OFFICER McWATTERS' GREAT SYMPATHY FOR CHATTEL AND WAGES-SLAVES--HIS COUNTLESS DEEDS OF BENEVOLENCE LEAVE HIM NO TIME TO GET RICH--ANECDOTE OF PROFESSOR AGASSIZ. 24 =SETTLES IN PHILADELPHIA, AND STUDIES LAW.= A YEAR (1848-9) IN A LAW OFFICE--REVELS IN THE STUDY OF BLACKSTONE, KENT, CHITTY, ETC.--A BEAUTIFUL DREAM. 25 =A HEART TOO SOFT FOR A LAWYER.= THE BEAUTIFUL DREAM OVERSHADOWED--POOR ORPHANS AND POOR DEBTORS TOUCH HIS HEART WITH THEIR SUFFERINGS--DISTRAINING GOODS FOR RENT--A TOUCHING STORY--McWATTERS' BENEVOLENT DEVICE--HE QUITS THE LAW IN DISGUST. 25 =DEPARTS FOR CALIFORNIA.= THE "GOLD FEVER"--IN THE NEW ELDORADO--THE RECKLESS WARFARE OF GREED AND CRIME--MEN LOST THEIR CONSCIENCES THERE--RETURN. 26 =BACK IN NEW YORK.= ASSOCIATED WITH LAURA KEENE, AS HER AGENT--FIRST CALLED UPON TO ENACT THE PART OF A DETECTIVE--HIS SUCCESS, AND WHAT IT LED TO. 27 =MR. McWATTERS AS AGENT AND LECTURER.= BECOMES EXHIBITING LECTURER, ACCOMPANYING A GRAND PANORAMA--IN THE CHIEF CITIES AND TOWNS--THE COUNTESS OF LANDSFELDT, OR "LOLA MONTEZ." 28 =ANECDOTE OF LOLA MONTEZ AND LAURA KEENE.= AN AMUSING STORY--LOLA BECOMES PIOUS, AND SELLS HER THEATRICAL WARDROBE--LAURA PURCHASES A PART--A SPLENDID SILK DRESS PATTERN PROVES TO BE FURNITURE CLOTH--ATTACKS AND RETORTS--THE GOODS FINALLY BURNED UP. 28 =MR. McWATTERS SOLVING SOCIAL PROBLEMS.= HIS GREAT INTEREST IN SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS--HOW SHALL THE GRIEVOUS BURDENS WHICH FALL UPON THE LABORING CLASSES BE MADE LIGHTER? 29 =OUR SUBJECT AND THE PUBLIC PRESS.= REMARKABLE RECORD--PUSILLANIMOUS HIGHWAYMEN--TWO KNIGHTS OF THE ROAD FRIGHTENED BY A SPECTACLE-CASE. 30 =McWATTERS ENTERS THE METROPOLITAN POLICE FORCE.= DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF THEREIN IN MANY WAYS DURING A PERIOD OF TWELVE YEARS--OFFICER MCWATTERS UBIQUITOUS--THE STARVING PEOPLE OF KANSAS (1861) ELICIT HIS SYMPATHIES--A FORCIBLE PUBLIC SPEAKER. 33 =PERSONAL INCIDENTS.= RESCUES CHILDREN AND MEN FROM WATERY GRAVES--ALWAYS AT HIS POST OF DUTY--RECEIVES THE WARMEST PRAISE OF HIS CHIEF OFFICER, SUPERINTENDENT KENNEDY--THE LATE SUPERINTENDENT JOURDAN. 34 =OFFICER McWATTERS DURING THE LATE CIVIL WAR.=