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PART TWO.
SECRETS OMTIE LOBBY.
Financial Transactions Which Star
tled a Veteran Banker.
Check for $276,000 Payable to
Bearer —Capitalists Who Declined
Identification— A Disbursement of
f 890,000 for One Act—The mystery
of a $60,000 Payment.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Washington, Dec. 20.—Nerve is a con
spicuous trait of the successful lobbyist.
A New York bank president had this im
pressed ui>on him. The bank president
was George S. Coe. At the time he had
been an officer of the American Exchange
Bank twenty years, and during fourteen
0 ; it was president, yet his experience
with the Washington lobby and its queer
methods was something which impressed
his memory with minute details. Among
the depositors having an account with
Mr. Coe's bank was Richard B. Irwin.
For five or six years Mr. Irwin had been
known to Mr. Coe as a steamship agent.
His balance in the bank had run as high
as#ls,ooo.
-Col. Irwin, said Mr. Coe. “came into
the bank one day, as I distinctly recollect,
and came into my room. He made some
remarks to me of an ordinary character,
having no reference to business at all, and
then went out. As he passed the receiv
ing teller’s desk, in a very cool and non
chalant way, he threw down his bank
book with a deposit of #735,000 and passed
out.”
The deposit was in four checks, one for
#IO,OOO, one for #25,000, one for *50,000
and one for #650,000.
■ After ho had gone,” continued the
bank president, “the receiving teller re
ported to me the facts of this deposit, re
marking that it was an extraordinary
sum to be deposited by CoL Irwin, and I
was quite Btartled. It was about the
time when there was a great deal of ex
citement prevailing in respect to locking
up greenbacks. I inferred, without know
ing anything about it, that this had some
relation to some stock operation, and pos
sibly some relation to a trick of that
kind—a thing that is very odious to me—
and I asked the young teller why he had
not notified me promptly when the de
posit was made. He replied that, seeing
Col. Irwin come from my own room, he,
supposed that I knew all about it, and
that answer I thought was quite suf
iicent to excuse him. for it seemed very
natural. I was startled at the largeness
of the deposit by Col. Irwin; but the de
posit had been made, and the man had
gone. 1 did not think there was any
official propriety in my pursuing a custo
mer and seeking to know more about it,
as the bank in its regular course of busi
ness had taken the money. Therefore I
said to the teller:
“ ‘Let it pass now. but be very careful
and watch the operation of this deposit.
See who draws the money, so that we
may avoid complicating this bank with
any such operations as are now going on
in the street.’
"With that remark I dismissed the sub
ject for the day. The next day I directed
the tellers—all of them—to report to me
how that money was drawn, whether in
bank notes or in any other form. The
next day passed away and none of it was
draivn at all; und the next day there was
nothing drawn against this large accouut,
and it still remained to the credit of Col.
Irwin, which was quite mysterious to me.
The deposit was made on May 26, and
nothing was drawn against it except a
small sum, and it gave an unusual signifi
cance to the transaction, in view of the
financial interests of the country.
After a few days #325,000 was drawn
out in three checks, one for $125,000 and
the others for SIOO,OOO each. These three
checks were presented at the counter and
paid in money. They came through other
banks and were so drawn that there was
no way of identifying the persons who
ultimately received the cash. But on the
->tth of May there occurred something
that again amazed President Coe and
?ave him an impressive experience with
the ways of the Washington lobby.
Two strangers came into the bank,
gentlemen unknown to me or to any one
there," said Mr. Coe. “They presented
themselves first at the paying teller's
flesk and handed him two checks, one for
000 and another for $115,000. I saw
•" e c hecksat the time. My impression is
that they were drawn‘R. B. Irwin, pay
to m.v own order,’ and indorsed in blank,
which made the checks payable to bearer,
the two gentlemen presented them and
uemanded payment in currency. The
teller, startled by the largeness of the
sums, was unwilling to pay them without
some identification, which the gentlemen
jvtused to give. The teller then referred
to the officers’room in the rear of
1 0* bank, and they went to the assistant
astuer, and he also had the same appre
hension of reluctance to pay these large
mounts without some identification of
ne gentlemen who presented the checks,
hne two gentlemen were then referred to
ft ,10 ' lr * n . £ f them very emphatic, for
lab ° Tertlear <l part of the conversation,
asked them to sit down and explain to
substm L * le matter was- T hey said in
’}Ve have two checks on your bank
refuse to pay them.’
fiien' me look at them, gentle
handed the checks to me, and I
.oh at them. One of them was for
said- ' Theothor was f or $115,000. 1
veiA°' v ' Khhtlemen. you know these are
... I: *rge sums of money.’
‘Tv,.. ■ one of the gentiemen remarked:
at is not a large sum.’
Yev . ‘^' r ' $275,000 we consider in
* . or ' c t° t>c a very larg sum.’
?, ans ' Te red: ’We handle larger sums
“•? k’’ °. r something to that effect.
there”' 11 9a ’ < * them: ‘Now, gentlemen,
ffien •. 'h a ooortesy due between gentle
which ” thore is ft certain obligation
in ha man °' ves to the community
which” ln * i ar R 6 sums of money, and
large" men wtl ° are engaged in these
take lransa ctions owe to each other to
grnunH I 6 eacll other. On that general
•inmivtV - you t 0 Identify yourselves,
Pavini .** 1 ma V be sure that I am not
MJmg a forged check.-
some,?: an ? wer °f the gentlemen was
they h-,'?* ll{ e this > or to this effect, that
ider r itr„j reasons for not wanting to be
■dentinal an d that they declined to be
a corner i, 1 9aw t,iat 1 was officially in
hhethf.r v aase 1 °° u 'd not fail to recog
inrooni'tlv 1 , 1 °f any man to preserve his
right chose to do it, nor the
cheek r.„ a ?-r man to demand money for a
is ‘ an pa i’able to bearer. That, of course.
Ground ' nf l u *‘ s ti° n able right. The only
Sasin.r , < ?“ I could refuse was by
looked L, checks were forgeries. I had
with them and at the signatures
VU;stir,i ,i Ua * attention. I was perfectly
tot i,., 31 they were genuine. I did
lec-esc, a f , if belittle myself by being un
hypercritical so I resolved to
ffl )t Utetttttij ffeto \£.
do the next best thing that I could to pro
tect the bank. Therefore I said-.
“ ‘Gentlemen, how do you propose to
use this check? If you are going to use
this in a bank you can relieve me of all
embarrassment.’
“And the gentleman who had presented
the larger check said: ‘Yes, I am going
to use it in a bank.’
"Said I: ‘Then have it certified and
you can deposit it, which will save you
and us the trouble of counting this large
amount.’
He assented So I directed the check
to be certified. Then turning to the
other gentleman I said. How do you
want yours?’
“He said: ‘I want mine to-morrow
morning in money.’
“I said: ’Come in to-morrow morning
and you shall have it.’
“As to the first check, I felt this assur
ance in certittying it, that it were de
posited in another bank and it proved to
be wrong in any way, I could discover
the forgery. The next morning the gen
tlemen came in, and without any hesita
tion at all I said:
“ ’Pay this check to this gentleman.'
“It was the check for $115,000. At the
same time, for protecting myself as
much as possible, 1 directed the police
officer whose business it is to go around
among the banks to see this and to bring
word where he went. I had had an op
portunity of reflecting over the matter
over night, and the bare possibility’ of our
paying a forged check of this magnitude
was of course, startling to me. So I said
to this officer, whom I knew to be a very
discreet man:
“ ‘When we pay a check this morning,
as I will tell you, you ascertain whether
the party who receives it is a respectable
man, so that we may know that it is not a
forgery. Bring me that assurance. That
is all I want.’
“He said: ‘I can do that.’
“The check was paid, and the gentle
man went out. In fifteen or twenty min
utes the officer came back and informed
me that the gentleman to whom the $115,-
000 check had been paid went from our
bank into the Park flank, and there went
to the officers’ room and had some con
versation, and went thence to the note
teller and paid a note, and then went
down street and into the Equitable build
ing, and up in the elevator. The officer,
not desiring to go up in the elevator with
him, went up the stairs, but failed to see
him, and therefore supposed he had gone
into some office. In some way the name
of the Northern Pacific was mentioned
to me Just at the time, and the office of
the company was suggested. I said to the
office :
“ ‘Go up to the Northern Pacific rail
road office and see if the gentleman to
who n this check was paid is there.’
“tie went, came back and reported:
“ ‘The gentleman is sitting there read
ing.’
“f then directed our assistant cashier
to go to the Park Bank with a note re
questing the president of the bank to an
swer a confidential question which our
assistant cashier would ask, in order to
assure me that a certain check which we
had paid was paid to a respectable man.
The assistant cashier came back and re
ported to me that the gentleman was
named King, and that he had been post
master to the house of representatives.
I remarked to our assistant casher:
“ ‘This. I think, relieves us of any so
licitude in respect to the check; and that
is all our interest in it.
“With that I dismissed the whole thing,
and my connection with the matter ended
so far as the $115,000 check was con
cerned. Having certified the $275,000
check, the next thing was to ascer
tain how it was paid. I inquired
the next day what bank had sent the
$275,000 check in. The answer of the
clerk was, ‘the Marine Bank.’ I requested
our assistant cashier to go down to the
Marine Bank and ask the officers
whether the person to whom the $275,000
was paid was a respectable party,
whether the officers of the bank knew
him, so that I might feel assured it was
all right. The word came back that the
party’ was a very respectable party; that
the cashier knew all about it, and if it
was necessary he would tell me, but that
I could be assured the check was all
right. I then dismissed the whole sub
ject from my mind, as it was none of my
business to pursue it further.”
The story of President Coe is given in
all its detail because it affords an insight
to the bold magnitude of jobbing opera
tions as well as to the strange methods of
the lobby.
Irwin, who made the deposit, was an
agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany’. He was summoned from San Fran
cisco in January and sent down to Wash
ington in February to try to get through
a bill giving his company s.'>oo,ooo a year
for ten years for certain additional mail
service between San Francisco, Japan and
China. Between the arrival here in Feb
ruary and the final passage of the bill, on
May 21, Mr. Irwin used #140.000. When
his work was accomplished he went back
to New York, made the deposit of over
$700,000, which was in addition to the
$140,000 spent, and disbursed it for ser
vices rendered in connection with the bill.
The total amount distributed, of which
the two checks for $275,000 and SIIS,IKK)
formed parts, was $890,000. It was paid
out between the middle of February aod
the end of May. It was the price of the
passage of a single act by congress. Yet
not a dollar of it was traced into the
l>ocket of a member who voted for the
measure. The people who furnished the
money were probably under the impres
sion that they were buying votes. Per
haps some of the SI.OJO-bUls which, ac
cording to the bank tellers, were thick in
Washington about the time of this grand
distribution of intended corruption, pur
chased a few members of congress, but if
they did it was never proven. An inves
tigation, however, showed that more than
half of tho money went into the pockets
of the lobby and remained there. What
became of the rest was only a matter of
suspicion.
Irwin was before the investigating com
mittee. He was loth to give the names of
those to whom ho had paid this money,
but after much pressing he furnished the
list. From this it appeared that the larg
est sum had gone to John G. Schumaker.
That gentleman had received $300,000,
which included the check. He said he
had kept SIO.(KK) as his fee for working
iu behalf of the subsidy. The $290,000 he
had broken into checks of various
amounts, and at the direction of the offi
cers of the Pacific Mail, had delivered
them to persons indicated, but he had not
paid anything to any members of con
gress. Mr. Schumaker was an ex-mem
ber of congress. He was not a member of
the congress which passed the subsidy
bill, but was a member of the next con
gress after that. The second largest gum
went to William S. King, who had been
postmaster of the House at the time, and
who was elected a member of the subse
quent congress. Mr. King stated under
oath that he knew of no money being
used in connection with this legisiation.
He was the man who collected the checks
for $115,000 and who handled #IO,OOO be-
Tbe other persons on Mr. Irwin’s list
absorbed sums ranging from SSOO to $56,-
500, but no one on this list was a member
SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 1804.
of congress. The names included about
all of the prominent members of the lobby
at that time. One of the beneficiaries
was <n ex-postmaster general. He hand
led $45,000. Another was an editor of na
tional reputation. He owned a paper in
Washington at the time and was paid
$25,000. Another editor got *5.000.
The persons on Mr. Irwin's list appeared
one after another and admitted that they
had received these munificent sums. Some
had divided with others. But one and
all swore vigorously that not a dollar had
been paid by them to any member of con
gress. As far as supposed bribery of
congressmen was concerned, the inquiry
was a dead failure. Asa revelation of
the ways and profits of the lobby, it was
a startling success.
Irwin came to Washington in Febru
ary, took a house which he made the
headquarters of the lobby, and in three
months spent $40,000 in entertaining.
This was his statement to the committee,
lie organized a lobby and spent #IOOJXHI
in maintaining it until the bill became
law. Then he came into possession of the
$750,000, which had been made contingent
on success, and proceeded to redeem the
promises made before the bill passed.
A man named Averill, who had been a
collector of internal revenue in the inte
rior of New York state, was in Washing
ton at the time for the purpose of pro
moting several enterprises. He received
a note at his hotel asking him to call upon
Mr. Irwin at his headquarters. He did
so.
“He told me,” said Mr. Averill, “that
he had received a letter from New York
suggesting me as a good person to assist
him in a certain work that he wanted
done. He said that I was probably aware
of the character of that work; that I had
seen from the papers be was here for the
purpose of procuring the passage of the
Pacific Mail steamship subsidy bill. I
told him I had seen it. Then he said:
“ ‘I want you to take hold of this matter
and assist me in what I want done here.
I think you can do me a great deal of good
hero. Mr. Stockwell (the president of
the company) and myself have both be
come convinced that there is a very ex
tensive combination here to defeat the
passage of this subsidy, that money is be
ing used for that purpose. I want to find
out, if I can, who the men are that are
here for that purpose, and what they are
doing, and, if possible, I want to check
them in every direction. Therefore, I
want you to take hold of the case and do
all you can to assist me.’
“I said to him that if I did take hold of
it 1 should have to neglect my other busi
ness.
•Said he: ‘You are pretty well ac
quainted here and in New York, and you
know exactly what I want ’
“I then said that if I did take hold of it
at all, I would do it upon certain condi
tions—that I should receive #IO,OOO, SI,OOO
down and the balance when the bill
passed. Mr. Irwin agreed to that propo
sition, and he paid me SI,OOO. 1 put my
self. in the course of a day or two. in a
position to know what was goiug on with
reference to the adverse influences. I
talked with parties about the hotels and
at the capitol, and learned in a quiet way
everything that I could on the subject.
As soon as I learned, as I did on almost
every corner and at every turn, that there
were man here opposing the bill, and that
it was a question of who had the most
money, I informed him of the fact. I felt
my way along as well as I could, and
whenever 1 heard any name of any im
portance, I reported it to Gov. Randall. I
understood that Gov. Randall was pre
pared to deal with these parties and get
them out of the way. The other money
was paid to me in nine #I,OOO bills. It is
but just that I should say that I never
spoke to a member or officers of the House
on the subject, except in some general
way as, ‘What do you think the pros
pects of the bill are?’ or something of
that kind.”
Averill’s story illustrates very well how
the lobby was organized and how it
worked. The Gov. Randall to whom he
reported was the ex-Postmaster General.
He had charge of that branch of the work
which silenced the opposition sentiment
to the bill. In carryiug out his plan of
campaign Gov. Randall distributed about
$45,000.
In the course of the Pacific Mail legis
lation there was a $50,000 transaction
which had much of the queerness and
mystery of the lobby about it. Lyman
Elmore was a lawyer at that time, having
offices in both New York city and Wash
ington. Mr. Elmore had no connection
with the Pacific Mail business. He was
never employed in the interest of the sub
sidy, and never handled a dollar of the
money. Yet he told this puzzling story:
“ ‘At m.v office in Washington there were
from twenty to fifty people catling, and I
met and was introduced to a great many
people at saloons and elsewhere. In this
way I was introduced to a gentleman by
the name of Gen. Smith. I met him prob
ably three or four times during the
spring. One day while I was passing
from the treasury down F street, he was
talking with a group of gentlemen. He
called me and came up to me in the mid
dle of the street. He asked me if I knew
the attorney of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company. I said that it was Mr.
Irwin. I do not know him except by
sight.
“ ‘No,’ he said, ‘he is the agent. I mean
the attorney in New York. You have a
New York office, have you not?’
••I said that probably I knew most of
the attorneys in New York. He said:
“ ‘They are to send over their attorney
to pay me some money. Have you any
objection to identify met’
“I told him certainly not. I went
along down the street. Three or four
days passed, when one morning John G.
Schumaker came into my office and threw
down a check for $50,000. saying:
“ ‘I was instructed to give that check
to you.’
“I did even pick it up. I saw it lie
there. I said,’Not for me; you are mis
taken.’
“ ‘No,’ said he, ‘the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company told me to pay that to you
or to somebody whom you were to iden
tify.’
“I told him that I knew who the gen
tleman was and would see him during the
day probably, and would let him know.
“1 remember making this remark:
‘You are not going to pay in a check, are
you?’
"It has got—even without any neces
sity existing for it, probably—that men
rather object here in Washington to re
ceiving checks—even ohecks payable to
bearer—especially if the checks are in
connection with legislation, for fear of
suspicion attaching to them. I allude to
the uneasy timidity which exists for fear
there might be a suspicion attached to
the receipt of a check. It runs through
out almost all transactions, although it
only refers to certain transactions which
are legitimate—those In which
money goes to Influence legislation. That
was a large amount of money— #50,000,
and I presumed n, was to be distributed
by Gen. Smith. I did not suppose that
he would want it traced back to a check.
My remark was a natural remark of
caution. He then said he would get it
cashed. I made an appointment with him
between 2 and 3 o’clock. I met this gen
tleman, Mr. Smith, and he came to my
office about 2:80 o'clock. My own desk
being in the backroom, he sat there read
ing papers and became very nervous. He
kept suggesting that he thought Scliu
maker had made up his mind not to come
around around again. But some time af
ter 3 o’clock Mr. Schumaker came in. The
only remark I made to him was:
“ 'This is the Geo. Smith who says he
was to meet you here.’
“I was not going to assume the respon
sibility that he was the man to whom the
money should be paid. After shaking
hands Mr. Schumaker stepped up to the
dressing bureau back of my desk and
pulled out a roll of bills and said: ’Count
that.’ After counting the money Gen.
Smith said: ‘That is all right.’ After
making some remarks about Brooklyn
Mr. Schumaker left the office. I then
made the Jocular remark to Gen. Smith
that that was too much money for one to
carry. He said if it was for him he
would be very glad to make a divide, but
that be had nothing to do with it ex
cept that he was receiving it for
other parties. He left the office. A few
days after that I left Washington and
was not here for several months. It was
a matter of surprise to me that such a
trifling identification was all that was re
quired to deliver over that sum of money.
When Mr. Scumuker laid the check on
the table and said that he was instructed
to giva me the money or check, for a mo
ment I did not know what it was, and
said that it was a mistake. But when ho
said that the Pucifto Mail Steamship
Company had sent him and told him to
pay it to mo. or to someone whom 1
would identify, I said:
“ ‘Oh, I know who the money is for.’
“And then I told him of the circum
stance of the gentleman having asked me
to Identify him to an attorney of the com
pany. He said: ‘That is the man,’and
he requested me to see him, which I did.
I had no more acquaintance with Gen.
Smith than 1 had with one-half of the
people I knew in Washington. I had been
introduced to him and had met him and
known him probably three, four or five
weeks.”
Gen. Smith was never identified. All
that John G. Schumaker could tell was
that, ns an attorney, he had received
this cheek for #50,00 ) front the presi
dent of tho steamship company, with
instructions to carry it to Washing
ton and deliver it to an unnamed per
son, whom he would be able to locate
through Mr. Elmore. The rest of Mr.
Schumuker’s story matched pretty well
with Elmore's.
“1 hesitated about the matter,” Mr.
Schumaker said. “I did not want to do
it. I told them that if it was to pay it to
any member of congress I should have
nothing to do with it. They assured me
that there Was no member of congress
who was to have anything to do witli the
money.”
Mr. Schumaker declared his inability to
identify Gen. Smith. He had never seen
him before, and thought at the time the
name was a fictitious one. Such is one of
the mysteries of Washington legislation.
The history of the lobby abounds in those
strange tales.
HER SISTER’S AVENCER
From tile Boston Globe.
“Mr. Ferdinand Bar.ley,” I read out
from the visiting card in my hand.
“Show him in here, please.”
A tall gentleman, wearing a dark beard
and with gold spectacles resting on nn
aquiline nose, was ushered into my studio.
He was dressed with scrupulous neatness
and carried a cane In his gloved hand.
“Mr. Claude Somerville, I believe?”
I bowed.
“I am aware of your skill as a portrait
painter, and shall be very glad if you can
execute a little commission for me.”
He unbuttoned his frock coat and pro
duced from the inside pocket a photo
graph, which he handed to me.
"Would you be so good as to paint me a
life sized portrait in oil of that lady! 1
should say, a life sized head and bust
only?”
“Cannot, the lady give me a sitting?” I
asked.
“Alas! she is dead,” he replied, “and
this photo is all 1 possess to help me to re
call her features. She was my wife.”
Mr. Bartley was very pressing, and I at
last consented. As he was going abroad
in about ten days I agreed to have the
picture completed in time for him to take
with him.
The picture was an experiment, and I
did not at all care for the work, but I did
the best I could with it. One morning I
was putting the finishing touches to the
picture—Ferdinand Bartley was to call
for it in the afternoon—when a model
whom 1 had employed a good deal in the
past came into my studio to ask for an en
gagement. As we were conversing she
came forward to look at the work I was
doing.
"Myra! Good gracious, it is Myra!”
she exclaimed. “What does this mean?
When did you paint that portrait, Mr.
Somerville?”
“During the present month,” I replied.
“But when did she sit for you?”
“I never saw her in my life.”
I took tho ohotograpb from the sbeft of
the easel and handed it to her. She
seized it and examined it carefully.
The edge round the photograph itself
had been cut away, and the back of the
card had also been torn off. There was
no clew to the photographer, if that was
what she wanted.
“You say you never saw her in your
life!”
“Never, to m.v knowledge.”
“Then how do you come to know the
color of the hair and of tho skin? They
are perfection.”
“From the person who gave the photo
graph, and who will call for the picture
this afternoon.”
“Who is it?” she asked eagerly.
“I cannot tell you. It is impossible for
me to do so,” I said. “It would not only
be a breach of etiquette, but I am in this
case pledged to secrecy.”
This was tho truth, forMr. Bartley had
told me that he had reasons for prefer
ring that tho transaction should boa
strictly private one, and X had promised to
respect his wishes.
“Did you know the original of this?” I
asked when I saw that my model was
actually in tears. It was Impossible to
tell whether grief or excitement were up
permost. Suddenly she became calm.
"Listen!" she said. “My father was an
English merchant living at Palermo,
where he married my mother, who was a
Sicilian. For ten years thev were child
less.”
“It was a source of great grief to them,
and they adopted an orphan child 2 years
of age. She was a bright little girl, and
they grew to love her as if she had been
their own.
“Two years later, however, I was born
and there were never any other children
of the marriage.
“We too sisters, for such we always con
sidered ourselves, grew passionately at
tached to one another, and when our par
ents both died in an epidemic that was
raging in Palermo she was 19 years of age
and I nearly four years younger
“As we had no relatives in Sicily we
came to London to seek the protection
and advice of my father's only sister, a
maiden living in Kensington.
“When we arrived in England we were
grieved and alarmed to find that my aunt
had fust died. We were therefore friend
less and alone in the world.
“After many vicissitudes wo found it
necessary to part from one another. My
adopted sister was engaged as an Italian
governess in the north of England, and I
became what 1 am now, an artist's model.
' autumn, however. I was able to
detect a change in the spirit of my sister's
letters. 1 knew that she was less confid
ing—that she was koepiug back some
thing from me.
“For several weeks sho did not write,
and then l received a short letter from
her to say that she was married, that she
was going away, and that she would
write agaiu soon. She did not even give
n* the name of her husband.
“Time went on and she did not write.
“One night the maid of all work came
up to my room and said that a lady
wished to see me. It was my adopted
sister, f
“She threw herself into my arms, and
I knew that her heart was breaking. I
lifted her veil and never shall I forget the
sight. One of her cheeks had an open
wound, and her forehead was scarred.
“ 'Good heavens!’ 1 exclaimed ‘who has
done this?’
“ ‘My husband,’ she sobbed.
“ ‘Where is he?’
“She would not tell mo his name or
anything about him, only that he had for
months used her brutally, though never
with such abominable cruelty as this.
“ ‘Oh Julia! I endured it as lor.g as I
could, hut I have now left him. I can
never, never go back to him again.’
*‘l could get but little information from
her that night, but devoted myself to
calming her excited nerves. As we slept
side by side I dreamed that my poor sis
ter was bending over me and kissing me,
and when 1 awoke soon after dawn she
was gone. On the table was this note:
“ ‘My beloved sister. I cannot remain
a burden on you. and my heart is broken.
Seek me not. Before you read this I
shall be beyond tho reach of those who
would use me ill. Try to forget and for
give your ever loving sister. *Mvk*.’
“Yes, Mr. Somerville, that is the por
trait of Myra, my adopted sister; and
women bom with the southern blood do
not always forget or forgive."
“And what was the end?” I asked.
“Cannot you guess? Tho river! And
listen to this. He never claimed his
dead! I did so, and identified her as
Myra Horton, my sister, and told only as
much at the inquest as I thought neces
sary. I laid her in the grave, und now 1
seek the man who killed her.
“Now that I have told you all,” sho ad
ded. “do you still refuse to give me his
name? There can be no question as to
his identity, for you say he spoke of her
as his wife.”
I was sorry that 1 had said so much, but
was firm in rofusing any further informa
tion.
Mr. Ferdinand Bartley called later in
the day and received tho picture. A cab
was hailed, and he took the portrait in
side with him and drove off.
I was standing at my door, and as I was
about to close it caught sight of a woman
hastily enteringa hansom, which followed
the four wheeler of Mr. Bartley. A
glunoe satisfied ino that it was Julia.
What should I do? I looked along the
street, but there was not another cab in
sight.
Mr. Bartley’s visiting card bore no ad
dress. It was, therefore, outofmy power
to do anything.
That night the newspaper boys were
making a great noise iu tho street with
some sensational announcement, and I
sent out for an evening paper. I read
with horror the following:
“TEKKIBI.K MI’KDEK IK KEKSIKOTON.”
“Mr. Ferdinand Bartley, believed to bo
an independent gentleman, was found
dead this aiternoon in his flat at West
ville mansions. He was lying on the floor
in a pool of blood, with an Italian stiletto
piercing his heart. On the body was laid
a slip of pa|>er bearing the words, ‘From
Myra’s avenger.’ There is, we behove,
at present no other clue to the murder.”
THEY ARE IN DEMAND.
Marquises in Favor in Scotland as
Rectors of Universities.
From the Chlfugo Record.
Marquises seem to bo in demand in
Scotland as rectorsof universities, for we
find Lord Bute delivering his inaugural
address as rector of St. Andrew's almost
at the same moment as lord Huntly,
popularly Unown as “the cock of the
north.’’ was delivering his roeiorat ad
dress to the students of the university of
Aberdeen. The two marquises present a
most striking contrast in every respect.
Lord Bute is one of the wealthiest peers
of Great Britain, whereas Lord Huntly is
penniless and entirely dependent on the
wealthy Liverpool banker, Sir William
Brooks, who is his father-in-law. Lord
Huntly is thin and bald, while Lord Bute
is stout, stolid and hirsute. Lord Bute is
one of the pillars of the Roman Catholic
church in Great Britain and is very de
vout. whereas Lord Huntly can scarcely
be regarded as a person of transcendent
piety; indeed, rather the reverse.
Finally, Lord Bute is eminently re
spectable and of stainless character In
private life; but only the contrary can be
said of Lord Huntly, his mortal indiscre
tions having on one occasion led to a crim
inal warrant being issued against him on
a charge of felony, which was only com
promised at great expense by his father
in-law after he had boen forced to take
refuge in the wilds of Albania and to re
sign the appointment which he held at
the time as a member of the queen's
household.
Under these circumstances it is some
what extraordinary that Lord Huntly
should now stand high in the favor of
Queen Victoria, while the Marquis of
Bute Is quite the r verse, and is seldom,
if ever, seen at court. The only reason
that I can assign for this is that the
queen knows that he was brought up to
regard her as having been guilty of an act
of the most gross and cruel injustice
toward his family, in the person of his
aunt, tho beautiful Lady Flora Hastings.
The Tatter was his mother's favorite
sister, and Queen Victoria's attitude
towani her constitutes to this day one of
the few blots upon an otherwise glorious
reign.
Lady Flora was a maid of honor to her
majesty, and while In attendance; on the
queen became the victim of malevolent
?;ossip affecting her character. The queen,
nstead of protecting the girl as she
ought to have done, turned a ready ear to
the groundless slander, covered her with
disgrace, and insisted that she should
withdraw from the court until she had
been able to produce proofs that the
statements respecting her honor were un
true. These proofs were given, but the
ignominy to which Lftdy Flora had been
subjected not only by the queen but also
by the prince consort and the entire
court was such that she fell ill and died,
a victim, according to public report, of
royal beartlessness.
furniture and carpets.
LOW FIGURES--UNDER STHND.
They are dwarfish our prices. Our annual slaughter of prices (■
going on. We are knocking dollars Into cents. You certainly have
cents enough to purchase Furniture at our prices. Do not think that
little money means poorlstock. Far from it. See our stands and small
tables. Gems of artlstio skill. Look superb and wear like Iron. Made
of all tho fashionable woods. Their equal our fathers never dreamed
of. You cannot use the mind aright when filled with excessive food
and drink, nor enjoy home without our furniture.
EMIL A. SCHWARZ,
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS.
OPENING
OF THE NEW YEAR
With NEW SHIRTS,
NEW CLOVEB,
NEW SUSPENDERS,
NEW HANDKERCHIEFS,
NEW UNDERWERR,
NEW NECKWEAR,
NEW EVERYTHING FOR GENTLEMEN.
B 'M Ills Hep's outline
27 BULL STREET.
_ CLOTHING.
gVf////mk BROUGHTON STREET.
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Our annual sale takes place this week. The quality of the Roods we carry is
well know n. Our styles am the latest, and you will find our prices as low as tha
quality and finish of the goods will permit. All we ask of you Is to call and ex
amine them.
Drawers, good muslin, four rows of tucks, at Hfio.
Drawers, good muslin, four rows of tucks, embroidery edge, at 41c.
Drawers, good muslin, four rows of tucks, cambric ruflie, at 410.
Skirts, cambric ruffle, cluster of four tucks, at 41c.
Skirts, cambric ruffle, cluster of seven tucks, at TOc.
Skirts, cambric ruffle, Torchon lace edge, at SHc.
downs, V neck, tucked yoko and colored edge, HOc.
downs, yoke of inserting and tucks, trimmed with embroidery, 91c.
downs, V neck, tucked voke, white or colored embroidery trimmed, 11 12.
Corset Covers, high neck, V front, trimmed with embroidery, Kite.
Corset Covers, low neck, trimmed all around with embroidery, fl9c.
IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS.
Q N MARCHp
44 Bull Street. mtm
■ GOODS’ [fill H IK
Ihe cheapest Kmbroidcricn In the city.
The cheapest Laces in the city.
The best French Corsetß in the city.
The cheapest Corsets in the city.
The cheapest Handkerchiefs In the city.
The cheapest Hoaicry In the city.
The best Kid Gloves In the city.
Thn cheupcst Table Damask in the city.
The cheapest Lace Curtains In the city.
The cheapest Marseilles Hpreads In the city.
DON’T MISS THE BARGAINS THIS WEEK AT
I. LEVKQWICZ’S,
MILLINERY.
AT KROUSKOFF’S.
Clearing out sale of Fine
Trimmed Round Hats and
Bonnets.
$lO 00 HATS for $5 00
8 00 HATS for 4 00
6 00 HATS for 3 50
5 00 HATS for 3 00
Fine line Theater Bonnets, also Brocades for even
ing wear. Ribbon sales continue.
KROUSKOFF MILLINERY CO.
PAGES 9 TO 16.
We sell the same goods
25 per cent, less than any
other house in the city.
Fine Imported Dress
Goods at cost of importa*
tion.
Wraps at your price.