The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-07

loses sheen unless II stands out against more
sombre background OF badness.
OF Olive Gray, the innocent cause Of 30 much blood
shedding, the author says
although simple in taste In features, slight In
form, and quiet IN speech and action Olive seemed TO
variabiy admire There are two classes OF women in
the world First, the large class who want 10 marry
all men, and second the smaller class whom all men
want 10 marry. l have yet 10 learn that beauty,
wealth. VII, worth or style have anything to do with
the distinction between these two classes Ali the
beauty, wealth, wit, worth and style in the world will
not admit woman into the second. She must be
born there, and II she swithout one OF these attr
butesthcre she will live die. To be- the slang
OF women, popular WIN men,, or In masculine par.
lance. nice Is in the blood. >"
We cannot gvo description to this thing-whether II
Is IN the % cs OF the bchoder instead Of the Thing
behold, We will never know The colts OF loathsomo
serpent sometimes hold charm tor the falrcst bird
and something OF the sort lies somewhere between
man and woman. Olive Gray. little she desired H.
was born In this class; and many men besides Paul
Ogden had vowed they would dee their heads 10
move the simple little things heart There IL one
drawback, however to this sort OF girls; although
they iaii in love slowly. they always do fan IN love
u. rately with curates. Girls who In
love with curates always suppose themselves in love
with religion II rs only the correative form OF that
hallucnation which fills the sermons Of young clergy
men on the eve OF their nupials with mystical allu
sions to the Bride-which. everybody knows rs the
Church.
There no doubt In the readers mind but that
Paul Ogden was mad, but his madness had method
discharge and pracscd cats until he got his hand
in; then he shot the young The analysis OF
the murdcrer's mind on tho day OF the murder and
alter II IS SO minute that one feels though the
author must have passed through similar experience
Everything he said, did or thought Is told. The
HERALD figures extensively through the storya fact
is the detective that takes up tho clcws works
out the right conclusions. To be there Is a clever
and intallibie police detective; but the HERALD
ut glance what II takes him weeks OF labor asccr-
tain Al the examination OF witnesses after the muir
der lawyer made speech on the influence OF tho
press ard particularly tho HERALD, part OF which
think is worth quoting:-
or what use is tho prosecuting officer ready with his
indictment drawn Tor the Grand Jury to nnd OF what
use the court organized to try the jury OF the vcnago
ready 10 DO summoned, aud the posse conitats ready
execute the vengeance of tho law upon the
OF boodr Why, str, hc-tho shedder OF blood HIM
scli-he sits al our elbows over his wine, or with his
cigar, reading tho newspapers! the papers
that you or read aud he knows, well AS you and l.
every method that human ingenuity has devised Tor his
apprehension DO we clumsly and cautiously steal upon
the track OF man who has taken passage 10 Europe?
Tho newspaper intcrccpts tho steamer itself with
despatch and publishes the fun particulars OF tho
scent and It's own forcthought and enterprise to the
world next day.
The man who has done this deed, Mr.. Coroner need
not fly TO Europe He need OF shun the very OF
his CHASTITY crime he has only to sit down at your
elbow and mine, aud read every morning in the
paper what CLOVIS his pursuers have obtained, what
formation their possession, and what traps ihcy
have set to catch him. Them II II rs his pleasure no
aside those CLOVIS, that information 10 his
own account. and keep out OF those traps.
Pawnbrokcrs, spiritual mediums and many other
outside agencies brought In to find the murd rcr
who at last captured but escapes justice by unique
poison. The story is told in the most graphic and
realistic amor, and is absorbing and exciting that
the reader finds II impossible to lay Il aside until IN
ished.
Among the descriptions OF contcmporancous charac-
tiers It is not hard to recognize tho gentleman who
figures Mr. George Henry Burlhurt
In figure tall and elegant with white hair and
musache, and clear laughing gray eyes, he would havo
attracted attention In any society. II goes without
saying that an American gentleman knows the world
by heart; would be scarcely necessary to say OF
American 'he has travelled other lands than his
own!" Mr.. Burlhurt not only knew the world by
heart but It might almost DO SAID that the world knew
except plain ''Mr." to his name and no letters io-
lowing u, he had hobnobbcd with emperors,
kings and princess and with statesmen who make
emperors kings and princess; dined en- JamiHe At their
tables and been petted by their wives. A gentleman
aud was rarely mentioned, except socially, IN tho
newspapers rho best read man in America, he never
this tim" Of the psru Inc src M
scholarly daily Of the Continent you might In
vain for his name IN any Impression Of that admirable
sheet
Gloster, the medium, will also be recognized
Now, this Mr.. Gloster was man concerning whom
there was wide difference of opinion many, per haps
most persons. holding him chariatan and quack.
while respectable minority affirmed him possessed OF
certain marvellous and peculiar gifts In judging Of
unusual phenomena OF any sort II IS always saeo pro-
nounce them humbugs and II one only doubts assdu-
ously and haoi!ually ne rarely. misses q repu.
about this Mr. Gloster to command apprcba.
ton at any rate Although styling himself
"mind reader he inserted advertisements In tho
newspapers, promised no iniaIbility, autho no
statements as to his prowess, and claimed superna
tural gifts OF auv kind. Nobody know, indeed exactly
how the first became known who first discover rcd
his presence In the city, could put their hpger
upon any great practical benefit which he had boen
In any case. But, somehow or other, his name began
to DC noscd about, and hundreds OF people, believe
and unbclicvcrs, lockcd to his apartments. His plan
OF doing business at any rate, said TO be simp
enough. Upon payment Of consultation fee you en-.
tered his presence whom he could be oil assistance
conner.
A certain Mrs. MeIdcn is thus humorously do.
scribcd:-
people actually subscribed Tor Mrs. Melden, as they
did for the HERALD, by the week. month year;
although II cannot be denied that they took her Tor
longer or shorter periods as tho We would
not so lar forget our duty 10 that lady to nsnuate
that she went from house to house for much year.
IN money, and thereby earned her Dread. She was
not, however, We are bound to say, very different
In that respect from her contemporary, the HERALD.
Like the HERALD, shc entered every house; ike the
HERALD she was consulted on every hand; like tho
HERALD she was referred TO in every dispute. ana, like
tho HERALD, her decision hey ond gainsay.
The great difference was that the HERALD had a cash
capital and edited. Mrs. Mciden had cash capt.
tai and no editor.
"A for Herr lie not a book In which posterity will
rejoice but very much mistaken II It does not
attain quick, II not lasting, popularity.