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I Bl l I) WALL SHEET SKETCHES. . HENRY S. IVES ACAIN A "NAPOLEON OF FINANCE." I . " I Jay Gould Halil to He Tutting Ills Ilnnao In Ordor In Iteaillneia for the Final OIL ( Everybody remembers dnshing Iletiry T. Ives, lliu lot of tlio Nspolcons of fioaucc, who, It seemed at otio tlrnc, was tlingcrously near a long term of lm- J prlsonrncnt. Wcll.bo Is out and around t Wall street theso days as bright and chipper nB a lark on a May morning. His cherubic countenance beams placidly, his eyes snap, and bo carries himself like a racer going to the post. Ho is ns superbly groomed today as before the crush. Ills wardrobo must bo very ex tensive, for bo never couunlu lho social flj TO SUCCEED JAY GOUI.D. IB -error of wearing tlio samo suit of cloth- B ins Iwlco in ono week. Ho is lavish In IH rich ncckwarc and jewelry. Indeed, his rfingcrs sparkle with rings. He seems to ibo at peace with all tlio world. Thero is mo shadow on bis path. B Ho lunches at Delmonlco's, and his H office is crowded with men anxious to .get a word with him. Whllo hundreds -of havc-bcens jostlo elbows with him H -every clay ho pays no heed to the past H -and is constantly adding to his already 'large furtunc, for thero are not many a ' people who do not believe that ho saved H a couplo of millions beforo tho law H -claimed him. Everything that ho touches I :oow turns to gold. lie Is making money i -aief9 rnpt'.Hy-than nny'mnii in tho street, 1 tmnd some day you will hear of him again, 8 for lie is consumed with au ambitlou to H -succeed Juy Gould as the big mhu of the 9 street 1 By tho way, how many men have m --strutted about Wall street for a brief day with the same Idea In mind? II Thero is no answer, for those onco 9 .sunk in tho maelstrom of Wall street speculation have no power of speech, jtt Perhaps Mr. Gould could tclll j Speaking of Gould, a Wall street man, H -ono of tho best informed, too, by tho "way. told mo tho other day that Gould's H -entire time is devoted to caring for his 1 -vast fortuue, so that when death comes j -be will loavo it In such a way that his m -heirs will hnvo no trouble in the courts. Sir. Gnuld docs not bcliovo that he will H live long, though he bus t'o reason to I -think so, for lucre is nothing tho matter El with blui but a torpid liver. Ho has n m .liosror of death, and Is putting his house iVfl -in order for tlio hour when tho grim VfH :mcescngcr will arrive. Contrary to Sijj eciicral belief he is not speculating In Hi Wall si root. Ho keeps n sharp eye on JpM the market and may go into tho street 9f -occasionally, but it is only to protect SB .himself. 3 Wall street has never had but one Jay 9. 'Gould, h 8cltlsh, grnsplng mm, blind to f. .all clso but money-making, n good 5S -friend whllo ho can use you.uu uurclcut- TIK HEErs A SIIAnr KVB O.V THE MAItKET. Ing enemy If you displease lilm; n rar.n of implacable hatred, he neither bends nor breaks; ho uever forgives or forgets; bis will is of Iron, a very Hismarclc of lluanco patiently walling for the oppor- tuno hour to strlko at his enemies or ft those who have displeased him and then p in tho twinkling of au eye comes the death blow. ,, Thero is now. at this very hour, a half dozen men in Wall street, almost suffer ing for food wrltrs Foster Cuatcs to tho Chicago Timet. Men rich and powerful in their day, who were crushed by .lav Gould. Ono was n broker for tho Wall street wizard. Ho made a fortuno and nailed away in his yacht without bidding Gnuld good-bye, or offering to aid him -with tho money Gould had bribed hlui tomnkc, for at that hour Gould wnss himself sorely pressed, and had nskod bis broker to assist him. Instead ho sailed nway to lliu Mediterranean. Gould gol through his Iroublos somehow. nnd a year elapsed before the broker appeared on tho streel, Gould said iio'thlug. Ho waited, Presently tho broker began to specu late. Then one day n frloud of Gould's gavo him a "tip." He put a large por tion of His fortune ou It, and In a trlco it was swept away, and beyond the wicck was seen tlio grinning faco of Gould. Ho was getting oven. Tho remainder of tho fortune went the samo way, and In a year the broker was pen niless. Every enterprise that he en gaged In failed. Gould never lost sight . of Mm. ami during tho lust ten years when fortune has again seemed to bo within bis grasp tho pursuit has never been givon up. Today tho broker Is a wreck, and his wretched family is in actual want. This Is only one case. There aro others, but I shall not burden you with their rcrital, for you may think I nm a man with a grievance, when as a matter of fact I nover saw Gould but once In my life. I um simply giving you a hasty glimpse of Wall street life. Thero may be a better place to study human nature than the piazza of a big hotel, but if so I havo nover found It. Only the other day I was sitting on tho pinzza of ono of tho big hotels in Sara toga. People wcro passing to and fro. The show of dresses was bewildering and tho glitter of diamonds dazzling lit tho extreme. It was after dinner. Tho orchestra was playing tho overturn from Taniihauscr, and tho old lady at my sido in gorgeous raiment and loaded down with Jewels was describing tho peoplo as they passed beforo us for my edifica tion. How tho dear old soul chattcrcdt "This woman," sho said, "is n widow of SO. Sho tries to make people bcliovo sho is only 30,yot I know she Iks burled two husbands and is looking for a third. Sho Is wortli n million. but temper hlessmo, sho's n modern Xnntlppcl This poor little chap married bis own mother-in-law. Fnctl "See tho man there I He beats bis wife. And this dowdy In green had to pay for her husbaud. Her father was wealthy, but no ono would marry her. so finally tho old gentleman announced that ho would give $100,000, a bouso on Fifth avenue, and a three mouths' trip to Europo to tho man who becamo her husband, nnd tho men were tumbling over each other, so eager woro they for her smiles. She selected the best look ing one yes, that's ho that fellow in faultles'ovcnlng dress a perfect Apollo, isn't ho? well, that's her husband, and he's a banker now. Love? Nonsuuscl THE OU) I.M)V AT MY BJDB. Money) This woman in blue is married, sho says, but no ono has ever seen her husband. This man with u big diamond ring wos a waiter In Delmonlco's once, when a pretty girl fell in lovo with him. They ran nway together, lived abroad for live years In poverty, but now they nru reconciled with tho old folks und tho cx-waltor is a member of his father-in-law's firm. "Observe that pretty llttlo girl. Her mother broko her heart because her hus band fell In love with tlio child's tiurse. They wcro married thrco months after the poor woman was burled. And sco Hut I didn't. I excused myself nnd ran off, for I believe tho poor old soul knew more than auy of Census Superin tendent Portei's men, and sho hud hard ly wanned up to the subject when I left her. The Oornn'H "Uniler-Tow." Doubtless wn'huvu nil heard n good dual about this "undor-tow," us though it woro sonio mysterious force working from tlio recesses of a. treacherous ocean to draw unwary bathers to their doom. As n mutter o'f fact its presence Is obviously natural, and tlio explana tion of it nioro than simple As each wave rolls in ami breaks upon tlio beach, tho volume of water which it carries does not remain thero and sink iuto tliu sand; it Hows back ngaln, and, ns tho succeeding wave breaks over it, tlio receding ouo forms an under-current llowjng outward of strength pro portionate to tho body of water con tained in each breaker, and, ngain, proportionate in n gieat measure to tliu depth of tho ditch. Whero this latter is an appreciahlu depression, It can bo readily seou that tho wntor of receding waves u ill How into it with similar effect of that of wntor going over n fall, and tli.it a person standing near is very likely to bo drawn over with it, and thus, if the ditch is .deep unougli, carried nut of his depth. Tills is all llieru is to tliu iniirh-ttilkcd-of "untler-tow" ami tlio numerous ac cidents laid to Its account. Dujjkld Oibornt, in Scribner's. Oregon expects uu addition of IBO, 000 to its population this j car by immi gration. . I - r HOW TO CLEATs1 HOUSE. SOME MEN CAN HIRE THE WORK DONE AND OTHERS CAN'T. Hut One Unfortunate Head of a Tamil; Wat I.urcil Into Attempting tli T; lllmneir. ' Did you ever clean house? No? Then you have never lived. Not that the plcnsuro derived from tho actual work it so excruciatingly funny that you cannot got along without it, but tbo relief whon tho last tack is driven and the last piece of furniture placed Is a thing that cau only bo experienced by ono who bar gone through tho mill'. Carlton, thr poet, onco said; Hut one tlilnu's settled with mo To appreciate licucu well It's best toRlvo a man Some, tlfloen minutes of licit. And so, to appreciate all thero is In this nineteenth century civilization of ours, one must go to work at tho bottom aud build it up from tho chaos in which housekeepers always seem to tako such fiendish delight. For weeks the wlfo of your sorrows has said; "Wo will clean house Mon day," aud you havo been led to think it n little, trivial thing, not worth worrying about, aud so have not hired a man to do tho heavy work, becauso there seems to bo no heavy work to do. liut at last tho fatal moment comes, and you can cscupe no longer. You arc asked, with all tlio sweetness of an invitation to peaches and cream, if you will help with tho stove beforo you go down town, and In a moment of weakness you m Iff fh el. THAT CONFOUNDED 8TOVR. consent. Then you aro lost, even moro effectually than tbo woman who hesi tates. Once tho stove is nut you sco the zinc on which it rested Is easy to re move, and that comes next. Tlio tacks have all been drawn from tlio carpot by your wlfo, whose forehead shows au enormous height, nnd then, whllo you aro at It, you can so easily help them roll tbo carpet together and carry It out to tho back yard so that tho man who Is expected every minute cau beat tho dust out of it to bis heart's content. Of courso, he never comes, nnd whon you havo carried tho parlor chairs out to tlio laundry, and found you bad missed the train, you go at it yourself, and thump away for half an hour at the dust you were all winter trending In. Then you aro hot aud all out of patlcucc,aud when you go In tho houso for a glsBS of but termilk, and find tho woman who was to have como is us far away as is tho man Ecrvant, you grow desperate, get a mop nnd bucket, turn up your trousers and fall to work. From then on It Is you and your wifo for it. No ono ever found an alien asslstaut when there was a houso to clean. Bedsteads havo to bo sot out in tho sliado aud mattresses havo to bo hung iu tho emiihinc; nnd when you hnvo wrestled with ono of those latter abomi nations you feel that Evan Lewis aud his straugTo bold would bo an easy nnd wol como thing in comparison. You nro allowed to wash the woodwork in th OltAND AND I.OITV TUMI1I.IKO. trior while tho man hangs tho paper In tbo bed-rooms, and when he Is half dono ho warbles a complaint that thero is not cnougli paper to go around. So you have to slick up a bit ami go half a mile to tho storo for another roll, only to find when you get there that the mer chant has no mure of that exset pattern, but would be glad to fill your order from anything c-lso In tno shop. Hy tho wny, did anybody ever find n match for wall paper already purchased? The upshot of It all is thnt you buy n new outfit, pry tlio cash und cairv it homo, and nre told when you get thero that your wife has concluded to hnvu tlio room caleimliicil.nuYwuy. You ciin cither swear and bu n biulo oi hold jour tem per and bo u saint just us you like. Belngamnu, you choimo the latter clean house und Bay nothing. I Ono of tho carpets has to bo ripped and sowed over, nnd whllo you nro busy with such llttlo things as going without your dinner, lifting two-Ion bureaus and full-loagth mirrors, carrying nut ward robes and baso burners, that amiable woman, with a ragged calico dress on. sits down in tho midst of tho litter and sows llko a Trojan. Sho tells you what a lot of lovely new things Mrs. Illank is going to get for her parlor, ami harries you into promising a itood deal better MKl THEN COMES THE IlEWAItD. outfit, even though "you know your salary is already overdrawn. You blister knees nnd knuckles scrubbing the Uoor.and fall from tho step-ladder while trying to brush tho dust from' tho cell ing. You knock tho llttlo statuettes from tho brackets where they had gained a residence, and in a fit of impatienco at pounding your thumb throw tho ham mer tbroug.'i the largest window pano in the house. You tcur your clothes on nulls thnt wcro never revealed before, and cut both hands on tho butcher knlfo whllo struggling to proparo a lunch. Your ravenous appetite enn And nothing but husks of n better living to feed upon, and not many even of them. A tailor comes nud presents his bill, which ho claims Is duo nnd has lung been In that condition, aud in th faco of proof so positive you cannot for u moment maUo your wife understand whero all tho money goes to. When you have lived through tnrco days of this sort of agony, going to bed at midnight, only to rise with a mid summer dawn, you find tbo house is cleaned nnd tho things that wcro so hard to movo out can now bo moved in again. Though bruised and broken In body nnd spirit, you nro stilt in tho rlng.aud como up to tho scratch with a icadlncss that would disqualify you for the prlzo ring any day lu the week. Not a mau.womau or child has appeared to help you, and it seems that nolllicr love nor money can Induce them to sell an hour's labor. The Ico man stands on tho back stop of his wagon aud laughs ns you strniu every muscle of your body escorting dray loads of furnlturo to their places in tho house, nnd even tho neighbors stop and nsk you how you llko it. They tell your wlfo on tho quiet that she is fortunate, but she knows that and always has. You struggle through tho setting up of stoves, the jointing of pipes nnd tho stretching of stubborn carpets, ami you swear when It Is all over that you will never, so long as reason maintains her throtio In your distracted globe never clean houso again. Hut then comes tho reward. Then comes tho victory, Tho consciousness that you may puss n stovo without being asked to lift It; that not ono of the tablos or chairs or bureaus needs moving for another year nnd that you may man ago to dlo beforo that time. All theso things aro sweet nud soothing to tho tired soul nnd tho moro than bruised and broken body. You may now soil what was onco your Sunday suit to the old clothes man and sit down in perfect peace to a meal of victuals cooked In the ordinary way. You may go to bed at tho proper hour and not feel iu your heart of hearts that really you ought to bo up and fixing things so that thero will bo less to do to-morrow. You hnvo earned your roward, und If you aro wiso you will uever allow any woman to beguile you into such an Indiscretion again. Henceforward you swear you would rather llvo In comfortablo dirt than In the cleanest bouso thnt was roofed over provided ynu havo tho cleaning to do yourJolf.-C'iiVrijo Herald. Helen Jltiut'M Grave. i Wending our way throimli that grand fisRiiro Iu tlio roc (is, called Choyouno Canon nud nscundiiig tho niuu (lights of stairs to tho top of tlio "Sovou Falls," a gtiido board diicctcit our path nnd after soma steep climbing, wo , stood besldo tho grave of that no bio i woman. It was hero that sho used to come to think nnd to wrilu, hero sho spent i many of tier Sabbaths. I "This spot is my church," she said to a friend, 'and it is hero that I wisli I to bo laid." And ho on tliu summit of Chuveiiuu Mountain, huueatli slimmer sun "ami ulutiir siiouh. sho lies nlonc. No monument marks tho spot, but tho grnvu is heaped high with small stones which visitors liau laid upon it. For each Mono taken, for souvenirs, ouo or moro is replaced hy tho person who takes it. Hundreds of tluvi havo their name or sniuo admiring senti ment of tlio giver wiittun upon tliuui. I hnvu heard (hut can not vouch for tho truth of.it) that when sho ictiucsteii to lie buried Ilium hIiu also made tho rcqiiuxt that tlioso who visited her grave should lay a stono upon il. It I was an odd whim, I think, hut ouo thai ! lias been faithfully humored. j It is a lovely spot and tho surround ing scenery is solemnly grand, und still that isolated gravu, iu its lonli- i iicss, seemed crv sad to me, and I , turned uith a sigh and slowly und 1 thoughtfully retraced my stops by tlio 'eamo path which sho so often had ttod. I for. U'omun't Tribune. I Tlio olectrlc lattery has supnrsoded tliu hose und cold water treatment fur taming refractory prisoners In the Ohio J puiiiicnilary. if Is reported to bo very I L'ttlc.icluiis. WINOED MISSILES. H Tho number of Italians In Now York city Is roughly estimated at 40,000. M Dcrtlnors may ho n llttlo slow, but thoy M havo buried all their telcphouo and tclo- M graph wires. H A Toronto paper figures out thnt tho drunkards of that city lost $191,012 in v wages Inst vear. H Tlio English nover much llkod tho Scotch, yet it Is suid there aro moro Scotch in Lon- don than lu Edlnburg. M Thero Is an old and widespread notion that tho mirrors must bo removed from a , M room lu which a corpso Is lying. M Dr. IJrown-Scqunrd claims that bis M elixir has cured Intermittent fovor, nou- M rulghi, rheumatism, Insomnia and leprosy. M England Is not much of n wheat producer. H Sovou out of every eight loaves of bread M eaten In London nro made from foreign H wheat. M In England Gladstone Is tho "grand old M man," and they call John Morlcy "tho M (fraud young man." Thoy aro both worthy H of their titles. H Dublin hus not been negloctful In pro- t vldlng pleasure grounds for her people It M has moro parks than tiny other city In tho M United Kingdom. M It Is said that in tho river approach to H Lake Nicaragua and in tho lake Itself nru k to ho found what aro said to bo tho only AH fresh-water sharks known. Tho mines uloni? tlio Union Pacific Hall- M way now produce over 1,400,000 tons of H coal annually, and tho owners aro prcpar- H lug for a much larger output, H Lovely woman und uoblo man havo liccn M expressed In scientific qualities. Thoy nro M tho constructive nud tho dostructlvo elo- M ments In tho protoplasmic, environment. M Aujintc, a plckor-up of cigar ends, has M Just died In Paris, leaving behind him tho M respectable sum of 100,OJ) francs, which, H It is narrated, ho amassed from his occu- H pntlon. M A Sun Francisco undertaker has fitted M up a largo and handsoino funeral parlor H whore funerals may bo hold. It is Intend- M cd to meet tho needs of fuuilllca who llvo M lu hotels. M Nearsightedness Is overrunning tho M French peoplo us well ns tho Germans. H Among tho senior hoys In tho different, M French colleges more than 41 pur cent aro M nearsighted. M Tho high rato of mortality among tho M shop girls In tho monster shop of Paris, ft H per cent, is largely duo to premature vital ' M exhaustion from being unable to sit dowu H throughout tho day. H Think of living fur thlrty-ono years ns H tho guest of tho samo hotel. That Is tlio H record made by a hoarder lu tha Now York H Fifth Avenue Hotel, who has been thero H continuously shico August -f, 1SVJ. H Four tamo ducks have co3t tliu county of H Cascade, Moat., about HK) owing to cros t suits among neighbors for trespass, perjury H und threats of bodily harm. Olio of thu H men has been scut to tho penlteutlary. --H Mun uud women who writo ought to bo H moro careful. It Is estimated that !!0J let- M tcrs nro delayed or miscarried becauso of H tho similarity of tho name Washington thu H statu and Washington tho capital of tho nation. H At Amherst, N. S., recently Itov, Dr. V Hartley lost a valuable ring. Ho udver- H Used but gut no tidings until a droum re- H vculed to him tho fact that tho ring was H under his bed, nnd ho found it on ono of H tho sluts. sfl Ono of tho largest forests in tho world H stands on Ico. It is situated between Urul H nud tho Okhotsk Sea. A well was recently I dug lu this region, when it was found thut H ntn depth of 111) metres the ground wu.i H still frozen. Thero Is somo prosed thut New York I will havo n stuto park lu tho Adirondacka. I It is proposed tbat u reservation of about t twenty-llvo miles square ho taken, com- H prising 1,000,000 acres, tho sumo to Include H Itacquct Luko. H In Ansonia, Conn., tho other dny threo M Chhiumen entered a srtcut car, and when H tho conductor caiuo for faro ono of tho M Celestials gavo his head a turn und n Jerk H and droppod threo nickels from Ids ear into H tho conductor's hand. H Pecan nut growing Is ono of tho rising M Industries of tho gulf stutcs. After tho V trees begin to boar thoy involve no labor M or expense, nnd yield, it is said, un in- fl como of fiOO to 1,000 por aero, according . M to tho quality of tho nut. H A French attorney was writing out it JM brlof. Ho was In splendid health, only JH forty years old, und was writing rapidly, y H when nil at onco ho stopped, und from thut f Kk moment could not tell his own nnmo. sB Memory went out from him liko u flush of , lightning, ?H In tho United Kingdom 20,000,000 hens lay on "an average ninety eggs oaeh per IH nnuum, of which ten nro reserved for H hatching. It follows that the homo prod- I uct Is ,00,000,()00, which, added to tho number imported, gives ,700,00000 or I soventy-threo per Inhabitant. H Hair is not only strong, but it is elastic. I Many men cau testify to this physical fact, -tfl but somo curious experimenter sujsi "A slnglohulr cnu support n weight of two I ounces, und Is so elastic that It may bo H stretched to ono-thlrd of Its entire length, H nud. then retain its former sbo uud condl- . I Hon." Iu Moscow nmy bo seen In thu streets 'B any day u boggur who was, a fuw years H ago, ouo of tho richest men lu tho elty. jH His father loft htm $r,roo,003, but ho gam- blod It till away. Ho cared literally for H nothing hut gambling, and if ho had tho , I iiiouoy uguiu ho would loso It onco moro In H tho sumo way. H Gorman teachers nro so poorly paid that tho number Is being reduced to uu lrcou- vcnlont extent und In tho coming session tho Prussian landtag will havo to take tho H matter In band. After a preparation of H tlvu yours tho teacher finds a position I which pays about $1M a year lass than any I trained artisan may obtuln. S