Morning journal and courier., 1890-06-14


 or irradicably fixed in the vocabulary of American slang than that one now exolusive- ly and universally signifying mysterious, dubious, yet powerful and all sufficient, in- duencs with. or over, political combinations or dispensers of political patronage. It's use is quite as common and comprehensive in all active business, and not unusually in social, and even in ecclesiastical, affairs. I refer to the word "pull." One has ''pull" at the White House; another has "pull' in mu. nieipsi affairs; clever clergyman has g "pulW at local, of general, conferences, with presbyteries, in church and missisnAzx boards, indeed with his bishop or archbishop; and the schoolboy of ten strives for ''pull' with his teacher or among the juvenile crowds whose affairs comprise the most im- portant considerations of his daily life. The word has been edisorially deplered, as- sailed and unmeroifully scourged and pur. sued, but always comes out uppermest and goes straight on in its sententious work and uses with hardy knuckles aad sturdy legs. Like one of those grim and hardy waifs of the streets, that, homeless, parentless and without ancestry, pushes himself, from the very aggressive power of his usefulness into position and place, "pull'' may be now re- garded ss nsturalized American, and i'm. portant enough in it's hard listed place to de- serve attention to its ancestry. Various philologists have already written essays giv- luS pull ulStlhObAtSlJ Amc1lChA OAA6hbs By the purest accident of research upon an- other subject I discovered this to be ineor- rect. For it's immediate percentage we must charge its oblequy, or credit its merits. to the Irish. While recently in Ireland, en- gagged in an investigation upon certain of it's resources, came upon an old work entitled,
 IA Statistical Survey of Roacommon," printed at Dublin in 1882. Among the quaint and interesting recitals of a local na- ture to be found in this ''Survey" is an ac- count of the rise and fall of the Angina Coal and Iron company in 1894, known ss the "bubble year" of English and Irish spscula- tion; and particularly of the remarkable manipulations among London nobility and capitalists in nearly successful effort on the part of an Irish engineer, architect and builder with the significant name of Flat- tery, to float a Roscommon bog and hole in the ground upon London investors for $1,- 500, GOO; Flattery's share of which booty was to be- $100,000. Although it was uphill work, and eventually became so glaring 8 fraud that parliament investigated and put a quietus upon the scheme, the radiant enthu- siasm of Mr. Flattery found frequent vent, by letter, to his Roscommon friends. In one of these, dated London, November 30, 1894, (Appsndix p. x.) is found our American s'pull" in all it's robust force of application and incisiveness. MT. Flastery writes: "I | have not 'sighned' anything for them yet, tho have 'humbugedi them out of two hundred 1 and fifty pounds, and got them to send of the work of the eneine, which comes to one l thousand pounds. 1 have now pull on them, and will make them do what rite."
 The announcement of Stanley's engage l ment of marriage to Miss Dorothy Tennant, the London painter, will recall to the memo | ry of older working journalists of New York bis earliest known dream of domestic bliss. l His inamorata was truly sweet Philadel' | phia girl, daughter of Q we'll known family of that oity. It was wonderful love match flaming gloriously along through 1867, '6s 1 and '69, while Stanley was simply an ordina. " sort of correspondent and utility man or 1 the New York Herald. He was furious and ardent lover; kept the railway car seatl warm between New York and Philadelphia l visiting his bstrothsd; and the balance o1 l the time drove Felix Ds Fontaine and the l rest of his companions among the old time l Herald boys wild with his rosy schemes fol l their discontinue was in his perennial snt gorgeous architectural fancies. He drew
 hundreds upon hundreds of plans, each ons for aresidence to cost anywhere from one te five hundred thousand dollars, though tht
 generous and improvident fellow seldom had
 more than enough money on hand for "a
 bowln at ssCobweb hall," and before ht 1 would mail these to nlS EnllRQelpuln sWeet heart. as he almost daily did, his set among the Herald boys must invariably examine and pass judgment upon them. "Goine over to discuss the changes fn our futurs
 home," came to be the explanatory remark as the party went into council. This wal
 something fearful on the other fellows, al
 forgiven, however. for Stanley had bil
 heart for tha fraternity; and he, would neve
 forget his fellows, not he; nor his lovely wifi
 to be, not she. One great, grand room wa
 to be theirs forevermore. Indeed the won derful mansion was to be built all aroun, this grand room. It was to be filled wit
 broad, cool leather lounges. A great librsr was to cover it's walls. It should have half dozen 6replaces and at least dozen coz
 corners. Tables ana all material for writin j should be everywhere-yet nothing "sho like" in sight There should be loads { splendid rugs. A sideboard provided wit ) such galore of inspiration and wealth of c : gars as never was in any other mans hon should ba there for his newspaper friend : By Georgel they should eat, drink, sleep ar
 work there, if they liked. In word, r was to be, and be called, their s;Soul's Rest Q This dreamswas broken in upon by his A D rican search for Livingstone. On his retu e the most famous man of his time, in 1S7 - he found his betrothed married and alrea, r mother. The s'Soups Restn dream N . done. The heads Of the old Herald boys [