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There was a time when it was thought
that George Gould would become a thigh
roller" about town as other young men Of
wealth were. The thing did not transpire
When Mr.. Gould married the beautiful
Edith Kingdom, then a bright star in Au-
gustin Days theatrical company and the
despair of the genus "chappie"-whom the
handsome actress had no admira ton for
the young man settled down to be a home
body. and he stayed settled. He seems as
much in love with his wife today as when
he married her; he is fondly attached to
the interesting family-two boys, Kingdom
and Edwin, and two girls. one Helen in
honor Of his sister and the other a baby
His home and mis- business absorb all his
time. He is not club man. He is a mem
Der of one or two clubs, but is rarely seen
in them.
Mr.. Gould chose a spot for his country
home in the Catskills, not hundred miles
away from the neighborhood that his IA thor
as youth helped survey, and over which
he carried rod and chain for many a day.
George Gould's farm-though strictly
speaking IL Is not a FARMS in the heart
of the Catskils, some parts of which and
this among them, are as wild as when Rim
Van Wrinkle witnessed the famous bowling
match, before written of by one Washing
ton Irving.
The name Of this home in the mountains
is very aptly "Furlough Lake" and Mr.
Gould has 800 acres here made up of
green gorge mountain streams, miniature
lakes, forests untouched by the worst Of
Philistines, the wood cutter, and mountain
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Is wondering how the soldiers vote can be
gotten back to the democratic party by
new pension legislation, and Wilson shan
non Blssell is worried to know how to make
the small postal appropriations meet the
immense deficit which the lack of business
ana the hard times is creating in CUR postal
revenues L have devoted this week to a
study or our new Postmaster General. He
Is oy no means an ordinary man. He is
not only hard worker himself but he M
oerstands how to get work out of others
his experience as railroad president and
railroad lawyer stauds him in good stead
In the Post Office Department, and ne seems
10 nave grasped its work and its possibili
ties remarkably well. Bissells mind is an
analytic one. He gets at the nut of "A uues-
ton at once, and ne doesn't bother himself
over details. He pri,les himself On his
power of organization and he is able to give
the drudgery of his Office over t. his SUBJ
ordinates. He has in fact vc:y GOOD execu-
tive abilities, and 1 End that lie is making
some radical changes il our post Office
methods. / called upon him this weak. He
was sitting behind the lesk in the Office of
the Postmaster General where john rSaua-
maker used to sit about 4 year ago The
desk, which is big fat-topped affair of
black walnut had still its plate glass ION
below which lies map of the United States
but there was less litter about il and fewer
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The most brilliant Of the populists in the
House is Lafe Pence of Colorado. He is
as breezy in debate as the wind scattering
cones from Rocky mountain pines Tall
thin and straight. with a voice as shrill and
clear as the notes of a game cock, he at
tracts the attention OF the House the in
slant he takes the floor. Words pour from
him IN rhythmic huenCy. His gestures are
well timed and his points are usually Clinch-
ell with pertinent anecdotes. Pence was
born in Indiana in TIE shadow of the Tall
Sycamore of the Wabash" He is a g-adu-
ate OF Hanover College. and has precticed
law ever since 1873. He will be thirty-six
years old in December next. He has boy
ish appearance and is neglige in dress.
Pence ms the place occupied by Tom Wat
son in the last Congress. and fills il far
more acceptabiy. Watson aroused bitter
enmitieS, but Pence, while speaking with
all of WatsOns ardOr and effectiveness, is
general favOTite in the House. In discus
sion he is as quick as q hCmming-bird. His
TIT with Bynum at the beginning of the
Session gave him well me-ited renovn. Med
est and unaSSuming. yet active and untir-
Ing. he Is ever on the skirmish line. CLEAN
ing whatever little advantage for his party
that is to be obtained. He has a full blue
eye ard brown hair cOTlbe1 in Jack sonian
simplicity. 1t is Pence who keeps the blood
In circulation in the pOpulist body in the
House.
Next ir the populst line is John Davis of
Kansas. This is his second term. John
looks Ike a genuine old farmer. He has
Er;sy hair and a uiOss-like tuft on his chin
He makes speech with the same uncCn-
Germ that ne would handle Il blow in turn
Ing a furrow. He has a resonant voice and
stirring manner. Unlike Jerry Simpson
Ne shows m hUmOr il his addresses. He
says what he has 10 say in the plainest
WORKS. and iTnpreSses it upon his hearers
by the use of his fist. At times he IapSes
INTO poetlcdl quotations, but they are bu-
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Telegraph Company, with it's thousands
upon thousands OF miles of wires; of the
Southern Pacific railroad, with its tribu-
taries gridironing the south, southwest and
west; of mines and mining interests
along these routes. An army of men are
commanded from that room. From it, too
are managed the affairs of the Manhattan
Elevated railroad system, corporation
that in a sense has New York city at its
mercy in the way of rapid transit.
George seems latterly to have adopted
the policy of the Vanderbilts in that he
does not speculate in Wall street, except so
far as is necessary for the protection of the
Gould interests. This does not call for any
great coups such as the elder Gould made
in his day. The Gould properties are now
strong and solid and can stand alone for
the most part.
George Gould is even less of a sentiment
tai man than his father. Newspaper attacks
upon the elder Gould used sometimes to
make him writhe in mental agony. They
have no such effect on George Gould. The
recent attempt of New York to have it's
elevated railroad system extended showed
a side-a not over pleasant one-of his char
acter. He was willing to have his road ex-
tended, but the city must pay for it, He
would then graciously accept the extern
sion and make as much money as possible
out of it. Here he stopped-recalling Presi-
dent MacMahon of France and his famous
reply to his critics.
Here 1 am! Here I stay"
There was, or is a difference President
McMdloH ulu not stay. Up TO the present
Mr.. Gould has stayed and New York must
arrange for new system of rapid transit
or compromise with Mr.. Gould. He has
been roundly denounced by the press and
the public, but he stands to his guns-ad-
mits that the franchises his company holds
were got for song, but points out that
they were got and are held. Jay Gould
would scarcely have taken so bold stand
AS has been said however, Jay Gould was
more sensitive under public condemnation
than any but his friends knew. His enemies
indeed, always held that he was far from
brave physically. Under any circumstances
the same may not be charged against his
son. He has nerve enough for couple.
Take him all in all, George Gould is more
narrow in his personality than was his
father. The latter loved his home and bus
mess. But he also loved flowers and music
and had some literary aspirations. George
Gould tolerates music in negative sort of
way because his wife is a fine musician
Literature or art or things beautiful to the
sight he is not known to have any liking
for. AS a money-making machine he seems
fortunes of the Goulds is. of course prob-
lematical. They do not rest on the solid
foundations that underlie the wealth of the
Astcrs and Vanderbits-yet their pillars
seem firm enough. In the control of Edwin
Gould almost anything might be prophesied
Under the management of his brother
George COOL calculating, conservative and
gifted with any amount of nerve, they seem
stable enough.
Yes, George Gould is a good deal of a
parsonage and may become even more i'm
portant in the future.
FOSTER COATES.
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Death of Gen. .PhiI- Kearney.

From Blue and Gray for November.
Col. w. L. Goldsmith of Mississippi gives
the following account of the death Of Gen.
Kearney, who was killed by soldiers OF his
regiment in September, 1852:
The battle OF Chantilly was fought late
in the afternoon amid a severe storm Of
wind and rain. 1t was a gloomy. dark,
depressing afternoon, and night was last
approaching Our brigade had not fired
gun, but was on the extreme left of our
forces and behind a worm rail fence, grown
I'D thick with saplings and bushes-an ex-
cellent place for amDusnlng. The lighting
was all to our right. L hau charge Of the
sklrmlsh line, some 10 yards m advance
OF our line OF battle, and IN a corn held
which gently sloped up toward the direc-
ton of the federals. Presently L saw
line of blue maJestically moving toward
us, several hundred yards away, and re-
member distinctly the powerful impression
il made on my mind at the time. As IL
came forward, slowly and grandly, amidst
the thckening gloom of that dreary Sep
TENDER evening, ii reminded me OF an IN
rolling blue wave of the great ocean COM
ing toward us. They had no skirmish line,
and | withdrew our forces back to the main
line, and as far as i could / tried TO get
the men to hold their fire until the enemy
came close up. Some of our men COM
r1enced firing before the enemy came close
enough. which spoiled the whole game.
The federals were checked and driven back
so easily that we knew something was the
matter, and attributed their timidity 10
the demoralizing influence OF defeat at
Second Manassas only few days before;
but on re-establishment of our skirmish
line we discovered that the gallant Gen.
Phil Kearney had been killed. and this was
the cause of the federals' weak attempt.
The grief Of our entire army was marked
and sincere over this sad news, and Gen.
Lee sent his body through the lines next
day. TO the great satisfaction and approval
of us ALL Gen Kearney was killed nv the
forty-ninth Georgia regiment. beloved and
mourned by both blue and gray.
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OF the Wizard of Wall Street.
Unique among all the younger genera
ton OF very rich men in New York is this
same George Gould. Every now and then
paragraph floats about through the press
that this young man is the wealthiest in
dlvidual OF the time. but this is an exag-
geration. The late Jay Gould's wealth was
always over-estimated in his life time, and
that OF his eldest son Is over-estimated
Ihere are half a dozen men in New York
who are weather. than the head of the
Gould family. Still. it may be said that
there Is no man of his years who is in al
most supreme control of so vast and far
reaching a property. Even moderately as
sessed, the interests that Jay Gould In his
life dominated might be said to be worth
more millions than is good for any one
man to have. Good judges say that the
railroads, coal lands, the telegraph line of
the great Western Union system, the roll
ing stock and all that owned by what was
known as the Gould combine" represent
ed at the death of Jay Gould some hun
tuations now and then. But there is moth
ing so hard to estimate and so easy to over
estimate as property of the kind that Jay
Gould in his lifetime controlled. Then,
again. Gould did not own and control his
properties after the manner of the first Con-
nelius Vanderbilt or his son, William H.
Vanderbilt. In all the Gould properties
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collie rather than heroic. John Davis is a
plain, matter of fact, straight every day
exponent of populist principles. Come veal
or woe, he has cast his lot with the popu-
lists, and he shows no other political pre-
elections.
william Baker Is a fit mate for John
Davis. There is a similarity between the
two men. They work together with the
steadiness and strength of well-mated oxen.
Nor do they need yoke to keep them to-
field, and they need no post and rail- fence
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TO ADVERTISERS.

Advertisers are urgently re-
quested to hand in advertisements
the day prior to publication, in
order that insertion may be as
sured. Want advertisements will
be received up to noon of the day
Of publication, precedence being
given to those first received.
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H E MOST OVER
worked men in Wash
ington to d y a r e
President Cleveland's
C a b 1 n e t ministers.
Every one of them
has his hands full.
Carlisle has been boil
ing his brains for
months over bonds
and bullion. Gresham
is almost distracted
by the situation in
the Sandwich Islands.
6 q or nv C,,;tl
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peaks. Within easy sight is the highest
peak in the Catskill range, "Slide noun
TAIN" that rises 1900 feet high to keep
watch on the blue Hudson sixty miles away
as the crow flies
The house as it stands is a rectangular
structure of logs, 100 feet in length by 40
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~ - - ~ a. -
shouldered, full round
face, black mustache,
black eyes, black
hair, dresses in dark
suiting, wears derby
hat, weighs about
100, goes along the
street at an easy
gait. usually alone.
Thus Is epitomized
a brief description of
George Gould, head
Of the Gould dynasty.
and worthy successor
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Pen Pictures of the Populists in Con-
greSS.
THEIR HEROIC LABORS In VIRGINIA.
LATE Pence and the Man From
Medicine Lodge.
REGULAR IN ATTENDANCE.
Written for The Evening Star.

H z RECENT P O.
litical revulsion has
made many sor e
hearts. While I h q
democrats in I h e
west, in the middle
states and in New
England wear l o n g
faces, the hearts of
Virginia loco focos
are leaping with joy.
With New York state
republican by over
3d. majority, Vir-
ginia goes democratic
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Expressing 1t DelicofeIx.

Prom the Chicago Record.
Ned-"I hardly know how I'm situated as
regards this worlds goods"
Bob-"How's that?''
New men look at my bank account 7
think I'm poor, and when I look at INV
wife.s clothes l think must be rich
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Georse-"fou would marry the biggest
fool in the world, if he asked you, wouldn =
you?''
Ethel-"Oh, George. this is so suddenr'-
Vogue.
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HEIR OF MILLIONS.
How George Gould Manages His I'm
mense Estate.
A UNIQUE RICH MANS SON.
For He Seems to Inherit His
Fathers Genius.
HIS WIFE AND MES.
UNIQUE RICH MANS SON,
HIS WIFE AND HOMES

NEW YORK, Nov. %, 1898.
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At this point the conversation turned to
President Cleveland. and the Postmaster
General chatted Interestingly Of his early
association with him. 1t is now nearly
twenty years since the two began their
practice in the law together at Buffalo. in
connection with Mr.. Lyman X. Bass, who
had been a member of Congress. Mr. Bass
left the firm in 1876. and from that time
on II went under the name of Cleveland
* Bissell. In speaking of Ii ! said: Sup
pose, Mr.. Bissell, you let your mind run
back fifteen years to the time when you
and the President were practicing law to-
gether at Buffalo. Had you any idea at
that time that Grover Cleveland might be
President of the United States and yourself
a cabinet offcer?"
Il can answer easily for myself" said the
Postmaster General, land almost as well
as to the President. i never had any am
bition to engage in politics, nor 20 hold Of
flee. and at that time j was devoting myself
to the practice of the law. During the first
years of my legal association with Mr..
Cleveland IL was my idea that he might
go on the bench. and | was at one time
very anxious to have him accept a place
as one of the judges of the superior court
and | spoke to him about il. but he
did not take to the idea. He has an
eminently judicial mind. and / have al
ways thought ne would have made as great
n reputa ton as Chief Justice Of the Su-
preme Court of the United States as he
has as President. 1t is the judicial charac-
ter Of his mind that fits him so well for his
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How the Postmaster General is Try
ing to Make Ends Meet.
HARD TIMES AND The MAILS.
A Visit to the Post Office Depart
ment and Chat With Its Head.
POSTAL REVENUES BEHIND
Written for The Evening Star.

HE MOST OVER
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more than 400 SPEAKER THOMPSON.
will make anv real change in substantive
law, of whic 400 one-half will fall dead
at the start, two-ffths will soon be re-
pealed or modified, one-half the re-
mainder will soon become imperative by
reason Of changed conditions, and the
remaining twenty will have permanent
effect on the policy of the country.
'sIt comes high, but we must have it" "
The first duty Of all these legislatorsis to
Organize" and in at least five states they
seem to be getting themselves into or
ganic form with more than the usual
throes of political parturition. The most
important officer, of course, is the speaker
of the house, for in every constitution
derived from that of Great Britain the
lower house, or popular branch, is the
money power, and the speaker appoints
the committees Of course he is sup
posed to do it sby advice" but by whose
advice is question not yet settled.
Though there have been ffty-two con-
crosses under the constitution there have
been but thirty-two speakers, which is
explained by the fact that such men as
Macon, Clay, Colfax and others held the
Office at will when their party was in
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speaker. The states in which there was
no serious contest are North Carolina,
Arkansas and West Virginia.
In the north the same may be said of
Maine, where Hon. Albert r. Savage, Of
Auburn, jurist Of some eminence, has
been chosen speaker; Of Minnesota, Hon.
w. E. Lee, of Todd, speaker, and of two
or three other states where the election
was SO placid as to attract no attention.
It is in the remote west, however
"wild and woolly west" Of romance
that legislative politics is picturesque,
not to say lurid. The most remarkable
spectacle, in one view of it, was present
ed in Washington, where the Democrats
in caucus abandoned whatever claims
they might have had, and "just to expe-
dite business" voted for Mr.. Arrasnith,
a Populist leader, who was thereby
chosen speaker at once. Their action,
however, is supposed to have been in
pursuance of some very deep strategy in
relation to the election of a United States
senator.
Very few people pretend to understand
the situation in Montana, and those few
differ among themselves more vigorously
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Flynn, Of the Gloucester race track, !"
for Mr.. Flynn was long known as the
able and aAable ''starter" on that IA
nous course.
The Pennsylvania house of representa-
tives reelected the former speaker, Caleb
c. Thompson, Of Warren, a Republican,
of course. Delaware almost as quietly
elected J. Harvey Whiteman, of Will
mington, but he attracts attention as the
youngest, save one, Of all the new speak
ers. He is but thirty years old.
Youngest of all the new speakers is
Hon. William Sulzer, of the New York
house. He Is but twenty-nine years old,
q native and representative of New York
city, and has his history yet to make. An
other promising young speaker is William
Aldrich Tateum, Of the Michigan house.
He is thirty-two, a native of Massachu-
sets, was educated at Yale, lived ten
years in Chicago and represents Kent
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6EEAhEh Co lsAepsuIlSW o,A w
ulist, as speaker. The same remark ap-
plies to Nebraska, where J. N. Gafin,
Of Saunders county, Populist, is speaker,
and to Wyoming, where Mr.. Tidball
is speaker. He must be a very new man,
as none of the correspondents seems to
have thought it worth while to give his
Christian name.
In the Colorado house Hon. Elias W.
Ammons, Republican, is speaker. On
joint ballot there are forty eight Repub-
icans, fortythree Populists, eight Dem
ocrats and one Independent. Kansas dis
tinguished herself by electing two speak
ers.
In California the Democrats captured
the house and chose Hon. F. Fl. Gould,
of MERGED, for speaker. In the three re-
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mild statement. The vice president is
not in it for comparison. In the last
twenty years the speaker has more than
once prevented legislation which large
majority of the house wanted.
In the state legislature the speaker is
not quite SO autocratic, but owing to an
unusual combination Of circumstances
this year has witnessed several extraor-
binary struggles for the place. Many
entirely new men have come in; many
of the old ones are very picturesque fig
ures, and for the first time the legislative
gavel is welded by a man born since
the siege of Sumter! It is truly his
toric period.
New jerseys peculiar position brings
TO her this wear many embarrassing
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Crafts, of Chicago, speaker Of the Thirty
eighth general assembly of Illinois. He
was born in Auburn, o., in f648, was edu-
Gated at Cleveland and located at Chica-
go as a lawyer in 1870. He has repre-
sented the Seventh assembly district for
several years and was speaker of the
last house.
The fifty-eighth session of Indiana's
house of representatives is presided over
by veteran Captain James B. Curtis
joint representative of Marion and
Shelby, and Democrat, of course. In
Ohio there was sharp contest between
the two wings Of the Republican party,
and the speakership went to Hon. Lewis
G. Lay1in, of Huron, who has been a
member for four years, but this is his
first term as speaker. In Massachusetts
still more spirited contest between the
Republicans Of the old regime and the
new resulted in the reelection of the for
mer speaker, Hon. William E. Barrett.
Substantially tls same may be said Of
Connecticut, where Hon. I. W. Brooks,
of Torrington, has been chosen speaker.
Tt has been taken for granted of late
years that there would be no serious con-
tests in the south, but in the long peace
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and venomously
than medical ex-
perts in q cri1ai-
nal trial. The
upshot Of the
W hole matter
was, no W ev er,
that after many
savage threats on
both sides the
Democrats and
Populists got the
legislature and
chose Hon. Thorn
as Matthews Pom
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An expert has
calculated On the
basis of several
years experience
that these 1900
lawmakers will
introduce about
10000 bills, acts
and joint resolu-
tons; tn at of
these about 5000
will be passed;
that Of these not
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er on race track, are now laboring to
regulate the conduct of some $4,000, 600
people in all the complicated concerns Of
business, domestic and fiduciary rela-
tions, morals and finance.
And it goes without saying that they
will make at least 1000 serious mistakes,
not to mention minor errors, and that
in the end the country will go on very
much as before, for the reason that the
great mass Of mankind live on moral
basis above the law and try to do right
without asking what the statute directs.
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county, being the first speaker Grand
Rapids has furnished. His political
strength was shown by his election as a
Republican in a Democratic district.
Still another is Hon. Thomas W. Ma
brey, of the Missouri house, who was
born in that state in March, 1862, and is