Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 14, 1892, Page 12

12 (0L, NOSBY'S RECOLLECTIONS Etchings of the Diys That Follow:d the Civil War, SIDE LIGHTS ON GENERAL GRANT lef Gives His Rea- ogieal Results is Friend- Grant, The Noted Guerrilla O sons for Accepting the of the Great Confli ship For 1 never met General Grant until May, 1872, whon I caliod on him at the white house in company with Senator Jobn F. Lewis of Vireinia, writes Colonel Mosby in the Saa Francisco Examy ar. At that time my home was at Warrenton, Va,, and 1 frequently visited Washington, Once I had seen Gen- oral Grant with General Sherman in a box At the theater, Thoy seemed to enjoy the fun of the play as much as ‘‘the gods in the gallery. Not long before I called on (General Grant 1 rode some distance on the Midland railroad with Senator Lowis, who, being & republioan, was on very friendly terms with the admin- 1stration, and we talked a great deal about the president. Like most southern men I had been opposed to the policy of reconstruc- tion, and of course was opposed to the repub- lican party, whom he represented. For this reasor, in spite of my personally friendly feclings for General Grant on account of his magnanimous treatment of the southern solaiery, and me individually, at the close of the war, I had alway kept aloof from him. In my conversation on the train with Sena- tor Lows 1 expressed my Ligh personal ro- gurd for General Grant avd the gratiwude I felt to him, and 1 said 1 would have called to pay my respects but for fear thatin doing so my motives might be miscounstrued, and it might create a prejudice agaiust me in tho south and General Grant in 1he north if he treated me with even ordinary civiiity. At that imo my name was @ monstrum horrendum to the northern imagination, and, no doubt, u larze majority of the best people of that region sincerely believed that my men fought under the bluck flag inscribed with a skull and cross-bones, General Grant was then as much misun- derstood 1n the south as I bad been misrep- resented in the north. The kindly feeling which his nobie conduct at Appomatiox had aroused was almost obliterated by his be- coming the candiaate of tue republican party for the presivency. We did not then stop to cousider tbut General Grant had accepted re- construction just 1s Goneral Leo did seces- s10n, because he could not avert it. Both had bowed toa storm they were not ablesuccess- fully to oppose, ieitber did we then reflect, or, ratber, we did no know thut by Rgoing along with tue tempest General Grant in some degree moderated its fury. ‘When ho beeawe president he found three southern states under militury government, the others under carpetbag rule, and nearly all their prominent lcaders under political disabilities, At the close of his second term nearly all disabilities had beeu removed, the iron clad oath repealed snd the southern states restored to the control of their best citizens. My conversation with Senator Lowis, while not confidential, was not iutended as a message to Goneral Graot, and I hyd no ex- pectation of 1ts being repeated to him. It was only o week or so before the nomination of Horace Greeley. 1 had theu no idea of ever vouing the republican ticket. The pre- judices which hed survived war and recon- struction, as well as any ambitious hopes 1 may have cherished, all impelled me the other way. lu the south the democratio party has appropriated all- the glory won by the confederate armies and of course it en- oys the beuetlt of the resentments created y defeat and the devastation of the country by the morthorn armies. My war record could be of no advantage to me with the re- publicans. Kor the same reason 1n the north the republican party gets the benefit of all the war fechng that survives, Thero never yet was a party or politician who would not utilize aay prejudice that exists to gain power. Itmakes no aifference whether the prejudice bo rational or not. 1 was » member of the bar. My state, congressional district and county were all lurgely democra.ic, or conservative, os then called. If I had desired political honor or place I would have sought it at the time of the reconstruction, when 1t was hard to get eligible men to fill the oftices. Never having teld an oftice beforo the war, I was not ex- cluded by the reconstruction laws from eithar holding office or voting. Greeley was nomwinatea on a platform ratifying ail thag the republicans haa aone. Having accepted the principles, I could see no objection to voting with the party. The democrats went over to Grooley—he aldo’t g0 10 them. Their battle cry was “reconcilintion.” The term imolies past hos- tihty. Logically, it meant voting with the republican party. We did not neea any reconciliation with the demoorats, As Grant ropresented the north, to me that the propor wuy to get was to vote for him just as Governor Lee surrendered to him at Appomattox when he saw that the cause for which he had fought was lost. Te throw away the influence of our voles on Greeley scemed to me as absurd as for General Leeo to have surrendered his sword to u sutler when he concluded to stop fighting, Tho southern people abandoned opposition to the laws the republicans had passed. They sad that they only wanted them administered iu a friendly spirit by thoir own people. 1 thought this object could be attained by their supporting Grant. 1 aid not differ with them about the end, but the means by which they uodertook to accomplisn it. 1 desired a change as much as they did, and thought the desired change would result’ from @ ohunge in their relations to the national admunistra- on. 1do not reproach any one who differed with me, but Lwenly years have since rolled away and I am of the same opinion still. I believed then, as I believe now, that if the south bad made au alliance with Grant the carpet bag governments would have fallen by & natural process, just as a rottea apple drops froma tree, and all that vile crew ‘would bave been driven from power without violonce. If Grant recognized that set it was simply on the principlo that the English support the Turk—because the Turk is their ally againat the Russian, As soon as Groeloy’s nomination wi kunown L wrote to Senator Lewis thut I was for Grant. He replied that be bad repeated to Geperal Grant our conversation on the cars, and that be had sent mo a message to com nd sce bim, 1 went immeaiately to Washington, had an interview with General Grant and told him of my intention. 1 felt wssured from my conversation with him that he earnestly desired perfect peace obeiween all sections. But this could not be ‘secured without Lhe harmonious action and co-opera- tion of the southern people with him, If he sbould quit his party wpd come over to them he would cowe shorn of his strength, The Aouth must come to bim, Tho bloody chasm between them und Grant was no widerthan the one between them and Greeloy, 1 bad never before been 1n the white house. When | walked with my son iuto tne room whero (Graut was sitting, bis pre ence wspired something of the awe that a Roman provineial must bavo felt when first entering the palace of the Casars. His man- ner 8000 relieved one of embarassmont and restored my self-confidence. He immedi- ately begon telling me how near I came to capturiog bim on 4o train when he went up 10 tuke command of the army of the Potomae. Iisughed vnd sald: “Well, Mr, President if | had caught sou things might bave been a little different now. You wight have been valling on me. He answered: “Yeos, perbups £0." 1 told bim thut I intended to support bim and that if bo would hold out an olive branch 10 the sonth by gOLUUE CONgress Lo puss an et relleving our leading wen from the disa- oility imposed by the fourteenth amenament | thought wo could ecarry Virginia for bim, [t would take the wingd outof Groeley’s suils, He said that he would see what could be doue about it. 1 knew that be was in favor of universal amnesty, as ho recommended it in his lust aonual wessage. A bill to that sffect had nassed the house, but bad been jeteated by an smendment tacked to it by su.aner in Lhe senate, Two or three days after my interview General Butler reported an ampesty bill (1 save no doubt at Graut's suggestion), which was rushed through one night woile Sumner was asloep. The irouciad oath had already beon re- l pealed, ond I was eligible to any office, state or federal. On the contrary, nearly alltho men who might be my competitors, if I had political ambition, were under the ban of the fourteenth amendment. Nobody but a poli- tician would have discovered an unworthy motive in my asking Grant to use his power to set them free, General Eppa Hunton,who had been & inguished confederate sol- dier, and was afterwards one of the comimnissiouers, was thus liberated and sent to represent my district in congross, while I was denounced through the south as an apostate, A chargs more unjust was never brought against a man sfnce Socrates was accused of corrupting the Athenlan youth, Grant was elected by an overwhelming majority, and it was no fault of mino that the southieru people dia not participate in tho triumph. Stortly after the election I received a note from Grant requesting me to come to Washiogton to see him on business. I went. He spoke of my services in the cam- paign and his desire to reward me. I told him I hed repeatedly said that [ would not accept any oftice from him. I never did, Yet people generally believe that he appointed me consul al Hongkong. It was a painful thing to break away from old associations and traditions and go against the current of opinion in tho south. Of course 1 had to suffur the consequences. 1 never subscribed to the doctrine thata man ‘‘must go with his people” in party con- tests, If that is so, then the minority is al- ways wrong, and every demagogue who floats into power on a popular wave 1s a pa triot. Judas Iscariot can claim the full ben- efit of the maxim. In the moral as well as in the material world there is often an apparent motion 1n one direction when the real motion is in the opposite. So men could not for a_long time understand why Columbus sailed to tho wost in search of a passage to the east. Byron swam tho Hellespont by going partly with the current, If he had measured his strength with the waves ho would have never reached the Asiatic shore. During Grant’s second term I was fre- quently ut the white house. 1 never failod 10 see him but oncs. He was then in the tands of a devtist. He appointed a good many of my friends iu Virginia to office just to oblige me, and ha never once asked a ques- tion about their politics, Some of them haa voted acainst him. I never heard him speak a word about the war that would wound the most sensitive southern man. He once remarked to me that if he had been a southern man ne would have been a southern soldier. Of his old army comrades who took the confeacrate s1de he always spoke in the wost affection- ate way. Speaking of Stonewall Jackson he once said to me: “Jackson was the most con- scientious human being Iever knew. If you could have persuaded him that it was his duty to put his head into a cannon’s mouth and bave it blown off—and it would not have been hard to convince him—he would bave done it without hesitation.” He once appoited a worthless Virginian to office, and I expressed surprise tnat he appointed the fellow because he ropresentod himself as the brother of a confederate gen- oral who was killed in the war and who was his instructor at West Point. I told lim that it was not true, and that the man had just boen released from the chain-gang for whipping bis wife. Grant laughed at the trick and revoked the appointment. Dan Voorhees once said to me that the vir- tues that made Grant Ievable® in vrivate lifo wero the source of the gpreatest mistakes ho made as a publio man. And this was true. “His very failings leaned to virtue's side.” No man éver had & moro tryiug position to fill, He found the south ina state of an- archy, the whole country scothing with tho passions of war. ‘“‘Stcep and craggy,” says Kmerson, “are the paths of the goas.” On the night before he left Washington on his tour around the world I called to bid him good-by. At parting I said: “Gonoral, I hope to see vou president again.” Ho was silent. We noxt mot at Hongkong. He was then a private oitizen, aud by a curious turn of the wheel of fortune ] was reprasenting the United States. When the signal gun was fired that announced thav his steamer was in sight I wentoutina boat to meet bim in company with an old Virginian who, having gono to Hongkong before the war, was still unreconstructed, and was never really con- vinced that the war was over until he saw me shake hands with Grant, He and Mrs. Grany were standing on deck at tho head of the gangway as I walked up: L saig: “Gen- eral, 1 wantto introduce vou to thelastrebel, Dr, Lockbead of Petersburg, Va. He says he 1s willing to surrender to the man that General Leo surrendered to.”” Mrs. Grant spoke up: I bespeak liberal terms for the doctor.” Grant said: *Well, doctor, 1 now parole you, and hope you may be a loyal citi- zen." He spent some days in Hongkong as the guest of the governor, Sir John Pope Henes- sey, #nd made a trip up the river to Canton. The Chinese could not be made to believe that he was not still a great potentate. One morning at broakfast av_the govern- ment house he was describing Palestine, and ‘The road from Joppa to Jerusalem is, , the worst in_the world; certainly the%vorst I ever traveled,” 1 was sitting by Mrs. Grant on the oppo- site sido of the table, and remarked: “Gen- eral, 1 think you have traveled ono rougher road that that.” He asked mo where. I replied, *‘From the Rapidan to Richmond, Ho laughed and said: **Well, I beiieve there were more obstructions on that road." He made a visit to Macao, a Portuguese colony nbout forty mies from Hongkong. By wvittion of the governor I wentwith bim on his steam launch to the United States man-of-war Ashuelot, that carried Grant and his party off the Cbina const. Just as we started to return to the shoro the Ashuelot began firing & royal salute of twenty-one guns 10 honor of the governor as tne repre- sentative of the orown. The launch stood still until iv was tbhrough. The general and Mrs. Grant remained all the time on the deck of the man-of-war. When the guns ceased firing wo steawed sway —I raisod my hat as a last farewell and General Grant raised his. 1 never saw the great soluior again. 2 ‘An incident occurred while he was in Japan that strikingly iilustrates his distin- guishing characteristic—fidelity to his friends. An American in Japan asked one of bis traveling cowpanions, in General Grant's presence, if he had met “‘Mr’ Mosby at Hongkong. General Graut, quickly dotecting the sneer that lurked in tho question, smd to him: “My friend, Coionel John 5. Mosby," laying emphasis on my military title, ‘But to return to the origin of our friend- ship. 1 was with my comwand in northern Virgivis, near the Potomac, when [ heard the news of General Lee's surrendor at Appomattox. Mine was at that time the only organized confederate force in_that section. Stanton 1mmediately ordered Hancock, who was then commanding st Winchester, to issue a proclamation offering the same terms of parole to all confederate soldiers in Vir- ginia that were given to Genoral Lee, but ex- cepting *the Guerrilla-Chief Mosby.” Han- cock obeyed the order, which condemned me to choose hetween exilo or being shot as an outlaw. Without having received any oom- munication from me, Grant ordered Hancock to offer me the parole that he had given Gen- eral Loo, I was afterward introduced to Hancock by my friend Chadwick in Wash- ington. ~He was a superb gentiemen, He told mo that Stanton was solely respousible his making an exception of me. I bave co found among the war records Stanton’s instructions to Hancock. Arter I had settled down to practice law I was arrested @ number of times on no par- ticular charge by provost marshals, who were stationed at the court houses in every county. I was forbiaden to go out of the state, but my wife made & visit to Baltimore, and on her way there stopped in Washing-: ton. She never intimated to me that sbe 1n- tended 10 €0 Lo see the president. He and her father, Beverly L. Clarke of Kontucky, had been personal friends and democratio mwemuvers of congress together before tho war. She went to the whito bouse and told Andy Johnson whose daughter’ and whose wifo sho was, and complained of my beig arrested; for u parole 1s & contract that binds both parties to it. The vulgurian was simply rudo and insoleut. She left the white house und went straight to General Gruot's ofiico at the War department. He received her with all the courtesy he would have shown Lo tho wife of & union goneral, and wrote a letter of protection ziviax mo liberty to travel anywhera in the Un States, I nave the original now—the whole of 1t in bis bandwriting, About the same time Grant did sunother act that showed bis generous impulses. A Virginia boy who belonged to my command orossed the Potomae with a parly one night during the last winter of the war, They got luto a fght in which & government detec- tive was killed. The boy was captured and sentenced Lo the penitentiary by a military court. His mothér begwed Johnson to par- dou e boy, but be steraly refused. She tectoral | | haye suffered from blood disorders. 1b will THE OMAHA DAILY BEE told her sorrowful story to General Gran'. He went with her to see Johnson and told him that he would not leave the room until o signed_the ‘warrant for the boy’s pardon. Johnson i so. On the day beforo I left Hongkone a dis- patch came anuoincing General Graut's death. 1 felt that I had lost as true a friend as any man ever had. The friendship of Priades and Orestes was not more sincere than mine for ant. Not lonz aeo I wis told that tha southern people would never foreive me for supports ine him, My answer was: *“They ought not 1o forgive me. Nn man ought to be for- given bofora hio reents.’ o JE THE BUDS. BRIGHT SAY. A little Auburn girl, whose father is a warm republican, had formed an opinion from what she had heard at homo tnat ail the wickedness in this wide world was condensed into the democratic party, says the Bangor Commercial. While the family was spend- ing the summor at a well kuown Maine re- sort a friend visited them Lo spend Sunday. e was of a musical turn of mind,though per- haps his tastes were not highly elevated. He was n great whistler and, cegardless of the day, e kept his Iips puckered the most of tho time. The little girl was observed to watch him closely all day with an air of con- siderable anxlety. At length her feclings appeared to get the better of her, and, call- ing ber mother aside, she inquired seriously : “Mamma, i3 Mr. a democrat?’ “Why, no, my child, I think not,”” was the repiy. “What makes you think sof” ‘“Well, he's been whistling *Whoa, Emma? all day, and iv's Sunday.” y The other night a’very young American was ez put_to_bed by his gentla littlo wmothor, savs the New York Recorder. The youngest hiad just been engaged in an affray wWith a neighbor's boy, and had got decided]y the worst of the battle. His mother, think- ing it a good time to inculcate the priaciple of forgivoness to our enomics, told youns James that homust say “God bless ~Rich- ard!’ Richard being tho name of the odious and victorious aptagonist. Jamio domurred. His mother insisted. After somo discussion Jamie vielded, with & vory bad grace, “God bless Richard,” he said: but then added with grim satisfaction, “but L1l hit him a lick 1a the morning!" . . Detrort Freo Pross! ““Mamma, when you grow old will you look like little grand- ma? asked a littlo boy of 3 or 4 years of his pretty young mother. “Yos, dear,” answorod his mother, *if you mean to sk it my face will bo wrinkled and thin, and shall have lost some of its fairness. Yes, 1 shall grow to look as littlo grandma doos. Why do you want to know, Henry?" “Weli, mamma, Il try hard, but I am afraid 1 cau’t Tove you then as T do now.” Harper's Young 1cople: “Papa,” said Willie, *littlo brother is o month old' tomor- “Yos “Let's you and me give him a birthday present.” Very well. What shall it be?” Lot's buy him a wig. He needs that more'nanything.” “They tell mo vou have learned to count, Robbie,” suid a pious old lady to her littlé graifdson, who was paying hera visit out in the country. . *Courso T can,"answerod Rovbie, “listen : One, two, thrre, Tour, five, six-—7 “Phat's right,” suid the old lady encour- ageinely, *zo on 1 “'Seven, eight, nine, king!"— ten, Jack, queen, Chicago Tribune: ‘“You've eaten all that Willie,"” said his mother in a “*You must not ask for anything more. Remember now that little boys should be seon, and not heard.” “Pll ‘quit talking.” replied Willie, in a hoarse whisper distinctly heard by the vis- itor, “*but my silence means that I want some 'more of that pie.” * oy A proud father seads the Boston Post this little story abo:t a 4-vear-old child—a girl: She had been told that the stars in the sky were God’s lamps. During a thunderstorm sho surprised the family by saying, after o flash of lightuing: *“God is lighting his tamps. Didn't you see him scratch the match” —_—— RELIG1OUS. Churches built in Vered 8,508, There were over 17,000 adaitions to the Cumberland_Presbyterian church last yoar, and nearly 81,000,000 was raised by the or- ganization for church purposes, A practical clorgyman of New York says that a great many excellont Christian peoplo divide the year inio two periods. Namel, coustructive work and destructive amus ment. Along the west coast of Africa there are now 200 churches, 85,000 converts, 100,000 adberents, 275 schools and 80,000 pupils. Some knowledge of the zospel has rcached avout eight millions of benmizhted Alfricens. Rev. Dr. Joseph Stockbridge, who Is at the head of the list of chaplains in the United States navy, is said to be the only one whohas the rank of commodore. He lives now 1 Philadelphia. Ho has been 1n the service moro than fifty years. A gang of toughs created a disturbance in a Methodist church in Mohogany, O. The muscular minister doffed his coat and bogan to impress on the *oughs a proper respect for the church, After thrashing the leader soundly he mounted the pulpit and con- cluded his sermon. According to the Chicago Times, the Prot- estant church in that ety 18 not making sat- isfactory progress among the people, aud, on the other hand, the saloons and disreputable resorts are multiplying alarmingly. During the last five years places of worship have in- creased 43.8 per cent., owing mainly to the annexation of large suburban territorics. The saloons have icreased (3.3 per cent. The membershiv of the churches is put at 110,010, and doily patronage of the shloons at 030,000'in visits.” The attendance at the Sun- day theaters is holf that at the churches. The preachers in mauy of the churches speak Lo almost empty pew In 1883, a little girl six years of age, Hattio May Wiatt, applied to Rev. Russell H. Con- well of Philadelphia for admission to the Sunday school connected with his church, at that time occupying the building at Berks and Mervine streots, Owing to the over- crowded conaition of all the departments it was impossiole to recelve the little girl, who refused to be comforted until Mr. Connell explained the reason. Then she began saviug ber money in order to enlarge tho nc- commodations. A few weeks, afterwards, however, hittle Hattie died, but her savings for that purpose, amounting to 57 cents, were given to Mr. Conwell, The story of the hit- tlored pocketbook became widely known, and tho 57 conts bacame tho nucieus of the £250,000 which was afterwards raised sor the magmficent tomple of the Philadelphia Grace street Methouist church, . e EDUCATIONAL, America in 1891 num- Sap Francisco tas adopted the colonial styln of architecture for school buildings, Brown university at Providence has de- cided to admit women fo the privileges of study and of recelving dogrecs. The Uuiversity of Chicago starts with rroerty and funds amounting o £,000,000 und a library containing half a million vol- umes. Rev. ward A, Hoffman of New York has just sent in another check for £25,000 to tho endowmeny fund of St. Stephon’s col- lege, Annandale, N. Y., making his totul gifts to date to that institution §172,000, Kdueation in cities is aiscussed in the American Journal of Polities for Juiy by Rev. Kdwin O. Buxton, Pn. D, The writer believes earnestly in the public school sys- wm which levels class and social barriers and fosters true democratio spirit, but he thinks a radical reform in methods is needea. The ideal education for city schools, ho urges, should comprise intellectusl, physical, moral and mapual traini This would mmetrical young men and women, ced ana thoroughly equipped for life's duties. Now too much Lime is given Lo intellectual work. The course of study is 100 heavy, the hours devoted 1o 1t are too long. Adnut the study of uo language buu tho Bnglish below tho high school grade and simplify the cOUrse 0 as to require not more than three hours' daily study, The general results will be more satisfactory thao under present wethods, R DoWitt's Sarsaparilia cieanses the blood, increases the appelite aud tones up the sys- tem. It has benetitted many people wuo belpyou. - SUNDAY, AUGUST BRITISH 0L, pOLDIER'S HOME How Evgland Providss for Her Iufirm aad Disibled Defonder STROLLS THROUGH HISTORIC CHELSEA Nell Gy orosity -Notable Char- acters Who Lived in Choyns Walk— Habits and ¢ 4 of Atblon's Red-copted Ponsioners, [Copyright21 1872 by B igar L. Wakeman.] Losxboy, Baz, Aug 1.--Correspondence toTnr B Iu olden times discharged and dostituto veterans of the British arny wan- doered from door to door, usually from tap room door to door, aand secured food and drink by exhibiting thelr scars or spjnning delectable yarns for the entertainment of any who might bostow charity upon them. They could also knock at the doors of monas- tic houses with tho assurance of recoiving bread and ale und lodeing for the night. Aftor the restoration their condition was a scandal 1o King Charles I1. and the country. Authorities differ not only widely but vituperously as to the origin of practical effort for theiv betterment, Some hold that the English were piqued into action throngh tho establishmant by Louis X1V. of tho Invalides in Paris asa rvetreat for Fronch voterans. ‘There Is record that as early as 1606 a schome for an infirmary for disabled English sailors had been submitted to Pepys, as clork of admiralty, Others contest that the second Charles had a lazy sort of design to house und comfort the ragged old vetorans who haa been loyal to his father bofore the latter had lost his kingly head. But sometimes tradition bas longer legs than history. British foik will never cease believing the tragition that rough, kind- hearted Nell Gwynne had all to do with the founding of Chelsea hospital for British - sioners. There ara two protty storles of how it finally came about thatan army of savage old critics and iconociasts can never dispar- age among the Britlsh masses. One is that one day Noll was sitting with Charles in h ummer house at Chelsea, one of whose windows overvliooked tho fine meadows surrounding King James colloge, when the paymaster ot the forces entered, and the subject of the projected hospital and the difficulty of finding a proper site was re- sumed, **Your majesty could not do better,” said Sir Stephen Fox, “'than give up for the purpose your recent purchase from the Royal socioty.” This comprised King James col- lege and wrounds which had just been bougit as a gift to Noll at a cost of £1,300. ‘*'Tis well thought of,” replied the king, cast- ing his ;e over the beautiful plot of ground. *‘You shall have it;” but recollecting him- self, he 1nstantly added, *"Odso! I forgot—I haye already given this land to Nell here.” Jave you so, Charles?’ exclaimed Nell gaily: *‘then I will rotura it to you again for 80 good a purpose.”” ‘The offer was accepted, and Nell was traosferred to @ mansion built for her in Pall Mall by the king. Protty Nell Gwynne's Droam. Another more romantic version is that one day pretty Nell was riding i the king’s gilded coach, and; being most disconsolate the king rallied ber, when she confessed that her distress was owing to the following dream: “Methought I was in the fields of Chelsea, ana siowly there rose vefore my eyes a beau- tiful palace of 1,000 chambers; and in and out thereof walked divers mauy old and worn out, soldier men with all kinds of scars, and many maimed as to their limbs, All of them were aged and puast service; and as they went out and came in; the old men cried: *God bless King Charles!’ And Lawoke, and 1 was sore discomfitea that 1t was only a dreawm.” 4 The story goes that the king was touched by Nell’s dream and then and there swore a great oath that it should come to reality. And so1t did. The king hardly saw more than the corner stone laia by Sir Christopher Wren in 1681; vut before Mr. Tenison, after- wards archbishop of Canterbury, had preached Nell Gwynne’s funeral sermon, in 1600, there traly “slowly rose befora her eyes a beauti- ful palace of & thousand chambers,” where, thourh she did not live long enough to know it, there have been many blessings from grateful throats iu grizzled frames, if not for Cnarles, for the lowiy oraugewirl who, whatever her lifa or faults, was ever great enough to move a profligate king to most of the good and generous acts which he performed. An easy and delightful way to visit Chel- eahospital is to taks one of Lhe countinss thames s'0wmers. Theso ply upand down theriver at all hours of the day and nigut, Taking on and landing hundreds of passen- gers au piers about a quarter of a mils apart, ou each side of the river: something as the little Philadelphia pleasure boats puff up and down the Schuylkill, belween tne dsm and the Wissihickon. This zigzag tripon the Thames is the most interesting In the world forits distance; ovided you go ou board, say, at the “Old " pier, on the city side of Londoa 3 for the Tower, the Monument, St. aul's, Westmiuster Abbey, parliament houses, Lambeth palace and numberiess other of London’s groatest and most historic structures ave passed; while the Thames hera not only pre. its liveliest panoramas of stupendous interests, varied scenes and characterful life, but shows that portion most renowned in fiction and history for more than a thousana years, Abutting Albert bridge at the western end of that portion of the Thames called Chelsea Raeach, you step upon a little pier and thence upon the upper Thames embankment, and at once are within & charmed and charming region. Almost witnin u stone's throw of the hospital grounds have tarried or lived or died hunareds famous in history, literature aud art. Smollet came here o live in re- tiroment, 1n 1750, in_ @& houso once owned by Henry IIl. Sir Thomas More's black memorial slab is in Cheisea Old Church; Lady Dacre, Lady Jane Cheyne and tho duchess of Northumberland, three of Chelsea’s grand ladies, lie beneath monu- ments within the church; while Charlos, George and Henry Kuwgloy once lived in the rectory with their father, who had received the “living” from Lora Cardogan. Historic 8pots In Chielsen, In Cbeyne walk lived I'urner, the painter; and in Cneyne Row lived George Kot and rugged old Carlyle. Queen Elizabeth used to visit the earl of Shrewsoury at Shrewsbury house, just back pof Choyne walk: and doughty old Samuel dohnson, who thougut he could mold china as well as make a dic- tionary, for a long time came here every duy o the old Chelsea chius works at the coroer of Lawrence stroet and Justice walk, his falthful housekeeper trudging after him with & huge basket containipg s duly food. The poet, George Harbert, dwelt in this neighborhood; IRoscith lived and sang hero amd bis garden of flowers; aud at a litue burber shop and coffea house, *“Don Salte- vo's,” it was called, in Ctieyne walk, Kichara Cromwell, Steele and Addison and Benjamin Franklin, who worked \u & prioting siop in HBartholomew Close, came to got shaved and to loiter over toeir coffee “*where the literait then sal in council.™ ! Iudoed, a grand, goed, swoet book could b written about the folit who bave loved and kuown oid Chelsea, whom we have known and loved for what thev did for the world, Sauntering on through ' tho quaint streots, With their ancieut und proturesque mansions, hosts of the silent great will throng about you. But now and then your delighted memories will be not unpleasantly broken in upon by the appearance of 80me shriveled old wap, often with & cane or & crutch and always in flaming red, You will tind these venerable old fellows in red, who become more frequent as you near the hospital, either woody, contempla- 1ive or contemptoous, with the corners of their mouths drawn in deep lines and thew puffy lower lips in a sort of endless trem- ulous activity of scornful repartee or avjur- gation, or with bright, pop-oyed looks of gar- rulousness and good' grecting. All have there with a ferocious kind of grasp, as though whatever else they might lose, tho Dipe was the one good friend of old ‘that sbould nover be torn from them withouta mighty struggle. England's Old 5oldiers’ Home. | this and that servant, as it pipes in their mouths, and all hold them | Maoy an odd hutie study you will find | among these cantankerous past age heroos in the quiet streots of Chelsea, Chelses would hardly be Chelsea without them. Strag- @ing along its thoroughfares, sitting bent and silent on sunny benches, leaning againsy fountains, vases and statues, resting as com- posedly as house ownors on house stops and vestibules, or stumping along with orders to long habit had given them acquired Supervisory rights over the affairs of residents, they irresistibly sug- gesta bevy of croaking cockatoos turnea 100ss 1n park and garden, each ono harping upon some fancied grievance or delight. Many are the snug little public houses hard by, worse luck to the Buritish citizon ana pensioner! and you will find it ecasy enough to make friondships with thesn old fellows, who have little to do and much to remember while awaiting the lagt long mus- ter. It would bo sorely ungracious in you ot to coment an acquaintanceship of this Sort with a little purchase of “‘backy” and several purchases of “four ale,” even though an unreienting prohibitionist at nome. Thus you will learn marvelous things of British valor atield, all, of course, in the old days when, differont than now, fighting was fighting inderd. You will secure a willing atateful guide to Cheisea hospital. And above all you will learn how a British pen- sioner’s pride in s own aad hls country’s nchiovements may be mingled, in the same breath, with his.own everlastiug aiscoatent and contempt. You will find Chelsea hospital a dark and imposing structure, possessing that indefina- ble gloomy grandeur which its builder, Sir Christopher Wron, gave as a marked chavac- teristic to all ms architectural creations. Indeed oue may iwell say Wren scoms to stare at you from out the facades of all groat Lendon “buildings. Bt the grounds are wide and ample, and the noblest troes in London everywhere flank the fine old buila- ing, far enough away to give floods of sun- shine in the courts and large parade grounds between the hospital and the Thames em- bankment, The building comprises three hugo courts, the largest facing the south, the Thamos and the masses of foliage of Battor- seq park, across the river. The wings of the great southorn court aro 365 feet long and are 40 feet wide, In these are found the pensioners’ wards, Kach one is about 200 feet in longth, Twenty-six com- partmeats are situated on each side of u division partition running along ths center of each ward. These partitions are opon at each oud, where the ward officers have rooms; and us the pensioners’ compartments or rooms face tho outer walls, which are pro- vided with huge, olosely clustered windows, eack ward in jtself provides about 500 lineal feot of splendidly lighted and ventilated promenade floor, for use during iuciement weathor, British Pensioners Chronle Kickers, These pensioners’ rooms within tho wards aro tight little cubby holes mdeca, almost as tiny and snug as the bunks of u sailing craft’s forecastie, They are seven foot long and six I width, buc are given the entire height of the ward room. A curtainea entrance is i the center. At either side1s a large sliding window, its sills at the height of au ordinary table top. At the loft of each door, as you enter, is u folding, or falling, table, for books, writing and the like. Opnosite and of pr cisely the same size aud pattern is the littlo table where the pensioner takes his solitary meal. His bunk is on a level with the win- dow sills and tables. Below it is his trunk, or ''box,” and on shelves above are any nick- nucks ho may posscss. A sort of privacy may bo eujoyed, but doors aud windows re- main open, under the ruies, so that even un- expecied inspectors may obserye the con- dition of everything in” each compartment, orison like, at'a glance, If tho allowance to the Chelsca pensioners in the matter of ¢lothing, food and ale mouey are somewhat 1neager, their duties und ro- strictions are exceedingly light. On en- trance to the hospital the pensioners’ pro- vious total government allowance of one shiliing per aay is entirely rolinquished. This refers exclusively to private soldiers, of whom tnere are over 500 smong the about 560 inmates of tho hospital. In lieu of this shiiling per day pension they receive each a room such as previously de- scribed, & yearly allowance of two i of trousers. ono cap and fatigue jacket and four complete suits of under- ciothing, with a flamine red Prince Albert coat, decorated with blue cuffs and huge buttons with the monogram, “R. H. 3 Royal Hospital of Chelsea Pension- ers, once in threo years, Tbeir food consists of half a loaf of bread and an ounce of butter daily, per mao; with a bowl of cocoa for hreakfast, soup, mutton or beef and potatoes for dinner, and a bowl of teaat 3:30 for “tea” which is tho last meal of the day. Besides this they are paid one penny per day forale and tobacco money, aud each also receives a quarter of & pouad of tobacco every three months. Thero are practically no resirictions upon these old wards of Chelsea. They go and come at will; and vunishments for infraction of always lenient discipline are confined to the wearing of a black cap for extraordinary revolt against good order, or a fow hours 1n the guardhouse for a pensioner taken red- handed in battle with John Barleycorn at the alo house. They are royal grumblers all. To ihem their clothing is “shoday,’” soup is “'swill,” cocoa and coffeo are *‘pizen,’” butter is “Thames skimmin's,”” and, in scornful intimation of the officers appropri- ating all the joints” of wmutton while leaving them but the ribs and briskets, they stoutly ussert that “BEvery sheep killed for Chelsea has nine breasties!” But I believe they are, on the whole, very comforiable and con- siderately troated, and fuily as well served and cared for as are the veterans of our own soldiers howes, How the Old Warriors Worship, The most interesting places in Chelsea hos- pital are the ward rooms, the kitchen when the noonday meal is nearly ready, the chapel and the gréat hall. In tho ward rooms I dis- coverad one chipper old follow who will be years ola in October. He is William Merrill, late ot the Thirty-first foot, is a native of Bedfordshire, enlisted 1o 1519, and has seen over forty years of actuul service. My com- panion said he was the “siyest rogue and joker in No. 10 ward.” Gay old William also has the record of countless flirtaMons over the avea railings of Coelsoa’s mansions. Carlyle cnased bimall the way back to the hospital one day for too vigorous badinage with the serving maids of the phllosopher's family in Cheyne row. Any Sunday forenoon you may see 800 or 400 of these grizzled peusioners at chupel. They are not very reverential, and are un- easy a3 children in the pews.” They snufilo their feet, gt into complications with their wooden 1688, canes aud crutches, and there is much snufing, clearing of throats ana hard asthmatic breathing. ~ But Herkomer's Rrout painting does notexageerate the pathos of their collective and individual aspect. 8o many of theso white heads and battlo scarred bent trames together look very pitiful indeed when all are bowed and still at time of prayer and bensdiction, The great hall is a spacious, lofty pancled room in which are famous frescoes ana paintings, many tattered battle flags, a raisea dais for the queen, s good library, many newspapers and periodicals, and fine benches aud tables where the peusiouers may cowme and fight their battles over at draughts and chess, Wellington lay in state here and Nell Gwynne 13 not forgotten. In one cor- ner of the huge partly allegorical fresco she 15 depicted 1n her first aud most honest vo- cation, a London orange girl. What interested me most in the great hall was o large glass case of medals, bundreds upon bundreds of them, stained and grimy, attached Lo varicolored ribbons—the magonia plain for good conduct, magenta and vellow stripes for heroes in Ching, rose red for special valor iu Turkey, the blue and yellow, stripes recalling the horrors of Crimen, und many others of whose significance I was ig- norant, 1 asked my cowmpsnion how so wany esme 1o be collectod here. “'Well,” he replied in s scared sort of a unged with o bravado that had pathos ou seo when ‘Little Jog' and Harey MeDuh (the old fifer and drummer of Chel- sen) heads u procession hore—thero's a hun- dred o' that sort & year—aud the old boy in the box that's booked for Brompton (the presont burying ground of Cnelses) 'aven't Kot no kin to clulm 'em, bis dac'rations all go in 'ere.” Evoan L. Wakemaxn, e e WORLD'S FALE NOTES, France intends to show Its skill iu land- scape gardening ot the World's fair, Fully 100,000 men. it is believed, will par- ticipate in the parade on the occasion of the dedivation of the bulldiags in October, A ‘model of the figure of Lot's wife n salt” will appesr i the Kansas Worid's fair exhibit Lo represent or illustrate the salt industry of the state, Califorais will exbioit] a two story house made entirely from u section of the trunk of one of Lthe big Lrees, OF s6qUOra gigantea, H. A. Taylor of the luterior department has se- | cured a treo tn Converse basin, Frosno | county, that will furalsh tho house. The section will be thirty feet high and twenty- throe feet in diamotor. is estimated by the leading railroads thoy will nood 40 por cont more trains and equipmeonts to_carry the oxpected tray- elers 1o and from the Columbian exposition. General Nolson A. Miles has bogun active preparations for the pomp and eircumstance of war which are to attend the dedioatory coremonies of tho World's fair in Octobor. Botwean 2,500 and 8,000 soidiers will partici- pate in the display. Provision has been made for holding in Chicago at_the time of the Worid's faira congress of youths of various nations, se- lected from high sohools and grammar schools. Delogates aro expected from Eng- land, Japan, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Spnin, Austris, ltaly, Russia and oviental countries. In what language will the proceedings be conducted ! The design for the souvenir 50 cent piecos, 5,000,000 of which will be minted Ly the government, has boon comploted, The ro verse will show the main building of the ex- position, and the obverse the head of Colum- bus. Tho plaster cast of Columbus was mado by A, S. J. Dunbar, soulptor, of Washing- ton, from a portrait which i3 recognized by exports as boing as nearly authentic as any that exists, and is believed to have been painted by Domenico Malipiero, a Venetian sonator and historian in 1501, Treso coins will undoubtedly command @ premium, and it is not imorobable they will not £,000,000, TI‘w Cbicago Post offers 812 for the first ono coined. e il g THE “HERALD'S” NEW BUILDING. Mr. Bennott's Newspaperto 1o Published from Uppor Brondway. The New York Herald first saw the light noarly sixty years ago in adingy Wall streot cellar. Iu a short time 1t will be issued from @ magniticont structure at Thirty-fifth street and Broadway. The new Herald building will cover un entire block, with unobstructed views from four different quarters, It will be a business building devotod exclusively to the use of the Herald. @That the site i§ ample is shown by theso dimensions: South front on Thirty-fifth street, 01 teet; west side, on Broadway, 212 feet; oast side, on Sixth uvenue, 193 foet; north side, on Thirty-sixth stroeet, 137 feot. The building wilt be decidedly palatial in appearance. Itsstyle wiil be puve renais- sance, the general plan being modeled upon the palaces of Verona, Padua and Venice, the special type most closely adhered to be- ing that of the palaces of the consuls at Verona. There will be deeply rocessed arcades on three sides behind columns of polished gran- ite. The rest of the fronts will consist of artificial stone, inlaia with marbles and riehly ornamented generally. The clock, bell and chimes in the clock tower of the Pizza San Maria in Venice will be repro- duced as nearly as possible, and will sur- mount the facade of the builaing facing the square. On either side of the clock will stand 1wo collossal figures representing typesetters with uplifted maces to strike the hours, the quarters and half hours, Statues of Minorva will surmount the cornice at and near the corners, Figures of owls will take the place of Min- ervas at all other points. Electric lights will be fixed in the eyes of the owls. The weneral system of lighting will bo so arranged as to show at night to full advantage the beauty of the building. The main entranco to the offices will be from the facade on Thirty-fiftth street, through the deeply recessed orch or arcade, into the counting-room, The coynting-room will be of large size and rich in marbles and metal work. In the basemant will be the en- boller-room goneral storage and roller rooms. ©The foundation of the press room will be gine-room, machine shop, and the solid rock of the basement. Tho pross room will extend to the second story. The prossos in position will bo in full view from the Broadway aide. The aroado of that sido will be of plate glass. Tho first or ground floor will contaln tho counting room, mall room, stercotype room and delivery room, besides the upper part of the press room. | | Tho seeond floor will bo renchiod by & grand staircase and oiovator, E'rom the large maln hall will open out the reception-room, the oftices and rooms of the proprietor, business manager, auditor and council. Tho rest of the second floor will contain the eity depart ment, the rooms of the oditors, the telegraph room and library. Tho top floor will be ocou- pled by the comnositors and art dopartmont. Tho building is designed to be fire proof. It will bo constructed of solid masonry and iron work. The hoight 1o tho eaves will ba 2 [eot and to the crown of tho pitched, tile ronf 54 feot, ——— BLASTS FROM RAM Jold prayers never bring warm blessings, Beware of tho man who apologizes for any kind of sin. Every man who does right is holping some bey to be good. It aoesn’t take very much monoy to make & good man rioh, The days are never long onough for the man who loves his work, Orlo secret of living long is to learn how to live one day at a time. There 18 now and then & man who ts afrad the devil is being slandered. There are people who stop praying the minute they put their hands on money, ‘The more sounding brasses there are In u church the less good 1t does to ring the bell. A man with a good backvone will win more battles than one who bas a bigger head. A man’s friends' never find out just how big a fool he can be until he gots up to his neck in politics, Asking her husband for a little money will sometimes tell a woman more about her husband’s religion than all the praywg she hears him do in chureh. g Telographers' Code, The bible sometimes makes a good tolegraph code. Thus, recently, the editor of the Christian Register, iinding it would be too late to send a letter of congratulation to the London Tnquiver in regard to its juvilee, sent a telogram by cublo as follows: “Third epistle of John, 18-14,” which, being interpreted, read us follows: *‘I had many things to write, but I will not with *ink and_ pen write unto thee; but I trust I shall shortly sec thee, and we shall speal face to face. Peace be to thee.. Our friends salute thee, Greet the friends by name.” ROKN. Largest stock of HUMAN HAIR east of Chieago. Guaranteed strictly first class, Mrs. R. H. Dauies, | 1118, 16TH. - - OPP. POSTOFFICE ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF. 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