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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1-TWELVE PAGES.
KATE CHASE'S BOOK.
One That Will Take a Rare
Place in Literature.
A LITERARY EVENT OF INTEREST
The Daughter of the Late Chief Justice
Ha<l Extraordinary Opportunities to
Write the History of War
Times—What Followed.
From the New York World.
Washington, Aug. 25.—Probably no
event in American literature will arouse
more general and decided interest among
nearly every class of our people than the
forthcoming publication by Mrs. Kather
ine Chase of her reminiscences. Mrs.
Chase, as is well known, is the daughter of
the late Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase,
and during the four years of the war that
her father was at the head of the treasury
department—and, in a more minted de
gree than was any other member of the
cabinet, the confidential friend and adviser
of President Lincoln—hia daughter pre
sided over his household. Her relations
to her distinguished father were far more
confidential than is the habit between
father and daughter. Her*unusual quali
ties of mind and manner made her easily
the most noted woman of her time during
that momentous period not only of our
history but in the history of the world.
She was the sharer, probably, of all her
father’s knowledge of the great events
daily transpiring.
Mrs. Lincoln was a plain womaD, and
notwithstanding the suspicion, unjustly
or otherwise, that her birth in Kentucky
and many relatives in the confederate
army had directed her sympathies rather
to the Isuccess of the confederate armies
than of her own. At any rate, she did
not occupy, daring the four years of Pres
ident Lincoln’s term, that conspicuous po
sition, either in the social or political
world, which would naturally appertain
to the wife of the executive during such a
period. The wife of Secretary Seward
was a confirmed invalid. Miss Chase bad
exactly the qualities to take the leader
ship of the social world. In any event,
she was the foremost woman in the eyes of
the people at that time in Washington.
Her lather’s home, far more than the ex
ecutive mansion, was the centre of the
social world of Washington, and almost
as much as was the white house
of its political world. The beau
tiful and brilliant pirl was on
terms of intimate friendship with practi
cally every statesman and notable soldier
of the day. President Lincoln himself, as
will appear from her reminiscences, fre
quently sought and availed himself of her
advice in matters of very considerable
political moment. Her knowledge of the
interior details of the cabinet consulta
tions was close and accurate throughout
the first three yeirs of the administration,
and even after her father was intuit* clilef-
justice he remained the close adviser of
the President. Much of this knowledge
she can, without impropriety, and at this
interval, make known to the world as in
the interest of accurate history. Perhaps
IM w - -111. * 11 ill th" last tw-ci centime-. nut
even with the exception of Princess Met-
Sam.aU kw* kail a,,ak nnnA.tuniviM upir n
such faculties of mind, to contribute im
portant histu: leal information concerning
so great and ao dramatic a span of years.
During the war, also, she was married
with great pomp and splendor to Senator
Sprague of Rhode Island, who had been
tne young war governor of that state, and
was in a way perhaps the most salient
figure of the time. He was one of the
wealthiest men in the country and her es
tablishment at Washington as his wife was
the most brilliant of any in the United
States, either before or since. Hers was
almost the only salon, in the Parisian
sense of the term, we have ever had.
Besides her experiences of war times she
had an active acquaintance with the in
side facts of the impeachment trial, over
which her father presided. She remaim'd
his confidential associate and was largely
the iuo.1 efficient agent in the interesting
negotiations and events which came so
near making him the candidate of
the Democratic party for President
against tien. Grant in 1868. That July
convention in New York was in many
respects the most peculiar and important
in tne long records o( the party. Mrs.
Sprague established herself at the Fifth
avenue residence of her husband’s.partner,
Mr. William Hoyt, and there was practi
cally the headquarters of the movement
for the nomination of Mr. Chase. In con
stant consultation with her were August
Belmont, r-amuel L. M. Barlow, Manton
Marble, Gov. Seymour, Hamilton Smith
and others interested in the nomination of
the chief justice. The circumstances that
led i he Ohio and Southern delegations into
the successful effort against her father,
which resulted in overcoming Gov. Sey
mour’s often pronounced intention not to
accept the nomination will be detailed with
great peculiarity and at length by Mr.-.
Chase. Her natural bent of mind
also made her acquaint herself
with the general details of her
husband’s vast business, and much of the
forthcoming volume will treat of the
financial cataclysm of 1873, precipitated,
in large measure, by the failure of the
Hoyt Sprague Company. The reminis
cences, therefore, will touch almost every
phase uf Americas life during the last
twenty-eight years. It will go further
than that, indeed, lor when her father was
Senator, during the debate upon slavery of
1848-51, in which the giants of the time,
Webster, Clsy, Calhoun and Sumner, took
part, and although a school-girl in
New York, she was brought over to Wash
ington by her father and put for the time
at the head of his household. Her recol-
1 lections of this jieriod are of great inter
est. even as the impressions of a very
capital from falling inti
•s- hsndfl of the
HUNriNO down a tigkic.
THE POPE BICENTENARY.
enemy through the treachery of a trusted Dangerous Man-Eaters Encountered t'J
officer, who, upon the discovery of the Sportsmen Near Singapore,
plot, blew out ms brains. This anecdote p rom the Boston Herald,
will be illustrative of the general interest Englishmen come here in considerable
of the book. . numbers to hunt, and they rarely fail to
Mrs. Chase’s talents are of the kind g e t a number of the much coveted tiger
peculiary adapted for writing such a his- s kins ^ trophies of a personal experience,
tory of that period. She has always, been When the writer landed at Singapore from
noted for the extreme grace and pi ctu .[r Hong Kong a small party of hunters
esqueness of her letters, and the book will arrived from England in a P. and 0.
treat of a people and of events really in steamship and we met at the hotel. It
no way lcs3 interesting than are described soon became known to them that a # few
in Mme. De Remusat’s famous volume. [ d a y 8 previous a native woman had disap-
Mrs. Chase is now living with her child- peaied from the suburbs under circum-
ren, three daughters and a son, at “Edge- stances which showed that she must have
wood,” her father’s country place, just fallen a prey to one of these dreadful ani-
outside the limits of Washington, and with • ma i 8 . it was not an uncommon occurrence
a view of the capital. and. intervening but it was resolved by the new-comers to
country, which makes it, besides its other f 0 ij 0 w the trail which must have been
associations, one of the features j ma d e by the beast through the neighbor-
of Washington. She has but re- ing|jungle.
cently returned from a life of several j 5'lie sportsmen, armed with rifles
years abroad in France, where, as on manv accompanied by half a dozen
previous visits, she was on. term* of friend- j native beaters, started the next day, and
previous ,— ## w
ship with the noted political leaders of aome found the animal’s tracks. A mile
TI i — A.. — Iai.ii ikvAimk k*nvnnn
Paris. On a previous tour through Europe
she took letters which secured her a par
ticularly pleasant friendship with M.
Thiers, then president of the Republic.
Her reminiscences, therefore, will embrace
the most interesting facts in our own his
tory from 1848 to 1878, and much of im
portance from an intelligent American
woman’s point of view of the last eighteen
years of the history of our sister republic
across the water.
KINO AND QUEEN OF THE DIAMOND
Short-Stop Ward and Bis. Wife Going to
Australia.
New York, August 25.—“What splen
did double piny,” said Mrs. John Mont
gomery Ward, the retired actress, from her
reserved seat in the grand stand at the
Polo greund the other day. It was the last
inning of the last game of the season be
tween the New Yorks and Detroits. It
anybody’s victory. The
score of the Giants had been
almost tied, but with magnificent fielding
the game was saved for the home team,
and the Wolverines added another to their
already long list of defeats. The sprightly
Helen Dauvray, now Mrs. Ward, is proba
bly the best, feminine authority on baseball
in this country. There is no [mint of the
game with which she is not perfectly fa
miliar. Her judgment is faultless, and
“Johnny” Ward, her lawyer spouse, ad
mits that she knows more about the niceties
of thegame than he does, although he is the
author of a book on the subject, (he short
stop of the “Gaints” and the captain of the
two nines that leave in November lor the
antipodes to play cricket and baseball in
the several Australian cities. Mrs. Ward
never misses a game. She invariably ac
companies her husband to the ground and
on his travels, and keenly criticises any
shortcomings on his part, as well as those
of hia brother professionals.
“My wife.” said Mr. Ward, “is a sweat
lover of the game. She certainly has a
profound acquaintance with its principles,
and has the faculty of making others un
derstand them in a very short time. She
knows also the peculiarities of each player,
and is able to make in a few well-chosen
words the difierences in style and method
apparent.”
Mr. Ward is busily engaged in prepar
ing for his visit to Australia. As baseball
is comparatively unknown there, the
American will have to play cricket and
exhibition games of ball,
The Australians are quick to learn, and
aa they are very fin* fielders in cricket.
they
c- / .
tagonists. This Australian expedition is
gotten up by A. J. Spalding, the president
of the Chicago baseball club. He is only
37 years of age and is worth over a million
dollars, all made out of the manufacture
of baseball implements. He was former
ly a professional player and was pitcher
for the Chicagos. Air. Spalding has char
tered a steamer that will leave San Fran
cisco in November for Sydney, Australia.
Capt, Ward will have twenty-three men
under him. including Anson, of the Chi
cago, and Tiernan, who, with the
Bostons, played cricket in England.
Big Connor,. of the New Yorks, may
perhaps go, and a number of the best play
ers have already signed. Two American
cricksters, whose speciality is bowling, and
who also play ball, will be in the team.
If Mr. Spalding succeeds in establishing
base ball iu Australia the game can then
be played the whole year round. A league
club, after going through the season
here, can cross the Pacific and find an
other summer awaiting them, for the
seasons are reversed at the antipodes, and
December and January are tne hottest
months. Mr. Ward plap cricket daily
He sets up his “stumps,” puts on his h ,
guards, gets some one to bowl to him an!
defends his wicket and strikes with what
is to a baseball player a monstrous bat.
Before the game with the Detroits last
Saturday, he batted with the cricket bat
for over half an hour and attracted
much attention from the visitors to the
Polo ground. “The chief difficulty I find,”
said Mr. Ward, “in using the cricket bat,
is the necessity of keeping it down. Yon
see, I am so accustomed to holding the
baseball bat upward, but I have no doubt
that the “All America” team and myself
witl soon get used to it.”
young, but exceptionally bright and ob-
Proportion of the Sexes.
Dr. Alice Vickery says that while the
surplus of women in the United kingdom
and in Germany amounts to nearly 750,000
and 1,000,000 respectively, France, in
1881, had a surplus of only 02,000 women,
and as a consequence marriages are more
prevalent in proportion to population in
France than elsewhere; and, curiously
enough, contrary to the genera! opinion in
this country, France has the smallest pro
portion of illegitimate births. Thus from
1825 to 1867 the percentage of all illegi
timate births was 7.2 in France, 8.2 in
Prussia, 10 in Sweedon, 11 in Austria and
22 in Bavaria. France has the lowest
birth rate of all European countries, viz:
23.8 |>er 1,000, against 31 for the United
kingdom and 28 for Germany. The average
number of children to a family is
crlsnd ami \Ya1n&‘
now 3.2 igainst 4.6 in Eaglind and Wales 1
servant girl.
No woman of capacity haa contributed
to public knowledge her part in the his-
‘tory of the country, unless it were Jetler-
ton’s granddaughter. “Dolly” Madison
was a brilliant woman, and if some of her
letters could be obtained for publication,
they would be of absorbing interest. But
the wife of no other of our Presidents, or
of our great public men, teems to have had
either the dispositio# or the ability to
Blake of themselves or of their experiences
a part of the nation’s history. One epi-
B.. le of Mrs. Chase’s "Recollections,” tne
tr mble Mr. Lincoln hid in forming his
cabinet, will be a particularly valuable
contribution to the absorbing story of the
time. The volume will also be crowded
6.25 In Scotland and 5.4 in Ireland. Ger
many has an average of nearly 5 to a fami
ly. France contains a far greater propor
tion of grown-up persons than any other
nation in Europe. There are in each
10,000 persons in the several states of
Europe the following numbers in the most
productive age, between 15 and 60: In
France, 5,373: in Holland, 4,964; in Swed
en, 4,954; in Great Britain, 4,732; in the
United States, 4,396. France, of nil na
tions in Europe, has the heaviest average
of ages of the living, namely: 31.06 years,
against Holland, 27.76: Sweden, 27.16;
Great Britain, 25.5; the United States 23.1.
France, too, has a greater number of per
sona attaining old age than any other
country, for out of every 100 deaths those
over the age of 60 are: In France, 36; in
with the minor but pictnreaqne occurences : Switzerland, 34; England, 30; Belgium,
of the social and political world of Wazh- 1 28: Wurtemburg, 21; Prussia, 19; Austria,
ington, including the narrow escape of the ‘ only 17.
was passed before the path became so dense
as to cause much delay. Here and there
branches of the undergrowth allowed locks
of the woman’s hair where her head had
come in contact with thorny bushes. The
slight clothing worn by the victim had
been found at the beginning of the trail,
where there was also evidence of a struggle
of some sort between the beast and his
probably half-conscious victim. At the
end of the second mile the scent grew
warm, as hunters say, and greater caution
was observed, an experienced beater
being sent in advance, though armed only
with a long unsheathed knife for self-
defense.
The whole party was now on the alert,
moving in perfect silence. Suddenly there
was heard a crushing sound, accompaniid
by a loud exclamation. The beater who
had-been sent in advance lay upon the
ground beneath the fore paws of a furious
tiger, which had leaped upon him from the
jungle. This had occurred in a small
opening, so that the man and beast could
be seen by the whole party. The enraged
animal, while he held the beater to the
ground, lashed his sides with his tail and
glared savagely at the hunters. It is at
such moments that,coolness and steadiness
of nerve show their mastership over exi
gencies. The leader of.tluJparty was a man
who was no stranger to emergencies and he
did not lose his self-possession for a
moment. He said, in a low, distinct voice:
“Stand ready, but reserve your fire, all of
you,” at the same time taking deliberate
aim at the tiger’s head from a distance of
about eight rods.
The sharp report rang through the for
est, the smoke quickly cleared away and
the huge animal fell dead, with a ball
through his brain, by the side of, the pros
trate heater.. The man, though severely
wounded by the tiger’s claws, had not been
bitten, and he now struggled to his feet
and pointed exultingly to the knife which
he had buried to the hilt in the animal’s
body. Though the natives arc generally
poor hunters, lacking both courage and
coolness, this man had shown himself pos
sessed of both of these requisites at a criti
cal moment.
The party advanced once more, but cau
tiously, for, in accordance with the habits
of these animals, it was knuwu that he
must have established Iiislairnotfar away.
It was thought possible thatxbis mate
might also be in the neighbapoadd, and
special care was taken to guar!JL nst a
surprise. If n tigress with yeuegT should
be /alien in with, there was immin'ent dan
ger to all concerned, for under such cir-
furious. Still following a distinct trail,
the party made their way with some diffi
culty until they came upon a small open
place, which printed a terribly significant
aspect.
The spot was thickly strewn with bones,
human hair, scraps of clothing and bits of
cheap jewelry in the form of brass and sil
ver rings and bangles, which are worn by
the natives of both sexes. A fresh heap
betrayed the liones of the poor woman who
had so lately disap|>eared. The llesh which
the tiger had not eaten, other beasts and
consumed. He had carried his victim a
distance of nearly three miles through the
jungle, to a spot where he could quietly
make his terrible meal. The carcass was
brought to town and proved to he that of
a very large male. The fact of his coming
toward the hunters instead of retiring be
fore them,showed that he was au unusually
dangerous animal. The beater who had
so narrowly escaped death was able to
walk btek to his home after taking a short
rest, and he became quite a hero in conse
quence of his adventure.
Our Candidate for President.
He will be nominated by the convention and
will be elected bp the people, because he will
■- to filling their Ideal of a Chief
come the nearest „ J ______
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The Nnme Still Sticks.
From the Detroit Free Press.
After gazing out upon the river from
the ferry dock for awhile, he sidled up to
an old lake captain who was leaning
against the rail and asked:
“How far is it down to Lake Erie?”
“Eighteen miles.”
“Why did they call it Lake Erie?”
“It was named after a man named Erie,
who never came down to this dock with
out asking us if we’d have a glass of beer
with him. Ah! he was a fine man. He’s
dead now.”
"And H a man named Jones came along
and asked all of you to drink you’d change
the name to Lake Jones, I suppose?”
“We would, sir.”
“Very well, captain. My name is Black,
but I’ll see Jones in a few days and speak
to him about it. Meantime, try and get
along on water. How long is this river?”
But the captain wouldn’t answer.
A Horae Who Can Talk.
Everybody has beard of a “horse Inugh,”
but who has ever seen au equine gifted with
the power of speech. Such an animal would
he pronoucced miracle; but so would the
telegraph and the telephone have been
a hundred years ago. Why, even very re
cently a cure for consumption would have
bee looked upon at miraculous, but now
people arc beginning to realize that the dis
ease is not incurable. Dr. I’iercc's Golden
Medical Discovery will cure it If taken in
time. The world-renowned remedy will not
make new lungs, but it will restore diseased
ones to a healthy state when all other means
have failed. Thousands can gratefully tes
tify to this. All druggists.
Guyton Chronicle: Mr. Ed Helmyly
hilled a hear in his corn field last week
that weighed over 500 pounds. This var
mint must be numerous in his section as
this is the third one he has killed this
J ear. They are the black siieciea and un-
as you are well armed and a sure shot
! are an ugly customer to meet.
A Very Interesting Literary Event in
England.
London Correspondence Boston Transcript.
To thpse of poetic taste the opening of
the Loan Museum of various editions of
the works of Pope—together with numer
ous autographs, portraits, paintings and
other personal souvenirs of the poet—at
the Town Hall of Twickenliam-on-Thames,
has been the most interesting literary
event of the summer in England.
The formal opening of the collection
took place.a fewidays since,with Sir Mount-
stuart Grant-Dufi in the chair. Several
hundred assembled to do homage to the
memory of Pope, among whom were Lady
Grant-Duff, Austin Dobson, Edmund
Gosse and many others eminent in literary
and social circles.
‘ Sir Grant-Duff, in comparing modern
poets with Pope, admitted that England
possessed poets worthy of recognition, but
stated that, in his opinion, the poets of
to-day do not imitate Pope’s methods of
clearness and decision. Even when Pope
had but very little to say, he said that
little well, whereas, “our modern poets do
not take the time aid trouble to put what
they have to say in a way that ‘he who
runs may read.’ " This emphatic dogma
in favor of lucidity in poetry, as opposed
to mysticism, and the argument for the
!*■■[■<■ nift li' "1. :i- I .(■ inu' the be-t nf nil sy-.-
terns, were heartily applauded, even b-
some of the most enthusiastic admirers of
the Browning method. Sir Grant-Duff con-
eluded by saving that if modern poets
would only take the pains they could much
improve.
Prof. Henry Moerly followed. He said
that there were strong reasons for the good
will which clutfg to Pope, notwithstanding
adverse criticism. Pope knew how to
write. Pope has been cne of the most im
perfectly read of the English poets, accord
ing to the professor, because so few know
how to read him.
Pope called his life “that long disease.”
Born of weak and frail parents, he
endured infirmities both from curvature of
the spine and a stature far below that of
other men. Beauty and delicacy of feature,
however, largely compensated for physical
defects. His father was a severe critic,
who set Iiis son to writing poetry and
corrected it. This encouraged young
Pope, who was very egotistical at 17.
Pope, when 12,’first met Drvden. The
latter died about this time. Dryden in
fluenced Pope’s style more or less, although
Pope wai not an imitator. Pope worked
very laboriously. He wished to be as true
as possible. He was dominated largely by
the French school. He endeavored to say
everything in as few words as possible.
This led to a too frequent recurrence of the
antithesis.
He passed twenty-six years at Twicken
ham. These were his most lruittul years.
His all-absorbing study was the problem
of society. If Pope were studied carefully
there would be found in him the perfection
of art as a writer, concluded Prof. Morley.
After the formal opening the company
inspected the exhibition, cumprising work
loaned by her Majesty Queen Victoria, the
Duke of Sutherland, Earl Spencer, Lord
Braybroke, and many others. There are
about 320 rare and valuable relics, includ
ing first editions, “clouded canes,” etc. Au
tographs, letters ol Dr. Johnson, Dean
Swift, Colley Cibber, and Benjamin Frank
lin are shown.
Hone’s villa at Twickenham is now oc
cupied by Mr. Labouchere, editor of Truth,
and the ground- have been the -cene nf
several commemorative fetes during the
past week.
Among interesting poems of Pope now
specially admired arc his “Lines to Wind
sor Forest,” in which he alludes to these
woods as the place—
Where the kind muses met me as I strayed.
And gently pressed my band and said, “Be
Ours.' 1
There is shown a portrait bvone Jer-
vas—a mediocre artist—ol which Pope
wrote—
Beauty, frail flower, that every season fears,
Blooms In thy colors for a thousand years)
“ ■ sfilll’s
Thus Churefiill’s race shall other hearts sur-
And o^her beauties envy Worseley’s eyes.
This commemoration is creating renewed
interest id Pope’s poems throughout Great
Britain.
Cultivate Trees.
From the Garden and Forest.
A German farmer would as soon allow
his cattle to range in his wheat fields as in
his forests, which often prove the most
profitable part of a European estate. In
this country the wooded part ol the farm
is not cared for nor protected in a way to
maintain and increase its value; it is
always used as a pasture, in spite of a well-
known fact that cattle are fatal to a forest;
the trees are either all cleared off at once,
without reference to their rcpioductjon
or are so carelessly selected lor cutting
that the character and composition
of the woods are ruined. Store
care is taken now than formerly to prevent
and check fires iu the woods, but the dam
age done to forest property in this country
by fire is still au alarming item in the
national waste account. No system of ag
riculture can be long successful and profit
able which ignores the necessity of culti
vating trees, and which does not recognize
the fact that much land in every country
can only be made profitable by means of
trees. The precepts which should be often
repeated to farmers are not that trees pro
duce rain or that trees are sacred objects,
which cannot be cut without offense to
man and nature. The lessons they must
learn, if they hope to compete with the
funnels ilailed uuuei uiuis iiilisuliuku
systems of agriculture, are that sterile,
rocky, hilly ground cannot long be tilled
profitably; and that such land can only be
wisely used to produce trees; that the pas
turage of domestic animals in woods or on
land only suitable for the growth of trees,
is an expensive and wasteful system, as un
satisfactory from a pastoral point of view
as it is fatal to the forest; that trees are as
much out of place in the strong level
lands really suitable to permanent tillage
as cattle are out of place in the woods.
And they must learn, too, that woodlands
can only be made profitable when the
same care is given to the selection of trees
with reference to the soil and climate as is
bestowed upon the selection of grain and
other crops, and that the rules which
nature has established for the perpetuation
of forests must be studied and obeyed.
Ocean Travel Safer.
From the Waahlnffton Star.
Such a disaster as the Geiser’s, if it shall
be shown on inquiry that it could hav*
been avoided by exercising those precau
tions which the traveling public had a
right to expect, will make ocean travel a
good deal more safe for a time than it has
commonly been heretofore, by stimulating
the subalterns to greater care and the offi
cer in command to the enforcement of
stricter discipline.
THROWN FROM A TRESTLE.
A Negro Lynched by Unknown Parties Near
ltraawell.
Atlanta, Aug. 27.—A party of advo
cates of lynch law hanged a negro from a
trestle near Braswell, a small town on tiie
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail
road north of Rockmart, Saturday night, i
and the body liuDg from a crosstie of the
trestle until a late hour Sunday morning,
when it was cut down and carried off to
the woods. No one Beems to know what
disposition has been made of the body, and
few particulars are known as to the crime
committed by the negro. All that can be
learned is tli.it tl egro was hanged. Tin-
people of Braswell are trying to keep the
matter from getting out.
Passengers over the East Tennessee road
who arrived here to-day say
that information with reference to the mat-
Constipation
ter is meagre as the people refuse to talk,
and no one seems to know who had a hand
in the work of stringing up the negro.
From what has leaked out, it appears
that on Friday night the negro who was
hanged was seen in company with a
colored woman who is a sort of camp
follower about the trestle, where a large
number of negroes are employed in tilling
in. The two visited a hillside near the
town and conducted themselves in such a
manner as to shock the morals of several
citizens who saw them.
When called to account for the manner
in which he conducted himself it is said
that the negro remarked that he “didn’t
care a d—n what they thought about it.”
This retort exasperated a number of the
residents of the town, and on Saturday
night, about 11 o’clock, a party of about
twenty white men visited ‘a small house
where the negro was living and called him
out. The negro came out of the bouse,
and upon making his appearance the
lynchers tied him, and carried him to the
trestle. The negro yelled for help, but
none came. As quickly as a rope could
he procured a noose was prepared and put
about his neck, while the other end of the
rope was fastened to a cross tie of the
trestle. The negro was then thrown off
the trestle. He fell a distance of fully
twenty feet. His neck was broken and he
died almost instantly. • ,
The watchman at the trestle and the
telegraph operator at Braswell, while
the lynchers were doing their work, were
attracted to the scene by
the screams of the [Juegro for help.
As they walked up and asked the crowd
what was the matter a number of men in
formed them that what was going on was
none of their business, and if they didn’t
go back where they came from and keep
their mouths closed they would suffer the
same fate. They left without stopping to
argue the question. The negro, it is said,
was employed in a gang with a large num
ber of railroad hands, who are engaged
making a fill at the trestle. No informa
tion can be procured as to his name.
A Story of Doh Mantell.
From the St. Loots Republic.
When a young man Mr. Robert Mantell
used to make tombstones for a living. He
didn’t like the business of carving epi
taphs, and so he became comedian in a
pantomime at ten shillings a week. This
was at Newcastlc-on-Tvne. It was the
most painful experience nf hia life, for he
had to go through a song and dance with
a grotesque make-up. Afterward, for
some years, he supported Miss Lyttun.
His salary then was only £3, even when
he went to London. Hnndtome . Jack
Barnes got £30 a week, and he and Mantell
used to dress in the same room, and one
•alary night Barnes, who couldn’t resist
tin- ti-iiqilaticiii cl crowing, tlircw hi- i.m
on the table with the remark:
“That’s what a London favorite pets.”
It made Mantell so mad thnt, witii the
observation: “This is something more
than a London favorite gets,” he sent out a
right-hander which landed under Mr.
Bsrnes’ ear and felled him. It took some
fifteen minutes to restore Mr. Barnes, dur
ing which the curtain was down and Mr.
Mantell was discharged.
Some time after Mantell and Barnes be
came the best of friends, though the former
could never make any deep impression on
Londoners. Years alter Barnes was iq the
UnionSquareCompany atE150 a week Man
tell wassupporting Fannie Davenportat the
Fourteenth street at $350 a neck. One
evening that Barnes waa not acting (it waa
salary night) he went over to sec Mantell
and went to his dressing-room. While he
whs there the boy came dowe with Man-
tell’s salary in an evelope. Barnes looked
rather cnrlonsly at it, so Mantell opened
it, and, throwing the pile of bills on the
table, said:
“Jack, old boy, this is what a New York
favorite gets.”
Barnes did not knock Mr. Mantell down,
and was good natured enough to laugh i
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