Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-19

dig with, but that he would not help him to
the living dungeon of Government depart
ment.
cHAsE,s FIRST LOVE.
The result was that young chase had TO go
to teaching school, and he studied law at
the same time under William Writ, who
was the father OF one of his pupils. 1t was
here he met Miss Cabell, who was visiting
at the Wirts. He Tell deeply in love with
her, wrote verses about her. and the story is
that he finally proposed. She was, how
ever, of one of the first families of Virginia,
and thought herself too good for a school
teacher like young Salmon Chase. What
finally became OF her never heard, but if
she lived to see her rejected lover become
the most noted jurist in the United States it
must have been source of bitter regret to
her.
They tell funny story out in the country
near Columbus, Ohio, about Salmon P.
Chase's boyhood. He spent part of it
with his uncle. Bishop Chase. One day in
the fall as the Bishop was starting away to
ride the circuit of his congregation, he told
Salmon to quit school at noon that day
and come home and kill and dress pig.
Young Chase had never seen a first-class
hog-killing, but he thought he could do it.
He knew the first thing he must do was to
catch the pig, which he finally did after
great trouble, and killed it.
SHAVING A FIG.
The dying hog, however, did not look
anything like those he had seen dressed
In the butcher shop, and IL puzzled him as
to how he was going to get the hair off. He
had heard, however, that the farmers usual
ly scalded hogs to loosen the bristles. So he
hnt Eoft 10 fr1n af
poured it into barrel and soused the porker
in it. Now, in order to get the bristles out
of pig, it is said that you must leave it in
the water only a short time. At any rate,
whether the pig was left in too long or
whether the water was too hot, the result
was that the bristles were firmly set and
would NOT come out at all.
Young Salmon dug away with his fingers
until they were raw. He scraped with a
knife and pulled at them one by one, but
all to no effect. 1t Was getting far into the
night and he was in despair, when he thought
OF the Bishops razors. and getting them, he
shaved the pig from nose to tail. 1t was a
beautiful job, and he was congratulated
upon his success. The Bishop did not try
to shave until he went to preach one day,
and then his temper by no .heans improved
his sermon.
KATE CHASE RETIRED LIFE.
Mrs. Kate Cease has practically dropped
out of society since she came back from
France. She has her own friends who go to
see her, but she does not seem to take much
interest in society. She has tasted the best
OF 1t and found that it is like the apples of
Sodom, beautiful without but ashes within.
Shortly after she left Governor Sprague Tor
good she was not in the best OF circum-
stances, and 1 saw once in an old anti
quarian store in New York beautiful
water pitcher of solid silver which the anti
quarry said belonged to Kate Chase Sprague
and had been left there to be sold.
This was years ago, however, and the rise
of Washington real estate, if nothing else,
must have placed her in much better cir
cumstances. Edgewood itself must be worth
at least S15O, 900, and she probably has other
sources of income.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER.