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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. .ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY OCTOBER 21 1884. TWELVE PAGES. T THE MAN ABOUT TOWN. ITEMS GATHERED IN HIS RAMBLES THROUGH THE CITY. Tfce Jersey Xcaln.-Tho Hlatory of ???orgRnsi-.DeN nonieo in Atlanta* A Talk on Wine-Baseball. A Story JTroat Bawanto TkoDaatbof Mr. Stevansom - Interesting Toplta, Atlanta, October 17.???Georgia hu a special in- ???crest to the wedding of Mias Carrie Astor, which . takes place in Now York on November 18th, and over which Gotham Is excited as the great event of the winter. The groom Is Mr.' Orme Wilson, son of R. T. Wilson, the banker, who was bora In Gwinnett county In this state. Ilia son is named after Mr. W. P. Orme, who has In turn a son named Wilson Orme. Mr. Wilson loft Georgia when a young nan and has since achieved a colossal fortune. He lives in snperb style in New York,and is said to command more money than any man in the city, excepting, perhaps, Gould and Vanderbilt. It Is notable that his daughter married Mr. Goelet, and his son Is to marry Mias A*tor. The Goelet' and Astore arc the richest real estate owners In America. Orme Wilson Is a handsome young man of fine character, unexceptionable habits and a man of fashion and aflklrs as great cities furnish. While ho lacks the remarkable ability of his father, ho is a good business man. It is the gossip of the pa pers that his wedding present from his father will he an income of 9100,000 a year. His prospective hrido is immensely rich in her own right. Her uncle, John Jacob Astor, is aald to have given her a magnificent palace of a home, and tho prep arations for the wedding arc on a scale little less than royal. Mr. R. T. Wilson, the banker who has established himtelf.ln New York, amassed sobugeja fortune, and who sees his son and daughter thus allied to the largest real estate-owning families in tho coun try, is a remsrkable man. He is strikingly hand some, of commanding presence, slow motioned and deliberate, as men of large frame usually arc. fie Is cast in heroic mould as far os business is concerned, and deals only with enterprises of scope and magnitude. His fortune is put at from twelve to twenty millions. A gentleman who has known him for forty years, and has been in many enter prises with him, says: ???If I ever knew a man of rigid and inflexible honesty that man is Dick Wilson. Outside of this scrupulous Integrity, which dominates his whole life, his tireless de termination and pertinacity is his chief character istic." Mr. Wilson, though a Georgia boy, spent little of his business life in this state. When twenty-five yean of age, that is to say in 1856, he went to Lou don, Tenn., and went into mercantile business with Chambers Orm. Ifomado money there pud on the death of hfs partner went to Louisville, where he was a commission merchant when the war came on, having amassed perhaps 950,000. He was made purchasing agent for the confederacy and bought train loads of bacon for tho western army. After settling with the government, ho ran the blockade on one of his own ships and went to England. He made a largo amount of money there handling sugars, and at the close of the war settled In New York, and established a bank. Bis first work of Importance was to build up the East Tennessee system which the war bad left crippled. He bought the stock at 10 cants on the dollar, rehabilitated tho road, unlfiod its In terests, consolidated its parts, and sold out at 300. fie then took on his broad shoulders tho project of a road from New Orleans to Memphis. With little display he bnllt this entire road, completing it a few weeks ago, and has just sold a half interest to Huntington. He now has under advisement a huge railroad scheme in Kansas that ho will carry out whenever he makes up his mind to do so. Georgia has thus contributed tho foromost southerner who ever lived In New York. Of tho scores of southerners who flocked to that city at tho close of tho war, hols ono of tho few who never broke or faltered in his career. His success has been amaslog. He stands third perhaps or fomtb^among tho money kings of the*country, Bis famllypinkcd togthe Goelels andAstors makes an alliance that Is perhaps first in Importance. This Georgia boy having outstripped the rich old fcmilicf. and established himself os the poor of thd oldest and wealthiest, stands at fifty-five years ???f age, as a strong pine tree without a flaw at its heart, in his prime and capablo of great work in the future. But this Is a long way off from the wedding that led to this train of reminiscence, and to which wo return for a moment to wish the young folks all the happiness that earth can give, and as good a ???tart In the next world asitbey already haro in this. Tho death of Mr. V. K, Stevenson, which occur red on Thursday, recalls a prominent figure in Atlanta during the war. Mr. Stevenson, who was a leading force in building the Nashville and Chat- tanooga^road, was a general commissary for the con federacy in Atlanta,in *02 buying wool InTexas and baying ft made Into clothing for tho army. After the warhc wcut to New York, where ho fallod tn real estate lu '73, but recovered fairly and becamo rich by the talc of the Nashville and Chattanooga road to Victor Newcomb, thus dispossessing Colo nel Cole of that property. A curious episode in Mr. Stevenson???s life was his experience in blockado running during the war. Hctwos the head of the most Important romblutlon ever formed for tbis purpose. Ho had three a??o- dates, one of whom was in England, another of Whom had charge of the railroads,and another who was stationed at Wilmington???the port through which they operated, and from which their ships slipped ont. The scheme of blockade-running In tbo confed eracy was a very enticing one. The cotton brought bcie Scents a pound in gold(912 a bale,)brought in England 40 cents a pound or 91C0 a bale. Tho cof- fco and quinine with which the ships were loaded for the return trip, bought low in England, sold for fabulous prices fn the south. A ship carrying ont 2.0CO bales of cotton would clear SMO.COO in gold ou tho cotton and as much on the return cargo. "" The firm of which Mr. Stevenson was tho head was a strone one. The members in charge of rail roads could burry the cotton forward. The Wilm ington partner could ship ft in person and start ft out of the beleagured port. The partner in Eng land could receive It, sell it, buy the return cargo and start the ships home on their perilous jour ney. M r. Stevenson appreciated these ail van Uges and when bidding the partner who was going to England good-bye, 1io said, ???All the profits you get jou must put into now ships and add to oar fleet. We???ll make all or lose all." And away the English partner went, slipping out undir the gnns of the enemy in the dark of the moon. The operations of this firm were stupendous. They hail a small boat, the Celeste, that carried ECO baits of cotton aud never miuod, and the Atafacta, a larger craft, that flew like tbc wind. The sn cessfnl trips of there boats gave the firm money with which they added ship alter ship, the Englbh partner having them built In England at a cost of about 92W.00U each, until they bad a fleet of ten racers on the high seas. Their ships were bnllt for speed and were very devils of the water. lu aud out among the federal squad* tons they flew, having the swiftness and alertuesa of hawks. The federal* exasperated at their ina bility to catch these ships atretched chain* across the harbor, that when touched would 411 the sky with rock eta. But Utile the flying cruisers cared. Aa the rockets went op they went on, and plung log through shot and shell, made the ocean or the port as they were headed. The oifleers and the crew were stimulated by high pay and the sense of adventure, hot neref carried gun*. They put their lives and fotunes on the speed of their ship, and their skill in handling her. The great trouble was to get pilots. There were only about ten pi lots for the port of Wilmington, and whew the federal! caught a pilot they never released him till our Georgia firm kept their ships moving.!#- mously. Time was all they needed. Had they started a year earlier, or even a few mouths earlier, the! ability, energy and advantages would have mado them colossal fortunes. But tho war closed in on them. The Celeste, having braved every dan ger, burst her boilers-at Nassau, as her captain was treating a party of ladies to a ride on his fa mous ship. The Atalanta was seised by the con federate government. Another ship, finding it imikesibte to mako Wilmington, tried to put in at Charleston, aud was captured at Bull???s bay, loaded to the gunwales with coffee. Another slip ped in at Wilmington at night and anchored under Fort Fisher. The-crew, exhausted with constant watching, fell asleep on the decks, and awoke in the morning to find tliestars and strlpca floating over tho fort and the war at an end. Oth ers of the ships were captured here and there. At Nassau cargos of coffee,quinine and other blockado goods were piled up ready to be ran in, and were seized or stolen or lost. In the groat catastrophe all was lost. Shortly after the war Mr. Stevenson was sitting in hfs office it Atlanta, when his partner from England walked In. ???How much cotton have we?" asked he. ???Not a bale," said ???Mr. Stevenson. ???Why, didn???t you buy in accordance with my letters and draw on me in England?" ???I never received a letter from you.??? It appeared that tho English partner had written three letters ty three separate ships. instructing Mr. Stevenson in view of the rapidly approaching end, to buy all the cotton he could get, draw ou him in England for it, and store the cotton. Every letter had miscarried, and where he hod ex pected to find 10,0 CO bales of cotton worth $1,500,000 he found not a bale. There was saved from the general wreck barely enough to close up tho ac counts of the firm, and tho blockado runuers were left to pouder on what might have been. The temporary and local drop in the price of Jerseys in localities affected by plcuro pneumonia suggests many curious cattlo speculations. I)r. Hubble, of Philadelphia, had a few fine St. Heller Jerseys, which he bred in and in. The originals having no defects, thdir virtues were emphasized by the inbreeding, and a superb herd was tho re sult. But tho irrascible doctor having been at tacked violently for what his critics colled inces tuous breeding, ho swore he would never sell another Jersey, and dispersed hJs herd by practi cally giving them away. To a market woman he gave a calf that yielded two and a half pounds of butter a day, and that sho sold for 92.5C0. The St. neliers became famous as soon as their wonderful qualities developed and were picked up wherever they could bo found by tho richest breeders, and their established price ran from (2,500 to 93,Ot0. Had Dr. Hubble kept them, they would have given him a largo fortane. The most ancient and honorable famlly^of Jer seys, the St. Lamberts for Stoke Pogfs.hasan Inter esting history. An Englishman named Dsuncey, in 1830 owned a most elegant cow, from which ho bred a herd. He kept tho register of each calf anti- dating the herd book by nearly half a century. At his death his herd Was sold and thcDauncy cattlo were scattered through Canada. They de veloped unusual qualities and Cooper, the great importer, went to England, gathered up what he could find and brought them over. Simultane ously Mr. Fuller, of Canada, bought all to be found in tho dominion, Inbred them and had tests made. They became known as St. Lamberts from the town and Stoko Pogis from tho play. Mary Ann and Ida of 8t. Lamberts Toad the world In butter record, and 93,000 Is an ordinary price for one of these descendants o! tho Dauucys. But these prices aro insignificant when wo recall the great sale of Duchess short horns, which took place in 1873, and which stands unequalled In cow annals. Mr. Louis Morris, of Morrlslna, bought a half dozen of the Duchess short horns in England at a public sale, and Drought them here. Ho Inbred them and kept tho Increase. Their reputation grew rapidly, and aJPhiladelphian bought the wholo herd. He continued tho in- breeding, and refused to eell a single animal. Tho form of these short horns were perfect, and they swept tho prizesiat fairs la this country and in England. When the furor reached Its height, the owner advertised, six months in advance of the sale, through Europe and America, that he would dispose of bis herd. English buyers oompotod with Americans at the sale, and tho herd brought nearly one million dollars. 'Alexander, of Ken tucky, bought one cow for forty thousand dollars, and though she lived fourteen yean sho never gave him a calf. The prices dropped heavily soon after, though tho short horns still have en thusiastic admirers. To return to Jemcys; it seems to bethe?part of wisdom to buy at the present, at least for Georgia herds, where there has been no pleuro pneumonia, than to risk Importing cattlo from the infected sections. There bss not been a caso in Georgia, and it Is likely there will be none. I heard the history of sorghum the other day. In 1855 Mr. D. Redmond gave to Mr. Richard Petcn a handful of black seed, which had received from Chin Mr. Pcten put lhem looso in his pocket and ate the most of them. One 8unday afternoon he was in his garden, and feeling a few of thaw seeds in bis pocket, scratched a hole and droppod them in it. The result was remarkable. In a short time the most luxuriant stalk# covered the spot, sweet and thrifty. In a rude mill Mr. Peters produced the first sorghum syrup ever mado. Tbc experiment caused tho wildest dis cussion, and scientific men flocked in to see the wonderful cane. Iu the meantime Mr. Peters had replanted and harvested largo quantities of seed. He joined Mr. W. P. Orme with him and adver tised the seed for sale in small packages. The re ceipts for the same went over 910,OCO. The Ameri can Agriculturist cartooned Mr. Peters, who ha! said that his children loved thccauo. The picture represented Mr. Peters in a field of the cane and young Richard leading tho family in climbing the etalka, while the cows come plunging through the fence. The next year Mr. Judd made an offer for 400 bushels of tho iced at 15 a bushel. Mr. Peters let him have it, and a small package was sent free to every new subscriber of the Agriculturalist. Tho result was an increase of SO.CCO subscribers In ono season. The sorghum was then thoroughly introduced, and is now a staple crop in tbe west and south. If Mr. Peters hadn???t loafed in the garden tha Sunday evening, sorghum might still be unknowu of tbo old wine in Augusta was saved, and I am inclined to think there are more cobwebbed bottles of Maderia there than in any other American city of approximate size." The effect of rotation is seen in the fact that in our coming state senate not a single senator la re turned. The seunte is stronger, however, as chance has it, than the last oue. In tho last senate only three were returned. Rotation almost does its perfect (or imperfect) work. Northern Loan Companies Again. Editoks Constitution: The question in 'refer ence to the per cent paid by borrowers to tho northern loan companies has been long agitated I am connected in no way with these companies, but bavo bad occasion t > give the matter some thought recently, and have arrived at the concla- sion that the rate is neither 20 per cent, as many borrowers claim, nor under 15 per cent, as claimed ty many agents. I submit my solutiou of the problem, and if you see fit to present it to the peo ple, they can take it for what it is worth. applies for 91,000, and according to tho ma', (*)> cwv tur uic uao ui rw, nmwwKiiu??i to 75 per cent for five years. Averaging this we have the annual rate of 15 per cent, which la claimed by many aa the actual rate. But hero tho objection may bo urged that 15 per cent of 9300 is IUO per year, when the borrower is only required SK , second, third and fourth years, and at the end of tho fifth year pay 75 per cent of 9h00-thut is tbe whole amount at once, 91.400. do also, it ia better for him to pay less interest towards the first and more interest towards tbc last, for by paying ffcOtbc first year and not 9120 be gains tne use of Mu for four years; and by paying 980, aud not 9120, for tho second year, he gains tho uso of flO for three years, etc. Now, while I cannot say with many agents that the terms, requiring as they do the pay incut of f80 annually instead of 1120, de crease tbo actual rate per cent, 1 do claim that these terms arc much more lenient than those re quiring tho annual payment of 15 per tent, and therefore much better lor tho boi rower. We see, then, that the payment oi 75 percent for the entire time Is mollified by thetcims. How? It is clear that for four yeans at least tho borrower docs not pay 15 per cent. If this is true, and its truth cannot bo denied, It is also clear that for the last year ho pays more than 15 per cent, for the whole per cent for flvo ytare must equal 75 per cent, and if the rate Is de creased ou the ono hand it must bo increased on the other. It is evident also that any fraction more than It) per cent will require tho payment of more than fro per year. Now, since $80, only, is paid annually for tbo first, second, third and fourth yeais, the rate for those years must be 10 per cont, lor fco is 10 per cent of 800. Now at tho end of tho filth year ho not only pays 980. but tho amonnt at first applied for.fl.OtO; he therefore pays9280 more than the principal ($800), and this may pr w ??? calkd interest. Now. 1280 la 35 per cent _ For four years, then, he pays 40 per cent (10 per ecu land 4) and for tbe fifth year 35 per cent, the whole amounting to 75 per cent. Agents for theso loan companies and thoso venturing their frail bsrkeon tho uncertain sea of indebtedness to them clamor for an average rate. In short, they want# rate that will yield an interest of iaO an nually lor four years aud then by some miracle, as it were, yield with tbe samo principal, same time, but filth year 92h0. Tho absurdity is apparent. gome claim the rate to bo higher than 20 per cent; others (agents of course) that it is less than 16 per cent, lilt was tho former, the amount of interest would be more than $000; if the latter, that is, less than 15 per cent???the amount of inter est would be less than 9500: and If there was a uni form rate lor five years of 16 per cent, tho Interest for the first year would bo 9120, whereas it is only K0. As I have already stated, the torms of the interest (10 per cent for four years an* cent for tho tilth year) are better than those re quiring each year a pa, * ~ tne leniency in - these taken by many for a del . If any oneinould find a rate per cent that tnul* tipiled on to|800 will yield for tbo first. *:*cou<r, third and fourth years respectively .9280 for tbe fifth year with same price, I hopo they will explain the process. K. II. George. Gainesville College, October 18,1??L ??? MAUD 8. David Bonner on Her Decent Perform v?? at Hartford. From the Commercial-Gazette. New York, October 15.???Mr. David Bonner was, asked this morning if tho performance of Maud 8 at Hartford yesterday was satisfactory to her own er, in view of (he cool weather and strong wind with which she had to contend. "Perfectly,??? he replied. "The mare was trotted simply to please the people who had gathered to see her. Had only Mr. Robert Bonner and a few inllmato friends been present sho would not have been taken from the stall. But 2,500 or 3,000 hod collected to witness the mare???s speed; and we ecu id not turn them away without ev?? * gllropto of tbe animal. No attempt was however, to have Maud 8 boat her record of 2:02)$. ???It wan a foregone concltnlou that she could not accomplish such a 4cat against the wind and cool vioua to yesterday's exhibition she had done good work. A week ago she made a half mile In I.tt% IWmiMUiK made In t??k( seconds. Turn any other animal ever trotted HOW JOHNSTON PACED THE 31 ILK, toe A short time before bis tragic death, Delmonlco, the last of his name, was in Atlanta, and a guest oi Mr. Richard Peters. He was banded the wine which he approached cuutioukly. After tasting ft he expressed great delight, and said: ???I thought I had tasted every wine in the world, but this is os strange to me aa it is delicious.??? He was informed that ft wan feuppernong wine from the cellar of Dr. Bower, of Screven county. He at once ordered a barrel for his great restaurants. Afterwards Mr. John Hoey and Mr. Dinsmore, of the express company, ordered a barrel eacb. Had Delmonlco lived, this Georgia wine would doubt lees have been famous by this time among the habitues of his cafes. Mr. Glgniiliat, of Darien, makes a claret that cannot be excelled anywhere. Excellent wine Is made Jn Cuthbert, Thomasvllle and other Georgia towns, and I recently saw a bottle of Chateau d???Ormond made by Mr. James Ground, of this city, opened to epicures and drank amid subdued but soulful applause. Lover* of pure wiues???the true eseuceof the vine???cannot do better than to order from some Georgia wine cellar. On this topic a gentleman said: ???Mr. Gao.Waring, of Kiopton, has fifty cases of win* that is about woitb its weight in silver. It is Madeira that was bottled in lt&Q, and Is now over half a century old. Mr. Waring moved up to Habersham daring the war, and saved It 1 think by bricking ft op in an old boiler." Diverging, my informant said: "A number of fine wine cellars iu Georgia were rifled by tho federal# aa they raided through the state. There were many eelUra In August* and Savannah that tad Uca filled at n coat of flOrCO?? each. Much The Alan Who Drove In 8,00 1-4 Tells How the Horse Went Hound, John Splan to a Chicago Interviewer. I had a good strong hold of Johnston all the way to tbo half-mile pole ou Friday afternoon, and I never began driving him at all until we round si ft to tho homestretch, aud oven then f did nothing hut rouse him up a little with tbe lines. It won only alter wo got inside the distance that I spoke tohitn, and he went away from ft as if bo was Just liom tho barn for exercise. Everything was In the horse???s favor, aud ho did Just what I expected him to do???that is, paco a mile a good deal /aster than It had ever been done before. His latest mile this season was one in 2:10 at Milwaukee, und previous to that ho bad never gone better than 2:11M- So /ou set, that to drop fram there to 2:0t% was quite a job. 1 dld???t know to a certainty that ho could do it, because 1 bad not becu trying him every week to find out. A horse will stand one grand drive, but when you come to ask him to do hfs very best every week he will begin to get sick of It and the minute a trotter or K rerstrikes that frame of miud be I* not going to at bis rccoid much. And that is why l au not going toe rive Johnston another mile tnta season at Ole very top of his speed. Next spring I sh ill go along essy with him, lust aa I have done this year, and If no bad luck befall# him he will go a mile close to two minutes. CONSTITUTION TRADE PAPER. From tbe Eylvania Telephone. Tnit Constitution???s trade issue was an Immense success. It shows the capacity aud enterprise of the best paper iu the south. The state us well as thecity of Atlantashoutd feel justly proud of it. From the Alpharetta Democrat. The Atlanta Constitution is'always taking a step forward. Nothing, perhaps. In a newspaper venture in the south, or indeed in this country, hu ever eclipsed the issue ot this great journal on Octcier 1st. To get something like a definite idea of its magnitude let us look at Its volume. Ten ions, or twenty thousand pounds, of paper was uh-o, inch paper contained forty-four page*, and t or h page contained Sfti square Inches of reading mutter, and cacti pap>*r contained 16,192 square in< hes, or 112% square feet of reading matter, and ihc whole issue would cover 5 V25.0U0 square feet, or imiu than 110 acres, and if iu column-* were Joined to each other they would reach 4,WV* nw/es, or nearly twice across the American conti nent. V. ho wlil say that this is not a great nears- I a per achievement, amt hutrah for The Constitu- lit*? k re m thellinesvilie Gazette. Htben It comes to enterprise and grit The At lanta Constitution must carry off tbe palm. The manrgtmi-nt determined to get up a trade isauo on the 1st insUnt which would surpass ail tieir previous successful efforts, and they did it. The mammoth sheet contained forty-four pa?"*, and tr.e tuition reached way on into the thousand*, it Mbk ten tons of paper, which if spread out would have covered the nil rood track from Chat- tsnooga to Brunswick. Tn* Coxsrn irriox is a big thing. What It Ws??. ???My dear brothers and sisters,??? continued tbe minister, winding op b!s farewell sermon; ???you have no Idea what Is prosing next my heart, U ???etli?????? ???I know," broke in a lad. ???What Is ftv* smilingly asked the clergymen. ???Your limped." yelled the hoy; ???hit???s got loose, an??? Is robbing the wrong spot.??? GOTHAM GLIMPSES. A Little Steamer and Its Fstsengers-Tbs Tramps in City Hall Fsrk-Minnit Palmer and Pansy Da* veoport-Joa Howard???s Audaeity-Otaer Notts From tho Great City. New York, October 16.???A swift and shapely lit tle steamer was that which threw out a Hue to tho bulkhead of a North river pier and disembarked Mrs. John Bigelow. She Is the most eccentric of estimable ladies, so fudependeut in taste that she defers nothing iu dress to the dictate of fashion, end so accomplished that she c&u writo a novel which sells well on its merits. Sly^is tho wifo of the ex-minister to France, and sho would fill a bulky volume Interestingly if she should uorrato tbe odd things she did while at the court of tho Empress Eugenie. To appear at a stato bull fn calico, to fill with her servants the imperial box which bad been placed at her disposal at tho opera, to cat peanuts while the cotillion partner of tho emperor???those were trifling incident* Illustrating her strong individualism. When I saw that tho yacht from which sho alighted was SAMUEL J. TILDBN???S, and recollected that her husband is at present tho closest friend of that decrepit statesman, I was prompted to inquire after the health of tho celeb rity who was or wasn???t elected to the presidency In 1876. ???Mr. Tllden was aboard that boat,??? she said, pointing to tbe receding craft. "Ho brought mo down. How is he? Well enough to oleet CJovo- land six times during the trip, while I did tho same thing for Blaine about as often. Somebody sent him a new patent gnmo called ???Politics??????a sort of backgammon board, on which you can play a semblanco of a presidential campaign. It is a very Ingenious contrivance, aud tho old gentle man takes to it wonderfully." ???Childish, eh?" ???Not a bit of ft, any more than wlilst or chess, and requiring just as much skill to play well. All the movemeuta of capturing the electoral votes of tho different states aro simulated, and there???s a chance for an immenso amount of head work. And Mr. Tilden???s play is able, I assure you." The campaign has at length taken on the prom ised liveliness. Tho moss meetings aro numerous every night, opposing torch-light processions criss-cross each other???s lino of march, and about all the leisure talk of tho town Is political. With in two weeks, however, local Interest will bo large ly diverted from the presidential canvass to tho SCRABBLE FOR CITY OFFCES. There aro two classes of New Yorkers who aro fully imbued with- the ambition to becomo politi cian?, chiefly for the reason that they have plenty of time to dovoto to tho avocation. They are tho saloon keepers and thoso lawyers who have not gained sufficient legal praeUoe to wholly occupy them. As tho former number over ten thousand and tho latter probably four thousand, It will bo seen that tho competition for preferment Is sure to bo brisk. That tho pursuit of office is dcluslvo will bo conceded by every one of thorn, couplod with tho reservation that, while tho buying of lot tery tickets may be foolish, tho exceptional win ner has no reason to deplore his Investment. So prevalent is tho idea that, onco in office, or oven In politics, wealth at onco takca an Inward flow, that TIIE TRAMPS IN CITY HALL PARK gaze by the lazy, longing hour at tho marble walls of tho publlo buildings, as though money was to bo exuded therefrom for tho mere gathering. Al derman Waito Isn terrible example for aspiring politicians to view. His father built and land- lorded tho Brcvoort houso, In Fifth avenue, which bccamo distinctively a hotel for rich foreigners, especially tilled Englishmen. When he died, tho property alone was considered to bo worth halt a million dollars, and tho business nearly as much more. The son succeeded him in as stable a hotel interest aa could bo named In America, but be came a politician, and now is a bankrupt, dispos sessed of tho premises, aud with nothing left but tbe despised offico of alderman, which Just at present involves the odium of bribery chargea connected with a franchise fora railroad In Broad way. It la said that he disbursed a hundred thou sand dollars In five years in sustaining Waite club*, party assessments and other purchases of popular ity. Tbe rest of his financial ruin is due to a neg lect of his legitimate business for tbe aoeklngol office. Of course, politics aro not yet comparable with tho drama as a candlo for moths to fly around and get singed In. 1 saw the crushing of ono butterfly debutante, the other evonlng. The occasion was tbe trial of a new play by Janauscheck. A novi ciate girl, for whom nature had done nothing and ark very little to fit her to become an actress, hod inscrutably been cast for tho rolo of a young brldo wbo figured Importantly In the plocc. 1 under stand that sMo has since managed to get through with her task tolerably, but her debut was fraught with such terrors as quite unnerved her, and made her AN OBJECT OP COMMISERATION. To act in scenes with tbe portcntlous Jnnanrelicck in itself a trying ordeal, but that wssjiothfng compared with the other professional scrutiny to which she know she was placed. Tho body of tho house was filled by Journalists wbo wore there to criticise, ana acton wbo_wers ready to guy other performcn previous to the commencement of their own season???s exposure to such treatment. But tbo most appalling frontage to the poor girl was in the proscenium boxes. She was liko a fighter of a wild beast in au ancient arena, with thumbs of tho spectators pointed down for her death, fn one box sat Fanny Davenport, and my lady readers may care to know that her dress, Illustrative of tho autumnal fashions, was a tailor-made affitlr of light brown cloth, and that her bonnet was white and gold, with feather clusters and velvet ribbons to trim It. In a second was Minnie Palmer bon- netted" with a mixture of black loco ou a gold ground and velvet, AND StfUQLY COMAOED In a jacket of brown brocade, disclosed by tbe flinging beck quite theatrically of a brlghtly-linod chenille cloalt, Jn a third was Jnnbch, resplen dent In a toilette more elaborate than is usually seen atony other show than au'opcra. Tbe dross had blue satin for groundwork, upon which were more intricacies ot adornment, in many colors, than 1 would undertake to describe. In a fourth waa Alnuc, fn plain but shapely black satin. AU these women were stars ready to sbiue for the sea son ou American audiences, more or less prosper ously fixed in their orbit, aud coldly observant of the inexperienced maiden on tho stage before them. That she made a ludicrous failure under such depressing circumstances was Inevitable. The occasion was also remarkable for the labors done by tbe managers of Janiscb and Palmer. These two actresses were to appear at city theater* within a week or two. Their boxei were between sets converted into reception rooms for all the journalists who could be urged io enter for Intro duction. Tbe grace and graclousness of the ho*> esses were simply wonderful. It was a aha no to lead them astray in the bestowal of their smiles, hot Joe Howard did It. Wheu invited to c til on Minnie Palmer, be pleaded harry as au cxcu??c for declining. But here Is my friend fJhIUlngfrost, of the Her* aid,??? be added, ???wbo would be please 1 to pay his respects to Miss Palmer.??? 1 he chap thus thrown Into ecatacles of delight was neither named Cbilliogfrost, nor was he a newspaper man, but one oi chronic front-row dudes, whom theageirf would have Identified hsd be not so recently come from a year???s sojourn in England. That he accepted the opportunity to bask in Minnie???s best radiance was a matter of course. JOE HOW A ED l<one of tbe phenomenal character* of New York. Be is fifty years old, according to the lapieof time since' hJ* birth, hot not more than half that in spirits. He is exactly like tbe accepted portraits Shakespeare, and it is related that, riding Iu Central park past tbe statue of the great hard with e noted foreign visitor, the other commented on the good quality of the poet???s figure. Vts," very sedately responded Joe, with tbo air which everybody unfailingly assumes when his portrait Is under consideration, ???it Is generally pronounced by aj friends - fair likeness. 1 There were no palpable evidences of a Joke, and how was tho stranger to know that Journalists In America were not usual in publlo sculpture? Therefore ho believed Joe, and begged his pardon for having failed to recognise lu him tho atatuo* origin aL The story Is reasonable to everybody who knows tho solidity of Joe Howard???s audacity. He is sou of a Plymouth church deacon, and as a hoy grew up as much In HENRY WARD BEECHER???S HOUSOIOLD as In hts own family???s. JJe was ednaated for civil engineering, but preferred journalism, lu which ho has mado and lost several big fortunes. Tbo first time I ever saw him was at a ceremonial of some sort In Trinity church, to which wo both went aa reporters. There was a tremendous crowd, and the place given to the pressmen wax not good for hearing and seeing the services. Sud denly Joe was gone from among us. Bat in tho front row of tho choristers, wheu they rouged themselves along side the altar, he reappeared in the proper robo and demeanor. That was many years ago; but I realised, at tho Janauvchek play, that the luster o'f bis brass was nndiamad. Two of the actors forgot their lines at a critical junct ure, aud stood awkwardly speechless, too clo*e to the lootftghts and too far from the prompter to bo immediately helped. Joe leaned forward, with grave expression of Inquiry ou his face, and asked solemnly, in a voice audible to the performers and half the audience, "Well?" NO R1VCOE SCENE ever impressed me so deeply as did a view of real- tty last evening, A large building has been torn down in the Bowery, exposing to passengers on tho elevated railroad the back side of a lingo tene ment house which fronts on another street. There were eight stories and a width of a hundred feet. From most of the eighty windows gleamed a light, not of such electricity aa was dazzllngly advertising tho stores In tho Bowery, nor of onll nary gas jets, but of dim oil lamps and candles Tho frontage of such structures aro comraou enough In New York, and arc not often tin present able, being not infrequently brown stono or press ed brick; but to see the rear thus unexpectedly, with itaalgusof crowded llfo WAS ALMOST STARTLfNO. Like the removed section of tho shell to a ma chine lu a drawing for tho patent office, the break iu the Bowery mude an effective exposition of mnesed population. On inveatigation I lcarnod that ICO families lived in this building, or about a thousand persons. Put the samo nurabor Into tho small, scattered dwellings o! a village, and soo what a considerable town thoy would mako. Talking on tbis subject with a rCnl estate mana ger, I got from him tho assertion that, besides a great number of houses used for business purposes the Astor estate includes tho domiciles of about FIFTY THOUSAND INDIVIDUALS, sufficient for a city a* large os many that figure appreciably in the makeup of the country. ???What kind of a city would this property and pcoplo.form, If by tbcmfclvos?" 1 asked. ???Well, It would have a wldo range of diversity In all respects. The houses would includo tho mansions of millionaires and tho hovels of tho very poor, with every Intermediate quality; and there would be long streets of stores, theaters ho tels, brothels and manufactories. Tho pooplo would compriso all tho sort* who naturally bolong to such a variety of buildings. On tbo whole I should say that tho city would be a miniature of New York. It would bo hard to name an ele ment, good, bad or Indlllbrcnt, that is not Inclu ded In the Astor tenantry." Speaking of real cstato hero tho lack of American veneration for houses in which great men haro lived Is shocking to foreigner*. Wo aro devoid of that sort of veneration. Lately WASHINGTON'S HEADQUARTERS were demolished by so rich a man os Cyrus W. Field to clear a site for a commercial building, aud now the former dwelling of Aaron Burr, from which he went ont to kill Alexander Hamilton Iu a duel, Is being raxed. 1 don???t suppose wo ought to venerate the resldonco of so vicious a man a* Burr, or to protect the premises on which his worst orgies were held, but wo might at least re member tho hlstorio Interest pertaining to it. It is a fact that neither the owner nor tho last occn pant* of this house, In Roado street, Just round a corner from the busiest part of Broadway, know that Aaron Burr had ever crossed the threshold, Franklin, Home Blatters. Fire in chimneys msy bo checked, if not ar rested, by throwing salt on tho fire below. Stop ping the chlmuey at the top with a broad board orwethayarresta tha current of air and helps to extinguish it. Leaks In roofs, about chtnn.eys and elsewhere may be stopped by thickening white lead paint with fine clean sand. Openings are easily filled with this cement, aud become durably water-tight. For smaller leaks less sand Is put iu, and tho paint remains more nearly liquid. raint, In small quantity, kept always on hand frequently proves a great convenience In doing small Jops, covering tho wounds of pruned trees, etc. If kept In common paint pots It soon dries, and a better way Is therefore to use an orapty fruit Jsr with a closely fitting cork. A smsll brush sot in tho cork inside will be always ready without /urthcr care. Tine EfWENTiAla in Housk C???leanino.???Give your cl<suers a little ammonia in tho water that cleans your |*lnt, and the'dirt will go, as by magic, leav ing, which is not always tho coxo with soap scrub- Liny, the i*afnt behind. Canton flannel cloths are best for paint, and especially for those tedious things, tbe "banisters" of the stairway. Few peo ple say "balusters" any more than they say "tho flower of the wild pomcgranlte," from which the original word Is derived, (from the fancied rasem blnure to tho little pillars of the stairway) so wo msy ss well have the American word as In general nsc. Btaltway cleaning Is the most fatiguing pari of the antnmn renovating, and happy are the people who bare theirs finished lu haul wood*, ??? which do not take atalns and scratches as doc* white painted pino or maple. It makes the cleaning easier of ail glass globes, lamp shades, etc., to dip them into a basin of warm water and common soda. A paste of whiting applied to marble bureau tops, left to dry and then rubbed off, will often improve thorn, anil fine whiting is also good to clean tbe mirrors over the bureaus, too. "Elbow grease," of canrse, in rubbing down your furniture with turpentine to toko out scratches and spots, but you may as well have all the secrets of chemistry io help you out, and save your strength and your household goods from so much wear and tear. Cleanse all tho toilet brusecj wiUi a Urge teaspoonful of strong hartshorn In a quart of cold water, adding afterwards about# gill of hot water. After tbe cleaning is over, freshen all the house brjiobes, too, In this way. Boll up all the house cloths snd paint cloths with a little soda when your work I* over, sad your tins will look like silver on the wall when treated in a sim ilar wsy with soda and scouring sand. ???Rotten stone" for the plain brakes; bat rub off ornamen tal line brass work (tttat it too full of indentation to use a powder) with m bit of lemon. Never touch aizmonu to brvs. ???Wilmington cUy," applied Iu a fine powder and very gently ???dusted" on tbe wall paper should remove sny grease spot, though you can try a fresh spot with the heat ot a hot Iron applied to it, after it has been well cover ed with a bit of absorbent paper, 81ft the com mon whiting through a bit of fine muilin to get a smooth powder for your sliver. Tbo rubber swab or scraper which Is used on Urge shop windows tor removing tbe dust stains aud rain marks Is a useful thing Io house cleaning, and saves much time In going over the window panes with a ehtmots. Use tbe latter for polishing merely and for rubbing off all furniture that you wash iu cold water.???Philadelphia Lodger. - AX BUN A PATTI, the great songstress, ays of golon Palmer's Perfumes, Toilet Boapi and ether Toilet srtic.es: ??I unhesitatingly prosouce them superior to any I evar usea.??? Principal Depot, 374 and 379 Pearl St., N. Y FROM GRAVE TO GAY. NEAT THINGS SKIMMED FROM THE DAILY PRESS. The Silent Starf-Chsfflngth# New Olrt-How They Fils* in Texas- Castle and lOottase-Who Msy Wear Theo Fokes-Varlotia itis- cellsneeus Items of Interest. The Silent Stars. Detroit Post. ???How silent the stars aro to-night. George," sho said, softly, gsxing at them over his shoulder. "Y-ycs," he replied, ???but do you think they are any more silent than usual?" Chaffing the New Girl. From tbe Providence News. "So you are tbe new girl," said tho boarders to the new waiter; "and by what name are wo to call you?" ???Pearl," said tho maid with a saucy toss of her head. _ ???Oh," asked the smart boarder, ???aro Hour It Tnys to Work the Comic Vein. From tho New York Graphic. Josh Billings is worth over 9150,000. Petroleum V. Nasby, who Is known in private life os David R. Locke, Is worth9200,000. Mark Twain Is tho richest humorist fn America. Robert J. Burdette, the Burlington Hswktye man. has made nearly 320,000. Charles B. Lew Is, the Detroit Free Press matt, is worth 110,COO a yean How They Fling in Texas. Texas Preacher in the 8nu Antonio Standard. Holding icrvfcefl at a place one time, I took up a collection for tho support of missions. There was a poor old lady present who, I .noticed, dropped a 15 gold piece In the hnt. 1 know sho was very poor nnd not able to aflnrd no much and thougtit sno hud Intended to throw in a auarte. but mado n mistake. So nest day 1 met her huabaud, and raid to him: ???Look here, your wife put a 95 gold piece in the hnt yesterday. 1 think sue mind havo made a mistake.??? ???No, no," ho repllod: ???my wife didn???t make no mistake. Hhu don't fling of ten, but, let mo tell you, when she flings sho Mugs." Dr. Parker???s Thirty-four Shots, Cliarilcn Valley, Pa., Tribune: Dr. Parker wcut hiinttug Nome time since, and, seeing a squirrel poke his head out of a hole In tho tree, be fired, hut not seeing the squirrel drop, ho camo to tho conclusion that ho had missed ft. Almost In stantly he raw wlmt ho supposed was tho head of the same animal, aud again fired, 8tlll tho squir rel???s head appeared at tho sumo place, ilo tired thirty four shots, and as ho did not see tbo game drop, ho canto to tho conclusion that ft was useless to coutiuuo tho bombardment, and started to go further into the grove. Lo, and behold, when bo had parted tho treo on which ho had seen the ono squirrel, he saw thirty-four lying lu a heap upon the ground. . Ho Pleaded Guilty. A prominent lawyer now practicing in a western town fella tbo following: ???An old darkey was under indictment for sumo trivial ofleuso aud was without counsel. Tho judge appointed mo to defend him. I was young sml very fresh at the time, and It was my first care in court. ???As 1 went forward to consult with my client, ho turned to tbo Jtulgu and said: ??? *Yo??? honnh, am dis do lawyer what am de- pointed to otiVud me???? * ??? ???Yes.??? was the reply, ??? ???Well,??? said the old darkey, ???take hit away, Jcdge??I pleads guilty.???" Who May Wear Theo Pokes. New York Letter to Chicago Tribune. If a woman 50 years old, with a false front, and only such eyebrows as can be evolved from a burnt match, insists upon wcarlug tho ???Theo poke," there Is no sumptuary law to prevent her, and a hundred shop girls are ready to abet her In her folly, with their usual encouraging remark, It looks real good on you." And tho poor old Idiot allows horscli to bo persuaded that a pink satin lining and a bunch or pink ostrich tit* aro Just tho trimming ft needs to mako her lust too awfully bewitching. This ???Theo^.ke" Is tbo very latest development of tho millinery evolu tion. 'J ho hint four daya have seen au eruption of these Jaunty little ho on ets oil the sur/iteo of tho fmhloiinhlo shopping streets. They ???poke" up In tho front and In the back, and require very llttlo trimming. A face-lining, a bunch of tlp?? nod a loop of ribbon are qulto sufficient For young suu pretty women there bats arocharmlng. Castle nnd Cottage* From the Yonkers Gsxette. Fnhl a castle high to a cottage low, T wonder you can be content so??? Just look at me." Paid the cottage low to the castlo high, ??????Your grand position Is all In your eye??? Just wait aud see." Then a cyclone came, on wild fury bont, And carried the castle off like a tout??? Hure as 1 say. It saw not tha cottage down In tbe vale. 8o ft merely Just touched ft with its tall, Aud passed away. Then tbe cottago smiled and whispered aside, ??????Bach la the ending ot too much prhle??? 1 always knew. I |iQ k Yon will find this truo." Only Partially Huceessful* From Ihc Detroit Free Press. Thera was a twinkle in bis eyes as ho entered a livery stable the other morning and proceeded to look over the horses. When be hod mado tho rounds tbeproprletor asked: 'looking for a hone?" 'Hay, I???ve one of iny own, but a neighbor Is con tinually bothering me to loan him the rig for a drive. Have you an animal which you will war??? rant to run away?" ???You bet! That old roan thore will make a break before he is driven two blocks." ???Then 1 want to borrow him this afternoon. I???ll give that neighbor all the buggy riding he want* Tor a year to come." Tbe hnreo Wns sent to his Urn at tbo hour agreed upon, and hitched up for the neighbor aud his wife. Lucky for the wife, the horse fan away be/ore she got In, and she was thus saved from a big scare it not a ease of broken liouc*. When the animal waa re turned to the stable tbe proprietor inquired: "Well, I warranted him to run away or no rft "Yes. he ran away.??? "And your game succeeded?" "Y-c-n, I suppose so. That Is, Fve. got to sit up nights for the next two weeks with# man with a broken leg, and 1 suppose my buggy was dam aged about a 9100 worth.??? Uvea Prolonged. Many to whom ne encouragement could bo offered, disease having progressed so far that no rbsnce of arresting it seemed to remain, have Lech promptly relieved, and their live# prolonged pud rendered comparatively com fortable, by the new Vitalising Treatment of Drs. Htarkey 4c Faieu, 1I0U Girard street, Phil adelphia. Many more, who have been suffer ers for years end almost incapacitated for work, .are now In the enjoyment of a good de* S ree of health and able to engage actively in io businesi*, profession or household duties which had been wholly or partial!v abandon ed. It ia wonderful what cures in so-called "desperate eniea??? sre being made by this re markable Trcatmentl If any one, requiring the aid of euch a treatment, will write to Drs. fitsrkcy A Palm, th??*y will promptly mail such documents and reports of coses as will enable him to Judge of Its value f/r himself, Ifayneville, Alabama, Examiner, want* tho k fair at New Orleans to get up a aeries of ct* ???for ihc benefit of tbe poor bleeding if * rkuliura! Interests.??? t Ilia 8UCCK*W. Broad street was filled yesterday In the loc.it* ityof Neal A Co???s, furniture houre, with largo piles of beds, chairs, rotas and mattresses, fl t .h sight, at least so mhcb furniture, was soma- thing nnususl, so a C???oNrrrriTfoN man ventured ask Dr. bells what it meant. Ain???t selling ont, ore ,ouf??? wss askc.l oi tbo ???BeuiEg out? Well no* *??u?? * **** we sre kcepiuft up with things in a hurry, and no mistake. 1 hose roods you see there are or- dits wc are filling today.??? ??? Tht n ir*.!r mad???? Thin trade ia good???? You tee, we are arm and people who i ou h mlc?? 14*1*. etui