Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-12

from his front window across the park di
rectly into the rooms in the White Hous
where Lincoln used to sit in rocking-chai
and wait for news His residence has vas
stretch of parlor and drawing room, and hi
library is rich in trophies and souvenirs O.
travel and research, and hung with namer
Gus pen-and-ink drawings by artists who's
names are familiar. Hay is also fond o
fine, very fine, etchinga On one of hi
library shelves is an original mask of Lin
coin in clay, made in 1854, altogether differ
ent in expression from that Of the death
mask of which so many pictures have beer
printed; and in another room . bronze copy
of it, the only one in existence. The fact
conveys the impression of peaceful, cheer
full strength quite different from that O.
many of the pictures seen of him.
Hay is an enthusiastic collector Of rar.
autographs. Bound in morocco he has Mr..
Lincoln's man uscript in ink of the remark.
able Gettysburg speech, and in another
dainty book one of the Presidents historic
proclamations, also in his own hand, but ir
pencil, perfectly preserved. In the Gettys.
burg speech there are only three subsequent
touches of the pen, one word being added
and two erased.
A Bit From Tennyson's Pom.
In similar luxurious volume Hay has
Tennyson's original autograph Of the dedi.
cation of his volume to the Queen, begin
ming:
Revered, beloved-o, you that hold
A nobler office upon earth
Than arms, or power of brain, or birth,
Could give the warrior kings Of old.
This first verse is completely transformed
by subsequent interlineations and erasures,
being erected by magic touches from q
quatrain of commonplace prose, such as you
or or anybody might write, into the radi-
ant Jewel of poetry that it is. The first two
words in the original version are "Revered
Victoria"-a weak salutation, indeed. In
another verse we have a touch of sycho-
phancy as we'll as OF commonplace, both of
which disappear under revision, the first
reading
And if your greatness and the care
That yokes with splendour. yield you time
To seek in this. your Laureate's rhyme,
For aught OF good that can be there.
and the amended copy reading, very much
improved,
And should your greatness, and the care
That yokes with empire, yield you time
To make demand OF modern rhyme,
If aught of ancient worth be there;
Next door to Hay lives Henry Adams,
son of Charles Francis and grandson of
John Quincy; he is one of our most produc-
tive authors, and the quality of his work is
even better than the quantity. He may be
said to be the successor among historians of
Bancroft. Adams is a man of independent
fortune and an extensive traveller.
Occupying unique position in a world
of brain-workers is Charles Lanman, equally
author and artist. He has published %
books and produced some thousands of
paintings, having put upon his canvas land
scapes in every one of the States east of the
Mississippi and in Canada. He was Daniel
Webster's private secretary during the last
years of that statesman and wrote his "Pri-
vate History"
Gatil's Muititudinous House.
George Alfred Townsend, "Gath," who
does much of his work in Washington,
never writes anything with his own hand
except his poetry, for writing is to him an
intolerable drudgery. He always dictates
to good stenographer. His vocabulary is
very large. He does not hesitate for pic
turesque terms, synonyms or metaphors
never refers to a book or dictionary, but
fully avoiding all hackneyed phrases, in
venting combinations of words that no man
ever heard before, and indulging during his
dictation in good deal of head wagging and
vigorous gesture, which are completely lost
upon the reader. And as he walks the room
and gives utterance to his emotion in infec-
tion and gesture he fills up with Apol-
hnaris water.
'Gath" takes half dozen papers, keep.
abreast of the news, and reads everybody's
letters but his own. He has written II
books, three of which are novels, two vol
umes of poems and play. His best pro-
ductions are his poetry, and he is capable of
better work than he has ever done. He
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own house uptown, and at CHAMPION Gap,
Md, in summer, where he has built for him
self hot weather retreat in the shape of a
little struggling, rustic village of wood and
stone. His kitchen and dining room are in
one house, his library 100 feet away in an
other, his parlors and studio 300 feet away
in another, his billiard room in still an
other, delightful bedrooms for his family
and guests over them all This summer
home is in a notch of the Blue Ridge, be-
tween precipitous mountains, and commands
a view OF 25 miles across the valley of the
Mo nocacy below.
The Inventor of the Telephone.
DR.. Alexander Graham Bell is best known
as the inventor of the telephone, which,
under the direction of his tather-in-law,
Dr. Gardiner Hubbard, has made them
both famous and both millionaires. But he
Is also distinguished physicist and an
extensive author, especially on electricity
and vocal physiology: BE is an enthusi-
astio student of anthropology, and having
married deaf mute, while a teacher in a
Boston college, has maintained growing
interest in methods of mute speech and the
laws of heredity. He is an eloquent
,peaker-probably the most effective orator
in the scientific world. Like most students
he knows nothing about business methods,
and never transacts business himself DR..
Hubbard is the business man of the firm,
attending to every detail, while Bell de-
Votes his time to research. He would
never have got cent out OF the
telephone if it had not BEEN tor his saga-
.ious and practical iather-in-law. Bell is
'warthy Scotchman, of medium size and
turdy build, assiduous, incredulous to the
point of proof, and thoroughly socisble,
Ifable and compsnionable, when he has
lime to be. He is constantly investigating
md discovering, and is still perfecting his
method Of communication by photograph
ng jet of water exposed to the waves of
,ound caused by human speech.
One OF the most remarkable of these men
md one whose personal history is fine ex-
Imple to the boys OF this land is Lester F.
Ward. He was poor boy from the West,
nd wrote one or two books when he was a
lerk, including his great two-volume work
N Dynamic Sociology greatest con-
ribution ever made in this country to scien-
ifc philosophy. His habits as a student
re peculiar. He never reads book unless
irst assured that he needs it in his work,
nd it that book happens to be in any for
ign language, Latin, French, German, Ital-
an, Spanish, Greek or what not, he goes
nd learns the language In order to read the
'ook. This has happened several times
His Dynamic Sociology" has had the dis
inguished honor Of being denounced and
by the Gar OF Russia and OF be-