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MILLIONAIRES WOES.
Pestering People With Well Filled
Purses.
' Hark, hark, the dogs do bark,
The beggars are coming to town."
Says the old nursery rhyme. Nc t only
are they coming, but to a person open-ing
the daily mail of any well-known
charitable man or woman it would seem
that they had actually arrived, and
with them "their sisters and their
cousins and their aunts. The numher
of personal appeals and begging letters
charitable persons receive—asking for
anything and everything, from a loan
of fifty Cents to a cool demand for
money wherewith to purchase house,
farm and stock—is almost conceivable
to any ordinary individual, who con-siders
two or three such demands a year
a great piece of impertinence.
" Women make better beggars than
men—that is, a man will take 'no'
sooner than a woman will," is the
verdict of the widow of a very rich
man known far and wide for her
charities. She probably receives on
an average 100 begging letters a week,
and the personal applicants who resort
to all means to see her are almost as
numerous, One of the most con-summate
examples of imprudence oc-curred
not many months ago wheu a
card was brought to this lady on which
she recognized the name of a cousin.
AFTER A WIDOW'S FORTUNE.
Descending to the drawing room she
found a man extremely good-looking
and well dressed,but a perfect stranger,
who immediatly explained that he had
used a name that was not his, as he
wanted so urgently to see her. He
added that he was a clergyman and
had come to ask her to give him money
to help build a church out West. On
her reproaching him with having used
her cousin's name he said rather illogi-cally
that Rev. Mr. So-and-So had sent
him.
" But he can't have told you to come
and tell me a falsehood," said the lady.
" Ah, no, madaine. All this story
is false. I am a widower, wealthy, and
with no inciimbraces. You are alone in
theworldand should have some one to
protect you. Let us unite our fortunes
and our hands."
Before the lady could speak he hur-ried
on: l a m sorry I have made so
bad an impression the first time we
met, but, madame, I could not see you
without using this subterfuge. Pray
forgive me, and let me leave these let-ters
with you. They are from my
friends, and you may see from them
that I am not utterly unworthy of
you."
During the latter part of this speech
the lady had stepped to the bell-rope,
and as he finished the footman stood at
the door. "John, show this person
out," she said, and so ended her first
and last experience with a beggar who
wanted her entire fortune.
BLACKMAILING LETTERS.
By the same mail this lady recently
receiyed letters from a widow in New
York state asking' for $6000 to pur-chase
a farm at a bargain, and from a
man in Kansas wanting a loanj suffi-cient
to enable him to replace a valu -
able cow that had died. On the day
of her husband's funeral a letter was
received stating that, as she had been
so afflicted, if a certain sum should not
be at a stated place at a given time she
would loose her children as well as
her husband. Black mailing letters to
her are every day occurrences. Prom-ises
of repayment are usual, but by no
means the rule. Many people say :
' I f you have more than I, give to me
of yours."
IN MR. CHILD'S MAIL.
George W. Childs, who is known
both at home and abroad as one whose
purse aud good nature are unlimited,
when spoken to on this subject handed
his visitor a budget of letters received
that day. The first of them was from
a young woman, who proposed in all
good faith that he should purchase a
music Dox for an invalid friend of hers.
She said that while reading the lives
of " Famous Men " it occurred to her
how much pleasure it would afford
Mr. Childs to do this; that her friend,
of course, kuew nothing of her writing
but as every one felt honored in being
permitted to do anything for her, whom
she characterized as " the idol of "the
townsfolk," she wanted to give him a
chance.
The next letter was from a man who
h id a perfect setof the original issue of
100 copies of Audubon's "Birds of
America," published in 1832, and
which was the one thing needed to
make Mr. Childs' office complete. The
letter following this was from a
'colored woman, who wanted him to
adopt her twin babies. Another wo-man,
a widow, wrote from somewhere
in New Jersey for money to help sup.
port her ouly child,a boyof twelve years,
" who," said she, " is- following in
his giited father's footsteps "—here the
page turned and continued—" in the
footsteps of the destroyer,consumption.'
Letters from an upholsterer who want-ed
work, and a confectioner with a
suggestion that Mr. Childs should go
into partnership with him, followed.
The next epistle was from a woman,
and was an application for the best,
quietest, easiest and cheapest way of
securing a divorce. It was succeeded
by two letters each asking the recipient
to settle disputes—one between part-ners
in business, and the other between
husband and wife. In both cases the
fullest particulars were giyen. The
next envelope, which had a mourning
border an inch wide, contained the
death notice of a man who was utterly
unknown to Mr. Childs. The cards
inclosed were, like the envelope, black
enough to have made most people
blue.
BEGGING EPISTLES OF ALL KINDS.
Mr, Childs said that scarcely a day
passed that he did not receive exactly
such cards, and tbey were almost in-variably
about persons of whom he
knew nothing. There were several
requests for money for education. One
young man who desired a two years
medical course added a postscript to
the effect that if he could not have two
one would do. The next letter was years
from a man who said that he was an
escaped convict and wanted help to
aid him in resisting temptation. After
vividly painting the struggle he was
undergoing between the desire to do
right and the tendency to do wrong,
he added that he had tried unsuccess-:
fully to see Mr. Childs several times,
but that if he could see him he would
unfold a tale of bribery aud corruption
which would " make the very cobble-stones
ring with horror." A postscript
was added to the effect that he craved
pardon for the soiled appearance of
his letters, but that in his present un-fortunate
state he was unable to bathe
as frequently as he would like to.
A woman in Troy asked for a gift
of $100, and a man in Richmond,
after asking for $150, said that he
hoped for "many happy returns."
The next appeal was from a man in
this State for money to start a store.
After having explained all his plans
and prospects, he closed as follows:
"And now, my dear Mr. Childs, if
you will give me this money I will
do anything you ask me to, provided
it be lawful." A Virginian who
wanted his note for $3200 discounted
for six months couched his plea in
these terms : " I am poor,. nothing
remarkable in that; I have one leg,
that is unusual:; without friends, rich
or poor, which is not peculiar; with a
paralized father and his family
to support, which is my duty."
AN ABUSIVE APPLICANT
Several appeals for money to pay
church debts, or to help build churches
from States as wide apart as Vermont
and Kansas were found in the collec-tion.
Letters containing expressions of
gratitude for money and aid rendered
were there. In response to a query
whether he ever received any abuse
from persons to whose letters no
attention had been paid, Mr. Childs
said that he rarely did. One man
had written several times, appointing a
place and time for some money to be
sent, and when he evidently despaired
of getting it lie sent the following dis
patch : " May God have more mercy
on you than you've had on me."
Fully three-fourths of the letters
begin : " Although a stranger to you;"
and most of them give as a reason for
expecting aid from him that as he has so
much money it will be a relief to him to
get rid of it. , Journalists in need all
seem to feel that the proprietor of the
IM<jer will surely aid them, and they
are rarely mistaken, but they seldom
abuse his kindness.
PESTERING A MILLIONAIRE.
A millionaire who declined to per-mit
the use of his name detailed a few
of his experiences during the past
week. He said that not only was he
pestered by begging letters, but his
visitors on like errands Were even more
numerous. On one morning, within
two hours, four clergymen asking for
money for different uses called.
Women soliciting for homes and asso-ciations
had been more urgent than
ever this winter. He classed all such
importuning as beggary, and for the
benefit of ladies who have to perform
such duties it may be well to state
that any donations for Fairs, libraries,
church debts, building new churches,
or aid given to charitable institutions,
come under this classification. Actors,
mechanics, artists, in fact men and
women of all classes, wrote begging
/or sufficient money to enable them to
return to their homes, as they could
not earn enough to remain in comfort
in this city.
. A request to build a railroad to a
town never before heard of, for the
•benefit of its 200 or 300 inhabitants,
was received,.and several letters from
girls who fancied themselves future
Pattis and Rachels, and who desired
either stage educations, positions or
outfits. Several impecunious widows
and old maids importuned for money
to start boarding-houses, and a woman
wrote asking for a loan of several
hundred dollars on her jewelry adding
thatshe would keep the jewelry herself,
as if she should not have it her family
would suspect that she had disposed
of it, and thus render themselves and
her unhappy.
A woman in Syracuse, N. Y., want-ed
to borrow $1500, without interest,
with which to purchase a home prom-ising
to repay at the rate of $50 per
annum. It would only take her thirty
years to accomplish this feat. This
winter there has been quite a craze
among people with regard to egg farm-ing,
and some have written asking
that the necessary money be advanced
to them that they might furnish the
Philadelphia and New York markets
with eggs at reduced cost. The bene-fit
of cheaper eggs for his townsfolk
was to aid in repaying the money.
Like Mr. Childs, this gentleman
has been bothered with letters asking
for help to secure education. The
expenses have been variously estimat-ed
atfrom $100 to $250,and repayments
have been promised—in the hereafter.
The applications from women outnum-ber
those from men three to one, but
this gentleman's experience has been
that a woman will take a decided
refusal more readily than a man.
APPEALS TO JOHN WANAMAKER.
That John Wanamaker, owing to his
known public and private spirit, would
be rather an object with beggars
might be taken for granted, and that
such is the fact is seen, when it is
known that fully one-half of his per-sonal
mail is composed of begging
epistles. Men are more apt to bother
him than are women, and children
more than are either. Many children
at Christmas time become convinced
that he and Kriss Kringle are identi-cal
and deluge him with letters making
known their desires. The majority of
such letters he answers. A few, when
investigated, turn out to be fraudulent,
but as a rule the bit of money or
whatever may be asked for is sent
without further inquiry. Many letters
ask for fuuds to either erect memorials
to people who are entire strangers to
Mr. Wanamaker or help in transfer-ring
the remains of relatives who have
died and been buried away from home.
The sister of an expectant bride
wrote asking for money to provide a
trousseau, and a little girl for money
with which to surprise her brother,
Robbie, in helping to pay his school
ing, $10 a term. The little one ex-plained
that Robbie was going to be
a minister, and that last winter he had
been able to secure his tution by sell-ing
popcorn, but that this yea«- the
crop was a failure. The letter had a
true ring to it and was quite a pathetic
appeal. A Western man, who had
visited Mr. Wanamaker's store during
the holidays, was so impressed with the
number of pretty girls there that on
his return to his home he wrote to him,
inclosing references of himself and
his means. He asked Mr. Wana-maker
to select any one of the young
women whom he thought would make
a suitable wife, to broach the subject
to her, and if there should be any,
signs of encouragement he would
return to Philadelphia at once. The
outcome is awaited with much interest
by all who know anything of the
affair.
SEEKING AID FOR FRIENDS.
A Hebrew merchant, prominent in
all Jewish charitable movements, said
that he probably averaged fifty impor
tunate appeals through the mails in a
week. The letters were from Hebrews,
Germansf and A mericans, and proba-bly
three-quarters of them asked for
work. The other quarter consisted
chiefly of requests for gifts aud loans
of money, to be repaid in the remote
future, and were usually from frauds.
Such people almost invariably made
the|point that they were not asking for
help for themselves, but for friends,
who had they known of their course
would never have permitted it.
During the Jewish exodus from
Russia in 1881 the gentleman's office
was used as an employment agency.
One man, after having called again
and again and been repeatedly advised
to work, said: " But I can't find any
work." The gentleman turned to
him and said: " Do you see that
piece of paper lying out there in the
street? Go out and pick it up, and
pick up the next piece, ami* pick up
all the pieces you can find between
here and the river. Then come to me
and I will give you some money, with
which you can buy some rags, and
thus make some work." That the
man followed this advice was proven
by a visit he paid to his benefactor
last Christmas, when he proudly dis-played
two bank books, showing credits
for something like $2500.
A Pair of Gloves.
" Let me see some gloves please."
" Yes'm ; what kind ?"
"Really, I don't just know. Let
me see what you have."
" Silk or kid."
" I hardly know : let me see both."
" Light or dark, miss ?"
" Oh, neither exactly; something
medium I think.'
" Here are some tan colors that—"
<; Oh, I doii't want tan colors." \
"¡Don't want black, do you ?"
" No, I don't hardly think I do."
" Something for evening wear ?"
" No—that is, not exactly."
" Here are some—"
" Oh, I don't want elbow kid."
" How would six buttons do ?"
" No,I want longer gloves than that."
" Here are some new shades in
brown."
" Have you any silver gray ?"
"» Yes'm, here are some new shades
" Oh, those are too dark."
"And these?"
" Altogether too light. Let me see
something in seal brown.
" Yes'm, we've something quite new
and—"
" Oh, I want them with stitches on
the back."
" Black or colored stitching ?"
" Really, I don't kuow. Which
kind are they wearing most ?"
" Well, it's hard to tell; onais worn
about as much as another."
" Yes, I suppose so.; I can hardly
decide for I—,why, Maine De Smythe
is this you ?"
" Of course it is ; who do-—"
" So glad to see you ! Do you know
I've been thinking about you, and—"
"It's an age since I saw you, a n d—
what are you buying ?"
" I'm tryiDg to buy some gloves, but
I don't know what I want. Do help;
me decide."
" Well, I will, I'm not buying any-:
thing myself—just looking 'round.
Isn't it lovely to shop ?"
" Lovely ! • And aren't things beau-tiful
this year? I'm wild over the rib- ;
bons !
" Ribbons ! don't mention them ! I
just rave every milliner's window I
pass! But about the gloves?"
After half an hour of harrowing
consultation, and handling every box
of gloves in that store, the glove cus-:
tomer says :
"Oh, let's go over to Fittem's. J
always get what I want there. There's
nothing -here I want.
Love In Leap Year.
Two school girls, Misses White and
Grayson, of Gaston, N. C., rejoicing
in " sweet sixteen,^ and a wealth of
curls and love, had a quarrel about a
young man which each claimed as her
ideal and love and perfection. From
words to blows ard hair pulling the
transition was easy, and the two began
on the top of a steep hill to fight.
They trappled and fell,' then they
began rolling down the hill with ac-celerated
motion, holding each other
by the hair and body. Then the
sch ol-teacher, Warlie, seperated the
combatants at the base of the hill.
Soon the tall and golden-haired Miss
White gave her rival a kick with her
dainty little foot, which struck the
short Miss Grayson in the shoulder.
Thus ending the combat of these
heroines over a sweetheart in Gaston
county.
Two young women of Levenworth,
Kan., went with carriages after the
same fellow to take him to a leap year
party, and, arriving about the same
time, tore each other all to pieces
fighting over which should have the
honor of his company. It is perfectly
safe to say that the party in contest
wears an invisable mustache, smokes
cigarettes and parts his hair in the
middle.
They took a vote in Rolla, Mo.,
recently on the question who was the
"sweetest girl in school," and as a
result there have been no fewer than
twenty fights between young men and
^>ld. friends and brothers of the fail-contestants.
No event that hasoccur-ed
in the town's history has so much
stirred up its society.
Where They Come From.
Travel the country over, and in
nearly every printing office/whether
in city or country, you will find one
or more apprentices. From these
boys of to day, who are now washing
rollers and doing all the dirty-work of
these offices, must come the printers—
the newspaper and book compositors,
the job printers, the pressmen, the
publishers, and employing printers—
of twenty years hence.
The majority of the compositors on
our metropolitan papers obtained their
first knowledge of the " art preserva-tive"
in the despised country printing
office. Yes, we can go even further
than this, and maintain that the ma-jority
of foremen of metropolitan
newspaper and job offices wei;e, in
their earlier life, " country devils."
Our best printers come not from the
apprentices of the city offices, who are
supposed to be taught and trained in
most approved manner. The boy
from the countxy has a peculiar way
of going ahead, of surmounting all
difficulties, until he finally arrives at
the highest position in the office, while
the city apprentice makes progress
more slowly. This is not a fancy
sketch, but based on numerous cases,
and its truthfulness can, be attested
by metropolitan printers of experience.
—Press and Printer.
Let. Men Demand Their Kifjhts.
There are many respects in which
the gentler sex is superior to the sterner
sex out upon our streets the other day
one point above all others in which
they surpa s us was the capacity of
falling—or rather sitting down—upon
au icy pavement without personal
injury- ^
A Cold, Clear Voice.
" Lodemia," called out the clear,
cold voice of Mr. Jarvis from the
head of the staircase, " has that young
man gone yet ?"
Deep silence in the parlor.
" If he has not,"continued the voice,
•'' will you have the kindness to remind
him that it is our custom to have
family prayers half an hour before
breakfast?"
Not That Time.
"The other day," he said, as he was
talking to a knot of men in a tobacco
store," when that sharper went around
and got hold of two'or three ladies'seal-skin
sacques by false representations,
I wens home and said to my wife:
" Martha, if a fellow should come
here and says that he had been sent
by Mr. Blank to get your seal-skin
sacque for a pattern would you let it
go?'
"' Most assuredly not,' was her
prompt reply.
'"But why?'
"' Because that is an old game on
which I am posted. I should like to
see a sharper try and such game on me!'
" Two or three nights later I went
home and she asked me what I wanted
of my Sunday suit.
"' Why, nothing.'
" Why did you send for it then ?'
' " B u t I didn't.':
"' You surely did! A young fellow
ame here and said you wanted jt, and
I sent it by him.'
" ' You did ! H e was a s windler! I
thought you said no sharper could
beat you ?'
"' Yes, but I thought sharpers
always inquire for sealskin sacques,
and never for men's clothing.'
" ' Yes, sir, she gave him a suit of
clothes which cost me $65, and I shall
never see hide nor hair of it again."
A Policeman's Catch.
This morning a newsboy thrust his
head into a hotel waiting-room and
yelled:
" Heard about the catch made by a
policeman out on Blank avenue last
night ?"
"No?" No!" " What about it?"
and his papers went off like hot cakes.
" Catch made by a policeman, eh ?
Don't believe any such stuff ! Thought
policemen always fell asleep about the
time a catch was on hand."
" That's it exactly—he caught a
nap ?" and the door closed with a
bang.
General News.
Natural gas has been struck at Fort
Worth, Texas.
Four Mohammedans, the first to
arrive here in many years, landed at
Castle Garden, New York, en route
to Savannah and New Orleans, where
they will engage in the manufacture
of cloth.
After serving eight years of a life
sentence in the Ohio penitentiary for
murder Conrad Rautebach was par- •
doned°by Governor Foraker, as it had
been pretty well established that he
was innocent.
James Johnson, for a short time
Assessor of Internal Revenue and for
many years a Postal Clerk between
New York and Washington, died at
his home, near Leslie, Cecil county,
Md., of paralysis, aged 62 years.
John T. Morris, the correspondent
of the Baltimore Sun who carried
President Cleveland's gift of a copy of
the United States Constitution to the
Pope, returned to New York on the
steamship Adriatic. Pope Leo accord-ed
him the distinguished honor of a
special audience.
Among- the cabin passengers on the
steamer City of Chicago, of the Inman
Line, which sailed from New York for
Liverpool was Mrs. Folsom, the moth-er
of President Cleveland's wife. Mrs.
Cleveland went on from Washington
and accompanied her mother to the
steamship dock.
Governor Wilson, of West Virginia,
issued a requisition on Governor
Buckner, of Kentucky, for twenty-eight
men who are charged with hav-ing
participated in the killing of
William Demsey in Logan county,
W. Va., on the 19th of last month, in
a fight between the Hatfields and the
McCoys.
Dr. William E. Thornton, a prom-inent
druggist and a member of the
second branch of City Council of
Baltimore, on Friday night attempted
to pull a bell for admission to a house,
when his hand slipped and he fell
backward into an area nine feet deep.
His head was crushed, and he died
from his injuries.
Ruth Woodall, a colored woman,
who lived in Jones county, about <ten
miles from Macon, Ga., mixed some
rat poison with water and made her
two daughters, aged 7 and 5 years
respectively, drink of it. ' She then
drank what was left. The mother
and older daughter have diedj but the
other child was saved by a physician.
No cause is know for the deed.
Andrew J. Carberry, the Pullman
Car Conductor who was tried in the
Criminal Court at Chicago last week
and acquitted on a charge of stealing
the company's fares in his run between
New Orleans and Chicago brought
suits for $50,000 damages in the Cir-cuit
Court against the Pullman Car
Company and the American Surety
Company, his prosecutors.
Near Philadelphia, N. Y., on Fri-day
78 packages containing 780 pounds
of prepared opium of the. highest
quality were found in: the barn of
Ephriam Gardner, \?ho was arrested
at Redwood on Tuesday night, and
from whom about 1000 pounds of
opium were taken by custom officiais-at
that time. It is believed that Gard-ner
was one of the chiefs in the ring
of smugglers engaged in the opium
trade.
No Use Then.
" I f I slip down on an icy sidewalk
and sustain severe damages can I get
redress ?" he asked of a lawer.
" You can."
" Who shall I sue ?"
" The owner of the premises. You
can hold him responsible."
" I was laid up seven weeks, and I
think 1 ought to have $100."
"I think we can get double that.
Do you know the owner of the pro
perty?"
" I can find out very easily. Its No
480 Blank avenue.''
" What! Why, that's my residence!
Better drop your case at once, sir. I
forgot to say that the law is so defect-ive
that we can't get a verdict once in
a hundred times!"
Very Accommodating'.
George Arnold, of Battle Creek,
Michigan, was sentenced the other
day to thirty days in the county jail
for larceny. The court officers were
too busy to take Arnold to Marshal,
where the jail is, and so he said he'd
go alone. They took him at his word,
gave him a railroad ticked and started
him off. He reached the jail all,, right,
and reported to the Sheriff, who was
so surprised that he would not believe
Arnold's story until the court officers
by telegraph, assured him that George
ought to be locked up.
OWEN P. BSICKEK, Esq., attorney
at-law, is in town every Saturday and
Monday morningand can be consulted
on all legal business. Lancaster office
48 North Duke street.
Advertise in the EECOED.
Important Move in the Wholf s l i e Dry
Goods Business.
The old firm of Hood, Bonbright
& Co. has sold its extensive business
to Jonn Wanamaker, who will grad-ually
consolidate his wholesale depart-ment
with it at Eleventh and Market
streets.
Colonel Thomas G. Hood, the
pioneer of the wholesale trade, aud all
his associates of the old firm, with but
one exception, will still remain con-nected
with the management of the
business. The intention is to enlarge
aud extend the already vast business
by New York and Western connect-ions.
The business of the new firm will
be conducted under the firm-name of
Hood, Bonbright & Co., and this old
and time-honored coucern thus enters
upon a still larger career.
Such a combination of forces means
the making of Philadelphia a much
more important factor in the gather-ing
and di-tri u,tiu j; j f dry goods at
wholesale.
A Hint in Time.
Young Miss—" I have set no date
for my wedding. I want to wait until
we are able to begin housekeeping."
Experience! Matron—" Oh, you
foolish child. Don't do anything of
the kind. Go to boarding."
" But boarding house life is so full
of trials."
" So is housekeeping, my dear. Go
to boarding by all means. Then when
things go wrong your husband will
have to take it out on the landlady."