Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 26, 1894, Page 10

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 1894, Mictakon Imprensions of the Farly and Later Explorers, Ffibfl BENTON TO THE NATIONAL PARK The Country Drained by the River Beyond the Head of Navigation—fts Real Source In Wonderland —The Falls and the Canyon. Since the time when Lewls and Clarke as- cended the Missouri river in a rowboat, oc- cupying the better part of the years 1801-2-3, equipped by the United States govermmnent for the purpose of exploring the country along and at the source of the Missourl river, the stream has become familiar as far as the head of navigation, Fort Denton Mont. Beyond that point it |s yet compara- tively unknown A correspondent of the New York Evening Post, writing from Helena, says the “‘great muddy” loses its pecullar characteristic features above Fort Benton, and the water bacomes as clear, cold and sparkling as a mountain trout stream. Flowing directly out from its mountain source, over a rock paved bed, but little of the sofl of the valleys is carried by the water in the form of sediment, except minute particles of sand which quickly finds its way to the bottom. At sharp bends of the river this sand has often found obstructions, so that during the ages of accumulation immense sandbars have been formed, nearly every one of which rich In flour gold of such cxtreme fineness that the pure yellow metal is susceptible of suspension fn clear water. For many years past these bars have been worked by nomadic miners, who have brought to bear the ac- quired placer mining knowledge of the past thirty yéars, but so far without astonishing success, the gold being so light and fine that it bas been found almost impossible to sa it in sufficient quantities to maks the work profitable. It can almost be said that on he banks of the upper Missourl one breathes an atmosphero laden with golden dust, and miners declare that respectable assays of the yellow metal may be obtained by gather- ing ‘the leaves from the trees along the banks of the stream. So fine is this gold however, that some 200,000 particles of it are required to make the value of a cent Some day, when scicnce shall have dis covered a method (o save this gold, a bounti- ful harvest may be the result THE THREE FORKS. Without reflecting on the work accom plished by Lowis and Clarke, under the Aif. fleulties which besct them at the time, it i & fact that it was fruitful of but little benefit to the United States in a mineralogical or sclentific sense. Geographically, they pub- lished the course of the river, discovered the great falls of the stream and followed the river to its source, where the Jefferson, Madi- son and Gallatin unite, at what is now known as the town of Three Forks. They also kept correct and profuse data concerning the size and quality of mosquitoes they ercoun- sered, which seemed to be then, as now, glentiful and ferocious. Ascending the Missouri from Fort Benton, the river flows for about 100 miles throngh extensive plains, often broken into rough high table lands a short distance back from the stream. These plains were once the favorite feeding grounds for countless nun bers-of the big game of America, including the buffalo and the elk. Before leaving the mal tange of the Rocky mountains, whose outlines form the background for a series of nature's most beautiful pictures, the river Blunges over a series of falls, three in num- ber, any one of which is second only In im- portance to Niaga For twenly miles or more at this point the upper Missouri pluiges down, 4. serles of rocky stairs to the plains be- low, Jashing itself into foam, boiling, surg- ing and plunging, forming a series of very beautiful rapids. The lower of the falls of the Missou known as the “Great Falls,” is a perpen- dicular fall of about ninety feet. The river at this polut Is estimated to contain a vol- ume of water about thrre times greater than that of the Ohio at Pitsburg. This i mense volume is here confined boween roeky walls on either side from 200 to 500 feet in height, and about 300 yards in width, Next to the Tight bank nearly halt the stream de scends vertically, with such terrific force as tn send continuous and always beautiful clouds of spray sometimes 200 feet or more in the air. Thess gorgeous columns are often dfssolved into a thousand fantastic shapes, bent down and up by whirling m es of snow-white foam, the whole under searching shafts of golden sunlight, being enhanced to beauty impossible to word-picture. The othor side of the river Is precipitated over successive ledges of from ten to twenty Feet, forming a magnificent view, some 200 yards In breadth and ninety feet in perpen- Qicular elevation. A vast basin of surging foaming waters succced below, their deep green color and commotion betraying a prodigious volume and depth. FALLS AND CANON. Some six miles above are the “Rainbow Falls,” fifty feet in perpendicular descent Tho entire river, here 1,200 feet wide, hurls itself over an unbroken rocky rim, as regu- r dn its outline as a work of art, into a vast. rock-bound amphitheaier, where the roar and commotion of the water make a faselnating scene. Apother four miles up stream and the roar 0° the “Black Eagle Falls" is heard. Here the entire river takes a vertical plunge of twenty-six feet. In midstream is a little rooky island upon which an antiquated Rocky mountain eagle, long since a subject of pa- triotic history, is spending the remaining days of a ripe old age in an eternal Fourth of July. The river, where thes: falls are located, flows through a grand natural canon, not so long, so deep or o picturesque as that of the Grand Canon of the Colorado, but the volume of water Is far greater and the sur- rounding plains susceptible of a higher state of cultivation, girt about with buge snow- crowned wountain ranges, down whose sides flow little arteries which form the life blood of the ranchse, fed by melting snows oft u above timber line. The river in its cease- less flow has cut a path for itself through the rock of the plains, sometimes to a dopth of 560 feet, and the serles of falls adl a wild beauty to the scene. The river here flows directly morth uutil fn the vieinity of Fort Assinaboine, it reaches its northernmost limlt a few miles from the British possessions, where it turns east and southeast. South of the Great Falls, some sixty or seventy miles, the stream bursts through its Rocky mountain barrier, at once freeing Itself from the mountains, gliding out into the sunlight of the plafns, a condition which steadily prevalls uatil it finally jolns the Miisissippl. GATE OF THE MOUNTAINS. From the falls south are the proper head- waters of the Missourl. The point where the river bursts through the mountains is known as the “Gate of the Mountains,” a spot which, for beauty and grandeur of scenery, Is unsurpassed in the United States. The entire volume of the river Is here for a distance of about five miles conflued to an average width of less than 300 feet, the mountain walls on either side rising perpen dicularly for much of the distance ore than 1,000 feet, and in one or two lustances leaning far out over the channel. The stream, generally so swift, is bere as placid as the surface of a sheltered (nland lake making a polished mirror for the heights, &nd for the graceful pines which spring from every crevice. The water is clear and cold, warming with fish, and is from ten to wenty feet deep throughout the eutire canon. The graylsh granite walls are turreted and led tn 3 striking manver, rising sn abave their water-washed foundations, with only a dainty strip of heavew's blw visible. Occaslonally & glgantic necdle rears itsolf, through the pierced eyelet of “which the blue sky cun b2 seen, forming o Bettiug of rarest turquolse. The echaes of the canon make the voice sound sepulehra) and the discharge of rifie almost deafen- Mg Large springs oceasionally leap from the rocks und mingle with those of the wiver. An cccasional alcove, where a few . 1 bunches of willow have ascant old, and shade the stream, help tomo %he plelure to rarest beauty. = For three mllen there s scarcely & foothold at the edge for man or beast. The few natural fissures which do break these most solid walls ars piled with huge broken pillars, angular rocks and gigantie slabs of granite, hurled by the fury of the elements through countless ages, forming natural bridges 1rvm brink to brink. Ducks and geeso are plenyful along the shaded re- treat, and the few coves which gave vegeta- tion 'a foothold abound in lusclous wild strawberries, raspberries, service-berries and currants No description of this portion of the upper Missouri fs complete without reference to that now famous northern landmark, the “Deartooth.” This huge pillar of rock, which pushes itself heavenward to a helght of 2,600 feet above the river, looks like the tooth of a beas and Is plainly visible from Hel:na, o distance of twenty-five miles. Deep serrations in the gigantic mass of rock composing it rise from base to summit, fore- telling some trmendous slides in the near future. Indeed, only a short fiine ago a section of the “‘tooth” welghing thonsands of tons became detached, and thundred down the almost perpendicular height, through the dense forest which surrounds Its base, cutting a broad roddway. This is liable to be repeated as foon as the frosts of winter lave suffictently hfted anl 1oos:nad the masses of rock whiea alrealy seem to be but feebly attached to this landmiark. THE ACTUAL SOURCE, Ascending the river from the “Gate of the Mountains,” we leave the city of Helena, the capital and commercial metropolls of Mont a, nestled twelve miles away to the west, close up in the shadow of the “national Kbon It is at about this point that the great golden gulches, coming down to the river from the surrounding mountains, begin to make their appearance, from whose gravelly beds milllons of dollars in gold have been secured. All along the river for miles as one ascends are numerous sandbars, every- one of which is rich with powdered gold. At Townsend, where the Northern Pacific crosses the river for the last time, and at Toston, a few further up the stream, spasmodic efforts have been made and con- siderable money expended trying to save the deposits, but without “Gate of the Mountains” to the source of the river at Three Forks the stream flows over a pebbly bed, and the water fs clear and cold. Three Forks is the mountain home of the Missouri, so caile ause it is here that the Gallatin, Jefferson and Madi- son rivers unite to form the stream, which thus starts on its long journey to the gulf Bach of these streams r of itself. The actval headwatsr of tho Missouri, or whiet showid be known as such hal it been intellipently named, is DaLacy's or Shosbeno lake, in the National park. This lake, a considerable body of water, is the source of the Madison river, and forms with th river the drainage outlet for most of the waters of that portion of the National park The Gallatin, or left source of the Missourl, is formed by two stream: the East and West Gallatin, which unite about a mile above its junction with the Missouri. The M json and the Gallatn are both somewhat smaller than the Jefferson. Had Lewis and Clarke ascended the Madison instead of the Jefferson, which, belng the larger stream, they naturally mistook for the continuation of the Missouri, they would have discovered the famous geysers in Firchole Basin, Sho- shone lake, and all the country which is now incorporated within the limits of the National park. The Big Hole and the Beaverhead rivers flow into the Jefferson at Twin Bridges, a few miles from the con- fluence of the Jefferson with the Missouri, so that In reality there are six considerable rivers, all joining ome another within a radius of a few miles, which unite to form the longest river in the world, measured from the gulf to the heart of the Rocky mountains sy ND DRAMATIC. Dvorak has been engaged to assist as con- ductor in the Eisteddfod at Cardiff, Wales, in 1895, Last year was extremely disastrous to the opera_houses of Italy, largely owing, it is stated, to the scarcity of properly trained singers. No fewer than tnirty-six theaters had to be closed for lack of support. Provincial Russia has 127 theaters, employ- ing 6,500 persons. The average receipt of each theater is 25,000 rubles. Of thesa the- aters six were devoted to opera,, twenty-four to operetta and ninety-seven to the drami The Bostonians will begin reliearsals for thelr season early in September. They are staging two or more new operas, and Jessie Bartlett Davis, who is to remain their prima donna contralto, has started for New York tp rehearse the new roles assigned to her. Jennle Yeamans, it 1s reported, Is suffering from nervous prostration and has been or- dered by her physician to take a long rest. She will, therefore, not open her season in September as she intended, but hopes to be able to begin her tour by the middle of the season. John L. Stoddard, who Is now located at Baden Baden, writes enthuslastically of his new lectures, which he s now perfecting from notes of travel to various places on the continent. He Las also made some valuable finds in the way of photographs for illustra- tion. He will return in September. Robert Mantell, who will again be man- aged by Augustus Pitou, begins his next star- ring tour September 3, in Salem, Mass. His reportory at the commencement of the season will include “Monbars,” “The Corsican Brothers,” *Othello, “Hamlet” and “Parr- hasius.” Later a new play will be produced. Dvorak's American symphony, m the New World," which was given a first contl- nental performance in Carlsbad by Lobitzky's estra the latter part of July, was re- ved with unusual enthusiasm by an inter- national audlence. The slow movement was redemanded. Paderewskl begins his Amerlcan season in New York December 27, and will play his Polish Fantasie for piuno and orchestra for the first time in the United States. He will then leave for San Francisco and othor western cities and not appear in New York again till the end of March. Nothinz vexes Verdi more than for his vocalists to stop to bow and curtsey when applauded. They should be deaf to all ap- plause, unless that which follows the fall of the curtain. He looks on the applause that follows *‘points stupld and impertinent, and as betraying a want of musical’ educa- tion. Wagner was of the same mind, In the New York supreme court Justice Barnett made a decree ordering Actor J. K. Emmet to pay his wife, Daisy May Emmet, alimony at the rate of $200 a month during the pendency of her suit against him for ab- solute divorce and a counsel fee for $250. The co-respondent is Emily Lytton, the lead- ing woman of the aclor’s company. M. Tolstol has written an operatic libretto with a moral, the title being ““The Distiller,” and the object belug to cure the Russian peasant of his fondness for ardent spirits istilled from grain. Mme. Sterova set the work to music, but the cxperiment does not appear to have been successtul, probably be- cause the Russian peasantry, to whom the story matnly appealed, do not go to the opera e Marvelons Tr: formation. Milwaukee Sentinel. The relative sizes of President Cleveland and Senator Arthur P man were lke this when the pr Jetter to Congressman Wilson was e house: Rl Cleveland: O Gorman: o But since the vote of the house demo- caucus, deciding by 130 to 21 to re- 1 the opposition to the senate bill, has been a shrinkage in the appar- ent diensions of the president, while Gor- man's size has considerably swelled. Like this Cleveland: ° Gorman: O —_——— unt Onoe. A pewspaper funny man has invented not an abaolutely fresh, bub a comparatively new joke upon a very old subject. Miss Tumid was talking about ber own nervousness, and her various night alaria “Did you ever find A man under your bed, Mrs Bluft?" sho asked. “Yes," sald that worthy woman, *“The nigit we thought there were burglars in the house I found my husband there.” b b o b, Cool’s Imperial. World's fair “highest award, excellent champagne; good eferves- cence, ugreeable bouquet, delicious Savor. SOMB ANCESTRAL REFLECTIONS. Tom Masson in Lite. My ancestors were goodly men, And stout of limb and muscle, They bore the palm of victory, In many a warlike tussle. Bome sailed along the Spanish main, Some worked at blacksmith's bellows, And some wrote poems to their king, But they were all good fellows. Honest and worthy men were they, Some rough and others polished, Alas! that such good work as theirs By time should be demolished. I've read their llves and blush to find S0 much true worth revealing, And yet for them 1 must admit, I have no kindly feeling. T hate them with a deadly hate, These honest men of merit, 'Tis not for what they've given me, But what I don't inherit. It's thelr own fault. My thou Might be as sweet as honey, If they had but bequeathed {o me The ‘art of making mon ————— A SOCIAL DEAL ON 'CHANGE. BY ROBERT BARR. (Copyrighted, 1594, by the Author.) It was in the days when drawing rooms wers dark and filled with bric-a-brac, The darkness enabled the half blinded vis- Itor, coming In out of the bright light, to knock over gracefully u $200 vase that had come from Japan to meet disaster in New York. In a corner of the room was seated, in a deep and luxurious armchair, a most beautl- ful woman. She was the wite of the son of the richest man in America; she was young; her husband was devotedly fond of her; she was mistress of a palace; anything that money could buy was hers did she but ex- press the wish; but she was weeping softly and had just made up her mind that she was the most miserable creature in all the land. It a stranger had entered the room he would first have been impressed by the fact that he was locking at the prettiest woman he had ever seen; then he would have been haunted by the idea that he had met her somewhere before. It he were a man moving in artistic circles he might perhaps remem- ber that he had seen her face looking down at him from various canvases in picture ex- hibitions; and unless he were a stranger to the gossip of the country he could hardly help recollecting the dreadful fuss the papers made, as If it were any business cf theirs, when young Hd Druce married the artists’ model ‘celebrated for her loveliness. Every one has read the story of that mar- riage; goodness knows the papers made the most of it, as Is their custom. Young Bd, who knew much more of the world than did his father, expected stern opposition, and, in knowing the unlimited power unlimited wealth gave to the old man, he did not risk an interview with his parent, but eloped with the girl. The first inkling old man Druce had of the affair was from a vivid, sensa- tional account of the runaway in an evening paper. He was pictured in the paper as an implacable father, who was at that moment searching for the elopers with a shotgun. Old Druce had been too often the central figure of a Jjournalistic sensation to mind what the sheet sald. He promptly tele- graphed all over the country, and, getting into communication with his son, asked him (electrically) as a favor to bring his young wife home and not make a fool of himself. So the truant pair, much relieved, came back to New York. 0id Druce was a taciturn man, even Wwith his only son. He wondered at first that the boy should have so misjudged him as to suppose he would raise 8bjections, no mat- ter whom the lad wished to marry. He was bew.ldered rather than enlightened when Ed told him he feared opposition because the girl was poor. What difference on earth did that make? Had he not money emough for all of them? If not, was there any trouble in adding to their store? Were there not railroads to be wrecked; stockholders to be flecced; Wall street lambs to be shorn? Surely a man married to please himself and not to make money. Ed assured the old man_ that cases had been known where a suspleton of mercenary motives had hovered around a matrimonial alliance, but Druce expressed the utmost contempt for such a state of things. At first Ella had been rather afraid of her silent father-in-law, whose very name made hundreds tremble and thousands curse, but she soon discovered that the old man actu- ally stood in awe of her, and that his appar- ent brusqueness was the mere awkwardness he felt when in her presence. He was anx- fous to please her and worried himself won- dering whether there was anything she wanted. One day he fumblingly dropped a check for $1,000,000 In her lap, and, with some nervous confusion, asked her to run out, like a good girl, and buy herself something; if that wasn’t enough she was to call on him for more. The girl sprang from the chair and threw her arms around his neck, much to the old man's embarrassment, who was not accustomed to such a situation. She kissed him in spite of himself, allowing the check to flutter to the floor, the most valuable bit of paper floating around loose in America that day. When he reached his office he surprised his son. He shook his flst in the young fellow’s Zace and sald sternly: “If you ever say a eross word to that lit- tle girl, I'l do what I've never done yet, ['ll thrash you!" The young man laughed. “All right, father. I'll deserve a thrash- ing in that case.” The 0ld man became almost genial when- ever he thought of his pretty daughter-in- law. “My little girl,” he always called her. At ‘first, Wall street men said old Druce was getting into his dotage, but when a alp came in the market and they found that, as usual, the old man was on the right side of the fence, they were compelled reluct- antly to admit, with emptier pockets, that the dotage had not yet interfered with the financial corner of old Druce's mind. As young Mrs. Druce sat disconsolately in her drawing room the curtains parted gently and her father-in-law entered stealthily, as if he were a thief, which indeed he was, and the very greatest of them. Druce had small, shifty, pierciog eyes that peered out from under’ his gray, bushy eyebrows like two steel sparks. He never seemed to be looking directly at any one, and his eyes somehow gave you the idea that they were trying to glance back over his shoulders, as if he feared pursuit. Some sald that old Druce was In constant terror of assassination, while others held that he knew the devil was on his track and would ultimately nab him. “I pity the devil when that day come: young Snced said once when some one had made the usual remark about Druce. This echoed the general feeling prevalent in Wall street regarding the encounter that was ad- mitted by all to be inevitable. The old man stopped in the middle of the room when he noticed that his daughter-in- law was crying. “Dear, dear!” he sald, “what is the mat- ter? Has Edward been saying anything cross to you? “No, papa,” ts of them answered the gl “No- body could be kinder .~ me than Ed is. There Is nothing really the matter.” Then to put the truth of her statement beyond all question, she began to cry afresh. The oid man sat down beside her, taking one hand n his own. “Moncy?’ he asked in an eager whisper that seemed to say he saw a solution of the difficulty if it were financial “Oh, dear, no. I have all the money, and more, than any one ean wish.’ The old man's countenance fell. If money would not remedy the state of things then be was out of his depth. “Won't you tell me fhe trouble? Perhaps 1 can suggest—"" “It's nothing yo can help in, nothing mueh, any way. The Misses Sneed won't call on me, that's all. The }d man knit his brows and thought- fully seratched his ebin. Won't call?* he echoed helplessly. They think I'm not good enough to sssoclate with them, I suppose. Tho bushy eyebrows came down until they almost cbscured his eyes, and & dangerous light acemed to scintiilate out from under themr. “You must be mistaken. Good gracious, I am worth ten times what cld Sneed is. go:d enough? Why, my name on a is- ¥ fsn't o question of ehecks, papa’ walled the giri; “it's 8 question of soeiety, I was a painter’s model before I married Ed, and, no matter how rieh I am, society won't have anything to do With me. The old man absent-mindedly rubbed his chin, which was a j"’ he had when per- plexed. He was facd,td face with a problem entirely outside his Yfovince. Suddenly a Rappy, thought strudk Him. ““Those Sneed women!' he sald in tones of great contempt, “whA{Udo (uey amount to, anyhow? They're®’nothing but sour old malds. They neveriwere half so pretty as you. Why should ¥ou ‘care whether they called on you or not?! “They represent soclety. others would. s B “Dut_soolety can’t. haye anything against you. Nchody has cyer sald a word against your character, model or. no model. The girl shook her. head hopelessly. “Character does not count in soclety.” In this statement she, was, of course, abe surdly wrong, but she felt bitter at all the world. Those who know society are well aware that character counts for everything within its sacred precincts. So the unjust remark should ot be set down to the di eredit of an Inexperienced girl. ‘Il tell you what I'll do cried the old man, brightening up, “I'll speak to Gen- eral Sneed tomorrow. I'll arrange the whole business in five minutes.” Jo you think that would do any good?” asked young Mrs. Druce, dubiously. “Good? You bet it'll 'do good. It will settle the whole thing. I've helped Sneed out of a pinch before now, and he'll fix up a little matter like that for me in no time, I'll just have & quiet talk with the general tomorrow, and you'll see the Sneed car- riage at the door next day at the very Intest.” He patted her smooth, white hand affectionately. *So don't you trouble, little girl, about trifles, and whenever you want help you just tell the old man. He kyows a thing or two yet, whether it is on Wall street or Fifth avenue, Sneed was known fn New York as the Gen- eral, probably because he had absolutely no military experience whatever. Next to Druce ho had the most power In the financial world of America, but there was a great distance between the first and the second. It it came to a deal In which the gemeral and all the world stood against Druce, the ayerage Wall strcet man would bet on Druce against the whole combination. Be- sides this, the general had the reputation of being a “‘square” man, and that naturally told against him, for every one knew that Druce was utterly unscrupu- lous. But If Druce and Sneed were known to be together in a deal, then the financial world of New York ran for shelter. Therefore, when New York saw old Druce come in with the stealthy tread of a two-legged leopard and glance furtively around the great room, singling out Sneed with an almost imper- ceptible side nod, retiring with him into a remote corner where more ruin had been con- cocted than on any other spot on earth, and talking there eagerly with him, a hugh fell on the vast assemblage of men, and for the moment the financial heart of the nation ceased to beat. When they saw Sneed take out his note book, nodding assent to what- ever proposition Druce was making, a cold shiver communicated itself to the electric nerve web of the world, and storm signals began to fly in the monetary centers of Lon- don, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna. Uncertainty paralyzed the markets of the earth, because two old men were holding a whispered conversation with a multitude of men watching them out of the corners of their eyes, “I'd give half a million to know what tloso two old flends are concocting,” eaid John P. Buller, the great wheat operator, and he meant 1t; which goes to show that a man does not really know what he wants, and would be very dissatisfied if he got It. “Look here, general,” gaid Druce, “I want you to do me a favor.” s “All right,” replied tha general, “I'm with you.! t's about my dittle girl,” continued Druce, rubbing his: chin, not knowing just how to explain matters in the cold financlal atmosphere of the place in which they found themselves. Oh! About looking puzzled. ““Yes. She's fretting her heart out because your two girls won't call upon hej 1 found her crying about: it yesterday after- It they came, Ed's wife,” sald Sneed, Won't call?” cried the general, a be- wildered look coming over his face. “Haven't they called yet? = You see T don't bother much about that sort of thing. cither do 1. Ng, they haven't called, T don’t suppose they mean anything by it, but my little girl thinks they do, so I said 1 would speak to you about it.” “Well, 'm glad you did. I'll see to that the moment I get home. What time shall I tell them to call?” The innocent old man, little comprehending what he was promising, pulled out his note book and pencil, looking inquiringly at Druce. “Oh, I don't know,. convenient for them. I suppose women know all about that. My little girl is at home most all afternoon, ¥ guess.” The two men cordially shook hands, and the market instantly collapsed. It took three days for the financial situa- tion to recover its tone. Druce had not been visible, and that was all the more ominous. The older operators did not relax their caution, because the blow had not yet fallen. They shook thelr heads and said the cyclone would be all the worse when it came. 0ld Druce came among them the third day, and thero was a set look about his lips, which students of his countenance did not like. The situation was complicated by the evident fact that the general was trying to avold him. At last, however, this was no longer possible, the two men met, and after a word or two they walked up and dcwn together. Druce appeared to be saying little, and the firm set of his lips did not relax, while the general talked rapidly and was scemingly making some appeal that was not responded to. Stocks instantly went up a few points. “You see, Druce, 1t's like this,” the gen- eral was saying: “The women have thelr world and we have ours. They are, in a measure—"" “Are they going to call?”" asked Druce, curtly. “Just let me finish what I was about to say, Women have their rules of conduct, and we have—'" “Are they going to call?” repeated Druce in the same hard tone of voice, The general removed his hat and drew his handkerchiet across his brow and over the bald spot on his head. He wished him- selt in any place but where he was, inwardly cursing womankind and all their silly doings. Bracing up, after removing the moisture from his forehead, he took on an expostu- latory tome. “‘See here, Druce, hatig it all, don’t shove a man into a corner. Suppose I asked you to g0 to Mrs. EQ and tell her not to fret about trifies, Ao you suppose she wouldn't, just because you wanted her not to? Come now!" Druce’s silence encouraged the general to take it for assent. “Very well, then. You're a bigger man than 1 am, and it you could do nothing with one young woman anxious to please you, what do you expect mel to do with two old maids as set in their ways as the Palisades. It's all dumb nonsense, anyhow. Druce remained silent. After an irksome pause the hapless ganeral floundered on. “As I sald at frs'. women have their world and we have ours.. Now, Druce, you're a man of solid comnwon .sense. What would you think i Mrs. Ed were to come here and insist on your buying Wabash stock when you wanted to load up with Lake Shore? Look how absurd that would be. Very well, then; we have no more right to luterfere with the women than they have to Intefere with us.” 1 “If my lttle girl- wanted the whole Wa- bash system, 1'd buy it for her tomorrow,” said Druce with rising anger. “My! What a sltmp # would make in the market!” cried the (gemeral, his feeling of discomfort being momentarily overcome by the magnificence of Druce's suggestion.How- ever, all this doesnit need to make any dif- ference in our friendship. If I can be of any assistance financially, 1 shall only be too—" Oh, 1 need your financial assistance!” sntered Druce. He took his defeat badly. However, in a moment or two he pulled him- selt together and scemed to shake off the trouble, “What nonsense T am t:Wing,” he said when he had obtained contidl of himself 'We all need assstance now and then, and none of ws know when we may mneed it badiy. In faet, there is a little deal I in- tended to speak to you about todey, but this confounded business drove it out of my mind. How much gflt edged security have you in your safe? “About theee millions worth,” replied the general, brightening up, now that they weee off the thin ice. “That will be enough for me it wa can make a dicker. Suppose we adjourn to your office, This .8 too public & place for a talk.” They went out together. “So there is no ill feeling?” sald the gen- Any time that is DR. BAILEY'S DENTAL PARLORS eral, as Druce arose to go, with the secur- ities in his handbag. “No. But we'll stick strictly to business after this and leave social questions alone By the way, to show that there is no fll feeling, will you come with me for a blow on the sea? Suppose we say Friday. 1 have just telegraphed for my yacht, and she will leave Newport tonight. I'll have some good champagne on board.” “I thought sailors an unlucky day!" “My saflors don’t. Will 8 o'clock be too early for you? Twenty-third street whart." The general hesitated. Druce was wonder- tully friendly all of a sudden, and he knew enough of him to be just a trifle suspicious But when he recollected that Druce him- sell was going, he said: “Where could a telegram reach us If it were necessary to telegraph? The market is a trifie shaky, and I don't like being out of town all day.” “The fact that we are both on the yacht will steady the market. But we can.drop In at Long Branch and receive dispatches if you think it necessary. “All right,” said the general, much re- lieved. “I'll'meet you at Twenty-third street at 8§ o'clock Friday morning, then.” Druce's yacht, the Seahound, was a magnif- feent steamer aimost as large as an Atlantic lirer. It was currently belleved in New York that Druce kept her for the sole purpose of being able to escape in her, should an ex- asperated country ever rise In ics might and demand his blood. It was rumored that the Seahound was ballasted with bars of solid gold and provisioned for & two years' cruise. Mr. Buller, however, claimed that the tend- ency of nature was to revert to original conditions, and that some fine morning Druce would hoist the black flag, sail away and become a real pirate. The great speculator, in a very nautical suit, was walting for the general when he drove up, and the moment he came aboard lines were cast off and the Seahound steamed slowly down the bay. The morning was rather thick, so they were obliged to move cautiously, and before they reached the bar the fog came down so densely that they had to stop, while bell rang and whistie blew. They were held there until it was nearly 11 o'clock, but time passed quickly, for there were all the morning papers to read, neither of the men having had an opportunity to look at them before leaving the city. — As the fog cleared away and the engincs began to move, the captain sent down and asked Mr. Druce if he would come on deck for a moment. The captain was a shrewd man and understood his employer. “There's @ tug_making for us, sir, signal- ing us to stop. Shall we stop?” Old Bruce rubbed his chin thoughtfully, and looked over the stern of the yacht. He saw a tug, with a banner of black smoke, tearing after them, heaping up a ridge of white foam ahead of her. Some flags flut- tered from the single mast in front, and she shattered the air with short, hoarse shrieks of the whistle. “Can she overtake us?" The captain smiled. *“Nothing in the ha: bor can overtake us, sir.’ “very well. Full steam ahead. Don’t an- swer the signals. You did not happen to see them, you know.” “Quite so, sir,” replied the captain, going forward. Although the motion of the Seahound's en- gines, coull hardly be felt, the tug, in spite of all her efforts, did not seem to be gaining. When the yacht put on her speed the little steamer gradually fell further and further behind and at last gave up the hopeless chase. When well out at sea something went wrong with the engines, and there was a second delay of some hours. A stop at Long Branch was therefore out of the question. “I told you Friday was an unlucky day,” said the general. It was 8 o'clock that evening before the Seahound stood oft from the Twenty-third street whart. “I'Il have to put you ashore in a small boat,” said Druce; “you won't mind that, I hope. The captain is so uncertain about the engines that he doesn't want to go nearer shore."” “On, don't mind that in the least. night. I've had a lovely day.” m glad you enjoyed it. We wiil take another trip together some time, when T hope o many things won't happen as hap- pened today.” The general saw that his carriage was waiting for him, but the waning light did not permit him to recognize his son until he was up on dry land once more. The look on his son's face appalled the old man. “My God! John, what has happened?” «“Everything's happened. Where are the securities that were in the safe?” “Oh, they're all right,” said his father, a feeling of rellef coming over him. Then the thought flashed through his mind: How aid John know they were not in the safe? Sneed kept a tight rein on his affairs and no one but himself knew the combination that would open the safe. ““How did you know the securities were not there “Because T had the safe blown open at 1 o'clock today.” “Blown open! For heaven's sake, why?" “Step into the carriage and I'll tell you on th® way home. The bottom dropped out of everything. All the Sneed stocks went down with a run. We sent a tug after you, but that old devil had you tight. If I could have got at the bonds I think I could have stopped the run. The situation might have been sayed up to 1 o'clock, but after that, when the Street saw we were doing nothing, all creation couldn't have stopped it. Where are the bonds?’ 1 sold them to Druce.” What did you get? Cash?” “I took his check on the Trust National bank.” “Did you cash it? cried the young man. is the money?” “Druce asked me as a favor not o present the check until tomerrow.” The young man made a gesture of despair. “The Trust National went to smash today at 2. We are paupers, father; we haven't a cent left out of the wreck. That check business is so evidently a fraud that—but what's the use of talking. Old Druce has the money and he can buy all the law he wants in New York. Oh! I'd lik> to have a seven seconds' interview with him with a loaded seven-shooter in my hand! We'd see how much the law: would do for him the General b Imagined Friday was Good DId you cash it?" And It 'you did, where Sneed despondently shook his John,” he said. “‘We're in the same business ourselves, oniy this time we got the hot end of the poker. But he played it low down on me, pretending to ba friendly all that.” 'The two wen did not speak agatn until the carrlage drew up at the brown stone mansion, which earlier in the day Sneed would have called his own. Sixteen reporters were wailing for them, but the old man succeeded in escapiug to his room, leaving John to baitle with the news- paper men. Next morning the papers were full of the news of the panic. They sald that old Druce had gone in his yacht for a trip up the New England coast. They deducted from this fact that, after all, Druce might not have had a hand in the disaster; everything was always blamed on Druce. Still, it was admitted that whocver suffered, the Druce wtocks wers all right. They were quite unanimousty “rank fu saying that the Sneeds were wiped out, whatever that might mean. The general had refused himself to all the no_use, Third Floor Paxton Block, (61h and Farnam. Lady Attendant. rance 16th Street Side. Telephone 1085, German Spoken. Teeth Without Plates—Fixed and Removable Bridges. Gold and Porcolain Crowns. Gold and porcelain bridge teeth, 22k, #6.00 per tootlr Removable bridg £6.00 to $8.00. Gold erow , $6.00 to $20.00 per sot. Porcelain erowns, $5.00, Gold fillings, $2.00 and up. Allo; silver and coment fillings, $1.00, A full set on rubber, $5.00, Painless extraction, doe. Reliable Work Always and a guarantee on every piece of work. BAILEY, Reliable Dentist. reporters, while young Snced scemed to be | able to do nothing but swear, | Shortly before noon General Sneed, who { had not left the house, received a letter { brought by a messenger. He feverishly tore it open, for he recog- nized on the envelope the well known scrawl of the great speculator. Dear Snced (it ram): You will see by tho papers that 1 am off on a cruise, but the are as wrong as they usually are when they speak of me. I learn there was a bit of a flutter in the ‘market while we were away yesterday, and I am glad to say that my brokers, who are sharp men, did me a good turn or two. I often wonder why these furries come, but 1 suppose it is to let a man pick up some sound stocks at a reason- able rate, if he has the money by him. Per- haps they are also sent to teach humility to those who might else become purse-proud. We are but finite creatures, Sneed, here today and gone tomorrow. How foolish a thing is pride! And that reminds me that if your two daughters should happen to think as I do on the uncertainty of riches, I wish you would ask them fo call. I have | done up those securities in a sealed package | and given the parcel to my daughter-in-law. She has no Idea what the value of it is, but thinks it a little present from me to your girls. If, then, they should happen to ‘call, she will hand it to them; if not, 1 shall use the contents to found a college for the pur- pose of teaching manners to young women whose grandfather used to feed pigs for a living, as indeed my own grandfather did. Should the ladies happen to like each other, I think I can put you on to a deal next week that will make up for Friday. I like you, Sneed, but you have no head for business. Seek my advice oftener. Ever yours, DRUCE, The Sneed girls called on Mrs. Edward Druce. MEN OF THE MOMENT. It has been announced with considerable flourish, in some of the eastern papers at least—possibly the trumpet sound has not been so loud in Ohlo—that Senator Sherman would certainly retire at the close of his present term. It has been represented that he will then have served thirty-four years in the senate and will have beaten the record of the great Benton. The story has seemed to have halt an air of authority, but a cor- respondent of the New Yok Telegram sug- gests to any ambitious Buckeye republicans, who hope to suceeed Mr. Sherman five years hence, that they had better go a little slow. The old gentleman Is young yet; he loves politics, and he has never yet been known to let go. Moreover, those who have had an intimate knowledge of Ohio politics within the last two years, recall that it was ex- pected that this same Mr. Sherman would retire then, or within a year or so at least. But he was re-elected and he did not and would not resign. He lives here happily, though, as who should not, if a senator with a million can- | not. His new white stone house in Franklin Square is sald to have cost a million; prob- ably it did cost a_ hundred thousand. ' 1t is very beautiful and the senator and his wife and an adopted daughter live there. The million or more that John Sherman has made he has made in Washington real estato chiefly. Possibly anybody sufficiently thrifty could have made as much—if he had had Sherman’s opportunities. He has given up being president; given it up forever, [ think. = He used to say when everybody howled for Blaine in 1892, that it was an idiotic thing, as the secrefary of state was then losing his mind; was a hopeless para- Iytio, In fact, who could hardly live to be elected, much more to serve his term. And Senator Sherman used to say then that he himself had received hs warning that he must husband the physical and mental re- sources of his old age. Yet his step is spry and his tongue, too, for when he does talk in the senate, his knowledge, no matter what the subject, seems to be superior to that of any acknowledged authority upon the floor. Russell Sage can at shortest notice lay his hands on more money than any other man in_the world, They say in the street, according to the New York World, that he keeps $10,000,000 in gold locked in the vaults of the Mercantile Trust company. Here is a man 77 years old, whose life has been ome long battle for money. He has won the fight. Being worth $40,000,000 he is worth studying. He is tall, thin, but not wasted. His body is that of a man who has grown old without_excesses. His shoulders are stooped, as becomes one who carries $40,000,000 on his back. His forehead is not the bulging dome of 80 many successful Americans. It slopes backwards and gets narrower toward the top. The money-making Instinct belng there, there is no room for vices and weak- nesses. His face s not a strong ome. In years gone by it may have been stern—or it may not, It was covered with a beard. Now, smooth-ghaven, it is a face that would at- tract a really accomplished bunco steerer. A farmer’s face with healthy, brown com- plexion. An expression half cunning, half trustful, His hair is mouse-colored. His eyes are sharp and bright. They lle in a nest of a million little wrinkles. Some- times he winks one eye to emphasize what he_says. Winking is Mr. Sage's only dissipation, When he dissipates he gives his whole mind to it He drops his eyelid with great de- liberation, sending it down with the strength of every muscle in his body. His wink says, plain as words, Russell Sage, am winking. Am I not real devilish? His nose Is a good, strong nose. But it does not overshadow its fellow features. His cheek bones are high Iike an Indian's. He has a quear way of working the muscles %of his cheeks. He draws down his chin and the muscles of the lower part of his face and, at the same time, lifts the muscles fas- tened to his cheek bones. No other living man can do it. Mr. Dana was managing editor and I a corr-spondent of & metropolitan Jjournal, writes Jo Howard. Abraham Lineoln had signed a proclamation, the first call for troops durfog the war. I think it was in April, 1861. Then I was in Washington at the time, and being Impressed in my Iittle journalistic heart with the importance of the occasion I ventured, as an introduction to the literal proclamation phrase, upon & quotation from a favorite hymn in our fam- ily eircle, worded thus: We are Hving, we are dwelling in a grand and awful time, In an age on ages telling, to be living is sublime, “What, then, must it be to be a factor in the affairs of nations, sueh as Abraham Lin- coln, president of the United States, who to night has affixed lis signature to the procla mation?* And then followed the Lincoln document. Two days afterwards I rec:ived from Brother Dapa by mail, not by wly a cautionary suggestion to the following ef- fect ‘Dear Mr. Howard: _ After this, If, In your dispatches you Feally must drop lato Doetry, telegraphy being 4 cents a word, won't you kindly wire us the number of the bymn, as we have the book in the office” A noteworthy ieident in the recent Bryant commemorstion at his old bome in Cum \ tor Dlzzlom, " Falling _Beén sations, Nerw. b LT y oustwitohin the age. It CPLU i end other dorsed by t} paita. leadingscien: Strengthens, tific men of invigorates Europo and and tones the Amerioa. entiro aystem. Nulflyln is 2 i Hudy i urely vege: "y !"-r: ¥ voqo Nervousmesh udyin stops inl 08 .,‘,a and develo Prematurensss A metores of the dis- @hargo n 3 Peitn "tk back is he most Over 2,000 private (ndorsements. naturencss means impotency in - the firep It is a symptom of seminal weakness an barrenness. It can be cured in 20 days by the use of Hudyn The new of the old 15 the str ful, but . Sold for $1.00 a package, of six for $5.00 (plnin sealed boxes). Writte ntee glven for a cure. 1t you buy six boxes, and are not entirely curcd, six more will be sent to you free of all charge. Send foe circulars and testimonials. Address HUDSON MEDICAL INSTITUTE Junction Stockton Market, and Ellis Streets, San Francigto, Cal. mington, relates the Springdeld Republican, was the singing at the close of the forenoon exercises of Mrs. Julla Ward Howe's gloris ous “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” The whole noble poem was sung, K. Lester Brown, son of the orator of the day, taking each vers: in solo with a rich bariivne volce, and the local chorus, the “Glury, Hallelus jah!" chorus, the audience jo.ning therein, | But when it came to the last stanza the vote eran John Hutchinson, his fine tenor as rich as in his prime, gave the solo—'In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born acrose the sea,"—and the effect was electric. To those who remembered the long anti-slavery crusade in which the Hutchinsons took part there was a deeper significance to this “seal of the covenant.” ~ Mrs. Howe, sittin amidst the rising thousands, must have fell this thrill profoundly. Senator Vest sat under the fig tree at Chamberlain’s a recent hot summer night and, pointing across McPherson squate, asked the friend sitting beside him: “If Gorman was over there and wanted to come here and speak to us, how do you reckon he'd get here?"’ “I suppos: he'd come through the park like anybody else,” was the reply. No, he wouldn't,” sald the ou don’t know him. He wouldn't give us a second look. He'd start off as if he was golng down to the Arlington. We'd lose sight of him and forget all about him. After he got to the Arlington he'd keep right on down Pennsylvania avenue, and if you could see him you might think he was Bolng to the white house. He'd make an- other turn and cross over in front of the Treasury bullding. Then he'd go up New York avenue to Fourteenth street, come around by the Me: 'can legation and walk up behind us. That is the kind of a man Gormaa i senator. A Lewliston man, who was a policeman In Portland, Me., when General Neal Dow wa: mayor of that city in 1854, tells of a man whom he brought before Mayor Dow for abus- ing his wife while drunk. The mayor ore dered that the culprit be brought before him with his whisky botttle. He put the bottle on the table in the court room, and the pris= oner fixed his eyes on it and admitted that he had drank out of it. When the man was sent up to the jail Mayor Dow took the bottle along himself and requested the turnkey to place the flask just outside the cell door where the prisoner could see it, and it stood there two months. He begged to have the bottle broken or removed. Once when the door was opened he made & dash with his foot to break it, but did not succeed. When that man was released he hated the sight of a whisky bottle and never tasted a drop of Itquor afterward. Wayne MacVeagh, United States ambassa dor to Italy, is winning favorable comment at Rome by his willingness to serve his fellow countrymen. On his arrival there he was in- vited to visit the Gould Memorial home. He promptly called at the home, and was so favorably impressed with the work carried on that he has taken occasion to commend I§% heartily to the sympathy and support of Americans. The Gould home is an American arity founded in 1572 by Mrs. Emily Bliss- uld for the benefit of [talian orphans, and carried on by friends who belleve In such work and have heard of this home. Captain Charles King, the novelist, does ot write at all; he uses a phonograph. His hours for composition are after midnight. Having thought of a story he comes home from the theater or soclal party, feellng in tho best of spirits; starts in at midnight talking his story into the phonograph, and continues at this dictation for four hours. This practice {s resumed the next night, and ia Kept up for eignt, ten or twelve nights—until, in fact, the story is ended. The phonograph is then turned over to typewritcrs, who prepare the manuscript, which Captain King revises before sending it to the pubilsher, The 01d story, good enough to be true, 18 revived about the late John Quincy Adams as a disciple of the gentle art of fishing. 1 is told that & Quincy client of his, whose case was 10 be tried ofi a eertain morning, was un- able to get his counsel o go (o Boston, o8 to leave his fishing boat, except long enough to write a note to the judge, which, when presented, caused that worthy magistrate to announce to the court: “Mr. Adams is des taived on fmportant business.” The note read: “Dear judge: For the sake of old Isaak Walton, please continue my case untll Fri day. The smelt are biting and 1 can't leave.” —— About one-half of the 40,000 Maoris re- malning In New Zealand belong to the Church of England. One-fourth are either Wesleyans or Koman Catholics, while | alning one-fourth represent the weml heathen section that either fell away aftes the WArS OF never wer: wrought is, RS