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TELE WILMINGTON MJESoENi iR. FRIDAY DECEMBER 14. 3 308 3 LONDON NEWS AND GOSSIP By William True Hawthorae. Lo-ado, Nor. 24. William Yates, a ' "my.ter mi.Honalre" has amazed ' London by flinging money right an left in the streets, and distributing ; considerable sums among haw ken porters, and newsboys In the market places far them "to do good with." To an obliging employee of the hotel where he put up, Mr. Yatea handed $500 in gold, and at every turn ia his progress through the city in quest of art treasures he startled dealers and their assistants by lavish distribution of bank notes and gold among . them. And yet Mr. Yates is really no more eccentric than Andrew Carnegie, est inqiiry proves. Instead of giving away thousands for the beneftt of communtitea, Mr. Yates goes in for individual endowments of cash. The publicity of his generosity brought out the circumstances that he Uvea at Shopper ton and that hia home is the aibode of a connoisseur, a maa of re fined, artistic tastes. As a result of his bounteous showers of gold in the streets, Mr. Yates awoke next morning at the Tavistock to Sad himself embarrassingly famous. Half a hundred telegrams and some 2,000 letters reached him during the day. Mr. Yates smiled wearily, and the hAye pile of envelopes is still there, 'tmtouched. By 9 o'clock fully fifty people, clarmoring for "just one word" with the philanthropist, thronged the corridors, but Mr. Yates declined to see any one. The crowd awaited his appearance, but he escaped through a side door and went for a drive in a brougham. Some children standing on the pavement were startled by a shower of gold coins rrom the car riage. Hearing of this, those in the hotel made a rush for the street, but the gold giver had disappeared, leav 1 i.i - V V i ' - T ing them empty handed. At Shepper- our countrymen m uu jv.u ton ?Ir Yates'' generosity and open- J foreign countries, such as China, handedness is a household word, and I Korea, Siam, Turkey, Morocco, and there are many people wno praise the others; but the most remarkable show good 'deeds he has done while indul- J ing is the record, extending over sev triw hi mild eccentricity. I eral pages, of Britons occupying im FROM GAMBLER TO PHILAN THROPIST. Dying, still another philanthropist has pleasurably stirred lxsadon by his splendid gifts. By .the will of the late George Herring, ne millionaire benefactor and financier, half a mil lion sterling is left to the Metropoli tan Hospital Sunday lund and 5,000 pounds each to the Northwest London hospital and the Salvation Army so- rial fund The will also proviaes ior th ivixrvimr ouTi of hia gift cf a hun dred thousand pounds sterling to the Salvation Army land scheme a lew ; ShcXV-.ar- tte rL;S- I f kjc. fnrtnnp p. k 3. laver of odds ! at the races. As belting cQmrnibbiune; for Sir Joseph Hawley, whose opera tions on the turf weic enormous, Mr. Herring bore a reputation of absolute bontesty in all his dealings. The rep utation he thus wen undoubtedly con tributed to his astonishing success in "r?Te higher walks cf finance. He never valued money unduly for its own sake, as is shown by the uze he eventinlly mnlfi of his wealth. In his public benefactions he was a mociei io Easfc Manchester. iu u wealshv people who desired to use ; constituency which I onced represent their monev for the benefit of others, ed TOyseif?" Liberal members declare - .It tw- " " ... ... r v.;rrVi and there WOUIU u iai iw tnat sury is x.uvm -- . iinivrsallv SamPntPd 11 nis example ul4i.v-... - . Knew wj KnohH Mrwr ia thp. P.ritiqh . rr.. ... .,ri i-nnt tin rvmfi- t vors who are brougnt career i. tne tnusn dence and fnenasnip Oi miuiy v into close l0ucu wuu.w. - station, his pi ft to the King's hospital ; dare . the story 1trate1swX fund being the interesting sequel to ; fact ihSLt he -1S the most detachedpuD the donation to the Salvation Army Uc man in private life. He is certainly fund, upon the announcement of traordmary grasp of principles. ine which King Edward wrote a letter to tWs does not deprive him ot an ex Mr. Herring expressing great satisfac- raordinaTy grasp of pmciples. ine tion at hearing cf the magnificent Qf his personality arises very donation, and adding that tne unae- taking had tne Kings mobi. snxucic sympathy and good wishes. By hi3 own wish' Mr. Herring was buried be neath the sun dial at the Hven -f Rest almshouse, at Maidenhead, which he erected fcr the benfit of middle class married couples in reduced cir cumstances. SEQUEL TO A BANKER'S SUICIDE. From these pniqpe chapters of per- i niircnit of SOnai iiCUiecuicu,i.o ha vwv. good deeds one turns with depressing emotions to the story of the biggest fiaandai crash the city has known for a long Ume the sequel to the suicide of a lDndoa banker. This was the failure of Messrs. Patrick Macfadyen & Co.. bankers, whose senior partner recently threw himself in front of an derground railway train ana was "-ushed to death. Besides the Lon- Xvn .,, the firm carried on an ex- tensive business in India, and the amount involved is several millions, At a meeting of creditors in the bank- ruptcy court the attendance of the vie- tims of the failure was so large that an adjournment was taken to more commodious quarters, where a sens- tional statement was made by the re- ceiver. Two years ago Mr. Macfadyen yielded to. temptation, and beg to speculate in tne suck ventures were aisastruj r . and lass July the crisis was as reacnea when u investment of $350,000 ta cop- ... . Ikiv -fima TP- per stocKs swept Aaa maininc psaets. Altosetner as.vw.vw maining assets. Altogetner ?a,uuu,uw had been lost in that manner, and the .r, duu V; army of creditors may eventuany l"."-"'"r "er x share $100,000 or less among them. : (Special to The Messenger.) Rather than face the consequences of Raleigh, N. C, Dec. 10. The corpo- w recking his firm,- Mr. Macfadyen ration commission orders the Soutnern rounded out his career by suicide. His railway to build a new freight station partners are Sir George Arhuthnot at Reedville within 90 days from Jan- and John Montgomerjr Young. uary IsL EXCITEMENT AT SMART SET ; ; Catarrh of the nose and throat WEDDING. should lead you to at least ask us for Ool. Paul Levkovitch gave dainty a free trial box of Dr. Snoop's Ca Evelya Green, his bride-elect, a mad tarrh Cure. Nothing so surely proves half hour; indeed, the situation was merit as a. real, actual test and Dr. one of the most trying Cupid hag ex .; Shoop, to prove this, earnestly d perienced hereabouts in many moon9 sires that we let you make that test. There was much excitement at the This .."creamy. Snow White healing --Church of the Annunciation, where ! balm, soothes the throat and nostrils, fthe- first part of a double ceremony and quickly purifies afoul or feverish was to be performed. Punctually at breath. ' Call and investigate. Robert half past three the bride and Lord r. BellrFT. Camden, her half-brother, arrived at church; but it rem whispered that H"SSl'& Z Qn its return the bridegroom was still absent, with no word of explanation. The bride alighted, visibly ill at ease, and waited in -the vestry for the tardy groom. Half an hour later, and just as the wedding party was abotft to col lapse with nervousness. Col. Ler kovltch arrive, bland and smiling. ' He was in full Russian uniform, and had hia breast covered with medals. It transpired that he was detained by reason of the elme occupied in don ning his elaborate and cumbrous uni form and pinning on the medals la their proper places. For once the bride, who wore a simple white satin dress, with a tulle veil and a modest bouquet of lilies, was quite eclipsed by the gorgeous gallant at her side. After the English ceremony the happy half-married couple drove to the Rus sian chapel, where the Very Rev. Eu gene . Smirnoff completed the ceremony of tying the knot. A belated reception in Bel grace square, where Lady Cam den, looking charming in a princesse gown of blue hiffon velvet and a very mart blae hat, welomed the small army of guests, to whom the colonel made his most profuse ax)logies for the delay, brought thii Anglo-Russian wedding to a hpppy conclusion. May they live happily ever after. BRITISHIZATION OF UNITED j STATES.. Al eading periodical has an article proving that the outcry about "Yankee invasions" and the Amerianization of John Bull is meTe bugaboo. Of a facr. the shoe is cn the other foot. Not only is this true of America, but of the world. John Bull is at the fore in the United States and everywhere pise. The article shows the promi nent, if not dominant, share taken by , portant posts in government ana rau- nifinal pmnlov. in tbe church, rtthe edu cational service, and tne colleges of the United Staios Te writer points out that it is far more remarkable that Englishmen and Scotchmen should fill f large a place in the pub lic life of the United States than that they should itftke a lead in civilized countries. The most astonishing thing, however, is that we should have all this superfluoous energy and ability for service of other countries over and above all that is employed in the world-wide business of running British empire. BAI-FOUH'S "AMIABLE WEAK- ISESS. They are (telling, in cloakroom and lobby, some amusing new stories of former Premier Balfour's absent mindedness. The latest of these is that rubbing shoulders the other day with Mr. Horridge, Mr. Balfour turned around and asked a colleague who vne new tall member was. Being inform ed that air. Horridge sat for East Man chester, a dazed look came over Mr. Balfour's face, and. he remarked; Ot . , T. yWT H il."). J 14 " ! . , i :v. Tt- Tiaifrnir fle' largeiy from his menuu u-.Kai-i'iin i; tnvallu- now tnaii air. uauiuoi- ed 'Mr. Balfour has once more re sumed the leadership of his party. For chapped and cracked hands get DeWittfs Witch Hazel Salve. Sold by ; R. R. Bellamy. i iJosolutions Presented. I Washington, December 7.-The reso lution of Senator Penrose n;.,rf thn nresideiit for all tne canine, , . . nf i-v,o facts regarding the discharging ot die negro troops Moofiy to the 2o tli in- fantry was received at the WU aouse today and at pnee turned r by president to Secretary Taf t who will furnish the into tion des ired The Foraker rfluUou,ltaolT l vJJS directed io tne "fT to .been received by J a late hour today. Secretary Taf t said hoover upon rurmng net BeSlSSt both resolutions to the fullest extent, d t mm. If jgS Health Coffee. It J f1 does disturb Is true that real e But the etomacn rieui l Dr Shoopj HeoMfc Coff ee has not grain oi true coffee in lng it "riome food-like driak. :JL flarnr of Old Java yet naviug "v. -r- , . MDom - lna lltp ' " "i. S. W. Sanders. ji3Uk - oi. " -.i ,i . him Viw FVeteht Stattion THE BATTLE ' OF? FORT FISHER Viers of the Action From Differ ent Standpoints Commander of the Port And Com mander of Monitor Canon iens at Va riance The La Iter's Rai&5 of Vision Being Contracted Ho Necessarily Drew Upon Ifis Imagination. (CONTIUED FROM LAST SUNDAY.) Lieutenant Commander Belknap says the fort hit him four times; as I orderd 10 inch shells solid shot, only, to be fired at the monitors, it means we threw 430 poands of metal -at the "Canonicua," while she replied with &4.C20 pounds. She was very close to one of our targets, and our artillerist could not have missed her turret 9 upper works when visible, but as the order was to destroy the smokestacks of the monitors so as to stop the draught and fill turret and hods with smoke to suffocate the men, if. they kept up fires, we may have missed her chimney. It was impossible to see the effect of our shot, as there was a dead calm, nor breath nor motion except that caused by concussion and explosion in the fight, and the smoke hung over fleet and fort as impenetra ble as a fog. I tried my best to see ! that no shot was wasted, and with t P finlonrl'rl fialrl trlont. . , ,1 x n 'Y'""V uuu biwu uu tup me hospital bomb-proof against which there was net direct fire, almost as safe as Lieutenant Commander Belknap in the Canonicus conning tower, and much more comfortable. In obtaining knowledge cf the effect of our shot, I had on Christmas day, the invaluable experience of a distin guished British naval officer who was at Sebastopol, and who came from his ship in Wilmington to act as my aide and who was by my side, in most ex posed positions, as often as I would permit it. He was a reckless but plucky blockade runner. A. U. S. naval officer of the blockading squad ron off Wilmington, in -uniting his ex periences off the Cape Fear, remarked: "Among the blockade runners were several commanded by English naval officers. These cared for our cruisers about as much as a hound does for a flea. One morning when the cruisers squadron were anchoring, one of the blockade runners commanded by Cap tain Murray took the opportunity cf our blowing off steam, to run in, pass ing about 25 yards under the senior officer's stern. Captain Murray with his usual courtesy, bowing to our American nag. it was tne oooies He had previously, in July, 18G3, been with me when with u. single Whit- worth gun, and crew, supported by a rifle company, I recaptured the "Kate" of London, which bad been chased ashore on Smith's Island, east cf Buz zard's Bay, over 7 nautical miles from the Mound battery and in range of the guns of the two fleets blockading the two mouths of the Cape Fear river. Murray was his blockade running alias,, he was then Captain C. Murray Aynsley, R. N. After the ciyil war he was rapidly promoted for gallantry and meritorious services in the British navy-, and when I was his guest at hi 3 villa, Hall Court, Hants, England, in July 1879, he was already a retired ad miral. He died. about ten years ago, From what I others about his naval service, he must have been as gentle as a woman, yet with the courage of a lion, and endeared himself to every officer, man and boy upon the ships which he com manded. I pay him this tribute, be cause from the books he brought me and the personal t&ckice, he gave me after we first met iff Julv, 1863, I owe much of the eredit I received for the construction of the defensive works on Confederate (now Federal) Point, which French and Whiting, two un surpassed engineers in the U. S. A. and the C. S. A. allowed me without inter ference or suggestion to build after my own ideas of a seacoast fortification. " The same conditions made it impos sible for my gallant adversaries to see the effect cf their shot and shell on the fort, and they had to depend main ly on a quartermaster in the main or forecTOss trees, who, apparently, didn't hesitate to spin a yarn when he re ported to the executive officer. This ex cuses the reports of the first fight made by the admiral down through , . all grades, to Aoting Master CrafV?; of the "Little Ada." the baby cf the fleet, who reported to Admiral Porter De cember 31. 1864, as follows: "I consider the fort as having been practically si lenced on both the 24th and 25th. The almost complete silence of the guns on the northeastern face of the fort in duced me to think that they were dis abled or were 'quakers.' I should have supposed that a soldier would have felt himself bound by every considera tion of honor and patriotism to at tempt those works by assault, but I am not a soldier and dp not perhaps know what is desired and what is not. but under similar circumstances I should like to be one of a thousand blue-jackets to show what sailors can do andwhat soldiers might have done." I have no hard feelings towards the Acting Master. In oDedience to gen eral order No. 75, he had to report to hia admiral, especially on the feasi bility of Butler's capturing the fort Christmas day, and he did his best. But the boys hadn't plunked the "Lit te4 Ada,' for like, some fractious babies, she was too small to spank. . The acting master was off the fort on that fateful Sunday when in the afternoon, two thousand sailors and marines under the fearless Breese, charged that northeastern, face and one of those "quaker guns," which I put in charge of a brave Norfolk boy, (W. R. Mayo, midshipman, C. S. N.), in 30 minutes killed and wounded more sailors and marines than were ever killed by any gun, in any battle on land and sea that I can find recorded in history from the time guns were first invented. The acting master i made no report to his admiral of that fight. The commander cf the armada had altered his opinion about that Car olina fort and its garrison, after the repulse of his sailors and marines bat I have read the "Little Ada's- log for January 15. 18C5. It reads: "Carry ing dispatches through the fleet, naval brigade made an assault at 3 p. m.; were repulsed. A few minutes after wards the land forces made an assault and succeeded in capturing several tra verses very quickly, and then came to a standstill holding what they gained." Thank you, acting master, for stating that last fact, and you might have truthfully added In your log, "and then the fleet resumed Its fearful fire di reev ed by signal, and prevented the Con federates now released from the attack of the naval brigade, from recovering the works." Nor have I any displeasure at the unkind reflections of the "Canoni cus's" commander. He couldn't keep posted. He had to peep through a hole in his conning tower, and his range of vision was necessarily contracted, and as he withdrew Christmas day at 2:40 p. m., hi3 "ammunition having been exhausted," he was too far removed to see through the smoke what subse quently transpired, and as he fired 144 II inch shot and shell while in action, which deafened him and all his crew' I make great allowance for his imagia-' ing, that ray comrades did not stand by their guns as lung as I ordered them, or found safety in the bomb proofs before I personally directed the officers to immediately cover there men. Why, my Tar Heels had just com menced fighting that Christmas day, ' wnen tne "Canomcus ' reluctantly withdrew at 2:40 p. m. (Federal time). The bombardment of the previous day had.been resumed at 10.30 a. m., and in the four hours, the remaining quar ters of the garrison left from the de structive fire of the day before had been destroyed, with the camp equip age cf the men, including many over coats, and actually the only good pair of shoes of many of the men of two companies, whose quarters were near the battery on land face next to the river the weather was so mild that the boys were literally stripped for the fight, going to quarters sans overcoat and with improvised slippers so as to be more spry in handling the guns in any sudden emergency, and last but not least, all the Christmas boxes received from down home, not destroyed Christ mas eve. You better believe they were fighting mad, and felt wicked enough, despite dear Chaplain McKin non's prayers, to give the Federal in vaders b ! r "Hail Columbia," which they proceeded to do as you will pres ently see from the official reports of Admiral Porter and some cf his of ficers. I call them "my Tar Heels." God bless them every one! Didn't I teach those young ideas for more than 2 1-2 years, (along the beach, in cold weath- er and hot, by day and night, in sun shine and in storm, sometimes 20 miles awaj' from the protecting fort, on a narrow cpit. only a corporal's guard, with one Whitworth and caisson and a gun detachment and four mules), how to shoot at a ship and dodge a shell without getting "skaired?" Ask the survi vors! I am a great admirer of Admiral Porter on account of his brilliant rec ord during the war between the states. After it! was ended our relations were extremely friendly and I became at tached to him on account of his earnest effort to get my eldest son, (who was five years old during the battles and who had been several times under fire from cruisers pursuing the belated blockade runners, with his sister and their colored mammy, behind a sand hill in the rear of my cottage on the river bank one mile north of Fort Fisher), first in the army and then in the navy, but President Hayes fel he must confine his appointments to the sons of Union officers. But in his numerous reports of the fiL'ht, it is clearly apparent that his animosity to tienerai rsenjauuii r. Duuw.auuuw chagrin and mortification at being in gloriously defeated by my gallant gar rison, which he and nis officers had ridiculed and disdained as Carolina militia with some decrepit home guard, caused him to lose his head and for ward innumerable absurd and con tradictory reports to the secretary cf the navy, and what was worse, issuing General Order 75, after the fight, caus ing many of the commanders cf the fleet to express ridiculous opinions of the condition of the garrison and its inability to defend the works against the most trifling attack, after their noisy but comparatively harmless bombardment, one going so far as to make the silly assertion that "the gar rison were only waiting for some one to ask them to surrender." WILLIAM IMB. (TO BE CONTINUED.) DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills quickly drive the poisons from the sys tem and thus afford relief. A week's treatment for 25c. Sold by ft. R. Bellamy. Results of the Watts Law. There are now only 51 registered dis tilleries in North Carolina, whereas four years ago the number totaled 498. This big reduction, it is claimed, is due to the oDerations of ten Watts law. Last year these 51 rum mills used 172. 152 bushels of grain, while four years ago nearly five hundred whiskey pro ducing institutions consumed only 256.528 bushels of grain. These figures show that the Watts act only affect thea mall distilleries, which have a hard time existing unless they can defraud the government. The Watts act created havoc amomer these small distilleries, but has not affected to such an extent the production of whiskey in the state. Reidsville Review. Judgre Peter S. Grosscup, of the United States court of appeals for Northern Illinois, heartily agrees with the view that judges should not be above criticism. There are a few more constant all-around critics. New York Sun. , - hi Yas Haw Ateays Bsugt Bttxit&a ' s? PASSffiG Ull OF IJEH A Prototype of One of Dicken's Characters The Strange IIn Tle Crater About the World and the Sad to His Unhappy Life Ti Third Drummer Has hi Innings and Tells or the Breakdown of Wan. For The Messenger. Iago "Art hurt lieutenant V Cassio"Aye. marry, past all sUi. gery. I have lost the better part of me." Many years ago a man made his ap pearance in Fayettevelle, one of those strange wanderers who come nobody knows whence, who are seen here now, there next, walking the streets, and then pass out of sight and minds! to go nobody knows or cares whither. They are not tramps exactly, but beateri; about the world, ttrugjtfinj; for existence, living a cheap, hard life by Poor wits that are worth a meal at some lunch counter, or a drink of vile whiskey in some side-street dive. When this man first turned up here he was fairly well dressed and bore himself decently enough to get a Place in a cheap boarding house with out question. He was said to be a Spaniard, though I do not know what reason Ihere was for the supposition other than the fact that he was of dark compexion, and had coal black hair and glittering black eyes that some how made one shiver to look into them. He might be called a good looking man, for he had a fine figure, a singularly graceful walk for a man, and a face almost handsome But on w there was the unmistakable stamp, the withering blight, of one who had drained to the very dregs the cup of debasing excess, revolting de bauch, and a bad, bad life in every way. He had some gifts that, woll diet ed, ought to have been worth a fair compensation in the wtrld. His hand writing was like copper plate, and he was remarkably adept in painting those small signs that are placed oi. window-panes and door panelsa fancy kind of scroll work in black and gilt He got some work at copying, with an occasional job at sign-painting, but some way or other the thin varnish of decency wore off and by borne su-ange fatality he was getting more and more disreputable. He never appeared to be drunk, but now and then, if he could get a lis tener at a street corner or on a dry goods box he would talk for a while with extraordinary fluency and even brilliancy, but it rang false and mol low. The next day he would be silent and moody, shunning anythwig like companionship, and wandering about in the outskirits of .the town. By this time, to use a slang term, he was "on his uppers." His clothes looked as if he had slept in them, his shabby shoes were unblacketr, and even his skin was unwashed. The people of his boarding house grew tired of him, disgusted with him and even some what afraid of him and his strange moods. They compell ed his departure from the house, and I lost sight of him for some time that is, if the thought of him ever crossed my mind. Some one told me that he was getting his meals a. a negro res? taurant and slept on a wretched bed in a dirty room on the second floor of the building. It was even said that he cut wood, carried water and clean ed fhe kitchen pots and pans for the negro cook, in pay for his "keep." Heaven knows how else he kept off starvation for he gave up all effort to get work about town. In fact, he was seen no more on the streets, ex cept at night, when his bent figure might be seen shuffling along by a policeman or other late pedes train. Seeking to hide himself in the shadow of the wall even at night, like Cain branied Rudge; the father of poor Barnaby Rudge, in Dickens story of that name. One night, abut 11 o'clock, three or four men, I among them werew sitting in front of the old Fayetteville hotel, which stood where is now the hand some Hotel LaFayette, and which was destroyed by fire, when full of guests, during the county fair in November. 1885. A deputy sheriff came a Ion; and "coralled" the whole bunch n us to serve on a jury of inquest. Th "Spaniard" waa gone found dead i-i the room above the negro restauiun: To this day I shudder as that hor rible death bed comes back to ray mind. On a filthy straw-stuffed mat ress, on an old pine bed-stead, lay the man. stripped except for a pair of thin, ragged trousers and a pair of worn-out shoes on his? bare feet. His features were distorted by the death agony; but, by the dim light of one dingy kerosene lamp, he seemed to be looking up at us with a devlish smile on his dark eaturrine face. The only white men in the room were the jury, with uncouth, ill-clad negroes grouped around, some silent and awe struck others brutally Jesting and laughing even in the presence of that grisly terror. "Opium fiend, said the corotTercurUyT I thought of the death of the lodger in the honied den of oIdCrook in Dickens' "Bleak House." Do the readers of The Messenger re collect that horrible scene? The lodger was a wretched, half-starved, 'opium eating copyist and Ecrivener, who called himself Nemo, (Latin for no body), though he was once the brave Capt. Itawdon of the British army, and the superior officer of the trooper George, another character ra the boon. Nemo was the man who, Joe, of Tom-All-Alones, said had been "very good to him.' He was the man who copied the deed for the lawyer Talklnghorn, the handwriting of which caused Lady Dedlock to almost faint away.' He was the' father of Esther Summersoo. He was the man who. Inspector Bnck- et declared, 'ought to have been th? husband of Lady Dedlock," asd the blurting oat of this fearful fact, struck Sir Leicester Dedlock aghast with horror, and sent him down on his hearthstone dumb and senseless with 'paralysis. Found dead on a filthy pile of rags like an ugly rat caught ia a hole. The passing of Nemo. The snuffing oat of the feeble, worthless light of Mr. Nobody! The dose of my Lairj article la last Sunday Messenger caught th third drummer, the second man from New York, Just started la cts story whea the porter on the Atlantic Coast Line railroad train called "Fayetteville. But oa the following night his travel ing companion, with one or two other listeners, got around him la the lobby, of the Hotel LaFayetr nd heard the following tale: "About the winter of 1900. as I was saying oa the train last night, I met in Charlotte a drummer from Uostoa whom I will call Wall, though that waa not his real name. "lie was the best appointed and bem equipped man about the hotel lobbywhat you would call a well groomad man. a nun of fhe bath tub and the hair-dreeser, who always smelt of fine sevnted soap, like the lawy er of Miss Havisham, In Dickens Great Expectations. He was of flna physique, apparently ra excellent health; and. although not a hustler, waa a goud salesman. He was some what convivial in his hiblut, liking a toddy or two and a game of billiard after supper and rarely goings tit bed before midnight. "I ran up with WallNn two or three towns in North and South Carolina, and then I saw and heard nothing of him for three or four years. Ono night I had come out of Murphy's hotel in Richmond, and had walked about one hundred yards along the street, when I caruo upon Wall, standing on the edge of the pavement. nd looking In terestingly at a piece of paper in his hand, though I would never have known him if he had not been full In the glare of the electric light. "Hello. WW, I said, stopping and extending my hand. 'I have not seen you In an age. How are you getting on? He looked at me coldly, almost sullenly, and I think he first intended to disclaim his identity, but finally he called me by name, and met my hand clasp with a feeble, listless response. As I looked at him I was shocked at the change in the man. Without being positively shabby, he was eeedy and disreputable in ap pearance, like a man who neglected not only his clothing but his Dcrson. had broken loose, from all decent so cial restraints, and was letting him self go to the dogs. "I aitempte to talk business with him. but he turned the subject off, be came downright rude and churlish In hia manner: and. although I was loth to part with him in that condition, he seemed so anxious to part company that I went my way and he went his, shuffling out of sight down a side street. He did not seem to be intoxi cated it looked to me more lik mania. The njext night, as I was riding in the bus to the railway sta tion, passing through the foulest, dirt iest street of Richmond, I saw Wall standing in the doorway of the foul est, dirtiest den of all. There could be no mistake, for once again the Uqht was showing full on his face. "About three months afterwards my firm sent me to Boston to attend the clearing sale of a manufacturer in our line. I bethought myself of Wall, and, going to the house, I inquired of a clerk in the outer office: 'Is Mr. Wall in the city?' Mr. Wall no longer represents the house?' replied the clerk civilly, hu4. It'cH mi! went on with his work. "I heard more, about his case after wardshow his firm had borne with him, remonstrated with him, but all to no purpose, until they were ab solutely compelled to dismiss him In preservation of their own business in terests. t "What do you suppose was the mat ter with Wall? The one serious break was hi3 physical make-up, the weak link in the chain, was that ho suffered excruciating tortures with neuralgia. Some fool of a doctor pur: destructor in his way by placing in his hands one of those little deils i hypodermic syringou an and a bttle of Majcnles b3 lutioa cf l!:e sulpbi--; ,if ivi uh'iw that finished him. He had better bad stuck a 38-calibre revoier at,-init ihs side of poor Wall's head, and pulled the trigger. "Where is Wall new? Or, r, onry knows. If ho has not died like a doc it ditch, he is creeping, in th? . kaesa of night, a decrj.it, gbast-l- rp; re, thr-ugli the tre: cf Mine ;.vn; begging, borrowing or stealing ; ii few grains of the fataf drug to bring fan hour of abondonment, of forgetful- wrn a reaction or suca suffer ing as only the lost can endure. I never think of Wall without thinking also of Jasper, in Dickens' unfinished novel of 'Edwin Drood lying in the den of that old hair, while she fed his horrible craving with pipes of opiam. "Do you know what I believe to be the great secret of success In this life? It Is self-mastery, control of your body. If is worth more than genius, business ability, energy, for all may come to naught with out. With this self-mastery, there are hardly bounds to what man may achieve in this lif. I know a surgeon, head of a argd hos pital in a southern city, who passed most of hia childhood and youth in bed, a helpless cripple, but all the time he was educating himself to be a surgeon and physician. He lea ned to sew with the needle aid thread held above him as he lav cn Vi la I such sewing . as one does , In . rtitchlng wounds. He is as delicate as a wo man, but by virtue of bis indomitable will he has perfect mastery . of ; his body and his friends say that M skill at the operating table ! ;s n velom That's the sorti of man cn calls 3 Dastr. v "Take a cigar. I bought them from a -smuggling Jew in New t and if I am a judge they are genuine Prta cipes a cigar that) you :!1 come across the-ie days." Fayetteville. Nov. 20. J H. M