Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 18, 1889, Page 5

THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELER. “An Omaha Drummer” Analyzes Judge Mason's Arguments AND FAVORS THE HALL BILL, More Biographies of the Men Who Oarry Samples Across the Country and Gather In Orders, The Hall Bill. Greery, Colo., March 14.—<To the Editor of THE BEE: I have read with a great deal of interest the speech of Judge Mason before the Nebraska leg- {slature, on the Hall bill, published in the columns of your great papsr. With due respect to the judge’s extensive in- formation and large experience in rail- road tariffs, T think his arguments against the Hall bill the wenkest I ever read on any subject from so eminent an authori He starts out with the asser- tion that “the present law is saflicient and although himself one of the admin- istrators of the existing law, in almost the next sentence pronounces 1t to be *‘a failure,” through the inefliciency of the present state board of transportation. This is argumentum ad hominem with a vengeance. He also makes the startling announce- ment ‘‘that maximum rate laws are overywhere a failure;” this isequivalent to asserting that the railroads are above the power and heyond the control of the state, for it would certainly be hard to point out any legislation of ‘any state in the union on this subject, that does not have the principle of *maximum rates’ as the foundation. If this propo- sition be aceepted, then any railroad law, prohibitory or mandatory, would be an absurdity, and the honorable bourd, of which Yhe judge is by far the ablest and inogt use- ful member, is an unnécessary expense and ought to be abolished. It 1s hard to see tho consistenay of the above assertion relating to ‘“‘maximum rate laws,” with the ‘‘policy” of the judge, which is ““to hold the power of the comnussion to fix rates over the hends of the railronds as club.” If the rates which the commission ‘‘has the power to fix” would prove to be only *a failure,” T imagine, to use the famous expression of the greatest “‘failure” of the nineteenth century, that_the state board ot transportetion, with their mighty **club,” would soon find them- selves to be in a state of “‘innocuous desuetude.” We know that this won- drous “‘club” has not as yetin the hands of the presont able commissioners been uble to arvest any railroad manager in his high-handed carecr of robbery gnd extortion of the people of Nebraska, save only, perhaps, in the case of rates to and from the town of Lincoln. The judge scems to be of the opinion that it makes no difference how much the railroads extort from the pevple on traffic between themselves within the state, if the companies will only give Chicago and St. Louis the power to dictate prices to our consumers and producers by making low rates from these two great cities. In fact, a stfan- ger w the judge’s official position and well known local patriotism would suppose him to be from Mis through rate argument acitizen of some great eestern trade center. ‘The statement that “ninoty per cent of the business of Nebraska 1s through traffic, over which the legislature has no control,” cannot be sustained either as a mathematical or legal proposition. The legislature undoublofl?y has the right to fix rates on traffic within the boundaries of the state, and if competi- tion does not make the through rate as low asthe sum total of the local rates plus the rate to the boundavy lines of our state, Chicago and St. Louis will look after that, and experience has clearly demonstrated that it will be “‘a cold day” when either of the said ci get left on railroad tariifs. Atany rate it did seem that the- commission did have ‘‘control over the through rates” in Liuncolv, for if report be true, the magic “club” was used very effectively in obtaining for Lincoln the through rates received by Omaha. As a wathematical proposition, bear- ing out the shipments from the state, it is a well known fact and can be easily verified by competent authorities, that at the least calculation two-thirds of all the merchandise of every kind consumed by the people of the state is sold by Ne: braska or Missouri river jobbing houses. So far as the shipments of farm pro- state is concerned, if the lature exercises its power in mak- tes to the boundary lines of our state, the railroads cannot legally chavge move for the through haul than the sum total of the two rates; the local rate, plus the rate from the boundary line to the point of destination. Tho Antec-state commerce law would prevent 2uch action on the part of the railronds. The judge “damns with faint praise” one feature of the Hall bill, which he says is “'worthy of special notice,” but rdemns it because (mark the objec- tion!) *'it gives a decided advantage to the wholesale dealers of Nebraska.” In explaining this *feature,” the judge ives us the benefit of present taritl rates from Omahaand Chicago to Grand Island, showing a diserimination against Omaha in favor of Chicago, but he fears that the Hall bill will reverse the pres- ont discrimination and give *‘the Ne- braska (Omaha) jobber the advantage,” therefore he condemns the Hall bill and sticks by the present rates in favor of Chicago, This is the most interesting part of the judge’s argument, for by fol- lowing outthe illustration which he in- troduces we arvive at a clearor and more perfect understanding of the ne cessity of some law regulating railroad tarilfs than we can by considering any abstract propositions of luw or ethics. Disearding the judge’s figures, which T have been unable to verify, let us take the tavifl rates as published—the fourth olass rate From Chicago to Grand Island is 53 cents per 100 pounds, Prom St. Louis to Grand [sland is 48 cents per 100 pounds. I'rom Omaba to Grand Island is 40 cents por 100 pounds. I'rom Chicago to Omaha is 80 cents ver 100 pounds, Irom St. Louis to Omaha 15 25 cents per 100 pounds, Heve is o discrimination Omahn of not 9 but 17 cents pounds in favorof St. Louis and Chi- cago.. On every class of goods this anounts to voarly 10 por cent of the cost, oftentimes a larger profit than the jobbers make, which the Omaha mor- chant, if he competes successfully with his eastorn rivals, must donute, ‘not to the customer, but to the railroads. Without commenting on the injustice of thisdiscrimination against Omaha, (which does not seemn to have had the attention of the commissioners’ powor- ful “club,”) and leaving out of considera- tion altogether the plain duty of the legisluture to protect the interests of the commercial metropolis of our state, look at the cold facts us shown in the vo tariff retes! {f the Buclingion mpauy (ods it profituble to carvy giv against per 100 traffic from St. Louis to Grand Island, nearly 650 miles, for 48 cents per 100 pounds, what an enormous profit they must be making when they charge 40 conts for hauling the same goods 155 miles! The Union Pacific company takes fourth class freighy from a Chicago railrond at Omaha, and gets 23 cents for conveying it to Grand Island. If a private individual delivers the same freight to them at Omaha, are charged 40 cents for the 800 80 3 The railroad men justify these out- rageous discriminations by harping “on the long haul.” This is a mere subterfuge, for by examining their rates topoints west of the state of Nebraska you will discover that they do not rec ognize the argument of *long hau they merely for the purpose of throwing sand in the eyesof the people of our state, quote a proverb to refute their lies. Look at the rate for a 1,000 mile haul! The fourth class rate to Denver and common points is: From Chicago, $1.20; from St. Louis, $1.15: from Omaha, 90 cents. You perceive the rate from Chieago is the sum total of the two Omaha rates, that is, the rate from Chi- cago to Omaha, 30 cents, vlus the rate from Omaha to Denver, 90 cents, makes the raté from Chicago to Denver 31 In the light of these figu what be- comes of the “long haul argument?” Now, if these illustrations prove that the Union Pucific company finds 1t prof- itable to accept treaffic from another railrond corporation from Omaha to Grand Island for a rate of 23 cents, why should this company not be compelled by the legislature to accept from a cf zen of Nebraska the same class of traftic at the same rate? Breathes therve soul 20 timid as to fear that if our legis- lature fixed the fourth class rate from Omaha to Grand Tsland at 23 cents, the railrond companies would incrense the long haul rates? There are other points in the judge’s speech which might be intercsting to examine, but the gist of his whole argu- ment may be sumnied up in a few word The railroad companies are more powe ful than the state, therefore any law would be usel a commission who are in harmony with the railroads, armed with a papier-mache “*club,” will exort an influence in favor of low rates more ‘effectively than any law which the leg- isluture might ate. A _good argu- ment for the existence of the commi sion, but remembering thewr achie ments, a poor argument for the publi It is worse than useless to deplore the irremediable; yet we cannot suppress a feeling of sorcow, mingled with sur- prise, at the spectacle of the chosen and paid champion of the people in - their fight against railrond extortion appearing before the legislature, and exerting his influ- ence and eloquence in opposition to any railvoad law. So the struck caglo stretched upon the plaiu, No thore thro! rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in'his hear IKeen were his pangs, but_keouer far to feel, He nursed the pinion, which impelied the steel ;. While the same plumage that warmed his nos! Drank the last life drop of this bleeding breast. . “OsraEA DRUMMER.” Biographical. In the year 1838, in the rural districts of St. Lawrence county, New York, L. C. Dunn first made his appearance on the stage of life. During his childhood, up to the age of fourteen, he lived with his pavents, attending public school in the winter and in the summer sting his father in the duties of a farmer’s life, which at that time consisted of a great amount of toil for the results ob- tained. However, it was a good school in which to become acquainted with the hardships of this life. At the age of fourteen he.came west, and after many experiences in a wess way, em- bracing ups and downs i the struggle toward the pinnacle of fame extend twenty-five years, he _eventually anchored his hopes in the city of Coun- cil Bluffs, Ta. His determination to be a traveling salesman was formed in earlier life, and it has been carried out amid the romances of this western coun- try, delightful to his itinerant nature. He united his efforts with those of the firm of Peregoy & Moore, then in its infancy, and for nine years has been identified with that now renowned cigar firm. Mr. Dunn’s travels fora number of years weve through a new and sparsely set- tled portion of northern and north- western Nebraska and the Black Hills of Dakota, where railronds were not known and trips for hundreds of miles were made by overland stage coaches, bucle-bs s and mud wagons. At that time the Hills was infested by rene- gades, desperadoes, cut-throats and barbarous Indians The wild and drunken cowboy orgies that Mr. Dunn has witnessed, if put in de: ptive print, would make volumes of realistic “King of the Cowbhoy: literature, But he knew no such thing as fear of man or beast, and while he has wi nessed many feats of tenderfoot terp: chore instigated at the pointof a si shooter in the hands of hilarious cow- boys, he has looked upon them with such stolid indifference that he himself has never been put through evolutions on the dirt floor for the entertainment **He never danced” was appa the cowboys in his twinkling blue eyes, A man of untir- ing. enorgy and ambition, he has worked himself toa high plaune in his profession. For nine years, winter and he has made his trip cvery five ks, aud has never been more than three days off his regular dates with customers, then only on oceasions of snow blockade or flood, so that his genial face is as familiar to the inhabitants of a town as those of its own people. He is to-duy the highest salaried cigar than in the retail trade in the United States, and his sales have averaged for the pust six y. more than two millions a year, as’ credits on tho sales ook will show. “Po him more than to uny other cause is duc the great ‘wyulm'il.,\' his house enjoys. Althoush nearly fifty-one yeurs of age, ho would pass anyw for forty, and is sprightly and a Mr. Dui world here stive, has avcumulated much of the substantial,” and has invested lurgely in Council Bluffs real estate. He lives in a lo home, surrounded by all the comforts ‘of life, an exemplary husband and a bappy iather—Labor omnia vineit,® My, Harry Lodor was born in the znbethan state not thirty years ago, aud is still in the condition of the name- suke of that commonwealth, He is un- married, but cannot retain his batch- elorhood much longer, for in appear- ance he is a typical Virginian, tall,with asteaight nose, handsome dark eyes and a luxuriant beard of a color sympa- thizing. Besides he possesses valuable real estate at Novfolk, ou his Elkhorn valloy route. Six years ago he and his samples made their first trip from Omala in the interest of J. J. Brown, wholesale dry goods, @nd the combination has worked in the interest of this city ever ce. He is now in the employ of M. mith & Co., who represent Mr. Lodor us one of their oldest, most relia- ble and successful salesmen, The pros- . THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, MARCH 18. 1889, ;:erny now attending Mr, Lodor bnnl een forced into that position by his great vrofessional ability, to which his five years’ training at wholesale dry goods in Baltimore has largely con- tributed. Unocle Bob's Dark Night. Like the clergy or.any other class of good citizens an occasional traveling man will descend from the lofty pina- cle of strict morality and take a rounder with the boys when he gots into the en- chanting and gauzy mazes of a metro- politan city. A good story is told on one of the fraternity who is known to be, under ordinary circumstances, strictly moral, and for the sake of his family his real name is withheld and he will be dubbed “Uncle Bob.” He 1s a man ruther sparely built, about five foot eleven in height, dark com- plexion, very slightly gray, about forty vears of age, n voteran of the war, as well as a veteran of the *‘grip” and a well known implement man. Some two wooks ago a party of his traveling com- panions, whom he delights to entertain with jokes and stories of his own exper- ience, prevailed on Uncle Bob to go out and see the town. A congenial time was had and an occasional bumper of the wet goods, such as is dispensed over the counters in guilded apart- ments in many of the Omaha husiuess houses, was swallowed. Uncle Bob was out for fun and determined to stay the boys, but they, no doubt, combined against him, for along about 2 o'clock in the morning it took two or three of his companions to hold him level on the narrow sidewalk: he nad rough shod he would have corked him- self. The lights grew quite dim, too, and Uncle Bob had to resort to his eye- glasses to discern whether his friends were with him. They conducted him to a private lodging house and secured accommodations, obtaining an understanding with the landiord that they were going to play a trick on good old Uncle Bob, who had never missed an opportunity to play one himself. 1t was but a moment until the victim was in a sound slumber, Then his gold-rimmed oye glasses wero quietly removed and smoked to ebony blackness, and replaced on h ose. At 9o’clock in the morn- ing, while Uncle Bob was sleeping soundly, his friends procured a lantern, aroused him, and placing the lighted lantern in his hand, escorted him to his hotel. Along the street marched the party, Uncle Bob in the lead, carrying the torch and cursing the city for not keeping the street lamps burning all night so that benighted strangers could find their way without being compelled 10 bhorrow ntern. [t was some time after the arrival at the hotel before the guying of the gaests in the oflee dis- closed the trick to him. Then he frothed, and swore by all that was high and holy that the rémaining years of his life would see him at his room after 9 o’clock, and thut the boys might go to hades. Sawples. J. B. Bealls, with M. E. Smith & Co., was at headquarters la week., At- tempting to b the freight elevator, in some way he slipped the floor he was endeavoring to leay The elevator was in motion at the time but no damage was intlicted beyond a fright. Roy S. Tuttle, known throughout the land as “The Kid,” is again to tackle Nebraska with his grip. Tattle started in with Keeline & Felt when they opéned business and *‘made” Nchraska for a long while, but finally quit th road and went into the brokerage bus ness in Kansas City in partnership with W. Ed Elam, also’ at that time con- nected with Keeiine & Felt as manage Elam, who was also an **old rcliable™ in the heavy hardware trade, died during the latter s of 18 and now Tuttle has begun with the Baum Iron com- pany, of this city. Mr. L. T. Sharpe, of old “Kaintuck,"” one of Proctor Gamble’s Nebras| representatives, was **doing™ the Llk- horn Valley | week, in company with one of D. M. Steele’s men. From the amount of soap he put in, the chauces ave that the people of that section will have a.general cleaning up. Mr. Willing Carney, the buggy man from Omaha, was traveling on the Elk- horn last week. Besides being a hus ler in his line, he is a great “*high five” player and always holds the five best trumps out. 5 L. C. Hil, formerly with Columbus Buggy company, but now representing the H. A. Moyer buggy people, of Syra- cuse, N. Y., has been’ spending a few days at his home in this city preparatory to visiting his trade. He isone of the most thorough buggy men on the road, and a genial fellow throughout. W. S. Helpberey, with Peycke Bros., has closed his season and announces that if any of the thirty-day gang will notify him when they are coming in he will meet them at the depot and carry up their grips. Hood's Sarsaparilla ¥ peculiar to itself and superior to all other prepara- tions in strength, economy, and medical merit. ] Differently Exprassad. New York Wopld: Mr. De Prig (of Boston)--Did not Elsmere strike you as a weak, vacillating creature, whose doubts formed the ‘“‘winter of his dis- content” which finally led to the unbe- lief that overcame him *‘like a summer’s cloud? Miss Cod (of Kansas City)—Y deed. 1've always said Elsmere chump. RS ChambYerlain’s Cough Remedy will cure acold in less time than any other treatment. Its effect is to loosen the cold, render the mucus less tenaci and easier to expectorate, and expulsion from the air cells of th It also opeas the secretions; all: fever, and restores tho system to a tural and healthy condition, all druggists, na- Sold by -~ Merry Round. New York World: Ticket Agent— ill you have a round ticket, sir Farmer Hayseed—Oh! I ain’t caring nothing 'bout the shape o the ticket. Just gimme one what'll take me down ter Pordunk and ba gin,” - People will not have a new cough remedy when they know the value of Bull's Cough Syrup. She stood at the gate in the lute spring twilight, and when she said goodbye, she felt neuraigia kiss ber rosy checlk; but she ouly smiled, for her mother had invested 25 cents in a bottle of Salvation Oil T Tommy Gave His Sister Away. New York Morning Journal: (to his girl’s little brother)—Your sister Clara has o falsetto voice, hasu’t she, Tommy? Tommy—I don’t know nothing about her voice, but I know she has u'{ulwuo teeth, w One word: Opne step may make or mar one’s whole future. Dr. Jones' Red Clover Tonie is the proper move when you have dyspepsia, bad breath, piles, pimples, ague, malaria, low spirits, ead ache, or any stomacht or liver troubles. 50 cents. Goodman Drug Co. Fisher Printaing Co., 1011 Farnam st., telephone 1264, blank book makers, etc. THE TAREE VISIONS OF POE. A Weird Tale of Horrors Rovoaled to a Friend. THE POET'S LAST WILD FANCY. An Assassin’ on His Track—The Mery Caldron, the Midnight Torture and the Beautifal Sphinx | on the Ramparts. On the Brink. An unpublished tale by Edgar A. Poo would bring a very large sum if offered in manuscript to any publisher in a half-dozen of the world’s capitals, says a writer in the New York World. Here is an unpublished story which Poe died before writing, and which has been dis- covered, not in manuseript, but in the mental keeping of John Sartain, the en- graver, whose artistic fame has outrun the limits of his country as widely as did the noise of Poe’s literary genius. Mr. Sartain, whose profile 1s given in the initial letter, was the friend and pa- tron, and at times the guardian, of “Id- garry Poe,” as the Irenchmen call the ard of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Of all Poe’s friends and asso- cintes who survive, Sartain was nearest to the wan, wild soul of the genius of Fordham. The voses that climb over the gate of the little cottage where the poet wrote “The Raven,” by tradition, are no sweeter and no less sordid than Sartain’s memories of Poe. The cotta is a show place at Fordham, and racing men drive by there and say: **Yes, Po fellow that wrote a poem about a erow or something of that short. I've read the thing: he used to live there, did he?” But in the heart of Sartain Po memory is enshrined and kept awny from the curious. The last wild fantasy which Poe conceived, and which he told to his friend with all the horrors of imagination thick upon him, is de- seribed by John Sartain in a forthcom- ing number of Lippincott’s Magazine. But to get into the spirit of the Pocsque, with which the artistic mind of Sartain is thorbughly imbued, it is necessary to talk freely with him, as the writer of this did o day or two ago. Moyamensing prison is the Tombs of Philadelphia. In one of the grated cells the poet got his lasttierce funtas- tic inspirati ly was it akin to delirium, a it shared with many other inspi mitted to writir if sad. to learn that this genius of prose and master of prosy had been com- mitted to Moyameusing by the impa tial o frequently bratal law as “'drunk and disorderiy.” “It was in the summer of 1849 that T last saw Poo,” says Mr. Sartain, under su¢h peculine and fearful c tions that it can never fade from memory. ' Frly one Monday he suaden nade his raving room, looking ith a wild exy s not let him see that T no- it, aud, shaking his hand warmly, invited him to be seated, when he be- gan: ‘Mr. Sartain, I have come to you for protettion'and a refuge. It will be difficult for you to believe what I have to tell—that such things could be in this ninetéenth centur, It is nece sary that 1'remaid concealed for a time. Can I stay with you?' ‘Certainly,’ said . ‘as long as you like; you will be per- fectly safe here.’ A FANCIED PLOT TO MURDER HIM. **He thanked me, and then went into an explanation of w He snid that he w: York, when he overheard some men wiio sat a few seats back of him plotting how they would kill him and throw him from th atform of the car. He said they spoke so low that it would have been impossible for him to hear and understand the meaning of their words had it not been that his sense of hearing was so wonderfully acute. Thel did not guess that he had heard them, as he sat so quietly and subpressed all indications of having heard the plot. He watched an opportunity to give them the slip at Bordentown, and when the train arrived at that station he stepped to the platform and kept out of sig‘n. until the train had moved on again. He had returned to Philadel- phia by the first return conveyance and had hurried to me for shelter. “T assured him that he was perfectly welcome, but that it was my belief that the whole thing was the creati i fancy, for what interest could have in taking his life, and at such ri to themselves? aid, ‘Tt venge.” ‘Revenge for w answered, ‘Well, a woman trouble,” 1 placed him comfortably went on with my worlk, whi hurry. Occasionally conve: between us and I observed a singular change in the current of his thoughts. He had rushed in on me in terror for his life, in fear that he might be killed; and now I perceived that he had d ed around to the idea that it would be good to kill himself. After a long s lence he said suddenly: ‘Jf this mous- tache of mine were removed I should adily recognized. Will you Jor that I may shave it off?’ s [ never shaved 1 had no razor, but if he wanted it removed L could do that for him almost as closely with scissors. Accordingly 1 took him to the bathroom and performed the oper- ation successfully. *After tea. it being now dark, he pre- pared to go out, and on my asking him where he was going he said *To the Schuykill.’ T told him I would go, too, to which he offered no objection. His shoes were worn downa good deal on the outer side of the heels, and he com- plained that his feet were ¢ consequence, and hurt him,so I gave him my ‘slippers to wear, us I had no second pair of shoes that would serve. When we had reached the corner of Ninth and Chestnut strects we waited there for ay omnibus, and among the things he said was that he wished I would see ta it chat after hs death the e of him should Smother (meaning Mrs. Clemm). mised that as fur as 1 could control it that should be done. Here cropped out, even in the face of what he believed to be approaching death—fdr Poe intended to throw him- self into the Schuylkill down a tremen- dous flight of stairs, which for gloomy invitation probably hadn’t a sup: rin the world at the time—the ruling idea of his existence, woman. And to dis- concert the jackals whose pallid repu- tations have been built up by pulling his down, that woman was a pure and beautiful creature, to whom he stood in the relation of sou “To the river!” cried Poe,and he and Sartain took an omnibus and rode out to the Fairmount bridge. An early summer twilight had decepened into night and Sartwmn watched auxiously for the rising of the moon. Poe's fear- ful fan and the pitchy darkness to- gether were more than he cared 1o con- tend with, To the right of these pus- sionate pilgrims, steaight up the ohffs, visible only a4 few steps 4t a time, stretched a great wooded archway from whose summit go s v —— - TELLING FIGURES are the arguments we have always used to influence trade and these telling figures have always brought us the customers, and we will al= ways depend on them for the biggest share of th!a clothing trade, Our business has been built up on the plan of low prices and we mean to continue on the same plan, gives the buyer unlimited choice. spring suits. Our stock this season is unlimited and this We display hundreds of styles of Here are a few of the bargains we start the season with— One lot of nice all wool Cheviot Suits, lined with good farmer’s satin, at $4.75. Thisis an honest suit, well made. suit been sold atless than $7.50. At no time has such a One lot of really nice cassimere suits, a neat dal:k mixture at $5.90. This suit is lined with good serge, made substantially and we recoms mend it for excellent wear. We have always had the reputation for the best line of well-made medium priced suits —say at $8, 89 and $10. Knowing that the great majority of customers prefer that price, we have always taken pains to give the greatest possible value that could be put into a suit at that price. of anything shown formerly. us at that price you save at least from $5 to $6. The line of $3, ¢9 and $10 snits which we display this season is far ahead We unhesitatingly claim that with every suit you buy of €10 suits an extraordinary bargain in the shape of a splendid corkscrew suit. The mate rial is all worsted and of very fine quality, lined with best farmer satin. ‘We have them in sacks and frocks, all sizes, from 85 to 42. The suit is of good weight and will make an excellent dress suit. At ten dollars we pronounce it the greatest bargain ever offered, and We have this season added to our line of 1 & : Y we guarantee it is in every respect as good as any suit for which other houses ave asking 4 $16 or $18. Price means nothing until you see the goods. We want every careful buyer to take time tc examine our gar ments and note every detail of lining, trimming and finish. MAIL ORDERS—Receive prompt attention and we send samples and rules for measuring on application, Nebraska Clothing Gompany Corner Douglas and Fourteenth Streets, Omaha. the view commanded by day the glit- tering serpentine trail of the river below and the panorama of what wa then the home and the nurse of Amer- ican literature. Step by step they climbed through the inky atmosphere, Sartain keeping up all the while be- tween Poe and the river, keeping up all the while aready flow of nonchalant talk so as to divert this budding, mur- derous frenzy from itself. If the moon would only rise! At last the dizzy summit was reached, and there i the rayless shadow of the clouds that hid the stars and anxiously watching for the white il of the moon on the now invisible ater, Sartain sat cautiously with Poe, and listened while the latte ho had that morning been discharged by Mayor Gilpin, with the exclamation, Why, that's Mr. Poe. the poet”---put mto ~ words the ms that tormented 5 'y might be called *“The Three Visions,” and as nearly as possible is restored to Poe’s language, as follows: THE STORY OF THE THREE VISIONS, “From the window of my cell, which looked out over this vast pile of stone and iron, as if from a turret, the cen- tral and battlemented tower of the great structure was clearly visible. Ab- sorbed in my own mournful reflections, I had kept ‘my eyes fixed oun the floor, when I was startled to see grow out beneath them ina regular quadril teral the luminous outline of the ca ment just behind me. The rusty i bar which laced my window s actually projected into the shadow in whose interstices pl fiery radiance unlike any Ihad ever seen. I looked backward over my shoulder and through the real bars, which this strange, luminous de was pouring, saw on the central tower what froze my blood. On the coping, her bare feet plainly in sigh the edge, and smil- ing sorenely and almost ainfully over the diszy precipic 150 whose foot death lurked, stood a creature, beautiful beyond words, in that majesty with which youth and lov- liness alone may crown a woman. She was the fountain of the strange light that cascaded into my cell and drew my oyes 1o he They seemed fixed and became terrible. T rose involuntarily to my feet. “Alas, thought T, she is so far away she can never hear me. But sheopened her lips, and in low, clear tones spoke, as if at my side, such fearful sum- mons as mortal rarely hears. Not a syllable failed to pess the ear gates and into the nind, each iden it shaped out of thissing: Vg my brain with a dis- tinet pang. Thejy re guestions, and [ had to answer them at once, without hesitation, aptly and corvectly, or die— and such a death! God knows how—for my mind must have been sharpened us supernaturally as my hearing—I did hear and did reply. The ordeal passed, the hght qulc‘\.lhu vision died out; with a groan of horribfe relief I sunk into my chair, and all about me became dark and quiet again. uddenly a courteous bat saturnine whisper broke the black silence. T was invited out for a wallk on the battle- ments, [turned with a shudder to see who could give sostrange an invitation. L could see no one. But I accepted promptly, glad to get out of my 2 and was s0on breathing the fresh air of heaven und walking past the very cop- ing on which the sphinx of a moment before had stood in her terrible beauty. Once started, I lost all fe Far down below me and the invisible guide who conducted me g0 politely 1 began to be conscious of a glimmer of light. It was in the center of the quadrangle, Bit by bit a great bubbling caldron of punch broke into view, a fearful, fiery glow beneath it, and from its seething sur » little blue f\;ls of laming vapor spitting now and then with merry n lignaney. It was tempting. so tempting, 1 was eold, and how welcome its warmth would be! T could have leaped down to leiss its lips when the presence that had led me prevented and th \G courto- ous, saturnine whisper asked: ‘Would you like to take & drink?’ “'No,' I shricked, compelled by some foree I could not control, and wild with eat being balked of the dvaught I s0 eagerly coveted. In an caldvon sank out of sightand I was back in my cell, shivering, distraught. Had I drunk, T know I should have heen steeped to the lips in that delicious bowl of death and suspended forever in its flames. [ had passed the ordeal No. 2. “The last, the third, was the worst! My mother. my daviing motherl Could not the devils who tortured me spare her! Itseemed not. Fawnt with what 1 had gone through, as 1 raised my ach- ing eyes towdrd the window a ho spectacle once more seared them w agony. I saw Mrs. Clemm in the clutches of the fiends. There wasa grand autodafe at which myriads of them were in attendance. T soon saw they were the same little blue devils I had seen peeping out from the boiling caldron. They were cutting her up by piecemeal. to “wrench my soul and to please their fearful eraving for human suffering. Her toes were cutoff and brandished before me with shouts of fiendish laughter. Her ankles were next dissevered. Her knees yiclded to the crashing strokes of their cleavers; then her hips were hacked off, and 1 there helpless all the while, mad with pain.for her and a thirst for vengennce with a thirst which only blood may slake. In a flash of the eye it wasall gone. 1 had survived the third or- deal.” Mr. Sartain’s narrative of what fol- lowed, and of the calm that gradually came over Poe after he had relieved his mind of the reraembrance of this phantasma, cortinues as follows. The mad poet still longed for the riv the razol “Iled him down the steep stairway slowly and cautiously, holding well on to the hand rails. By still keeping him talking I got him back to an omnibus that waited for passengers at the tavern door, and when exactly abreast of the step I pressed ngainst him and he raised his foot toit, but instantly, re- collecting himself, he drew back, when I gently pushed him, saying, ‘Go on,’ and having got him scated with myself beside him, snid: *You were saying so and s0,’ and he responded by continu- ing the subject b en speaking on. Itook him safe home to Sansom street, gave him a bed on the sofain the dining room, and slept alongside him on three chairs without undressing. “On the second morning he appeared to have become so much like his old self that I trusted him togo out alone, Reg- ular meals and rest had had a good el- fect; but his mind was not yet free from After an hour or two and then he told me that he had arrived at the conclusion that what I said was true, that the whole thing had been a delusion and a scare created out of his own excited imagina. tion. He said that his mind began to clear as he lay on the grass, his face buried in it, and his nostrils inhaling its sweet fragrance mingled with the odor of the earth; that the words he had heard kept running thvough his mind, but somehow he tried in vain to connect them with who spoke the and thus his thoughts gradually awakened into rationul order and he saw that he came out of a dream, “| had asked him how he came to be in Moyamensing prison, and he said he had been suspected of trying to pass o fifuy dollar counterfeit note; but the truth is it was for what takes so many theve for a few hours only much, “Being now all right again, he was ready to go to New York. He borrowed what was needful, and depurted, [ never saw him more.” - - Woodruft Granite Qaarry. Tam prepared to furnish Woodvufl granite in paving blocks, door sills and steps, or blocks of most any dimensions at choup figures. Also handlo atmy Liancoln yard all classes of eut stone for avy part of the state. Ask for figures. Thowmus PPrice, Lincolg, Neb. the nightmar he returned, e S THE ROTHSCHILDS, Characteristics of the Paveut Head of the Family, Some ten years ago old Baron Roths- ohild pussed uway full of years, loaving behind him a gigantic fortune, says the Philudelpnia ~ Times. His “three w drop 100 | nephows, Nathaniel, Leopold and %l- fred, sons of Baron Lionel Rothschild, inherited the city business, while his vast riches in cash, lands, house prop- erty and securities were for the most part bequeathed to his daughter, the Countess of Rosebery. The three Lon- don Rothschilds of “to-day bear little resemblance either in face, form or business habits, to either their late father or uncle. The elder Nathaniel, lately croated Lord Rothschild, is a far= seeing man of great business capacity, and under his guidance the great house still maintains its supremacy 1n_the world of London finance. He is, how~ ever, a man who devotes his attention only to great enterprises, and conse- quently a vast amount of minor business of a very profitable nature that used to be executed by the Rothschilds has of late flowed into other channels. His lordship excels as a diplomat, and his relations with Gladstone’s govern= ment during the Egyptian affair wore close and invaluable to his house. Sim- ple British taxpayers who paid any at- tention to the part England was piaying in the khedive's aflairs for a year or two previous to the slaughtering of the heroic Gordon at Khartonm roundly asserted that her expensive interfer- ence in Bgypt would never have been pushed so far but for the vast interests of the Rothschilds and their clients there at stake, The head of the firm does not inherit his uncle’s love of sport; he neither breeds nor runs thorough- bred race-horses and is rarely seen in the hunting field, though in a perfune- tory manner he stills keeps up the famed pack of stag-hounds, His coun- 1 in financial matters is highly es- :med by her majesty’s government, and his life, like that of his predeces- sor, is devoted to money-getting. More Jewish in appearance than either of his brothers, his character and habits also more clearly indicate his Hebrew origin, Alfred de Rothschil d is also very reg: ular in his attention to business in *‘the Lane.” He is not generally credited with any particular aptitude for playing the great gume of finance, but has charge of the routine business of the firm. Almost any morning on the stroke of 11 his neat brougham may be seen pulling up at the corner of Canuon St Lunh St. Swithin’s Lane, whence' its elegantly attired owner proceeds on foot to his office. He is a handsome man, of medium stature and dark com- plexion, and his features are onl slightly indicative of his Semitic ori- gin. In private hfe he is something of a 8y his taste in works of art is highly cultivated: he is a liberal patron of some of the first pa ors of the day, and an ardent and discriminative col= lector of old chinu and bric-a-brac, Leopold d Rothschild does not res semble his brothers either in his features or mode of life. The younger brother takes but little part in the bus- iness of the great hous puts in an appearance a Lane, He is a somewhat delic: ing man, of fair complexion, with a mild, kindly face. A liberal patron of the drama, he is rarely absent from his box at the opera or hiis stall at the theater on “fivst nights,” and he num= bers among his friends many of the lead= ing members of the profession. He is in the prince of Wales set and is on terms of intimacy with the heir appars nt. But it is ns an owner of race horses that Leopold de Rothsehild is, perhaps, best known to the Knglish people. While lacking his late uncle's enthuss insm in his pursuit of the nutional sport of Britons, he maintains a large stuble of thoroughbreds at Newmarket, where he also has a residence, and it may fairly be said that there are no colorg more popular on the tuef thun the Roths schild blue and yellow. On timable charact English Rothschilds ms be noted as the common possession of each of the three brothe Their charity knows no limit, their sympathy c eniit on behall of u ‘worthy " ohject. SHhel DAMES Are ne missing from lic subscription list, while thelr prive benevolences are ever disp ) open hand and presumab heart, stic of the ——— Beochu's Pills aot like magié weak stomach, on . # ol \ [ J A