucus opping down into the throat and being swallowed. ating 2” with slime?" ation in the as if you had lead in stomach. 5 You get up suddenly are you a “When Stomieh Is et you feel faint?” “Do you beleh materlal that burns throat ow stoma s full do you feel opp: give a Trial Treatment ur anged fe tional purposes. In be in general adop. he profession, and it 1s the desire of its Aiscoverers that {t be’ seen and noted by as many Ie in the offices of the National Doctor 3 has instituted in 15 13th st. o.w. McCoy System ofMedicine Dr. J. Cresap McCoy, Dr. J. M. Cowden, Consulting Physicians. 715 13th Street Northwest. Office Horrs, 9 to 12 a.m. 1 to 5 p.m., 6 to 8 p.m., daily; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. COPIES OF DOCTOR McCOY'S MONOGRAPH ON DEAFNESS WILL BE MAILED ON APPLICA- TION TO THOSE DIRECTLY INTERESTED IN THE CURB OF THIS CONDITION. RECEIVING BLANKS. Kept Carefully by the Telegraph Company From Swindlers’ Hands. From the Chicago News. Telegraph companies guard their blanks on which rressages received are written al- most as carefully as their money. The pub- Uc is supposed never to get possession of them, and it cannot do so without collusion of some of the operators, says the New York Press. General Superintendent Tinker of the Western Union Company says these blanks are kept under lock in the store- room. They are issued to the receiving operators without the formality of a re- quisition, and the operators do not have to @coount for what they do not use. The telegraph company always is able to pro- tect iteelf from the results of improper use of these blanks by outside persons, because of the checks of the sending and receiving operetors, time stent and received, etc. So, beyond ordinary precautions, the company does not go. An operator can take a couple dozen receiving blanks out with him if so minds. The pubilc, however, hes no means of aging for itself whether a cleverly got ‘meseage is genuine or not. It may have marks similar to the real check marks. It Bed 2 Se Oe a may be inclos @ telegraph company’s ent Sometimes ewfhdiers get a good haul by means of fraudulent messages, for which the company usuelly is sorry, but can’t help it. 6—-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. 17 ee HOTELS. ‘This List Appears Every Saturday. HOTEL POCKET GUIDE FRE. For Information, Circulars, etc.,of any Hotel below, Call at or address (send stamp) HOTEL TARIFF BUREAU, (68 Fifth Ave., New York. | 96 Regent 8t., London. (248 Rue de Rivoli, Paris. (A. P. means American Plan; F. P., European.) ALBANY, N. ¥..... -+-The Kenmore, A.P., $4 tanwix Hall, E.P., $1; a.P., $3 up ALEXANDRIA BAY, N.Y..The Edgewood, A.P., ASBURY PARK, N.J...Coleman House, A.P., $4 up West Erd Hotel, A.P (Largest) Ocean Hotel, A. N.J..The Garden Hotel,E.P.,§2 up Qfost magnificent Hotel on Atlantic coast.) ATLANTIC CITY.The Algonquin,E.P.,$1; A.P.,§2.69 BALTIMORE, MD. +--The Stafford, E. P., $1.50 do. -++++++-The Carrollton, A. P., $3 up BAR HARBOR, Me. -The Louisburg, A.P., $5 do...... The St. Sauveur, A.P., $3 to $4 BLOCK ISLAND, R. I......The Manisses, A.P., $3 National Hotel, A.P., $8 -Hotel Verdome, A.P., § American House, » $1 up Hotel Columbia, A.P., $4 to $5 N.¥.Hotel St.George,E.P.,$1; A.P.,83 do... W. Blake) Carendon Hotel, E.P., $1.50 BUFFALA, N.¥.The Iroquois,E.P.,§1.50 up; A.P.,84 do. Magara Hot Bw s Stockton, E.P., $1; A.P.,$3 up do Marine Villa, A.P., $3 to §4 Prospect Park Hotel, A.P., $3 Victoria Hotel, A.P., $3 10 $5 rand Hotel, E.P., $1; A.P., $3 RING HARBOUR, N. ¥ The Glenada JERSEY CIT. J..Hotel Washington, E.P.,8: N. -Lake House, A.P., $3.59 House. A.P., $3 up Eng..Manor House, E.P., $1.50 .Comp:on Hotel, A.P., $3 -Hotel Cecil, E.P., 2 do. -The Langham, E.P., §2 LONG BRANCH, .U. 8. Hotel, A.P., $3 to $3.50 MALVERN, -The Abbey Hotel (golf), A.P., $4 MILWAUKEE, Wis. Htl.Pfister, E.P.,$1.50; NAHANT, Mass..... NARRAGANSETT PIEI.R.LN do. -The Coutinental, A.P., $3 to § NEW HAVEN, Cor «Hotel Majestic, A.P., $3 up & palatial, rocf NEWPORT, R. 1. --New Cliffs Hotel, 4P., $6 do.,...(W. 8. O'Brien) Perry House, A.P., $3 NEW YORK. ifth Avenue Hotel, A.P., $5 .-The Majest: - ‘The Gerard, Marlborou pe -The Denis, -Hotel Westininste do.(W.Johason Quinn) The Empire, do, (B.11th st.) Albert—St. 8 th ave. & 10th st.) Th (B'way&27th) The Me ‘The’ International, A.P., $4 Hotel Brighton, A.P., $2.50 up -Atluntic Hotel, A.P., $3 up OLD ORCHARD, Me.Sea Shore House, A.P., $3 to $4 Old Orchard House, A.P., $3.50 up New Osburn House, A.P., $2.50 Whitcom House, A.P., $2 up Grand Union H't'l, A.P., $4 up 5 ted States Hotel, AP. CH, N.J.Monmouth H.,A.! ST. LOUIS,MO.(frep’f) Southern Hotel,A.! (Greproof) The St SYRACUSE, N.Y..Yates Hotel,E_] WASE INGTON, D.C. -Hotel Normandie, E WATCH HILL,R. Watch Hill House, A. Ocean Houre, A. LY, R.I..Dixon House, A.P.,§2.50 ,23,27thenstf THE RALEIGH, Gor. Penn. ave. and 12th st. EUROPEAN PLAN. " ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF. An elegant restaurant for gentlemen and ladies. Also a luxurious cafe for gentlemen. Private ining rooms and banquet halls. Prompt service; first-class cuisine. 1 attention given to ties after the theater. 15-tf T. J. TALTY, Manager. OCEAN TRAVEL. Anchor Line UNITED STATES MAIL STEAMSHIPS: SAIL FROM NEW YORK EVERY SATURDAY FOR GLASGOW VIA LONDONDERRY. Rates for Saloon Passa, Py 8S. CIfY,OF ROME, $60 asd ‘upward. Becond $40. Steerage, $25.50, OTHE! RS. Cabin, $50 aud ‘upward. Second ¢ $35." “Steerage, $24.50. DRAFTS ‘T CURRENT RATES. For farther information Svply. to HENDERSON BROTHERS, | Bowling Green, or G. W. MOSS, 921 P DROUP. 925 Pa. ave. CANADIAN PACIFIC RAIL) 5 Inter steamships sailiug from Vancouver ro Japan ax» China: SS OF INDIA ug. 3, Oct. 12 Jan. 4 ug. 24, Nov, 9, Feb. 1 . pt. 14, 1 7, Mar, 1 . FUT a d TO HONO WARRIMOD, Al rates apply only, 69 Wal NETHERLANDS LINE. From New York to Rotterdam via Roulogne sur Mer, France. 8% hours from Paris or London, F + Ja> 18-10 am, July 25—10 @ thin, $45.00 to For information apply Agencs, No. 39 Broadw: agents in Washington, D. .—G. W. MOS, $21 Pa, e.; E. F. DRUOOP & SUN, 925 Pa. 'ave., or CRANE. “PARRIS & CO., Ebbitt Louse. mh10-tu,thés-11.tf American Line. New Yor uithampton (Londor Twin-screw S. Mail ‘Salt every Ws St. Paul...July 22, 10 ani{ Paris. Aug 26, 10am New York.July 29, 10 um| New York. Aug 5,10 am Sat., Ang 29, 10 am Aug 12, 10 am|St. Louis. .S ‘Aug 19, 10 amn|St. Paul Paris.... Sept 16, 10 aim Red Star Line. NEW YORK TO ANTWERP. -Wednesday, June 22, + Wednesday, July 29, August (5, ust 1 noon noon noon noon ERNATIONAL NAVIGATION CUMPAN Piers 14 and 15, North River. Oflice, 6 Rowling Green, N. ¥. GEO. W. MOSS, Agent, mb21-6m 921 Penn. are. RAILROADS. Washington, Alexandria & Mt. Vernon Railway, From Station, 13} St. and Pa. Ave. FOR ALEXANDRIA. @aily except Sunday.) 6:: S, 8, I 5 2, 8, 15, 210, 9:10, 10 ‘ON AND WAY STATIONS. except. Sunday.) 10, 11, 12 a.m.; 1, 2, 3, 4 p.m. FROM MOUNT ‘VERNON ‘AND WAY STATIONS (Daily except Sunday.) . 41:38, 12:38 a.m.; 1:83, 2:33, 3:33, 4:38, 233 p.m. FOR ARLINGTON AND AQUEDUCT BRIDGE. 20, 11, 12 a.m.; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 9 p.m. FROM ARLINGTON ‘AND AQUEDUCT BRIDGE. 11 , 3:35, 4:35, 5.35. @aily 3, 9 p.m. FOR MOUNT VERNON PARK, 10, 11, 12 am.: 1. 2, 3.6.7, 8 p.m. FROM MOUNT VERNON PARK. 11:35, 12:35 a.m.: 1:35, 2:35, 3:35, 4:35, 8:80, 9:30, 10:30 p.m. FOR MOUNT VERNON PARK, SUNDAYS. 19,132 hms 1. 284 8.6. 7, & pm. FROM MOUNT 11:50, 1: = GO. R. PHILLIPS, Gen, Pass. Agent. ty RAILROADS. PENNSYLVANIA ; ; fo effert June 2 1896. y feet June 2 750 A.M. week days, 7:20 AM. Sundays, PITTS BUKG EXPRESS.—Parlor apd Dining Cars, Hare risburg to Pittsburg. 10:30 AM. PENNSYLVANIA LIMIVED —Pullmag Bleeping, Observation Cara Indi Berietice da fniccon, Soaeinmat singing, Car to Harrisburg. 10:30 “AM FAST" LINE. Pullman Buffet Parlor Gr to Harrisburg. Buffet Parlor Car, Harris itteburg. 8:40 P.M, “GuICAGO_AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS. =Puliman Buffet Parlor Car to [larrisbui ing. and Dining Cars, | Harrisburg to ubats, Loulaville and Chicago. 7:10 P.M. WESTERN EXPRESS.—Pullman Bl Car 40 Chicago and Harrisburg to Clevel. inl Car to Chi q £2 PM. ve pea - yd Eye 105 OP EAN opal on, aieey ing Car to Pittsburg. ; 130 A.M. for Kane, Canandaigua, Rochester and Niagara Falls daily except Sunday. 10:30 A.M. for Elmira and Renovo, daily, ex: Sunday. “For Lock Haven week days and Witt Jamsport Sundaya, 3:40 P. 10 FX AeiaNlamaport, Mochester, Buttale and re except Saturday, wit ing Car Wastingtou to Suspension Bridge via Buk 10:40 P.M. for Erte, Canandaigua, Rovnes:er, Buf- falo abl Niagara Palle dally. Sleeping Car Waste ington to Elinira, FOR PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORR AND THE 4:00 P.M. “CONGRESSIONAL LIMITED,” daily, all Parlor Care, with Dining Car from Baltimore, lar at 7:00 (Dining Cary, 7:20, 9:00, 10:06 Diving Car), “and 11:00 (Din + from Wil- wington) A.M.; 12:45, 8-15, 4:20, 6:40, 10:00 and 21-85 P.M.” Gn Sunday, 7:00 (ining Car), 7-20, 11:00 ing Car from Rie eo! AM. 15, 8:15, 4:20, 6:40, 10-0) and 11:36 PM. Fe ladelpbia ouly, Fast Express, 7:59 A.M. weelr 378 Express, 12:15 week-days, 2:01 avd 6:40 P. daily. For Boston, without change, 7:60 Week-days, and 3:15 P.M. daily. 9:00 AM. week ga Express days. For Baltimore, 6:25, 10:30, 11:00 and 11:50 A. 5, 3:40 (4 00 Limited), «Warlor Cary 7:10, 16200, 10:40. 11:18 and’ 11:35 PM: Sanday, 7:00," 7:20, (9:00, 9:05, 10:30, 11:00 AM: S, 1:15, 3:15, 8:49 (4:00 Lim 10, 10:00, 10:40 Creek Line, 7:20 A.M. and 4:36 P.M. Sunday.” Sundays, 0:05 A.M. 7:20, 9:00 A.M.; 12 daily, except! Sunday. Auantic Coast Line. Express for Reh on Atlantic ine, 4:20 4 duily. ‘Ric Atlanta Accommodation f tico, 7:45 A.M. dally, 4:25 PM. week dase sige For Alexandria, 1 5, 8:02, 30210 aud 230, 1:65, 9:45 a. Leave Alexandria for W 8:00. 9:10, 10:15, 10:21 5:00, 5.30, 6:13, 7 11:08 P.M. On Sunday 2:15, §:30, 7:00, ®: SEASHORE CONNECT For Atlertic City (ia Delaware River Bridge, all- rail 11:00 AM. week days, 3:15. and ily, (via Market Street Wharf), @ ouls), 10:00, 11:00 aM. aM, teenth and G at the station, Sixth and Bb street Week day For Cape Ma days, Jersey avenue and C street For Chicago aid Nortuwest, Vestibi 10:00 p.m. Sincinuati, - Louis ai buled Limited, 3:45 p.m.; eapress, 1 Pittsburg and Cleveland, express d . and 8:40 p.m. For Berkeley Springs, 3:45 p.m. daily, except si 4x. Special, 12:00 noon daily, and 8:05 p.m, Saturday only. Tor Deer Park, Moun! . 12:00, 3» ed Limited in_ Lake Park and Oak- a.m., all daily, No t Mountain Lake Wark Sun- hester apd way stations, ) p.m. For New Orleans, Memphis, Biruingtiam, Chatta- nooga, Knoxville, Bristol and Koaneke, 10:50 P.M. daily; Sleeping Cars through Fe 45 p.m. dail; week day 10,x7:30, 5:00, 8:30, 05, x3 12:10 and 5, 14:80, rstown, #12:00 noon and #5230 p.m. d and Way points, week days, 9:00 a.m., $0, 706 pm Susdays, 9:00 "aw., 118, 10 and §:30 am., Sundays, 8:20 a.m.. 4:32 pia. 99200, 112200 noon, §1 For Gaithersbu: ints, week days, 9:00 a.m. . 4:33, 5:30, 5:85, 4 2S » 5:85, ot Washingiun Junction and way points, °9:00 am., §1:15 p.m. Express trains stopping at prin- pal stations only.” $4:30, 15:30 p.u, For Bay Ridge, week days, 9: May, 10’ a.m., 12 noon. ROYAL BLUE LINE FOR NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA, AU trains illuminated with platsch I w York, Boston 9, 8200 (10:00 atm. For Philadelphia, week days, 7: Diuing Car), 12:00, 12:35, 3:00 ©.05 Dining Cur), 8:00 p.m. (2:01 nig leeping C 10:00 o'clock). Bunda, 0 a.m, Dining Car), » Dining Cari, 8:00 (1 ping Gar open Tor pas- 8 on ali day trains, lowe 12:00 noon end ily xpress trains Baggage called for and cuecked from hotels and resileaces by Uniew Trausfor Co. on orders left at ticket offices, yia avenue o.W., New York avenue an + td at Depot 3 CHAS. 0. SCULL, Gstsy Gen. KAILAWVAY, E T AIK LINE! Schedule in «fect June 14, 1896. AML trains arrive und leave at Pounsylvania pase and Hot Tenn., ugusts Orlean with Pull yiis and Knvaville e With Pali eeyn via Montgomery, verton and Daily, rlottesville. Daily WA AND SOUTH. RULED LINE of Dining’ ¢ Rew. Yor nd Mont= to At- boro to ning, arr send Sund: fro from Lax at Wash- from th arrive , 20 p.m. and 9:40 p.m. dally, Manassas Division, 10:00 pt Sun: ay. and S240 a.m, dail Tickets, Slee and informa. ton furnished i 9 Pennsylvania avemie, and at Pennsylvania railroad passenger station. w. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RATLWAY. THROUGH THE GRANDEST SCENERY IN AMERICA, ALL TR VESTIRULED, ELECTRIC LIGHTED, STEAM ¥ >. ALL MEALS SERVED DINING sta TION SIXTH AND B STREETS. s 2 in effect May 1 96, 2:20 P.M. DAILY—Cincinnati a Louis Spe- clal—Solid ‘train f Pulluian sleepert to Cineinnatt, Lexi Hie, Indianapolis and St. Louis without « 5 ects wt Cot ington, Va., for Hot Springs. Parlor cars Cin |. DAILY. Cincinnati, Pull on and) Laut mati t for Lexin; man chang: without Hot Via rail lin tile, Ch Richmond Hons and offices, 513 and 1 st. u.W., and at t my18 COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS UNDERTAKERS. _ COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS AND NOTARY PUB- Hie for all states and territories a SPECIALTY by R. H. EVANS. _ Office (basement), 1321 F st. Always in office, office hours. myil-tt CHARLES S. BUNDY, COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS, ‘Of all the Stutes and Territories, B17 4% st. nw. (new Equity building). aet7-tf JOHN E. BEALL, JOHN E. MITCHELL, Commissioners of Deeds for every state and terri- tog. Notary Public, Ottice. United States Commissioner. 1821 F st. (iret for). W. R. Speare, Undertaker & Embalmer, 940 F Street Nort y first-class and o phone call 340, the most rea: jal-tr . 204 TH ST. NIW., CAR. Brick ard C Asbestow, Cement, two and three wel