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TAKING TIME BY THETOPRNOT
Three New Yorker Who Seisid Opportunity
When It Game.
ALL PASS AWAY IN THE SAME WEEK
Ilcnjnmln Wood, llnrry .Miner niiil
Alrxnnilrr Iliitlniit llinv Tlu-y
I.nlil tin- Kotinilntlon of l.uritc
fortune.
tobacco, and ho lived to be 80 years old. of the quickest bargains ever recorded here.
Tho significant feature of his career was A proposition was mado to hla one day that
that he seized an onrtortunlty neglected ty , ho sell Ills business and goou win tor j.u,-
all other editors and publishers, took It at 000 spot cash, but he was to accept It or re
Just tho right moment, and gained those Ject It nt once. He did not ask for time
rich rewards which aro always tho fortune nor uiu no caro lor u. mo proposition uuu
of any ono In New York who knows his op. ' scarcely ceased echoing In Mr. Hudnut's of-
portunlty and taken It. co uoioro u was accemeu mm
.,.., .. ,, , nays no iook nis wav.uuu aim nem iu hur-
i.lner, Too. r . land to live. It wa8 not a good bargain for
It was precisely this that tllstinguisneu , . . ,hi .hii.inn.,.. mee a
Henry C. .Miner, who died suddenly on
turn In tor hp nid Herald hulldlnB
Wmihlnirtnn's birthday, and WHO can prop- ., . ., irm.v.. ...i, nrni'lfil llm-mll or I In- Itner nml llrtlUli
erly be numbered among tho muttl-milllon- ' ,tg glte tmU mo(iei tower of babel, the InnlKiilnoniit In Conipnrlaiiii with
aires of New York. l'ovcrty was ins iuv ., . buJlngi M,t,- striiKKlv of the
when ho was a lau, nni u u "'7' It is a rather striking coincidence that Turk nnil.llrnr.
. in hn ntimn n 4 1
cnanco tnai no was eiisK- , theB0 threo men wno iook auvanmge 01 op-
capacity of a public lecturer on medieval , muieg that others did not suspect and
LADYSM1TH OF THE BALKANS
Recollections of the Sieee of Plevni, Which
Listed 143 Days.
RUSSIAN HOSTS HELD IN CHECK
During tho week' of February 21, writes
Holland In the Philadelphia Press, thrco men
who had gained success by taking advantage
of opportunities, and who In some respects
wcro eceentrle enough to command tho pub
lic notice, and, furthermore, who wcro nB'
roclatcd with some of the more Iraportan
energies of Now York, died one of them In
England and tho .other two In Now York
City. Thoy were Henry C. Minor, Benjamin
Wood and Aloxander Hudnut.
So far as Influence was concerned, espe
cially that cf a political nature, or that which
controls men who nre prominent In politics,
the other two wcro not to be compared with
Denjamln Wood. He was of far greater
power In politics than oven tho organization
of which ho was long a member nnd the
party with which he was always associated
fully realized. 'Ho was as exacting and
politically as unscrupulous as was his better-
known hrother. Kernnndo. and no naci an
obstinacy of .determination which somotlmes
served him when his other resources wero
exhausted.
t-Vmandn Wood was ft man of most super
ficial polish, and always had tho manner of
ono bred In clrclm where the conventionali
ties of llfo nro rigidly followed. In his long
service In congrcs, where for one term at
least his brother Ueniamln was a colleague
Kernando gained an Influence which made
him a nromlncnt member of tho ways and
meatiB committee, And In his last term In
that body, as loador upon the floor, he lllus
trated that determination and grim power o
will which wore characteristic both of mm
self and his brothei1 Benjamin by fighting
desnorately nnd publicly, by means of drugs
that were displayed upon hit) desk, Hgalnst
tho encroachments of Brlghfe disease in
tho hope that ho could prolong his llfo until
tho bill was ndopted. That hope was reai
ixmt. Althoueh Mr Wcol was seriously an
nnvni. imnRt to collapse, through an action
brought against him by Abrnm S. Hewitt
for maintaining a nuisance n tho shape of a
barking dog' that disturbed Mr. Howltt s
slumbers.
Nevrr Tool. UN Hvnt
Ueniamln Wood was elected to congress
some years beforo his brother and again was
elected In 18S0, but so far as many mem
bers of congress knew ho was never n mem
w i.lUn James O'nrien. also eiecica
thut time, ho- appeared In Washington nnd
took tho oath, but If he over nfterward was
In his e.it no one knew it, wmcn.wan iu
also of O'nrien.
r,. wnnri'n Macr In oolltlcs was suppose
by many to bo duo wholly to tho fact that ho
was tho owner of tho New York Dally 'News
newspaper. That, however, was a misiaKen
vUw. He was Influential becauso no was
man of subtle Intellolt. somewhat resem
jii.. Im iniPlloctual nuallty Peter H
Sweeney, and bcealiso he had gained great
wealth through association or ownership
with a certain form of lottery business Of
course-, no legal proof was over furnished
,,, Mr Vnn, ntriafsed the larger pari 01 in
fortune through his connection with the so
n,i niii.v. slums. But that has been 1
onmmrn hellcf for more than thirty years
and Mr. Wood, so far as Is known, never
took the troublo to deny Ills interests In
ills vocation .however, so far as the public a preparation which tho clerk said he had
inft' w-n thfit 01 an euuuw r . - ---
tho ,fn?onipTEaoTiB Dally News Just Mote,
the war and after a wnuu
subjects. Miner nccuatomcd himself to the
most rigid economy wnuo in tnai cmpioj
tnent and he used nfterward to eay that
Commodoro Vnnderbllt never epoku a truer
word than when ho declared that the lirsi
11.000 was the hardest to obtain of all the
thousands that any man ever accumulated.
With about $1,000 ho established a theater
on the Bowery and wa determined that no
person would over attend hla show and blush
at nnythlng there seen, jmi as .Mr. woon
determined that no person should read tno
Dally Nows and throw tho paper nway in
disgust. From the moment that be estab
lished his theater on the Bowery Mr. Miner
mado money. Ho Invented tho vaudeville
enow as It Is now known and ho brought to
his theater young actors, who afterward
gained fame; among them Francis Wilson
and Lillian rtussctl.
At one time Mr. Minor's Income from his
theaters was'cstlmatcd by htm to be n little
over $200,000 a year nnd he had under his
control three theaters on the Bowery, one
on Eighth avenue nnd tho Fifth Avenue
theater, -which, after the original house was
burned, ho rebuilt. Some eurprlso was ex
pressed that Mr. Miner should have cared to
enter politics, since ho knew that for a man
of 'wealth polities In Now York was an ex
pensive luxury. One term In congress, how
over, was sufficient for him and ho took It
only beeauae ho desired to have It said of
him that ho had been a member of congrem,
In his early llfo Miner spent some time
In a drug store nnd was tempted to rend
medlclno. Ho even began 11 medl. 1 course
under his brother, and It was this early
trnlnlng which led him to organize and
equip a corps of trained nurses, chosen from
the New York hospitals, which was sent
south In 1880 nt tho time of tho yellow-
fever cpldtimlc, whero Its services wero of
lncstlmablo value. What tho estate of Mr.
Miner will prove to bo Is. of course, only
n matter of surmise, but It Is belloved that
It 'will show that he was by large odds the
wealthiest of all those who have made
fortunes In tho management of stars or of
theaters.
Miner owes his start to his perception of
of nn opportunity offered by the teeming
masses on tho east side, who were both
willing and nnxloua to atiend a theater
provided tho price of tickets was not too
great, nnd who enjoyod a play in which
virtue always triumphed over vice, In which
thero was no word or act to offend modesty,
or who dearly loved a song, a farce, or any
kind of dance.
Another Opportunity Soiled
Alexander Hudnut, who died a day or two
ago In Brighton, England, began almost as
humbly ua did that other drug clerk with
whom ha wns acquainted, who died a fow
years ago, leaving to his family $1,000,000,
That other clerk was employed In a store
on Fulton street, not far from tho modest
placo whero Hudnut first set up his drug
gist bottles,
Ono day a lad from Iowa, born on a farm
thero, through some chance acquaintance
with this clerk, called on him that ho might
seo If employment of some kind was not
possible. Tho clerk suggested to him that
ho undertake to sell from house to house
gained riches thereby should havo begun Tne raising of the siege of Ladysrallh
their careers at almost exactly tno same after a struggle lasting four montln calls
time and should have died within the same altcntlon to tho battle and siege of Plevna,
rivportunlty existed In New York for an
evening paper to he sold at a cent n copy
and co'ndubted especially Ilh a view 0
securing for customers -that largo body of
wage earners who wcro compelled to pay
cent for n paper or else go without. It was
b7 reaton of the skill with which he con
ductci the paper for thut class that Mr.
Wa gained the really high reputation that
he had as nn editor. Ho was very care
ful to make his paper a clean newspaper,
and he had nn Intuitive .perception of the
kind of news that would especially appeal
'VZplemented his editorial ability with
extremely good business management, so that
even when years after there came Intense
compemion among evening newspapers that
told tor a cent the News scarcely felt It.
Eilucntcil AVnite EnrnerN.
Thoro wero many thousands of wago carn
ora in New York City who
,r vrnrs were brought In touch
with tho outsldo world and wcro
educated In public affairs solely through the
columns of the Dally News. Tho profits
of tho paper wero nt times enormous and en
abled Mr. Wood Is live in a manner pos
slblo only to him who has the Income of 11
multl-mllltonalre. Yet In most respects his
tastes were simple. Ukc others who have
risen from tho soil, so to speak, to posi
tions of affluence. Mr. .Wood was nn ex
tremely good Judge of pictures, and bought
some of tho beat work, both of modern
nrtlsto and those of earlier days. Hli
othor' extravagances wero in tobacco nnd
card playing.
No man In New York matchod Mr. Wood
either in tho quality or quantity of cigars
woek.
r.iiYsniis taki.no a iiust.
which lasted 142 days. A writer In tho
London Mall calls Plevna the "Ladysmlth
of tho Balkans" nnd draws tho following
picture of that bloody contejt;
The early victories won by the czar's
substitute for yeast for raising bread. And
then tho bargain was made by which tho
clerk agroed to put up this preparation, and
tho farmer's boy from Iowa to pcddlo It from
house to house, dividing the profits. Thus
was begun what afterward becamo a bak
Ing-powder business that made this clerk
rjch nnd the farmer's boy, William Zeegler,
one of tho multimillionaires of New York,
Hudnut could havo Joined this partnership
but ho preferred to work out an Idea which
had suddenly occurred to him. His Idea,
the baking powder project, Benjamin Woad'a
purchaso of tho Dally News, and Mr. Miner's
establishment of a little theater on tho
Bowery, wero almost coincidental In point
of time. Hudnut's notlbn was that If he
kept his drug store open all night he would
get a largo business, especially If It was.
sttuntcd on tho lino of traffic to nnd from
Brooklyn. Just at that time Mr. Bennett
was building the now offices for tho Hcarld
upon the land upon which formerly had
stood Barnum's museum, and young Hudnut
rented thero a store, whore ho sot up his
mortar and pastle.
Other druggists" predicted for him early
failure, but Instead of falluro ho found
after a while that his storo was crowded at
midnight, many Brooklyn people who had
attonded the theaters In New York stopping
thero for tho refreshment furnished nt hla
soda counter. In addition to that Mr.
Hudnut mado a little rear room, a con.
vcnlent meeting place for newspaper men,
so that In tha course of time Hudnut's storo
was for the newspaper world what the
opera Is for tho -world of fashion and society
.1 common meeting place. Thero all dif
ferences nnd rivalries were forgotten, and
tho newspaper men met In cordial comrade
ship after the papers had been put to preen,
that he smoked, he holug satisfied only with, so that Hudnut's becamo a veritable news-
the choicest 01 1110 uuuuu imuiu;v, .ij-i
quently smoking ns many us forty or fifty) 3nlu for AdvrrtlnliiK.
a day of them. His record us a puner pmyi
Having seized his opportunity Hudnut
mado tho most of It and ho had n genius
for ndvortlsing, oven for obtaining froo ad
vertising In a manner thnt no newspaper
proprietor resented. Years before tho
wenther reports wcro furnished by tho
woather bureau, Hudnut kept a wenther rcc
every papr
Is a tradition of Now, York that matcbei
any of the talcs that have been told of
games played by men mado suddenly rich
In the mining districts. , Some of them wero
doubtless apocryphal, although It Is be
lieved to bo authenticated that ho did sit
once, for thlrty-slx hours, making a final 1 or(J nnfl gont ,t wltnout CC8t to
stake, of tno uauy ows, wmi as mncn un
concern apparently as Jf his hot had been
no mpro than a dollar. He did not lose
his paper, but rose a winner hy many
thousand dollars.
Mr. Wood was a man of such striking per
sonality that he always commanded atten
tion. His akin was or unearthly pallor, at
tributed by many to his exceeslvo smoklnp,
and at least thirty years ago It was pre
dicted that his habits would cost him his
llfo In a little while. His habits, however,
wero obstemlous, excepting In the use of
Wonder., of the VHIowtone Orowlnw
lf...u a.r t till 111 I IIUl
Wn nrn BOon to loso tho celebrated geysers battalions In Juno and July, 187V, found
O aro SOOn lo luou n.mnn l,.!httirn n llltlo Utmu n man In
t tha YellowstonO parn. rcpuiiB iuu v.-...- ...... - - ...
vLl itrrnld These marvels of nature, occupation of the fortress of Wlddln with
which or many generations have excited 40,000 of the best troop in Turkey and
... ... vi.itnrs and formed ono of the ninety guns.
extraordinary natural phenomena of the But so soon us Osman learned that tho
United States, nre now, 11 is sam, i.ihuij . n..uu.uS imj u iU wu,- .utuv
1 -iinni 1 ua" crviseu ie uuuuuo ue wuceieu 111a
Ul-CUIIIIUB VA"""" . . ... U I ...M t..l.. t ..- ..III.
fh llmrlne- Mountain geyser, nuuuuK" uiui; uuuuu, uuui, tin juij 11, -iuu vnidfeo
1 " - . 1 .... I Tl1 - . til- . I I .. .
-.111 llr,ir atnam. has Ceaseil IO Sl'uui, ui liuiua nun ii-utucvi, ins wuiut'U ejre
tho Black Growler. In Norrls' Basin, Is show- nt onco detected that this was a place to
Ing Only the feeblest Signs 01 IlIO unu luu iu- uu ucimueii. uu oui jo mc Kiuuu uui.o
nowned Fountain geyser, in the lower basin wired General Krudener to "occupy Plevna
of tho Yellowstone, nnd the Splendid and tho as promptly as possible." They reckoned
nonhivr in the unncr basin, are ai mo preo- nnuui uiman.
ent tlmo practically extinct. Thus Ilv6 of General Schlldner-Schuldner, sent forward
thn world renowned geysers of the Yellow- by Krudcncr according to tho grand duke's
stono havo gone out of business without any orders, found Osman In possession of Plevna
now hot springs nppcarlng. The other and alroady partially Intrenched. Yet
geysers In tho neighborhood, Including the Schlldner-Schuldner, with 6,500 men, was
magnificent Old Faithful, tho Dovll's Inkpot foolish enough to throw himself against tho
r . ... . .11 Il.nl 4l.lllr T.trb'd J(l (Nlft TM n.lnnli II.. A..! .Ht .
and tno aunuio geyser n -.v.vw. ... uamu
power Is rapidly diminishing nnd thnt their of Plovnu, signally failed, tho Itusslan los
days aro numbered. 'ng two-thirds ot his force nnd most of h's
Tho celebrated European scicniinc mvvi uaggago. 11 was mo nrsi reverse sustained
nn.itirsi nipi et Tcrro. In considering these fey tho Invaders and they could not under-
facts, predicts that tho geysers of tho Ycl- stnnd It. They estimated tho Turkish losses
ill exist for only a fow more in this battle nt 4,000, but ono writer places
vears. during which their activity will sieau- it at 200,
lly diminish. Thus the Ycliowsiono rarn vorso roiioweci. rne grand duke could
will loso ono of Its groatost attractions nnd not be made to bellevo that tho enemy was
Amnrina n natural wonder which has at- In ocrlous force at Plevna. So ten days
traded visitors from all parts of the world, lator ho ordered Krudcncr to hurl his 30,000
Nobody knows exactly why theso extraor- against Osman's 40,000. Of course, the In-
dlnnry hot springs nro disappearing. People evltablo happened. Tho Husslnns lost ICO
Interested In tho Yellowstone and living officers nnd 7,136 men,' a single regiment
nearby aro much grlovcd at the decline ot having 75 per cent of Its number killed nnd
theso Bprlngs. Several Eastern scicnusis wounueu.
havo been nBked whether tno gejsers coum HeKlnnlnf of the SIckc-
not still bo saved, on mo After July 30 came a six weeks' pause,
somo artinciai worK, BUW ' ' ' The Investment of Plevna by an army which,
timber cutting has becen tho cause of the r by s.pterabcr 0 numbere1 9B M0 foIloweUi
decline. They say, however, that tho lato Th(j 8,cgo opcrat,ong woro drcctoa by tho
ot tho Yellowstone geysers is scaled and that vetwan Toulobcni tno ncro of SebastopoIi
i fht.m In the magnificent vigor .. u , .
' - . . "'""1 luuuftii ue uuu mu kuus, uecinrcu
that they exhibited a few years ago is bo- PIevna "impregnable." For meanwhile tho
yond tho power of man. battle of September 11, 1877, had won for
Tho goysers or tuo wauonai j.uik . " Osman tho proud title of Ghazl "the vie
only actlvo remnants or tne voicaiuc uKu m torlous."
ihn United Stntes. In comparatively receni Thf
geological times this region waB tho scene of nlg bravcst battalions. In tho right attaok
violent volcanic activity, 'ine geysers inui- 6 000 victims wero swept to destruction bc
cato that In this neighborhood tho crust of foro tnoso blood-stained redoubts. On the
tho earth Is comparatlvel thin. These ioft skobeleff won a partial but wholly use
geysers were formed by largo streams run- ess success. In tho final assault of this, tho
nlng far under ground, whero tho earth and moet sanguinary conflict of tho whole war,
rock nro almost red hot. In somo of tho the Turks attacked with only 5.G00 men In-
deepest mines hot streams of this kind have stead of 11,000, so distressing had been their
been encountered. I losses
When tho water begins to boll far under "There wero," writes one who saw It,
ground It generates steam and tremendous "walls and parapets built of dead bodies,
exnanslve force. It seeks tho nearest outlet, erected by tho Russians to close the rear
Tho boiling water Is forced to tho surface ontnancca of the works thero were plies of
by tho steam beneath It nnd the consequence corpses and maimed men 1 thero wero brooks
Is a hot spring throwing torrents of water, and rivers of blood." As.(the outcome of
with steam and mud, to a great height above twenty-eight hours' flghng the Russian
tho ground. losses exceeded 20,0001
Old Faithful Is ono of tho most noted Nevertheless, by Octo'ber' the Turks began
geysers ot the Yellowstone. It was so called to bo hungry. Inside Ployiia, Including non-
becauso It could formerly bo relied upon for combatants, 45,000 mouths pad to. be fed. Tha
a splendid eruption at recular Intervals of soldiers' clothes dropped off ,nnd could not
about half an hour. As tho visitor entered be replaced. By mid-October snow set In,
tho valley from tho southern end ho reached adding fearfully to tho garrison's sufferings
tho upper goyBer basin and Old Faithful and tho mortality from disease becamo aw-
was the first of the springs to be encount- ful. Yet the Turks behaved with heroic
ered. The mound upon which the crater fortitude. November arrived, still in snow
stands rises about thirty feet above tho sur- and sleet and frost. "The Plevna camp,
rounding plain, the crator Itself being five twenty-flvo mllcB In area, wns a vast ceme
or six feet higher. ' ono uimonan.
Tho mound of "Old Faithful" measures Attempt nt nellcr,
about 215 feet by 145 feet nt tho base and Two alleged "attempts" to relieve the un
is composed of successive sheets of sinter, conquered fortress failed lamentably. Os
which narrow as they asccndi giving the man found himself left to his fate by a
whole a terraced appearance. Little pools grateful sultan. On December 1 he con
and basins aro scatt-sred about on the sur- ferred with his divisional, brigade and rcgl-
fnco of tho mound, and they are filled with mental ccenmanders on tho subject of a
exquisitely transparent hot water. Tho sortie. The Ghazl wns In favor of It, though
chimney ot tho crater of "Old Faithful" Is knowing well hew small the chances. He
about eight feet high and Is built up of curl- could now placo In line not more than 25,000
ous nodular concretions, which are covered unwounded men, to which Uusso-Rou
with small stalagmltlc balU, and the whole manlans could oppose 100,000 men and 482
Is encrusted with a thin glazing of silica, guns. Small hope for the Turks, but in
Within this hollow lies the vent of the finite was their faith In Osman
gevser. uccemner iu, la it, oawnen com, ioggy aim
Tho holo through which the not water snowy. For tho sortio every individual 01
rushes up Is not more than two feet In dl- the "lost children" recolved a rifle, down
ameter. Between eruptions stenen wns con- to tho buglers and noncombatants. bacn
stantly issuing from this hole. Before nn man was given 130 cartridges, and each
eruption tho waters of "Old Faithful" would battalion received n rcser.vo stock of 180,000
begin to surge up nnd down with a gur- cartridges,
Ellng sound. Occasionally Jets of water The wheels of gun carriages and tumbrils
woro thrown up, each spasm becoming moro wero muffled with straw to deaden Bound
powerful, until at last, with a tromendous and the wounded wero placed In ox carts,
roar, tho geyser would shoot up Into the Thn long train that accompanied Osman s
air a mighty column of water to a height noblo hearts out of Plovno counted elghty
of from 100 to 150 feeU This would con- eght guns, 1,100 bullock carts and 5,000
tlnuo for about five minutes, tho top of tho pack horses nnd mules. The regimental
column all the while being maintained at BtandardB wero destroyed ere moving out,
about the same level. jor aid they not bear on them the names
The water from tneso geysers pcinnes of Crimean victories?
any vegetablo or animal suusiance long suu- Fnmonn Sortie
jocted to its acuon. w, p.uo tUU - comm,ndod In uerson. with Tahlr
,1 .. I ,1 n thnan mlnnnl I " -
were irequuiuiy iuuuu 111 iuibu wmuiui
springs, and butterflies aid grasshoppers
which had fallen Into the springs wero
scalded to death and found In a more or less
petrified condition.
or hV'Zd'VS oVwater are "on. of magnificent appearance as they moved
bridges. Then It was that Osman Ghazl,
sword nnd pistol In hand, In porson led
tho great bayonet charge of his first di
vision. To them were opposed tho picked
men of GanoUky's grenadiers! but so Ir
resistible wb tho onslaught thnt their fine
troops wero ovcrborno and scattered to tho
winds.
Tho thrco Hues of trenches were success
fully pierced; twelve guns and many pris
oners wcro taken. The Turks charged In
n compact mass of 14,000 bayonets, and for
the moment naught could reBlst their on
slaught. But tho reaction was nt hand.
The wild hysteria of this last nttcmpt was
passing Into tho exhaustion ot splendid fall
uro. Tho Muscovites rallied to their guns.
Heavy masses of men wero moved up by
Todleben, and ng the devoted Turks strug
gled to keep their alignment shells crashed
Into their disordered ranks at clotc range.
O.minn wns struck In the leg by n fragment
of ono of theso grim messengers and Im
mediately disabled.
One who saw Ooman Pacha as he lay
wounded In a sorry hut pays:
"The terrible expression on his tortured
features haunted mo long afterward."
To add to his misery, aides came pour
ing In from every quarter of the field asking
for help. As n matter of fact, the Russians
wero already In Plevna, having discovered
over night that tho eastern fortifications
had been abandoned.
Alt I. out, Snve llon,)r.
About 8,000 ot both Hides men, women
nnd children had fallen cro tho wounded
Ghazl would content to the white flag being
displayed. Message after message reached
him, .Imploring him to give In, but for many
n wavering minute he refused to pass tho
word. At Inst tho white symbol was hoisted
on tho roof of the hut, nround which the
shells were screaming and bullets whistling
thick as hall.
It was hoped that General Ganctzky, who
was there In nominal command, would con
sent to a conditional surrender; but tho
Russian, knowing that he held the enemy
In the hollow of his hand, was Implacable,
nnd tho end of tho brief negotiation wns that
the word for "unconditional surrendor" had
to bo paused,
And so fell the unassailable, unscalable
fortrnss of Plevna, "after a defense which
had lasted 143 days, which embraced four
great battles, twenty-five minor actions and
numerous skirmishes, which Involved a cost
of life and limb close on 100,000 human
beings, and which, to quote tho czar, Alex
nndor II, 'Is ono of the finest things dono
In military history. "
Well might tho Russo-Roumnnlan allies
gaze In undisguised wonderment upon the
worn faco of the man who had defied their
united efforts for so long, nnd well might
Ganctzky saluto profoundly ns he met the
fallen hero being carried toward the Russian
headquarters, and bo constrained to remark.
with the air nnd voice of n man who feels
what he says, that "the defense of Plevna
will llvo long In history."
President
McKinley
will be renominated at
Philadelphia June
19 next.
The campaign for his reflection
promises to be one of the most hotly
waged political battles in the history of
our country.
In Now York.
Therefore It appeared ns Hudnut's record
and his name nnd business were thus brought
dally to tho attention of all New York. It
'becamo known to Mr. Hudnut thnt In nil
probability tho younger Rennett would sell
tho Herald building, and build a new struc
turo for that nowspnper somewhere uptown.
Hudnut could easily havo obtained another
placo nearby, but that proposed change and
tho opening of the Brooklyn 'brldgo, which
enado Fulton Btrcct almost a lonely thor
oughtaro at night, Induced him to mnke ono
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For n half-century S. S. S. litis boon curing obstinate, deen-Beatcd blood trouble,
like Contagious Blood Poison, Scrofula, Cnncor, Rlicuinntlsnt, Catnrrh, Eczema,
Tetter Ip fact, all blood-nolson ' diseases of whatever character. No other
medicine has such a record. Its popularity Is shown by tho constantly Increas
ing demand and tho thousands of voluntary testimonials from all parts of the
country. Wo claim nothing for S. S. S. but what experience has proven to be
true. Remember, S. S. S. Is not a new, untried remedy. When you buy a
bottle you get sometulug that has been used nnd endorsed by thousands in tho
past fifty years.
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purfly
the old
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pre-
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cae. w. make no chargo wimuver for this. Swift Bpeclllc Company, Atlauta, Ga.
i.r.i V 1 1 uiiutTii, uuu trim no K'vi'ii 10 uuuurvii wun peneci rarely.
h i win iui'iii luiim mm u oou-uuuurr. 11 wimns una invieoraie Mm hirwiii thin 1
venting many of tuo little aches and twins so common to old nee.
UllF AlenlfAl IteDJirtlnf nt l In fihArri. lf nlivi am tif loner u.n.rl.nx.1 n 1jI11 In
Pncha as second, Their aim wns to cross
tho Vld and retreat over tho Balkans to
Sonn. A llttlo malzo porrldgo Is not tho
best of rations on which to fight a groat
battle. Still tho Turkish ranks presented
SAX FHAXCI.HCO II A V MKXAORIJ.
Orent llnrl.or of the Pnoinc I'IIIImk
Up with Mini.
In California a renewal of tho old agita
tion against hydraulic mlnlnc has Iippti
lstartod by Influential agriculturists, says
the Scientific American. It Is asserted that
tho restraining dams built under tho Cam
enattl act. for holding back thn debris of
the mines, nro Ineffectual nd do not ful
fill the purpose Intended, the result often of
fnulty construction or dellberato Indlfferonco
to the careful requirements of tho law. Chl
neso aro tho principal offenders, and much
litigation has been tho result. Floods havo
swept many of tho frail structures, with
all their accumulations of sand and rocks,
away, and the consequences havo Ijccn the
ruin of agricultural lands and the Increased
shoaling of navigable streams. Fifty years
ago began the disastrous filling up of
streams, caused by tho general nnd unre
strained pursuit of hydraulic mining. No
estimate can be made ot tho quantities of
debris washed down by this process. Tho
evil results are visible in thousands of acres
of fertllo valley lands deeply covered over
with sterile sands washed down by flooded
streams from the mountains above. The
area of navigable waters of the state Is
seriously curtailed.
In 1849 tho Sacramento river was a clear
and limpid stream navigable for veesels
drawing seventeen feet of water as far In
land as where the city of Sacramento now
etanda and for 200 mlle3 further for vessels
of eeven or eight feet draught. Now steam
ers nnd barges drawing not over three and
one-hnlf feet can navigate the river at sum
mer stages to Sacramento and but twenty
inches If they aro bound to Red Bluff. The
throe-fathom limit, which In 1849 extended
to Sacramento, has contracted at tho rato
of one mile per annum for the last fifty
years and Is now at Porto Costa.
For over twenty years, or since the cca
satlon of hydraulic mining, the streams of
California have never regained their orlgl
nal limpidity and are even now apparently
bringing down as great nn amount of eolld
matter as ever. This Is accounted for. In
part, by the vast mounds of debris thrown
out hy early operations, which eventually
find their way Into tho current through the
operations of floods. But the procctu ot fill
Ing 'up tho bay comes al30 thrnueh the In
voluntary afelstance cf the agriculturists
themselves. Scientific Investigation demon
strates that tho ullt new flowing Into the
bay la not from the mountnlns nltogcther.
but Is In greot part tho snll washed from
lands plowed for agricultural purposes. The
very element that no consistently demanded
nnd nchlcved tho destruction of hydraulic
mining Is now dolnj that for which they
successfully denounced nn Interest which In
tho past has contributed bo greatly to enrich
the world.
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lllkliiii. Hurnt Mnke Ileuiul.
PHILADELPHIA, March 20. Bishop
Hurst, who presided over tho Now Jersey
Methodist Episcopal conference at Mlllvllle,
today denied tho published statement that
bo had announced to tho conference yester
day that President McKinley had accepted
the chair of International law In the Ameri
can university at Washington. Tho bishop
expressed his regret that he was misquoted
and directed his socrctary to telegraph a
denial to tho president.
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