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Show STEWART NOTES. With so m.my men in I. in employ-; ment many naturally hardly oaw Mr., Stewart from week lo week. "Hel never ppoke to me but tiviee," saal an ex-cleik. "Once I tore a piece nf wrapping Ji.iper ruughly aen s-, andj he came around to tell ni" I sbtni'd; have folded il and made ven pdgi s. i 1'eople," he said, "did'nt like to get shiftless looking hund'rs. "Again, wound a bundle round with an extra turn ot siring, audli-firo I eouid cut it ho had the bundle out of my hand and unwound tbo uunecrs- try turn. 'Never waste even a piece of Hiring,' bo said; 'waste ia always wrong.' ' Mr. St'-. wart owned the limH'. collection col-lection of modern paintings in the possession of any individual on Irit continent, lie bought quite reevuily the most important wmt of Meiu aonier, "Napnhou I. after Ihe lulile of Kricdlaiid," for nhich h.- p.ud 00,000 pold in i'a-is. TIim pi dure was bonghL originally liy Sir Richard Wallace, of London, who had premised pre-mised Meissonier $200,000 francs fur it, but the negotiation fell through, and when the pieturo wan linisin d . Mr, Stewart oilered him h larger price I and Mcisr-onicr fold it lu him. Mr. Stewart ul.io bought Mei-.-t,niei ' I "Civing Alru" anil " The dragu ms," ' for which ho piid $20,000 eueli. lie bought recently tieronie's "i.:h:uioi race in tho Roman Cohseuni," lor Which lie paid $:0000f and which ho never saw finished, aa il only arrived two or Ihreo days before bis death. Somehow Stewart remindtd me oi ( ieneral Cranl. lie was oh lei than t i. n eral tirant, and tliinner lluui (Ieneral (Ien-eral Grant, and paler then '.I. iht.iI (.Irani, and moro we.iZ'iiei.I than Cm-eral Cm-eral Crantbut titili he Uikul like General Grant. To t:ilk lo )ui was more attractive lo look at you noticed that tlie KrinklcH relaxetl into a pleasant finile, and that enough of the lugged Scotch accent hngeie.l in Iuh Hpeeeh lo make it iiquanlly dissimilar dis-similar lo your own. It wan a jieeuliiir feature ol A. T. Stewart it Co., ibat th'-y ennpidered Iheir h(iune to bo ho well known to tho people of the world that no signs nor indications of the firm name were evr allowed lo appear in front ol their places of busincsi. One trait ii obnrrvaUc in Mr, SLcwarl'H character: He did no! believe in giving. This tb.-hehef d.d notarise from parsimony a.i much as Irom a cnnvielion Unit the habit ol giving wrought morn mi-cry than il relieved. Il a dcMilulo perm 111 akod aIium ho would exact a neiviee by which th money would be earmd. though the aervico )i;rformed niigbl po.vieHH no valuo to Idinself. Hebe-lievtd Hebe-lievtd that Tree giving ltd to lie" living, which in turn led to destitution. |