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It is Foliy for Anybody in This World
to Wait for Something to Turn
Up It Will Turn Down
Tii Law of Thrift is as Inexorable as
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okltc N Y April 24 At the Tab
the Eev T
ern c this morning pastor
DeWitt Talmage D D read from the
Book of Proverbs some lessons about
iioi t t thrift He then gave out the hymn
outlining
The etrlfc will not be long
This day of the nolso of battle
The next the victors song
hoy choir chanted an opening
g selection Dr Talmages
eaei stanjing foremost in
IF tbJancial and religious
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v was ertirled Behind the Counter
Tiialsaiid Encouragements of Sales
Ra l Saleswomen He took the two
following passages as his text And a
er i > i wfmao named Lydia a seller of
jurf of the city of Th > atira which
worshiped God Heard us w osc heart
lie Lord tn > evLd Acts xvi 14 Seest
thi a man uiiteent in his business he
s all s acd before kings Proverbs
ixn 2J The preacher said
The first passage introduces to you
Christian imrchante5S Her
i Mia a
bo i s > Is to deal iu purple cloths or
sik < She is no a giggling nonentity but
a niactical woman not ashamed to work
fur her li lug All the other women of Phil
ippi and Th > atira have been forgotten
but God has made immortal in our text
Ljdtt the Christian saleswoman
The other text shows you a man with
head and hand and heart and foot all
busy toilirg on up until he gains a
i ucely sueess Seest thou a man dil
i4nt iu bis business be shall stand be
foukings Great encouragement in these
two paags for men and women who
wiil be bn v but to solace for those
who are waiting for good luck to show
torn a the foot of the rainbow a casket
tf burid gold It is folly for anybody in
tls worLi to wait for something to turn
up U will turn down The law of
tkuft is as inexorable as the law of the
iid < Fortune the magician may wave
hi r arm in that direction until castles
aLd palaces come but sne will after a
uV invert the same wand and all the
pi ndi > rs will vanish into thin air There
Aie certain style of behavior which lead
to u fu nt s honor and permanent suc
c > s and there arj certain styles of be
havior which lead to dust dishonor and
moral default 1 wvuld like to tire the
aran ion of young people I have no
ympathv with thoe who would prepare
voung folks for life by whittling down
ther expectations That man or woman
will oe worth uotniug to church or state
w no begins life cowed down The bus
iness of Christianity is not to quench but
to direct human ambition Therefore it
h that I come out this morning and utter
words of encouragement to those who
are occupied as clerks in stores and
shopsand bankinghouses of the country
You say Why select one class and
talk to one specially this morning For
the same reason that a surgeon does not
open the door of a hospital and throw in
a bushel of prescriptions saying Come
now and get your medicine He llrst
fte s the pulse watches the symptoms
an i then prescribes lor that particular
case So today I must be specilic The
people in this audience who are clerks
are not an exceptional class They be
long to a treat company of tens of thous
auds who are in Uiis country amid cir
cumstances which will either make or
break them for time and for eternity I
should be very slow to acknowledge that
the clerksmale and female ot other cities
faitnful than the
are any more honest or
clerk ol our own city Many of these
people have already achieved a Christian
manliness and a Christian womanliness
which will be their passport to any posi
tion I have seen thtir trials I have
matched their perplexities There are
evils abroad which need to be haunted
down and dragged out into the noonday
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In tu e first place I counsel clerks to
remember that for the most part their
clrkthip is only aschod from which they
are to be graduated It takes about eight
years to get one of the learned profession
It takes about eight years to get to be a
merchant Some of you will oe clerks
ell your lives Hut the vast majority of
you are only in a transient position
After awhile some December day the
head men of the firm will call you into the
back office and they wiir say to 5 ou
Now you have done well by us we are
going to do well by you We invite you
to heve an interest in our concern You
will bow to that eoict very gracefully
Getting into a street car t go home an
old comrade will meet you and say
What makes you look so happy to
night O you will say nothing
nothing But in a few days your name
will blossom on the sign Either in the
store or bank where you are now or in
some other store or bank you will take a
higher position than that which you now
occupv So I feel today that I am stand
ing before people who will yet have their
hand on the helm of the worlds com
merce and you will turn it this way or
that now clerks but to be bankers im
porters insurance company directors
shippers contractors superintendents of
railroads vjourr yoice mighty on
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may on the platform plead for the phil
anthropies after all the merchants must
come forth with their millions to sustain
the movement Be therefore patient
and diigent n this transient position
3 Lyou are nowwhere yon can learn things
Wxan Vlearn in any other place
nev
v7agGj8 consider your disadvantages
are yourgrand opportunity You see an
affluent father some day come down on a
prominent street with his son who has
just rartuated from the university and
establishing him in business putting
100000 of capital in the store Well
you are envious You say O if I only
had a chance like that young man if I
only had a father to put 100000 in a
business for me then I would have some
chance in the world Be not envious
You have advantages over that young
man which he has not over yon As well
might I come down to the docks when a
vessel is about to sail for Valparaiso and
say Let me pilot this ship out of the
Narrows Why I would sink crew and
cargo before I got out of the harbor sim
ply because 1 know nothing about pilot
age Wealthy sea captains put tbeir sons
before the mast for the reason that they
know that it is the only place w ere they
can learn to be successful sailors It is
only under drill that people get to under
stand pilotage and navigation and I want
you to understand that it takes no moro
skill to conduct a vessel out ofthe har
bor and across the sea than to steer a
commercial establishment clear of the ftoxicated
rocks You see every day the folly
of people going into business
they know nothing about A
man makes a fortune in one business
thinks there is another occupation
more comfortable goes into it and sinks
al Many of the commercial establish
ments of our cities are giving to their
clerks a mercantile education as thorough
as Yale or Havard or Princeton aie giv
ing scientific attainments to the students
matriculatedThe reason there are so many
men foundering in business from year to
year is because their early mercantile ed
ucation ves neglecttd Ask these men
high in commercial circles and they will
tell you they thankjGod for this severe dis
cipline of their early clerkship You can
afford to endure the wilderness march if
it is going to end in the vineyards and
orchards of the promised land But you
say Will the womanly clerks in our
stores have promotion Yes time is
coming when women will be as well paid
fjr their toil in meicantile circles as men
are now paid for their toil Time is com
ing when a woman will be allowed to do
anything she can do well It is only a
little while ago when women knew noth
ing of telegraphy and they were kept out
of a great many commercial circles where
the
en
day For
the professions
they are now welcome and the time will
go on until the woman who at one coun
ter in the store sells 10000 worth of
goods in a year will get as high a salary
as the man who at the other counter of
the store sells 10600 worth of goods
All honor to Lydia the Chriatian saleswo
man And in passing I may as well
say that you merchants who have women
clerks in your stores ought to treat them
with great courtesy and kindness When
they are not positively engaged let thtm
sit down In England and the United
States physicians have protested against
the habit of compelling the womanly
clerks in the stores to fcfand when it was
not necessary for them to stand There
fore I add to the protest of physicians
the protest of the Christian church and in
the name of good health and that God who
has made the womanly constitution more
delicate than mans I demand that you
let her sit down
The second counsel I have to give to
the clerks who are here today is that
you seek out what are the lawful regula
tions of your establishment and then sub
mit to them Every well ordered house
has its usages In military life
on ships deek in commercial life there
must oe order and discipline Those peo
ple who do not learn how to obey will
never know how to command I will tell
you what young man will reach ruin li
nancial and moral it s tne young man
who thrusts his tnunb into his vest and
savs Nobody shall dictate to me 1
am my own master I will not submit to
the regulations ot this houte Between
an establishment in which all the em
ployes are under thorough discipline and
the establishment in whch the employes
do about as they choose is the difference
between success and failure between
rapid accumulation and utter bank
ruptcy Do not come to the store ten
minutes after the time Be there within
two seconds after Do not think any
thing too insignificant to do well Do not
say Its only just bnce From the
most important transaction in commerce
down to the particular style in which you
tie a string around a bundl obey or
ders Do not get easily disgusted
While others in the store may lounge or
fret or complain you go with ready
hands and cheerful face and c mtented
spirit to your work When the bugle
sounds the good soldier asks no ques
tions but shoulders his knapsack 1Mb
his canteen and listens for the command
of march Douotget the idea that
your interests and those of your employer
are antagonistic His success will be
your honor His embarrassment will be
your dismay Expose none of the frail
ties of the firm Tell no
store secrets Do not blab JRe
buff those persons who come to
find out from clerks what ought never be
known outside the store Do not be
among those young men who take on a
mysterious air when something is said
against the firm that employs tnem as
much as to say I could tell you some
things if I would but I wont Do not
be among those who imagine they can
buila themselves up by pulling somebody
else down Be not ashamed to be a
subaltern
Again I counsel clerks in this house
to search out what are the unlawful and
dishonest demands of an establishment
and resist them In the 6000 years that
have passed there has never been an oc
casion when it was ones duty to sin
against God It is never right to do
wrong If the head men of the firm ex
pect of you dishonesty disappoint them
O you say I should loe my place
then Better lose your place than lose
yon soul But you will not lose your
place Christian heroism is always hon
ored You go to the bead man of your
store and say Sir I want to serve
you
lack of industry on my part but this
tiling seems to me to be vrong and it Is
a sin against my conscience it is a sin
against God and I beg you sir to
excuse me He may flush up and swear
but he will cool down and he wiil have
more admiration for you than for those
who submit to his evil dictation and
while they sink you will rise Dj not
because of seeming temporary advan
tageyjgive up your character young man
Under God that is the only thing you
have to build on Give up that you give
up everything That employer asks a
young man to hurt himself for time and
eternity who expects him to make a
wrong entry or change an invoice or
say goods cost so much when they cost
less or impose upon the verdancy of a
customer or misrepresent a style of
fabric How dare he demand of yoa any
thing so insolent V
There is one style of temptation that
comes on a great many of our clerks
and that is upon those who are engaged
in what is called drumming Now
that occupation is just as honorable as
any other if it be conducted in accord
with ones conscience In this day when
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all our csmmercial establishments ought
to have men abroad who are seeking out
for opportunities of merchandise There
can be no objection to that But there
are professed Christian merchants in the
week night praver meeting who have
clerks abroad in New York conducting
merchants of Cincinnati and Chicago
and St Louis through the debaucneries
of the great town in order to secure
their custom for the store There are in
stores in New York and Brooklyn draw
ers in which there are kept moneys which
the clerks a e to go and get whatever
they want to conduct these people
through the dissipations of the city The
head men of the firm wink at it and in
some Dlaces actually demand it pro
fessed Christian merchants One would
think that the prayer would freeze Ou
their lips and they would fall back dead
at the sound of their own song What
chance is there for young men when com
mercial establishments expect such
things of them Among all things in
fernal I pronounce that the most damna
ble Young man how will that firm treat
you when you are utterly despoiled and
dragged out with sin going through the
haunts of iniquity for the purpose of get
ting customers for their store How
will they treat you O they will give
you a pension They will build you a
fine house They will get you a hcrse
and carriage Will they No Some
daj you will go to the store shabby in
worn out m their service
and they will say John you are
a disgrace to our house Now
just look at yourself Accountant how
much do we owe this man A dollar
and thirty cents Well now here
here it is a dollar and thirty cents Go
off Dont be hanging around the store
Magnanimity superb They stole the
lustre from his eye and the color from
his cheek and the honor from his soul
and then they kicked him out If such
professed Christian merchants dont go
straight to hell I dont know any use of
having such a place 0 young men dis
appoint the expectation of that firm dis
appoint those oust lmers if these things
are expected of you You may sell an
extra case of goods you may sell an ex
tra roll of silk but the trouble is you
may have to throw your soul to boot in
the bargain
Again I counsel all clerks to conquer
the trials of their particular position
One great trial for clerks is the inconsid
eration of customers There are peonle
who are entirply polite everywhere else
but gruff and dictatorial and contempti
ble when they come into a store to buy
anything There are thousands of men
and women who go from store to store to
price things without any idea of pur
chase They are not satisfied until every
roll of goods is brought down and they
have pointed out all the real or imaginary
defects They try on all kinds of kid
gloves and stretch them out of shape
and they put on all styles of cloak and
walk to the mirror to see how it would
look and then they sail out of the store
saying I will not take it today
which means I dont want it all
leaving the clerk amid a wreck of rib
bons and laces and clths to smooth
out 500 worth of goods not one cent of
which did that man or woman buy or ex
pect to buy Now I call that a dishonesty
on the part of that person If
a boy runs Into a store
and takes a roll of cloth off the
counter and sneaks out into the street
you ill join in the cry pell mell Stop
thief When I see you go into a store
not expecting to buy anything but to
jrice things stealing the time of the
clerk and stealing the time of his employ
er I sav too Stop thief If I were
asked which cla s of persons most need
the grace of God amid their annoyances
I would say Dry goods clerks All
the indignation of customers about the
high prices comes on the clerk For in
stance A great war ccraes The manu
factories are closed The people go off
to battle The price of goods run
up A customer comes into
the store G ods have gone up
How much is that worth A dollar
A dollar Outrageous A dollar
Why who is to blame for the fact that it
has got to be a dollar Does the indig
nation go ou to the manufactuers on tne
banks of the Merrimac because they
have closed up No Does the indigna
tion go out toward t e employer who is
out at his country seat No It comes
on the clerk He got up the war He
levied the taxes He puts up the rent
Of course the clerk
Then a great trial comes to clerks in
the fact that they see the parsimonious
side of human nature You talk about
lies behind the counter there are just js
many lies before the counter Augustine
speaks of a man who advertised that he
would on a certain occasion tell the
people what was in their hearts A great
crowd assembled and he stepped to the
front and said I will tell you what is
in your hearts To buy cheap and sell
dear O people of Brooklyn lay rot
aside your urbanity when you come into
a store Treat the clerks like gentlemen
and ladies proving yourself to be a gen
tleman or lady Remember that if the
prices are high and your purse is
lean that it is no fault of the
clerks And if you have a son or a daugh
ter amid those perplexit es of commercial
life and such a one comes home all worn
out be lenient and know that the martyr
at the stake no more certainly needs the
grace of God thau our young people amid
the seven times heated exasperations of a
clcrk S lifo
Then there are all the trials which come
to cleks from the treatment of inconsid
ate employers There are professed
Christian men in this city who have no
more regard for their clerks than they
have for the scales on which the sugars
are weighed A clerk is no more than so
much store furniture No consideration
for their rights or their interests Not
one word of Encouragement from sunrise
to sunset nor from January to December
But when auything goes wrong a streak
of dust on the counter or a box with the
cover off thunder showers cf scolding
Alen imperious capricious cranky to7
wards their clerks their whole manner
as much as to say
have in you is to see
of vou
Then there are all the trials of incom
petent wages Some of you remember
when the war broke out and all merchan
millionaires in six months by the simple
rise in the value of goods Did the clerk
get advantage of that rise Sometimes
not always I saw estates gathered in
tnose times over which the curse of God
has hung ever since The cry of unpaid
men and women in those stores reached
the Lord of Sabaoth and the indignation
of God has been around those establish
ments ever since rumbling in the carriage
wheels flashing in the chandeliers g ow
ing from the crimson upholstery thunder
iug in the long roll of the tenpin alley
Such men may build up palaces of
merchandise heaven high but af
ter awhile a disaster will come
along and will put one hand on this pil
lar and another hand on that pillar and
throw 4tself forward until down will confe
the whtfle structure crushing the wdr
shipers s graphs are mashed ina wine
press J ti < y
Then there are boysur establishmenta
who are ruined in prosperous establish
ments ruined by their lack of compPSa
tion In how many prosperous stoljte it
has been for the last twenty yearWtha
boys were given just enough money tj
learn them how to steal Some w
jority of instances were not known The
head of the firm asked Where is George
now Oh he isnt here any more
A lad might better starve to death on a
blasted heath than take one cent from his
employer Woe be unto that employer
who unnecessarily puts a temptation in a
boys way There have beec great estab
lishments in these cities building marble
palaces their owners dying worth mil
lions and millions and millions who
madea vast amount of their estate out of
the blood and muscle and nerve of half
paid clerks Such men as well I will
not mention any name But I mean men
who have gathered up vast estates at j
the expense of the people who were
ground under their heel O say such
merchants if you dont like it here then
go and get a better place As much as
to say Ive got you in my grip and I
mean to hold you you cant get any
other place O what a contrast we see
between such men and tnose Christian
merchants of Brooklyn and New York
who today are sympathetic with their
clerks when they pay the salary acting
in this way This salapy that I give you
is not all my interest in you You are an
immortal man you are an immortal wo
man I am interested in your present and
vour everlasting welfare I want you to
understand that if I am a little higher up
in this store I am beside you in Chris
tian sympathy Go back forty years to
Arthur Tappens store in New York a
man whose worst enemies never ques
tioned his honesty Everymorning he
brought all the clerks and the account
ants and the weighers into a room for de
All the interest I
what I can get out
I want to oblige vou it is from no dise went up and merchants were made
votion They sang They prayed They
exhorted On Monday morning the
clerks were asked where they had at
tended church on the previous day and
what the sextons were about It must
have sounded strangely that voice of
praise along the streets where the devo
tees of mammon were counting their gol
will be a
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or monj
den beads You say Arthur Tappen
failed Yes he was unfortunate like a
great mauy good men but 1 understand
he met ail hs obligations before he left
this world and I know that he died in
the peace cf the gospel and that he is be
fore the throne of God today forever
blessed If that be failing I wish that
you might all fail Therejare a great many
young men in this city yea in this house
who want a word of encouragement
Christian encouragement One smile of
good cheer would be worth more to them
tomorrow morning in their places of
business tnan a present of 50000 ten
years hence O I remember the appre
hension and tremor of entering a profes
sion I remember very well tne man who
greeted me in the ecclesiastical court
with the tip ends of the long fingers of
the left hand and I remember the other
man who took my hand in both of his and
said God bless you my brother you
have entered a glorious profession be
faithful to God and He will see you
through Why I feel this minute the
thrill of that handshaking though the
man who gave me the Christian grip has
been in heaven twentyfive years There
are old men who can look back to forty
years ago when some one said a kind
word to them Now old men pay back
what yon got then It is agreat art for
old men to be able to encourage the
voung There are mauy you g people in
our cities who have come from inland
counties of our own state from the
granite hills of the north from the savan
nas of the south from the prairies of the
west They are here to get their fortune
They are in boarding houses where every
body seems to be thinking of himself
They want companionship and they want
Cnnstian encouragement Give it to
them My word is to all clerks in this
house Be mightier than your tempta
tions A Sandwich Islander used to
think when he slew an enemy that all the
Strength of that enemy came into his own
right arm And I have to tell you that
every misfortune you conquer is so much
added to your moral power With omni
potence for a lever and the throne of God
for a fulcrum you can move earth and
heaven While there are other youug
men putting tne cup of sin to their lips
stoop down and drink out of the fountains
of God and you will rise up strong to
thresh the mountains The ancients used
to think thtpearls were fallen raindrops
which touching the surface of the sea
hardened into gems then dropped to the
bottom I have to tell you today that
storms of trial have showered impensha
ole pearl into many a young mans lap
O young man while you have goods to
sell remember you have a soul to save
In a hospital a Christian captain wounded
a few days before got delirous and in
the midnight hour he sprang out on the
floor of the hopital thinking he was in
the battle crying Come on boys For
ward Caarge Ah he was only bat
tling the specters of his own brain But
is is no imaginary conflict into which I
call you young man today There are
10000 spiritual foes that would capture
you In the name of God up and at them
After the last store has been closed
after the last bank has gone down alter
the last shuffle of the quick feet on the
custom house step has stopped after the
long line of merchantmen on the sea have
taken sail of flame after Brooklyn and
New York and London and Vienna
have gone down into the grave where
Thebes and Babylon and Tyre lay
buried after the great fire bells of the
judgment day have tolled at the burning
of a world on that day all the affairs of
banking houses and stores will come up
for inspection Oh what an opening of
account books Side by side the clerks
and the men who employed them the
people who owned thread and needle
stores on the same footing with the
Stewarts the Delanos and the Abbotts
and the Barings Every invoice made
out all the labels of goods all certificates
of stock all lists of prices all private
marks of the firm now explained so
everybody can understand them All the
maps of cities that were never built
but in which lots were sold all bargains
all gougings all snap judgments all
false entries all adulteration of liquors
with copperas and strychnine all mixing
of teas and sugars and coffees
and syrups with cheaper mate
rial all embezzlements of trust
funds All swindles in coal and iron
and oil and silver and stocks All
S war touts and Huntingtons and Ketch
ums On that day when the cities of
this world are smoking in the last confla
gration the trial will go on and down in
an avalanche of destruction will go those
who wronged man or woman insulted
God and defied the judgment Oh that
day for you honest
Chrisiian clerk No getting up early no
retiring late no walking around with
weary limbs but a mansion in which to
live and a realm of light and love and
joy over which to hold everlasting do
mrnidh Hoist him up from glory to
glory and from song to song and from
throne to throne for while others go
down into the sea with their gold like a
milstone hanging to their necks this
oie shall come up the heights of ame
tfryst and alabaster holding in his right
hand the pearl of great price in a spark
ling tittering flaming casket
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CELEBRITIES AT HOME
Uoloiiel John Hay Poet Journalist and
Diplomat Off for Europe The
Washington Home
A Splendid Interior In the library Some
Relics of Lincoln Work on the Lite
Pike Connty Ballads
Correspondence of the Gazette
Washington April 21 On Wednes
day last Colonel John Hay sailed for
Europe where he will spend the summer
months in renewing an acquaintance with
the friends he made and the places he
visited during the many years he resided
on the continent He will return in No
vember and take up the thread of his work
with renewed vigor Colonel Hay sadly
needs this rest and recreation All vinter
he has been hard at work in Washington
on his life of Lincoln now appearing
COLONEL JOH > E i Y
serially in the Century Magazine and now
that he has it farenough advanced to sup
ply tne printers for six montns to come
he is determined to take a vacation Be
fore ne left the national capital I called
upon him at his beautiful homo on La
fayette square and had a pleasant chat on
his works and himself
The Washington lesidence of Colonel
Hay is ra her peculiar in design In
truth it might be called obtrusively con
spicuous The passerby is very apt to
stop and look at it a second time and his
comments are not always complimentary
It
I wmU B
tEmw SS lifi TtSlSS P bftie The v ip For yS g
critics however assert that
to be found in America and perhaps it
is best to agree with the critics some
times But however various the opin
ions about the building may be all will
agree that the location is all that the
most fastidb us could wish The house
stands just across the street from
beautiful Lafayette square which
is now fast putting on the bright
green robe of spring Through
the branches of the trees about the best
view obtainable of the White House is to
be had and on either side the stone and
marble colonades of the Treasury and the
State War and Navy departments gleam j
in the sunlight A hundrea feet from the
Hav mansion the philanthropist W W
Corcoran resides and a square further up
II street is the comfortable home of the
venerable historian George Bancroft
Coming back down the street and passing
the Hay residence we may see the home
of Senator Don Cameron the old homes
of James G Blaine Hamilton Fish Fer
nando Wood and a dozen other celebrities 1
But why need we view exteriors no
matter how interesting when a welcome
door stands open and a hospitable host
awaits us So we retrace our steps and
passing under the bread arch to the vesti
bule we press the electric bell and sooc
stand in the wide commodious hall Itj
is in itself one of the most beautiful in
teriors at the capital The broad stdrf
way with its carved balustrade the rich
brussels carpets and the valuable oriental
rugs in which the foot sinks to the ankle
all do their part toward making up a
beautiful effect The hall is finished In
light mahogany the walls and ceilings
being laid off in little block3 This wood
is very rare in this country coming from
the interior of South America It has to
be carried for miles across a wild unset
tled country which adds much to the cost
of procuring it j
To the right is the library The trim
maid servant pulls back the richly em
broidered portieres and I enter the large
welllighted room It is by far the larg
est apartment in the house though none
of them are small It extends nearly the
full length of the house Colonel H4y
says he believes in using the best rooms
of the house for living purposes and nbt
keep them shut up except when there are
visitors So it is that the library and
workshop is also the sitting room ajid
as the colonel works at his desk lis
children are often at play about hiha
and their merry laughter keeps time with
their fathers swift gliding pen The
room is one to feast the eyes upon Easy
chairs luxurious lounges lazy settees
little nooks and crannies low bookcases
surmounted witn busts and filled with the
choicest editions of the classics valuable
jars unique vases and bricabrac from
every land under the sun are all about
The walls are hung with costly paintings
exclusively in oil The most valuable is
a magnificent Mater Dolorso over two
centuries old which occupies the place
of honor
At the end of the room furthest from
the door is Colonel Hays desk As I
enter the door he rises to greet me and
with a warm grasp of the hand bids me
be seated On the whole a preposesaing
gentleman but you would not think
him the possessor of 2000000 A form
slender and small quick nervous mqve
ments a full beard parted in the
middle and bright brown eyes that
look earnestly at you through steel
rimmed glasses This is the ensemble of
the man who is now writing the life of
Lincoln which is being read by every
body And his is the ideal place in which
to write of the great war President
From the desk where he writes can be
seen the White House where he lived
with Lincoln so many years ana all
around his home are locations and build
ings that hold stirring memories of these
diys of civil war
Hay works methodically on his book
though he does not give many hours a day
to the real desk work Eising in the
morning at 8 oclock he is at his desk by 9
He works on until 12 and sometimes
though rarely in the afternoon and even
ing It is now nearly a quarter of a cen
tury since John G Nicolay and John
Hay commenced work on tneir Life of
Lincoln They determined upon it
in the first year of the war and
not after the Presidents death as
many newspapers erroneously stated
Colonel Hay has in his possession many
interesting relics of the days of Abraham
Lincoln One of the most valuable of these
is the manuscript copy of the Presidents
second and most important inaugural
address also the printed copy which he
read from the steps of the Capitol The
proof slip used by the President is cor g
rected in a number of places I egtjp5
fally noticed one correction Speaking
lPTthe southern states he first wrote the
In the
Price 25 boxrillouthern half of the Union
Aprinted copy he made it the Southernents
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The proprietor of this celebrated medicine
justly claims for it a uperidSty over all rem
eilies ever offeritfr the pubUo for the SAFE
CERTAIN SPEElJX ia PERMANENT cure
entire Western and Soutlvsrn country to hear
him testimony to the trutliof the assertion
thac in no case whafsver wpdl it fail to cure if
thedirectionsarestgtptlyfoflowedandcarried
out In a great man5 ase3 a single dose ha9
been sufficient for a cuxeVand whole families
have been cured by a single bottle with a per
fect restoratidnjof the gjneral health It is
however rnfierfandiife very case more cer
tain to cure if it iscontinued in smaller
doses for s eek ortT after the disease has
been checkej more especially in difficult and
longstandiriKcases jSTsually this medicine
J riUpotxequirg ny aid to keep the bowels in
Vr go a oWervShoulfcthe patient howeverre
quire a cathafHSmedicine after having taken
tare > flr fajir doss bf the Tonic a single dose
offcESTS VEGETABLE FAMILY PILLS
will sufficientUse no other
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portion Tne erasure and corretftio
ihay not be of much importance save to
show how careful Lincoln was even in lit
tie thiigs On tne last pagof the in
luguril written in a bold flowing hand
dre thi word Presented to Colonel
John Hay by his fiend A Lincoln j
I It is wonderful said my host ajrwe
looked over the well preserved pages
what interest was awakened all over
he country by the publication of Lin
colns life Almost every day I receive a
dozen or more letters from people n
very section sending me curious littles
pits of information that are of thereat
est value in writing a complete biography
1 would have been better of course had
we gotten the e before we commenced
publishing but even now most of
it can be embodied in the volume as
published in the Century When it is
revised and published in book form of
course we can use more Now for in
stance continued the colonel I re
Competent
of its kind ceived only yesterday a curious bit and
it Is one of the best examples
ihe hunted among the papers on bis desk
Here it is This photograph was sent
ime by a gentleman residing in Michigan
It is a very good picture of an original
drawing of the town New Albany Ind
made by Lincoln ia 1835 On the margin
THE HAY RESIDENCE
you will notice there are a number of
notes and annotations made by him
Since commencing this life I have
given my attention to no other work said
the Colonel in answer to my question
In fact it has been the work of my life
Is it finished By no means However
I am some months iht ad of the printers
and I tnink I can afford to have a holi
day You want to know when the Pike
County Ballads were written I think
the majority of them about 1871
Jim Bludso Little Breeches and
the rest of them were all written
in about thr < e weeks at a time
when I had a little leisure Some of
them two in one evening In this way
I accumulated about thirty or forty of
these together with some I had written
during mv college days were handed to
Mr Fields who made a volume of them
I had not intended publishing them in
book form The same may be said of
Castilian Days During my journey
through Spain I jotted down my observa
tions intending to make a few magazine
THE LIBRARY
articles Almost before I knew It the
manuscript had grown into a book
John Hay is a very wealthy man he is
not worth much less than 2000000 if
any Many of his old admirers think that
his good fortune lost to the literary world
one cf its brightest lights and perhaps
they are right John Hay likes the good
things of life and he has them without an
effort He is talented also lazy and like
wise a philosopher What need to strive
for riches when one already has them
Fame pouf the grave what then
Hay got his money through marriage
He was penniless but he won the heart
and hand of M ss Stone of Cleveland
whose father Araasa Stone was a very
wealthy man and before Eockafeller
came upon the financial stage he was
the greatest of all Cleveland capitalists
When he died a little while back
by his own hand he left a vast
property to his wife and two daughters
Mrs Hay is a very popular lady both in
Washington and Cleveland She came
in the library while I was talking with
her distinguished husband She is low
in statute like the Colonel but rather
stout and has coal black hair a beauti
ful complexion and a very Interesting
face The family life in Washington
the winter anjCleveland in sum
was
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Tfie Greatest CBratiYS Soccpss of tie Age
A VthBfwiili People
b medicine introduced tothepublic has ever
met with the success accorded to IIcp Bitters
It stands today the best known curative article
in the world Its marvelous renown is not due
to the advertising It has received It is fimous
by reason of its inherent virtues It does all
that s claimed for It It 13 the most powerful
speedy and effective agentknown for the build
ine up of debilitated systems The following
witnesses are offered to prove this
What it Did fcr an Old Lady
Coshocton Stattov x YDcc 231SJ4
Gents A number of people had bonn using
your Bitters here and with marked effect In
fact one ca o a lady of over Beveny years
had brcn slcfe for years and for the past ton
years I have known her she has not been aile
to be aronnd half the tme Ab nt six months
ago she got so feeble fbe wan helpless Her
old remedies or physidfsri being of no ayall
I sent to Deposit fortyyjyo miles and got a
bottle of Hop KlttersSapbaa 6uch a very
benollclal effect on lnr 8 one bottle lm
proved her so he was 3blelSSr8 herself ana
walk about this hi use WhMaBiabad takei
the secondbotttp she was abl
her own room and Tsafkout tbjiberIfll
and hasJimnrsvetiaU go time since ilv wtte
and chldren alp haVgs rived great benefit
from their use
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knopwpat In this worldfgf adulterated medi
clnesilferc is one compojSd that proves and
oes m ifr adveriteea to w > and more Four
ts 8o I RflJa ffrgbtshock of pal y which
erved me tdrfucb l ttent that the least
clto ncnt wonla lnaklEireshakc like the ague
IrtistMay I was induced ffetry II p Hitters I
hsg one bottle but dhwrot see any change
hoth r did strtlcajpge mySrves that they are
now as steaifftsfttey cv vrere It used to
take both handBMftrejttrff but now ay good
right hand lte81tTj teiTtft if yon continue
to i anufnetace as hohmt and Rood an article
as you dojoirvwlll accumulate an honest for
tune and coifcthe greljttBt blessing on your
fellow men that was evemconferred on man
kind F TIM BUKOtl
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A Husbands Testimony
i7 nKufflB ta WSKJor years wlt blotches
m3th patches nnd p lftfuas on her face which
neaifty annoyed the life ttotof her She spent
many dollars on tne tlrfiband infa llble
e res with nothing but upjurlous effects A
lady ffeignd of yraeuseiN Y who had had
similar Experience and hjd been cured with
Hop BiifiteJadaced JmJio t > y It One bottle
has ma9eT8rri wffl Ooth fair nnd soft as a
childs andglven her such health that It seems
almost an wcle
A MKMfcK of Canadian parliament
A Rich Ladys Experience
I traveled all over Europe an i otuer foreign
connirl s ata cost of thousands of dollars in
search of health and found It not 1 returned
discouraged and disheartened and waa re
stored to real youth til health a d spirits with
less than two oottlcs of Hop HI tere I hope
others may profit by my experience and etay at
home A Lady Augusta Me
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