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AMERICAS FIRST PICTORIAL PAPER.
1t Was Published by Frederick Gleason,
WHO Ii Now Old md Poor.


1t Was Published by Frederick Gleason.
Who IL Now Old ana Poor.
Frederick Gleason, the father of illus
trated journalism in America, is and has
been for five years an inmate Of the Old
Mems home, Mt 13S Springfield street, Bos-
ton. Once worth hnlf IL million, he. lost
his money in Wall street, and is now, at
the age of seventy four, practically penni-
less, but he remains cheerful and delights to
talk Of his career. Said he the other day;
II commenced the publication business
in 1872 in the old Scollay building, Boston,
issuing therefrom Il number of novelettcs
and other cheap works. In 1913, establish
ed The Flag of Our Union, the first really
literary paper of its class III the cenn-
try. About 1850 The Flag of Our Union
had IL lnrge circulation, which brought
me the handsome income Of SO, 900
per nnllum. Having long been lover
Of pictures | conceived the idea of pub
fishing Gieason's Pictorial Ora wing Room
Companion. I relied upon $4,000 from
The Flag ii pushing it 10 success. J start
ed it with an edition Of 5000 copies. The
circulation steadily increased until, in
1861, when sold out to NJ. N. I}alou, it
circulated 10000 copies. The Flag AZ the
same time, circulated 1000. My income
ttt lhat tliilc WIS SSt,pVp per allnn!n.
In ISL Henr3. carter, more ianiiarly
known It the present day is Frank Leslie,
camcto me in search Of employment iIe
claimed to he able to improve cur cut i'm
press!ons bya system Of OVERLAPPING then
unknown to Inc. | hired him, bllt soon
found that he was not thorough ut 1t.
then got a Mr.. Hart to take his place, put
ting Leslie in charge OF my engraving de-
partncut.- He remained with me about
two years at the end of which timc lie left
and went TO New York.
AT hat time there were really no en-.
sravers or artists adapted to the require.
ncllts of the business III tile country; so
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ell and many more down to the last Par
nell. He was. however, even less Irish in
general makeup than his ancestors of the
Eighteenth century.
1t is I fact often noticed and commented
on that Dane and Saxon, Norman, Scot
and later Englishman have founded fam
lilies in Ireland, which, rs Il rule, soon took
on the characteristics of the old native
stock. In local feeling it was often re
marked that they became ''more Irish than
the Irish themselves" while they cxhib-
tied the same traits of wit and humor,
vivncity, cloquencc and poetic genius.
But Mr.. Parneli was singularly cool and
reserved, less ardent than an Engiishmnn,
less impusive than Il Scotchman and less
vivnciuus than Dutchman. Those who
admired him most often complained of his
cold and austere manner, and in view of
his latest performance it seems like cruel
satire to repeat that in his college career
and even later he was habitually spoken
of as Il woman hater'-at any rate, rs one
totally indifferent TO female charms.
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interserel, the parasites were driven away.
and for 1lc rest of his life the king was
virtually /; prisoner in the royal apart
ments.
Karl Friedrich Alexander was born
March G, 1928, married Olga -Nicolajewna,
daughter Of Gar Nicholas Of Prussia July
49, ls4t! and succeeded his father as King
June p, 1864. He co-operatea with Prussia
i' organizing the new Germany and WA il
general i liberal ruler. He formed aStrorg
attachment 10 Richard NJ. jackson, of
Ohio, vice consul at Stuttgart. made him
hs reader, created him i baron and be.
slowed priiicely gifts on hini
Mr.. Jackson used Ills privileges with
moderation hut the Rev. Charles B Wood
cocis, of New York. and Mr.. Douull Hen
dry, u Gt. JOHN, \. 81. wtre Introduced
into the palace, and, according to the Wur-
temi'ergers, those men s"indlel the old
monarch sliametaly, ONE their meth
ods WIZ BY spiritual manifestations, Ill
which the King WAS persuaded that lie
coult. talk with lis prince.y ancestors.
]Elt kings purse was exhausted in enricr-
iuE ti{ese men, and the iaoTle threatened
them - l9u4ly that they departed! III a
hurry
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The English Parnells, after occupying
an honorable but obscure position for sew.
eral generations, became prominent in the
war between king and parliament, and
having gone to extremes in support of
Cromwell. the head Of the family removed
to Ireland soon after the return of Charles
II. A few years later, to wit, in 1G79, was
born in Dublin the Thomas Parncll who
became an archdeacon of the established
church and Il famous poet, and removed in
time to England, dying at Chester in 17l7.
He was intimate with Pope, Swift, Gay
and Arbuthrot and member of the fa-
nous Scriblerus club. He assisted Pope
in translating the Iliad and wrote the
Life Of Homer" which is pretixcd to it.
His grandson became Sir John Parnell,
chancellor Of the Irish exchequer, and Sir
Johns son, Henry Brooke Parnell, was
created Baron Congleton in 1871. He was
one of those who first advocated the repeal
of the "Corn Laws" and was very active
in the most liberal section OF the Wing
party. Indeed, the Parnells have always
been on the liberal side in politics, and old
Sir John resigned the Office of chancellor
of the exechequer rather than vote Tor the
"Act of Union," which abolished the Irish
parliament. He was the great-grand-
father OF Charles Stewart bya different
line from that of the Baron Lord Congle
ton. @5 ,4.=c
Nearly three generations passed after
the settlement by William OF Orange be-
fore the "colonists,'' ms they We're called.
began to affiliate politically with the Celts;
then Irish champions of Protestant faith
s and Saxon lineage took the lead and the
1 long and brilliant line of patriots and ora
tors OF that class is unbroken, beginning
with Curran, Grattan and Parnel, and
continuing with Moore. Emmett. Mitch
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rank among the greatest in the world.
Among his most valued treasures are
originals of documents issued by Washing.
ton, Lincoln and other rulers, an original
Gutenberg Bible, the manuscripts OF Mar.
tin Luther copies of the first English
Bibles, the first Indian bihles the original
treaties with France and many other poIit.
ical and religious works. He also has one
original autographic production of Shake.
speare, one of the only two Tyndall Bibles
of 1926, the only portrait of Washingtons
sister Betty, Wnshington's journal while
at Yorktown and the treaty Of surrender
signed by CORVALLIS.
He has also Assyri;in clay tablets of 5000
B. c., Egyptian and Hebrew manuscripts
of 200 to 300 b. c., illuminated parchment
Bibles of the Middle Ages, the first Bibles,
newspapers. sheet music, maps and char
ters printed in America and vast nssort-
ment of oriental aud other curious manu-.
scripts. He has models and drawings OF
almost every kind of dwelling, temple,
bridge, etc, in use for centuries Ills am
bition is to found great American mu-
scum of that nature
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NO. 1903.

many day and found Jack at last dying
of consumption in Il very low lodging
house. The letter was from q sorrowing
mother to an erring son and both the men
cried rs 1t was read. Tim not only forgot
all about his fee, but dropped two dollars
on the floor as he went out.
Sept. ], 1859, commission was made out
empowering Timothy Mahoney to de-
liver letters and other mail matter" etc,
and this was the first official appointment
of the kind. Even at that late day mes
sengers watched all night for incoming
ships, and when one arrived one man drove
madly to the postoflice with the mail sncks,
while the other reused the clerks. They
had to lock the doors, for no matter what
the hour was hundreds of men were sure
to be on hand as soon as the news spread
that Il mail vessel had come III. AS soon
rs the clerks could tiistr nute the letters
the signal vas given, "All right!' Then
the great doors swung open and the eager
crowd rushed in. Such are the reminis-
cences Of the oldest letter carrier in San
Francisco.
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servatiye school Dr. s. A. ElSION.
books begin the authentic history" of As
syria with the reign of Sargon 3.SlJ years
before Christ.
Even at that time there had been wars
between Assyria and Egypt which were
spoken of as ancient Not only are the
royal records clear to a period ! 500 years
before Moses, but hundreds of private citi
zcns wrote out circumstantial accounts of
their lives, which were laid in their tomhs
and are now read by scholars Among
others, DR.. S. a. Binion, of New York, has
given much time to a study of these per-
sonal sketches, and he has recently com
piled the most interesting of them i'll a
work of rare interest. Some of them are
very amusing, especially that of the Prince
Ramesis. The original record looks to the
uneducuted like set of goose tracks in
yellow mud, but the English of it tells
this story.
When very young he fell in love and was
for awhile unhappy, but did not lose his
appetite On the contrary he relieved his
mind by going to bauqucts where he met
several jolly fellows. After his good
spirits were restored his beard grew and he
began to study the duties of Il man. lie
learned that his corpse would have to lie
in a mummy state 1000 years before the
reVlVln9 gods would lake INN before
Osiris. The mummy would need food
during these 4, 900 years, and SO surviving
friends painted his breakfast, dinner and
supper on the walls of the tomb, enabling
him to live cheaply during the interval by
simply looking at them.
The "Ritual of the Deal'' is minute
account of the examination before Osiris
One god examined the stomach, another
the lungs n third the heart and so on and
if nll reported that these organs had not
been abused the subject was then put
through catechism as to the way he
treated his parents, his servants, his wife,
his children and even his mother-in-lsw!
There was a devil or demon to act us prose
cutor, and sometimes whole board Of
them to get up evidence and frame in
dictments.
One very interesting fact shown in these
personal histories is thut frauds were COM
mon in embalming the dead, from whicE
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had to take amy that cam. ;,i0ng and edU
cate them up to the business. WIS
obliged to have work done in Nrw York,
Philadelphia and wherever gould in order
to yet the paper ont Oh time. " hen Jenny
Lind WAS in this country and Bnrmim was
at the height Of his fame, got out Il special
edition in bronze out Of frientliness TO Bar,
mum, with whom I was intimately nc.
quaintcd. ! got twelve cents II copy for
this special edition. The regular price WAS
ten cents. .
"In selling my business to BaIlou !
bound myself not to engage IN the pub
fishing business for 4 period Of fifteen
years. 3allou, however, in buying the
plant was obliged to mortgage everything
right back to me. -Four years afterward
he failed, aud was compelled to enter the
field again. Billlou had changed the name
of The Pictorial 10 Ballon's as soon as he
got possession. He also began Mt once 10
use an inferior grade of cuts. The circu-
lation, in consequence, fell OF rapidly.
Just before he failed he suspended publ
cation entirely.
AT the time sold to Ballou the Hnr.
pers were publishing their Weekly Jour.
nal of Civilization without CUTS but as
soon as sold they commenced using illus
trations. They were followed by Frank
Leslie. Both built up their business on
Ballou's mismanagemcnt.
''When commenced the publication OF
The Pictorial, determined That it should
hea paper of fact, not Of fancy, as most of
the journals of today are If there was n
disaster in 1nidocean, did not have my
artists on the spot.' My artists and en-
gravers were paid according to their abil.
ity; consequently they did their best. In
1858 the artists of the United States pre-.
sented me with n solid silver service val
ued at several thousand dollars"
In 1858 Frederick Gleason was rich,
prosperous, honored, and his name was Il
household word throughout the country.
Less than forty years later he is ruined,
broken, feeble, we'll nigh forgotten old
man, humbly occupying quarters in an in
stitution for which in his prosperous days
he might have written check covering its
ful1 value
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paliing disaster Yet in her two years OF
management no accident has occurred for
which she is responsible, She has nerves
Of steel, las proved cool il emergencies
and keeps the wires lot eleven hours II day
with orders that are TO the business Of the
line rs Il lnauspring to Il watch.
Miss Ietnncttt Cockritn's mission is Of u
different order She is lie beautiful TWEEN
ty- y-ycar old daughter Of Colonel Robert
Cockr0u, Of Boston, and the wealth and
standing Of her family gave her admission
to the best social circles But fashionable
life had no charms for her, and by her re-
cent entry into the Order Of the Sisters Of
Mercy She has devoted the remainder ot
her existence to the relief oi the sick and
suffering
Mrs Elizabeth Campbeiiss energy and
ability lind outlet ina fascinating but dill.
cult channel Of activity. She is the wife
of II public man, James E. Campbell, pres
ent governor of Ohio, WHO is now seeking
reelection, and ,laus shterof Job L. Owens,
OF Hamilton, O., one Of the shrewtlcst
politicians and business men of his day.
Miss Owens WIS educated at N;.ssar, and
became Mrs. Campbell in 1868. Her hus,
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Though many dialect stories may have
been OF use, us preserving to the student of
language the spe, IA of different localities,
many of them are very unfair, as we of
New England ca;i see in the sketches of
our own country people. where wise and
unwisc, learned and ignorant, are repre-
senteL rs invariably ungrammatca, and
dropping the final "g" profuscly.
Writers err also in not adapting the style
of their ''s!ipshol language" to the period
of the story. 4 lady, commenting on Il
certain 'juvcnile' of the events of 1910,
says: "rhcre is slang in that story which,
am sure, is not more than ten years old.
| remember 1910 WE'LL lived Mt home in y
house full OF noisy brothers. | went to
school, and | was familiar with the chill
dren's phrases popular at The time, and
these ! am confident nre of II far more
modern date"
Such Il subject is worth the attention OF
antiquarics; every age and generation has
its own phrases. When this century was
in its teens did girls say persons aud things
were ''just lovclyy" Did boys tell about
having "a regular blowout?'
Attention to such points makes n story
ito use Il phrase of Sir Walter Scotu look
much hetter iii the face, y and without such
care n story is of little use us II portrniture
of the past. For evidence, however, that
slang, ancient or modern, is not essential
to success, see those perfect specimens OF
childreES stories, the "Bodlcy Books. ~
Pamela NJ. A. Cole in Writer.
Europeans ure finding great difficulty in
the settlement Of New Guinea If an area
of land is found suitable for colonization
the rights of the natives come into conflict
with the enterprise. Still, until such set
tlement does take place it is almost i'm
possible to make the country self support,
ing. The cost of the administration OF
New Guinea las been guaranteed for ten
years BY New South Wales, Victoria and
Queensland, and Notwithstanding the dis
couragins outlook Sir Samuel Griffith,
premler of Queensland. believes the pos
session can be made self sustaining within
that time
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About sixty years ago thc whole parlell
family turned their attention toward
America and tina father of Charles -,,n,v-
- .''i' tHt' - I'M '7IN
"t' iei1litI%" lh ~ IVY 9rta 40''3
eio"Rlt +" "''' anu "t''! l'tilt stewart, tue
pehnlIl"t u, ma talented Na'Sl'ef % Com,
it'2'toie i1tti,a '}t"hit, q nc 1flIc5i
'2'''ttS ii'1fA ii'1f 4 ssl i'nAI'h pttiN lhHS @"l'G
sar'tiise anu iat'it!u' Statements nave '%ei'
lli,!t' -ht'f i'liE w lte!ah4 IN! ieS
cAiA"fth "efe EfoW'', ai1 stfh& t't ""It
t''!e u eFcat '"F9ftlt - i}Ql'E't' s'tl"t y, sAe
teI''iHru W we S'!teh ~l!ieS alih HOW
H. i.Nea "t i'o'''eiiSo"il, y d.; III poverty.
hefc seems - pc ilo dHn't ;sAoHt II. S'ie
wa ~ "ne 'liite 5'G&''ai'S atlGAt@!i, HllGi
chhF4t
Al VI. H'ile 'iiiie 4ei &t''h2tisfi"I son
hl'ieais 20 Asfe pff'' 1Eti'1 ~ e"H'pAEt-
wv 'utitirhGf' il1a ah9tAsi S&ii M'ts Hi4a
sun - larry prosperous ifUi grower "
one OF the sVGthIFh Sta'eS ifef laFoFitc
oau3Alef' fhl"S f"irltIl, difh 4riofe thta
SeAsol' y e&lFeine poyeitS oc@Ait tiit Q' !irE
t"o aaaHnIeTs remain ~ comparative ~.
scarlty IN lSelali'i' ana AlFs' F&rnel.. 5 only
companion ana atseiNant IS NIehael
'7'tNii1t " ollt SCrNAHl W." ShhreSl htr
prosperity ana "ili not DESERT her in Adz
'eF'tty.
III is'4, soon altsI t4Esi!2 up ms resi-
otnte III v ieAi4"' VIZ IaFneil was 'ntee
h1sh shei1it OF ehc county lie haHe ths
i mit ,r y t''H" VteF 2'Hr a. NJ!
chosen meu,bcr for Comfy Meath Ia
ls17 he began iis career ms advocate of tide
tenant class hv Introducing a btiito faci!i-
tatr the pf,rcli'fse i'm small tracts, of Lands
formerly held Nv the established church,
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it would seem that many priests and un-
lcrtakers did not have rs strong IA faith in
the judgment us the common people did.
For instance, it would cost about 81 600 to
properly cm5aln II crocodile ca sacred ami
mall, and so these ancient frauds would
only enbalm the head, and for the rest of
the body make an ingenious imitation out
Of wood, reeds, corn huslis, etc Another
fact OF interest is that the people were
monogamists and the social position of
women was much higher than in the Egypt
of today. On the whole the record proves
the Egyptians Of 1000 or 5000 b. c. to have
been Il splendid set of fellows and makes
one sorry that they died.
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'tAo LSA'o CrCH
fnirly well thought no more of dollar
than the average man does of IL nickel,
and it was big thing then to get "n letter
from home.n
1t is painful to think of the vast numbers
of letters which never found owners. Every
month cart load of "blind mail,' as they
called it, had to be hauled to the North
beach and burned. Tim did this job and
it grieved his heart. So he began to pick
out letters, the addresses of which caught
his fancy, and to hunt for the addresses,
His eyes even now moisten when he talks
of this, for he found many of them under
satldening circumstances and was made
acquainted with many a tragedy and ro-
nance.
III one case q letter was addressed sim
ply Jack Hayes" with request that
they would find the boy Somewhere in
California" and "for the sake of his poor
old mother" Tim carried the letter
Sd =
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has the mental yigor OF lis prime. His
disposition Is Kindly, hut IL is stern in tile
exercise %! discipline Although prominent
and influential for years in the councils OF
the Republican narty,he never held pub,
lie office until now, winn by appointment
he is president az the bonri Of review OF
Cincinnati.
Mr.. Smith WAS born in Ireland in 1928
lie came to America IN 1871 and followed
tie trade of Il carpenter at Cincinnati. He
haH received II fair education and became
acquainted with the employees of the old
Chronicle which aftcrwnrl became the
Cincinnati Gazette Through their in
iiuence and hat of several business men he
Mas made superintendent of the Cincinnati
chamber of commerce, retaining that posi-
ton until 1855, when he resigned to devote
himself exclusively 10 journalism. His
merit and usefulness won him IL small in
trcst i'll The Gazette, which he added to I'M
til Mt the consolidation of The Commercial
and Gazette he was the principal owner, of
the latter, the chief editoria! writer and
the shaper of its policy After the consolI
dation he was business manager until Mr.,
Halstead went to New York, when he as
sumed general control, retaining that re-
sponsibility until the recent reorganization
enabled him to resume editorial work.
Mr.. Smith is an effective paragrapher,
and his long editorials arc vigorous. His
style is controlled by the necessity he has
been under as busy nun and contributor
to crowded columns of saying and writing
what he wanted to put before the public in
the brefest Ineligible form. He has long
been one of the leading spirits Of the Asso-
cnted Press.
Mr. Smith has a striking physique. His
head is large i'll proportion to his body
When in thought his expression is stern,
almost severe, which has led to an unjust
conception of his character by those who
know him only by sight. His manners are
earnest and his perception quick, and he
has much of the keen, ready wit Of his
native land
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American Literature.

People who long for what they call "a
truly American school of literature" might
find comfort in considering that all works
written in America have u distinctly
American favor, even though the writer
may have i'ern horn in another land. The
theology of the, Mathers, for instance, and
the poetry OF Mrs. Anna Bradstreet were
not English. The environment gives a
tone Mike 10 Europe or America, Australia
or South Africa.
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If We Had Never Met.

If we had lived our lives throughout,
Aud never CHANGED to meet
Through changing. tide of time and years,
Would life havo seemed as sweet
II we had never met?
Though drifting, days and happy hours
Have courscd for each their titful flame,
If we had measured all of joy
Would life have seemed to us the same
If we had never met?
IL in the space which we have known
Fate had dccrecl we'd never met,
Would VIC have known q vague unrest,
a namclcss want, not quite regret
Ii we had never met?
If joined to ours some other life
Has changed our course or place or aim,
And our life paths had never crossed,
Our liycs-would they have been the
same
If We had never met?
Clara NJ Dunn.
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man for the Gus
tom house. II. al,
ready seems like
ancient history to
hear Tim tell of
the times when he
always got twen-
ty-hve cents for
delivering letter,
and often u dollar;
yet we know it to
be true, for the
Californian of the
oldeii time who
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Love Stories.

There Is but one
Love story in this withered world, forsooth:
And it is brief, and ends, where it began
What If l tell, in play, the drenry truthO,
With something we call Youth.
Mrs. g. NJ, B. Piatt
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whom we call
ancients. People
who hive Il o t
made it Il study
have scarcely any
conception Of the
eXtraortiinary.pro-
gress made since
the key to the old
est hieroglyphics
was tiiscovercd;
but the record ie
now SO complete
and the facts SO
clearly pro we'd
that even the con-
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Sea and Shore.

The bridegroom sea
1s toying, with the shore, his welded bride.
And in the fullness OF his marriage joy
He decorates her tawny brow with shells,
Retircs space, to see how fair she looks,
Then proud, runs up to kiss her.
Alexander Smith.