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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EAST.
The following is the official decision
of the judges in the college Begetta at Sara
toga on the 18th. Columbia 1, Weslyan 2,
Howard 3, Williams 4, Carnell 5, Dartmouth
6, Princetm and Printy doubtful, Yale 9.
There are various claims of fouls, and the
race may have to be sailed over.
WEST.
Goldsmith Maid’s best time at East
Saginaw was 2:16 the fastest trotting time on
record.
The “ drive ” of Texas cattle through
Kansas this season is estimated at 155,000
head.
Passengers from the west report the
country between Laramie and Cheyenne cov
ered with grasshoppers, which were moving
eastward.
The Pullman Car Works at Detroit
are at present engaged upon an order from
the Austrian government for palace cars.
The grasshopper destruction affects
about one-tenth part of Minnesota and one
thirteenth of the population. Crops outside
of this area promise abundance.
Lake Winnebago stopped the fire at
Oshkosh, Wis., last week. Six hundred build
ing were buriftd, and 3,000 people made home
less. Loss $1,000,000. Insurance, $160,000.
Gen. Sheridan has forwarded through
Oen. Sherman a request to be allowed to use
the 6th cavalry for offensive operations against
the Indians, and advocating generally an of
fensive policy as more effective and more
economical than a defensive one.
At a meeting recently held in Chica
go, of the general superintendents and general
freight agents of all the railroads leading to
the southwest, it was decided not to pool the
earnings, but to advance the present freight
rates to southwestern points, ten per cent.
All opposition between the companies is now
obviated and high rates can be obtained.
The fallowing are the amounts of in
surance on the property destroyed in the
great fire at Oshkosh. Wis., as given by the
different agencies : In Wisconsin companies,
$30,600 ; in other companies, mostly eastern,
$732,960. The aggregate loss is now given as
SBOO,OOO, in round numbers. The number of
business houses destroyed was about 100, and
of residences, 500.
SOUTH.
A negro and his wife were killed by
lightning in La Fourche Parish, Louisiana,
last week.
The special committee of investiga
tion appointed to visit Arkansas, Judge Po
land, chairman, are expected to leave Little
Bock this month.
The corn crop in southern Georgia is
about made, and the yield will be abundant.
The incessant wet weather has materially in
jured cotton in many of the lower counties.
John B. Bruno, twelve years old,
hanged himself at his father’s house in Har
din county, Ky., last week. His father had
refused to buy him anew saddle.
At Berea, Ky., last Monday, a man
named James Walkhean shot and fatally
wounded Miss Margaret Painter. The cause
for the murder is not known.
George Simpson, a planter, residing
fifteen miles from Shreveport, Louisiana,
was murdered by a negro Saturday evening.
The negro was afterward killed.
One thousand men are at work on the
Cincinnati Southern in Scott county, Ky.. and
the force is increasing as rapidly as possible,
the contractors employing white laborers al
most exclusively.
An alligator weighing 250 pounds, and
measuring nme and a-half feet in length, was
caught near Marion court-house, S. C., last
week. It was shipped to the zoological gar
den at Fairmeuut park. Philadelphia.
Two men named Burlison and Rassin,
in Prairie county. Ark., got into a difficulty on
Tuesday, in which the former was stabbed
and killed by the latter. Soon after some un
known person shot and killed Burlison.
At Crab Orchard, Ky., last Saturday,
a boy out a man in the wrist from which he
died soon after. It seems the boy was selling
apples and the man grabbed at the basket
when the boy struck at him with the knif
severing an artery.
About thirty Indians attacked J. C.
Laving’s rauche fifteen miles from Jacks
boro, Texas, last week. After a severe fight
with fifteen whites, the Indians fled, taking
several horses. John Heath, white, was
killed.
A lumber train on the air-line rail
road fell through the trestle work of the
Peachtree creek bridge, four or five miles
from Atlanta. One colored man was killed
outright and six others seriously injured. The
wounded were brought to this city.
At Summit, Mississippi, on Sunday
list, incendiaries fired the rear of Dr. Moore’s
old drug store and the dry goods house lately
occupied by J. Y Day, burning the whole block
fronting on Bobb street to Laurel, thence to
Baldwin street. Loss, $75,000; insurance,
$31,000.
Marks Levy, a peddler, crossed over
to Crittenden county, Ark , last week, to ped
dle and was seized by a party of negroes who
stripped him, after capturing his pack, and
carrying him into a dense wood tied him to a
tree and left him there to die. He remained
there twenty-four hours, during which he was
bitten by a snake. He succeeded in getting
loose but wandered in the forest two days,
living upon berries, before he reached the set
tlement
FOREIGN.
Tlie famishing drought in India has
been followed by disastrous rains.
Dockery has been condemned to
death at Havana, with a hope of pardon.
The carlists are shooting some cor
respondents as spies in order to get rid of the
rest.
Monsignor De Merode, archbishop of
Mitylene, and private chaplain of the pope, is
doad.
The Carlists have ordered one repub
lican shot for every shell a red by the floet off
Bilboa.
The republicans have again been suc
cessful in an engagement with the carlists
near Bilnoa.
The Geneva award commissioners,
appointed under the recent act, meet in Wash
ington, July 22d.
The governments of Austria and Russia
have agreed to open negotiations with the
Sublime Porte, looking to a recognition of the
independence of Eoum&nia by Turkey.
A private dispatch says Prince Bis
marck was greeting a small assembly when he
was shot at by Edward Hallman. The bullet
wounded him in the hand at the moment he
was touching his hat.
A carlist telegram from Bayonne de
dares that Don Alphonso entered Cuenca on
the 16th, and levied a contribution of £32,-
000. Two thousand of the garrison fell pris
oners into his hands.
I lie famine in India is subsiding.
1 ue number of natives now employed on the
relief works is SCO,OOO, or 1,000,800* less than
three weeks ago. Half a million persons are
still subsisting on the charity of the govern
ment and the public.
Madrid journals state that carlists
have seized a number of men, women and
children on the Cantabrian coast and Biscay,
numbering in all 1,600 persons, and hold them
as hostages, to be shot in case of an attack by
the republicans .
Decrees are issued declaring all Spain
in a state of siege, and sequestrating the
property of the carlists, whose estates will be
held liable to heavy penalty to relatives of
republicans slain, and finally creating a special
reserve of 125,000jnen.
It is_eaid the Brussels congress on
THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS.
international law, after formal opening and
organization, will appoint committies and
suspend its general sitting. Baron J amini,
the Bussian representative in the congress
will probably be chosen president.
While Prince Bismarck was driving
in the country last week, he was fired at by a
young man, and the ball grazed his wrist.
The wound is insignificant. The would-be
assassin was arrested. There is intense ex
citement in Berlin over the attempt on Bis
marck’s life.
A proclamation has been issued sup
plementary to the decree establishing a state
of seige. It declares that charges of sedition or
conspiracy against the state shall be tried by
court-martial. All persons interfering with
the operation of the railway and telegraph
shall suffer death.
The carlists abandoned the seige of
Puycerda alter a second assault in which they
were repulsed. The carlists besieging Cu
enca have occupied honses in the suburbs of
the city. Beinforcements for the besieging
republicans have arrived from Madrid and the
city is being energetically defended. Mar
shal Serrano has deferred his trip to Lagranjo
until the carlists are driven from Cuenca.
Various accounts agree that Bis
marck's escape was miraculous. His hand
was touching his hat when wounded. His
coachman fearing a second Bhot struck the
would-be assassin across the face. A number of
police have been sent to Kissengen to protect
Bismarck from a repetition of the attack.
Evidence has been discovered betokening a
conspiracy.
A special from Berlin says Kullman
is considered a mere tool. Hautfaler, the priest
arrested, belongs to the village of Walchze,
in the Austrian Tyrol. He checked Bismarck’s
boraes by stepping in front at the critical mo
ment. The Berlin press declare the attempt
ed assassination proves the necessity of re
pressing ultramontaine teachings.
An official note is published in Paris,
warning agriculturists aud others against em
igrating without making inquiry of the admin
istration in reference thereto. It is stated in
a note that this course is taken because a num
ber of immigrants have made application to
the government for assistance to enable them
to return to France, particularly from Phila
delphia, where the promises held out by im
migration agents have not been realized.
Dispatches from Spain report that
Gen. Zabella has removed his headquarters
from Safalla to Logrange. Gen. Moriones is
also retiring toward the river Ebro. Sickness
is prevalent among the national troops. It is
anticipated that active operations will be post
poned three weeks. The main body of the
carlist army have entered Biscay and threaten
to stop the navigation of the river Nervion.
Political affairs in France are still in
a critical condition. On the 6th iust. the as
sembly passed the municipal electoral bill.
The committee of parliamentary initiative on
the same day rejected M. De Larchefoucauld's
monarchical proposition. The assembly ses
sion on the Bth was one of intense excitement.
A motion expressing great regret over the
suspension of the journal L'Union by the
government was rejected by a vote of 379 to
80, the Left generally abstaining from voting.
Thereupon M. Paris, of the Bight contre,
moved a resolution to energetically uphold the
septennial powers of President M’Mahon,
and, reserving the questions submitted to the
committee on constitutional bills, pass to the
the order of the day. General De Cissey,
minister of war, announced that the govern
ment identified itself with the motion. The
resolution was voted down by 331 yeas to 368
nays. The ministry immediately tendered
their resignations, but they were not received.
On the 9th President M’Mahon sent a mes
sage to the assembly firmly insisting upon the
obligation of following up the law of Novem
ber last, on which the septennate is founded,
by the legislation necessary to complete it.
They cannot, if they would, he insists, revoke
the powers intrusted to him under that law.
M. Ilaoul Duval moved the dissolution of the
assembly, and the motion was referred to a
committee.
MISCELLANEOUS.
H. J. Jewett has been elected pres
ident of Erie, vice Watson, resigned.
San Francisco has donated 820,000 to
the Louisiana sufferers.
McGrath, the owner of Tom Bowl
ing, fears the horse will never be able to ap
pear on the track again.
Marshall Jewell has left St. Peters
burg, and is en route for Washington to as
sume the duties of postmaster-general.
Vice-President Wilson says he has so
much improved in health that iTcongress were
to assemble to-moirow he would be prepared
to resume his position as presiding officer of
the senate.
George Smith,’ who erected for the
late Professor Morse the first line of telegraph
poles in this country, between Washington
and Baltimore, in 1844, died at his residence
in Newfield, Maine, a few days ago.
The attorney general has direoted the
United States attorney for the western district
of New York to take an appeal in the Case of
the New York Central and Hudson river rail
road company against United States Internal
Bevenue Collector Briley.
The question of a legal separation of
Mr. and Mrs. Tilton is now in the hands of
Mr. N. B. Marz, formerly judge of the court
of appeals. Judge Marz is the stepfather of
Mrs. Tilton-, and has been her husband’s in
timate friend for many years.
The effect of the reduction of the
rates on package envelopes, from ten to eight
cents, is shown in the increase of sales. There
were 138,815,500 stamped envelopes sold by
the postoffice department through the post
masters, an increase over the preceding year
of about 600,000.
The snperintendant of the mounted
recruiting service is ordered to forward 100
recruits for Austin, Texas, for the fourth cav
alry, and all the disposable colored recruits to
the same place for assignment to the ninth
cavalry; also 80 recruits to Fort Dodge, Kan
sas to the sixth cavalry.
Treasurer Spinner has threatened to
tender his resignation in case his views regard
ing the management of the bureau under his
charge are not approvea by those higher in
authority. Gen. Spinner’s dissatisfaction
grows out of a conflict between himself and
other prominent officers of the treasury with
reference to the appointment of clerks in his
own bureau.
The suspension of the freedman’s sav
ings institution, which retains saving of money
of industrious colored persons, is the chief
subject of conversation among them. Three
deaths have resulted indirectly from the sus
pension, the victims being women who went
into a wild state of imbecility and collapse at
the loss of their savings.
The hand, ball match for one thou
sand dollars and the championship of Amer
ica, between James O’Brien and James Far
ron, of Chicago, and James Dunn and James
Casey, of Brooklyn, took place last week, and
resulted in favor of Brooklyn by a score of
81 to 74. Chicago had the game in their own
hands until Farron became exhausted by
heat.
The examination of the young men
who received permits to report for admission
into the naval academy as cadet engineers
takes place on the 15th, 16th and 17th of Sep
tember instead of any time between the 15th
and 21st, as heretofore. This will be a com
petitial examination. The recent act of con
gress permits the appointment of twenty-five
cadet engineers annually.
One of the ladies employed as count
er in the national bank redemption division
of the treasury department has discovered
among the notes sent for redemption one of
the counteifeit 4500 bills, originally discovered
at the treasury about a year ago. It was so
pAfect that several of the most experienced
clerks in the treasury office thought it genu
ine, but upon reference to the engraving and
printing division it was pronounced connter
i feit.
The treasurer has decided that the
national banks will be permitted to make good
the amounts charged to the five per cent,
fund, for the redemption of their notes, by the
remittance of national bank notes,
the expense of remitting legal tender notes
from the treasury department in return for
bank notes redeemed, and of the return of
legal tenders by banks to make good the five
per cent. fund. The first deposit of five per
cent, must, however, be made in legal tenders
in all cases.
Advices from Washington state that
Secretary Bristow announces an explanation
of the terms upon which the five per cent,
fcndod bonds are offered for proposals, that
all interest on the' bonds accrued to the date
of subscription, aud in addition thereto all
interest that will have accrued up to three
mouths thereafter must be paid by the sub
scribers whose bids are adopted, and must be
calculated in all settlements, together with
the payment at the time of subscription or
at any time within three months thereaf
ter.
The Story of Five Aces.
It is a story of five aces, says an ex
change. It was at the Hot Springs of
Arkansas, where only gentlemen and
ladies —not ordinary men and women—
go. Ephraim Taggart, of Mississippi,
and Colonel Charles Gordon, of Gal
veston, Texas, were there, and they
were engaged in a pleasant game of
cards. Mr. Taggart lost all his money,
and then, with two aces in his hands,
put up bis watch against 8200, and
called. The colonel with much suavity,
and a like amount of presence of mind,
showed three aces, and immediately
raked in the watch. Then for some re
markable reason, Ephraim Taggart got
angry and said that there bad been
cheating; he never in his life before
knew that a single pack or deck of cards
had five aces. Colonel Gordon had no
time to argue the matter, however.
He could pimply see the astonishing
fact that he had been insulted by the
Mississippian. Most men, it strikes up,
would have stopped to reflect as to how
the extra it.ee came in the miserable
paek. Colonel Gordon merely remarked
that he had been insulted, and drawing
a knife stabbed Ephraim Taggart to the
heart, quietly remarking, as he wiped
the blood from his knife, that he guessed
that would settle it. It was a most dig
nified argument from beginning to end
on the part of Colonel Gordon. That
excellent man could see nothing, could
listen to nothing but the astounding
fact that his honor, had been in
sulted, and could reach no con
clusion but the one at the point of
his knife—sometimes rudely mentioned
as mnrder. The refined society at the
Hot Springs quite unreasonably con
ceived it*a duty, however, to call up
Col. Gordon at a sort of court-martial.
There the colonel stooped to consider
the matter in several of its bearings, and
magnanimously explained. There were
five aces in the pack—that nobody could
deny. But had there never been simi
lar accidents before ? How should he
know that his opponent in the game
held the extra ace ? He was not a clair
voyant and he did not pretend to any
extra wisdom as to cards. He was a
gentleman, and he simply knew that his
honor had Been at stake. He had play
ed a friendly game with Ephraim Tag
gart and that person had charged him
with cheating. What might a gentle
man do ? His hearers must reflect that
murder was his only refuge from a
blasted character. The statement, we
need hardly remark, had its appropriate
effect. The court-martial geutly cen
sured Col. Gordon for having been
“overkasty in defending his honor,’’
and then let him go ; first, however, we
doubt not, inviting him to a supper;
and the next day the body of the too
thoughtless and unhappy Ephraim Tag
gart was gently laid in the most conve
nient graveyard. And we shall not visit
the Hot Springs of Arkansas this year.
The weather is too warm and the jour
ney too long and dusty.
How a Frenchman Dors His Fishing.
A Paris correspondent of the New
York Times tells how M. de la Rue, a
public man of some note in France,
goes fishing at his country place, as
follows:
“He has domesticated the cormor
ant in France. Nothing is more curi
ous than to see his favorite bird, ‘ Old
Tom ’ dive into the Seine at Curbed and
shoot like an arrow through the water
in chase of a fleeing fish. With pa
tience and kindness the cormorant can
be easily trained. Before going out for
sport the birds are left for some hours
without food ; and they are then taken
to the water where a cord iB tied about
the neck loosely in order to prevent the
cormorant from swallowing Ihe fish.
When ready, M. De la Rue sets Old
Tom qpon the edge of a flat-boat, and
he is speedily followed by Young Dick,
who watches every movement of his
superior in age. Presently Old Tom
makes a dive, and Dick steps into his
place. If the water is clear, one can
trace Tom’s rapid movements with the
eye, and w atch the sharp turns made
by him and the fish, and the latter
makes frantic efforts to escape. If he
misses his game,- Tom comes up look
ing very much ashamed of himself, and
sits upon the flat while Dick takes a
plunge. If he catches the fish, as is
generally the case, he comes to the
surface and gives it a toss into the air,
catching it by the head and letting it
slide down into his pouch, where it is
stopped by the ligature. The bird
makes no opposition when the fish is
taken, and takes its place for another
dive. When the plumage of the
cormorant becomes saturated with
water he becomes heavy, and then
spreads himself in the sun to dry,
where he must be left iu peace. From
time to time a small fish is given
him to eat, the ligature being removed
for the purpose. ”
One Peculiarity of Love.
At first it surprises one that love
should be made the principal staple of
all the best kind of fiction ; and per
haps it is to be regretted that it is only
one kind of love that is chiefly depicted
in works of fiction. But the love itself
is the most remarkable thing in human
life there cannot be the slightest doubt.
For see what it will conquor. It is not
only that it prevails over selfishness,
but it has. the victory over weariness,
tiresomeness and familiarity.
When you are with a person loved,
you have no sense of being bored. This
humble and trivial circumstance is the
greatest test, the only sure abiding test
of love. With the person you do not
love you are never supremely at your
ease. You have some of the sensation
of walking upen stilts.
In conversation with them, however
much yon admire them, and are inter
ested in them, the horrid idea will cross
your mind of “ What shall I say next?”
Converse with them is not perfect asso
ciation. But with those you love, the
satisfaction in their presence is not un
like that of the relation of heavenly
bodies one to another, which in their
silent revolutions, lose none of their
attractive power. The sun does not
talk to the world, but it does attract,it.
The Danbury man says : “ One Eng
lish dinner in the inexperienced Ameri
can stomach will produce that night—
-12 cross-eyed lions ; 8 bears, with calico
tails; 11 giants, with illuminated heads;
1 awful dog, with twelve legs, and 14
bow-’egged ruffiaES chased by a host of
piratical cauliflowers, mounted on sad
dles of l*eef, roasted. Any respectable
chemist will corroborate this state
ment. ”
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29. 1874.
THE CROWN UNWON.
BY BARTON GREY.
“ Whoso pudureth to the end,”
So, long ago, the word was spoken:
Hearts fail, and bowed heads earthward bend
Yet who shall say the pledge is broken 7
Brave eyes may read the promise stiff.
Though writ in lines of pain and loss : j
The path lies onward up the hill,
Though every mile-stone be a cross.
Long time ago my soul aud I
Converse and council held together,
When clear and bright ysuth’s morning sky
Flushed rosy in the summer weather;
“ Soul,” said I, “ many a pathway fair.
Waiting thy choice, before thee lies;
Think long, choose well, then proudly dare
Thino utmost might to win the prize.”
And so we looked, my soul aud I,
And many a fair, false joy refusing,
Behold at last, serene and high,
The crown of her supremest choosing;
And on it fixed our steadfast gaze,
While the bright, joyous wizard, Hope,
Through all these bounteous summer days,
Drew one delicious horoscope.
But summer hours fade fast away,
And th it dear crown, above my winniu/.
Here in the twilight of my day.
Gleam far, as in my bright beginning ;
Aud now hopes eye’s are dim and sad.
And doubt and.grief walk close beside,
And many a joy that erst I had
In this long toil has drooped and died.
And yet I know my soul’s true good
Lies stiff, lies ever, there belore me;
I could not turn me if I would,
Though clouds and darkness gather o’er me.
Ami, though I fail and though I die
Far from my goal, my crown unwon,
No meaner star can tempt my eye
That one has known the steadfast sun.
So on I press up that steep slope,
Behind whose brow that sun is setting;
I walk with Faith, and not with Hope,
Despairing not anil not forgetting;
But, when the last brief breath is sped,
I shall not grieve if this men writs :
“He strove—he failed—aud he is dead,
True always to his nighest light.”
THE LOYER’S ELM.
BY MABY N. PRESCOTT.
Delia sat on the doorstep, with a
basket of mending in her lap. Paul
stood leaning against the bole of an ap
ple tree, trimming an elm twig, and
anon vouchsafing a look at Delia, who
was well .vorth looking at, with her
dimples and roses and sunny expression.
“ You know,” she was saying, “Aunt
Hitty is all I have. She is my own
flesh and blood, and she needs me.”
“ And so do I,” said Paul, briefly.
“Oh! do you?” returned Delia,
brightening ; “but you can do without
me awhile.”
“ How can I?”
“Aye! that’s what you must learo,
sir,” she laughed wi'.h a pretty assump
tion of importance.
“ I can’t see,” complained Paul,
“ Why you should prefer the society of
an uncomely old woman, who dose’nt
care a fig for anything bat her money,
to the one yon have as good as prom
ised to love and obey.”
“ Why, you know, Paul, that I don’t
consult my preferences in this thing.
Aunt Hitty is as good as bed-ridden,
and she my own mother’s half-sister and
nobody to do a hand’s turn for her.”
“ All along of her own allfired temper
and miserliness, that won’t hire help
nor treat th m that give it with decen
cy,” answered Delia’s in te lover.
“ Haven’t I waited these five years with
my shoulder at the wheel, working ear
ly and late, for a home of my own ?
But I must be put on longer probation,
on account of a woman who’ll live till
she’s ninety.”
“ Well, Paul,” said Delia, gravely,
“if it is a burden for yon to wait for
me, don’t do it. I’ve given you my
reasons for going to Aunt Hitty. There’s
no pleasure in it; but it’s a duty that I
owe my own kith and kin. You can’t
want me to stay when conscience says
* Go.’ And the twins are getting to be
a help to your mother, so she can do
without m© ; but maybe you have some
other girl in your mind, who wouldn’t
need to keep you waiting and could
bring a dower. I don’t want to stand
in your light.”
“ I suppose that means that you want
to be free yourself?” returned Paul,
coloring angrily, “ thinking you’ll be
able to better yourself at Highgate.
Perhaps Aunt Hitty will leave you her
money, and that’ll be far finer than
marrying a poor farmer.”
“I don’t want a copper of Aunt Hitty’s
money. You ought to know me better,”
returned Delia. “You ought to know
that, if you had been as poor as a church
mouse, I’d have waited for you forever
and thought nothing of it.”
“Yes,” said Paul, thrusting the elm
twig which he had been trifling with
into the loose earth. “ Yes, I’ll believe
that when this slip of elm grows into a
tree. Actions speak louder than words. ”
“Very well,” said Delia, the quick
tears shining in her eyes. “ I shan’t
want to see it grow,” slipping a ring off
her hand. “Good-bye, if it must be
so.”
Paul put the ring on his little fing. r,
and walked away. Delia sat still and
darned her stockings. The wind blew
up gustily and shook the rosy apple
bows in a shower at her feet, filling the
air with fragrance ; the shaded clover
leaves bent to and fro, tossing their
blooms; the sun sifted through the
trees and traced beautiful outlines on
the grass-plot; a market wagon loit
ered down the country road, driven by
a man in a blue blouse ; a flock of gray
geese were gossiping at the margin of
a wayside pool; birds were flying
among the old elms; thin clouds floated
across the sky lazily, as if they had the
day before them; and the afternoon
moon paled in the sunlight. Nature
seemed exerting herself to make amends
for that which was lacking in Delia’s
experience; but whenever did green
fields and blossoming hedges add more
than a passing solace to a heart bereft?
It had all been so sweet and precious
but a little moment since. What was
it that had so suddenly stolen the bloom
from these familiar aspects? It seemed
to Delia that she could not remove her
self too speedily from her old sur
roundings. And perhaps at Aunt Hit
ty’s she might be able to forget how un
kind Paul had proved ; how readily he
had acted upon her suggestion of sepa
ration, as if the thought were nothing
new, and how little he had appeared to
regret. Thinking sadly, her eyes res ! ed
upon the elm twig that Paul had
planted in mockery of her constancy.
Wh .t if the unpromising shoot should
take root some day, when she was gone
and forgotten, and bear tardy witness in
her favor ? Then she chided herself for
encouraging sHeh an unprofitable fancy,
and went to pack hei trunk for the lit
tle journey to Highgate and Aunt Hitty.
Delia had lived in the family of Mrs.
Carruthers for eight years. She had
gone there when Paul was down with
typhus fever, and all the neighbors
were fighting shy and nurses weren’t to
be had for love or money. She had
been earning her living going out sew
ing by the day, and when she under
stood the strait Mrs. Carruthers was in,
she quilted her needle into its place and
offered her services. Naturally, as
soon as Paul was able to move at>out*
his mother fell sick, and by the time
she could use her own feet Delia had
so endeared herself that Mrs. Car
ruthers refused to part with her: and
nothing to do but Delia must make her
home with them, and go out sewing as
much or as little as she pleased, and
teach the twins her handiwork. Delia
found it very pleasant to have even the
semblance of a home, to be sure that
somebody took an interest in her goings
and comings, ia the fit of her gowns
and the color of her ribbons; in brief, it
was simply delightful to be of import
ance to somebody—a delight which she
had thought would follow her to her
journey’s end, when aunt Hicty’s neces
sity changed the programme.
“So you’ve come, hev you?” was
aunt Hitty’s salutation. “ I didn’t
know as you’d ba able to tear yourself
away from them folks as ain’t got none
of your blood is their veins. However,
I ’spose you looked it all over, and came
to the conclusion how it was best pol
icy, seeing as I can’t last forever, in my
state.
In truth, Delia soon discovered that
life under aunt Hitty’s roof-tree was
not likely to prove a holiday. She
could only wheel herself about in her
chair, on account of rheumatism; while
her asthma kept her awake night’s, and
when she couldn’t sleep she allowed no
one else the happy privilege. When
Delia was obliged to hint that the gro
ceries or the coals were out, she would
wonder where under the sun the next
were coming from.
“ We must eoononize,” she would de
clare. “ It’s only a step from wanton
waste to the almshouse.”
Bat, after a great deal of searching
in all the pockets of her old gowns, in
all the bureau drawers and mysterious
crannies of the family desk, she would
finally produce a bank-bill of modest
pretensions, which she made believe to
have found slipped under the facing of
a cast-off dress or overlooked in some
pigeon-hole. It was worse than work
ing on the rosd to expect enough money
from Aunt Hitty’s hoard for “human
nature’s daily foodand Delia soon
wearied of the novel exertion, preferr
ing to resort to her needle and the
slender bank account she had laid by
for the sunshiny day that was not to
dawn, that she had ceased to expect.
“ We git along a heap better than at
first,” Aunt Hitty remarked, one day.
“If there’s anything I do hate, its
money dealings among blood relations. ”
Sometimes, when the season was
hard, and work slackened, and neces
sities increased, Delia ventured to de
mand a trifle to eke things out.
“Money, always money,” Aunt Hitty
would reiterate. “ I believe you don’t
think of nothing else. Anybody’d
s’pose I was made of precious metal.
I’m most sorry I sent fer you, you’re
that unthrifty. Yon’d sell the teeth
out of my head, if they’d bring any
thing—you’re that mercenary.” But
after much tribulation, it would pres
ently occur to her that she had put a
bit of money iuto her best china cream
jag for a rainy day, and like the conjurer
who pulls yards of ribbon from his
mouth, she poured gold and silver from
empty cream pitchers, or she found a
bank bill forgotten between the leaves
of Baxter’s “Saint’s Rest,” and she
would spend half a day turning over a
new leaf.
The one gleam et sunshine shot
across Delia’s life was the occasional
receipt of a letter from Mrs. Car
ruthers.
“I’d write more oftenei,” she some
times apologized “ but somehow, when
I git set down to it, I feel like Keziah
Kolo when she found herself singing
* Coronation ’ all by herself in meeting,
and the preacher awaiting to begin the
long prayer. And then things don’t
sound the same when they’re writ as
when they’re spoke out, and the spel
lin’s in the ways, and the grammar
ain’t alius handy, and the ink up and
blots, and Paul he comes in whilst I’m
about it, and the bread has burned
brown, and the potatoes has biled dry.”
Even the baldest facts of Pauls’ ex
istence made Mrs. Carruthers’ letters
more gratifying than the most elegant
English of the essayists.
Sometimes she wrote, “Paul is
ploughing in the burnt land,” or “ he’s
gone to the farmers’ club,”or “he took
a premium at the oouuty fair and is git
ting forehanded ” —all illuminated par
agraphs to Delia. Once she wrote that
he had been at the county ball and led
off with Squire Somebody’s daughter;
and poor, foolish Delia lay awake the
next night fancying the picture and
blotting it with her tears. How her
heart ached to be Squire Somebody’s
daughter just then—to be young and
rosy and coquettish in the grand right
and left. Alas ! ten years with Aunt
Hitty had added nothing to Delia’s
physical charms. She was thirty-eight,
with hollows in her cheeks and silver
among her braids and absent-looking
eyes, from which laughter had departed.
All the years she had lived on the pos
sibility of Paul coming over to High
gate to see how the world used her—
perhaps with some kind and tender
word, to show that, at last, he had ap
preciated her motive ; and though she
had oome to wear an air of expectancy,
she had in truth given up the feeling,
when a letter from Paul reached her,
which simply related the facts of his
mother’s death and asking her to the
funeral. He met her at the stage-door.
They drove together to the grave as
chief mourners. They returned to
gether to the vacant house.
“It isn’t home any longer,” said
Paul, as Delia paused in the porch,
hesitating to make her good-byes.
“Tom has gone to Australia, Sue is
teaching in Minnesota, and Nell is mar
ried out in California. Yet you and I,
Delia, are more divided than all the
rest.”
“ You will send for Sue, I suppose,”
said Delia, fumbling with her bonnet
strings.
“ Delia,” he cried, “ are not tan years
long enough for yon to spend in having
your own way ? Won’t you stay and
make it home for me ?”
“Aunt Hitty needs me more than
ever, She is feeble as a child. ”
“And a hired hand could serve her as
well in such a thankless office. Delia,
you are making no one happy—not even
yourself.”
“One ought always to enjoy one’s
duty.” sighed Delia, wishing she did.
“ Well, you have bad your choice of
duties, and it’s only fair to believe that
you have chosen the one you like best,”
returned Paul, grimly.
“ I ’spose,” said Aunt Hitty, after
Delia’s return, “ I ’spose that you and
Paul Carruthers are putting off your
weddin’ till you git me well under
ground. Folks don’t wait ten year for
a gurl for nothiu’, without expecting
ter git suthiu’ along with her more’n a
thimble and darning-needle. But I’ve
heerd say it was ill waiting for dead
men’s shoes—they mostly pinches.
They’re like Cinderally’s slipper—either
too long or too short. Heigh-ho! give
me my smelling salts. Delia, you’re
getting to be an old maid. Yon ain’t
plump no longer. When I was your
age I’d hed more chances than you oould
shake a stick at. And you ain’t my
heir, neither—if I hed enything to heir,
which I hain’t for there’s my boy Reub
ing. that run away to sea when he was a
shaver. I haven’t never heerd tell of
him since ; but it’s likely he’ll come to
light when there’s anything to be made
by it.”
Thus day by day spun out the sum of
fifteen years, in which Delia had been
Aunt Hitty’s slave, and Aunt Hitty was
Dear ninety, as Paul had predicted, when
a rumor reached Highgate that Delia’s
old lover was going to be married. He
was going to marry a young girl, too,
the gossips said, and Aunt Hitty caught
the tune and played variations upon it,
con amore.
“ I ’spose he thought it want no good
waiting for me to drop off. Jest shows
’twas your prospects he hankered after,
and not you, Delia. I ’spose she’s got
dimples, and crimps her hair, like as
not, and’s got a cheek worth kissing.
You’re growing kinder sailer, Delia.
Your father’s complect alius had a
dried-apple look. You favor that side
of the house. She plays on the pianny,
they say, ‘Speed the Plow,’ and them
tunes that Paul will take to naturally.
When old batcheldors marry a little
chit like she is, they mostly acts as if
she was made of ohiny, and nothing’s
too good for ’em. Lor sakes, Delia,
who’s that man coming across the yard?
Where’s my saults? What a start he
gave me, to be sure ! I thought it was
Reubing’s father, and him in his grave
these thirty years, and we never getting
on together anything to speak of !”
But it was only Reuben himself, fol
lowed by his wife.
After this Delia might have been free
to go back to her old home an! Paul;
nnly he did not need her any longer.
He had found another sweetheart, she
kept repea ing to herself, hugging her
griefs closer day by day, till it seemed
to her as if, all at once, she had become
something superfluous on the face of
the earth. In the meantime, hints of
the wedding preparations reached High
gate < aily. One could almost catch
the odor of bride’s cake and the rustle
of wedding garments.
“ It’s well for him,” Aunt Hitty was
fond of assuring her—“it’s well for him
that he give over waiting for an old
love in dead men’s shoes, seeing that
Reubing has come to fill them hisself.
However, could you hev afforded a veil,
Delia, and all the fixings ?”
It was June, and the world was at its
bravest, with blossoming and bird song.
Delia, with the heart of twenty still
fluttering and aching under her old
womanish gray boddice, allowed her
solf to remember the red roses that
nodded in at the.windows of the sleep
ing-room at Carruthers Farm, and made
the June air as sweet as love itself ; al
lowed herself to recall youth and all its
lost possibilities, to yearn wildly for
the sight of her one lover, before he
should belong to another—just for one
glimpse of the comely, sunburned face
that had been her lode-star.
Chance threw fulfilment in her way.
Aunt Hitty had heard of the new doc
tor over at Hampton, whose touch was
healling. Somebody must fetch him.
Delia volunteered, and took the after
noon stage, that set her down at the
crossroads leading into the village. No
body remarked the dusty little body, in
her old poke bonnet, pausing to look
with misty eyes over the low stone wall
at the smart new church and the moss
grown graveyard ; at “thechildren just
let loose from school,” playing “ catch”
on the green, although the clouds were
gathering for a shower, and careful
housewives were closing their scuttle
windows and hurrying the week’s wash
on the lines. Delia’s thoughts were not
in the clouds ; she did not even observe
that the sun had gone behind them.
She walked on toward the Carruthers
Farm, thinking to reach it by dusk,
to linger near till the lamps were
lighted and to steal the one thing
she coveted—the sight of her lov
er’s face. As she walked, the wind be
gan to freshen, the darkness to deepen;
the rain fell fast and blinded her. She
stepped beneath an elm-tree for shelter,
just under the outermost bough of a
widespreading tree, like a tower of
leaves, with birds twittering among its
branches. She stood there, looking
out at the storm in all its angry magnifi
cence, when suddenly the thunder
seemed to shake the planet assunder,
only Delia did not. see the blue bolt
that split the elm tree in all its green
strength and left it a blackened ruin.
Somebody, looking out of the window
of the farmhouse near, saw it and shud
dered.
“Sorry luck, Tom,” said he. “The
lightning has blasted my elm tree !”
“ The duce !” cried_Tom, going to the
door to look out. “It might have
struck nearer with more harm. There’s
a plenty of elms in the world.”
“ But no elm like that one, Tom.
That tree’s been like a friend to me. I
stuck it into the ground when it was
nothing but a feeble twig, when I was
angry with Delia for going to Aunt Hit
ty ; and when it began to grow I felt as
if a miracle had been performed, Tom
—as if it meant to tell me, in every
green leaf and shoot, that Delia loved
me, in spite of all. I’d sooner the
lightning had hit anywhere instead.”
“If you’d been bred a sailor,” said
Tom, smiling at bis brother’s sentiment,
“ You’d have forgotten Delia in a dozen
sweethearts before this. Halloa !” as
another flash corruscated across the
heavens, “ somebody had taken shelter
under your elm, Paul, as I’m a siDner.
There’s a heap on the ground yonder
that looks mightily lika a woman!
Come, I’m bound on a voyage of dis
covery !” and he rushed toward the
spot, followed by the doubting Paul,
To be sure, they found Delia pros
trate and brought her in ; called up the
serving- woman and the nearest neigh
bors, and fetched the doctor that Aunt
Hitty had sent for. And when Delia
opened her eyes, after long persuasion,
having been only stunned, she saw the
old familiar room, the chintz-covered
lounge, with, its wilderness of palms
and peacocks, and, dearer yet, the fond
anxious eyes of Paul watching beside
her.
“You know that Aunt Hitty needs
me,” Bhe murmured, taking up the
thread of fifteen years ago. “ And the
twins are getting old enough—to help
—your mother ; —and—oh ! —but you
are going to be married, Paul ?” coming
back from the past, in a confusion of
tongues.
“ Yes, Delia, we can’t afford to wait
much longer, you and L” He assured
her, later. “ We’ll have a double wed
ding, if you don’t mind ; for maybe
you’ve heard that Tom came home to
marry Squire Thorne’s daughter, and
the cake is all baked and the wedding
garments ready. But as for me, Delia,
you see the folks have so set their
hearts on my being an old bachelor,
hereabouts, that, if it hadn’t been for
the elm tree and the lightning, sweet
heart, I doubt if I’d had the face to
disappoint them.”
A Cuban Cafe.-
A Havana correspondent of the Bos
ton Herald writes : “The best cafes are
located near the Plaza de Armas, among
which is the famous Cafe ‘Dominica,’
or in the Louvre, where stands the old
Taoon theatre, and every night these re
sorts are frequented by large crowds.
It is a mingling of strange characters.
On one occasion seated at a table in
the cafe of the Tacon I saw a young
count sweep by. On each arm swung
a laughing, dark-eyed Cuban girl smok
ing a cigarrette. Again at the table just
opposite sat an old man with white
head, just ready to go under the sod,
yet to-night, under charming influence
of his bewitching young lady and
sparkling campaigns, he seemed to re
new the gayety of his youtn. So they
go. There is an unceasing buzz of con
versation ; the air becomes filled with
the smoke of cigars ; all is life, bustle,
and animation ; there is a wild ringing
of glasses—in a word, everybody seems
to say : ‘To day is ours—let us be
merry, for to-morrow—we die.’ Yet
let me add here that in all my saunter
ings ia Cuba, while I witnessed much
drinking places both high and low, yet
I saw only one drunken man. Yet they
have never dreamed of such a thing in
that isle as a prohibitory law. The
liquors are consequently of a very fair
quality, and quite reasonable in price,
and many of their drinks may be called
excellent. The yankee, I noticed, inva
riably called for his cocktail. But for
a really pleasant and refreshing drink
they Jiave what is called a ‘penales. ’ It
is simply a glass of water in which are
placed two small white rolls made of
whites of eggs and sugar, a bit of ice,
and a few drops of lime-juice, which
gives it a good flavor. The taste is
Bomewhat similar to our lemonade.”
Edmond Lewis, of Michigan, passed
from comfortable circumstances, and a
large and happy family, to eternity, the
other day, through the medium of Paris
green, administered by himself. Peter
White, of the same state, did similarly
The question now begins to arise, w hich
is most destructive to the farmers,
Paris green or potato bugs?
Fraulein Bismark’s Love Affair.
In a number of the Boersen Courier,
of Berlin, an incident is related of Prince
Bismarck’s domestic life, which is un
commonly interesting. Most people who
read the newspapers have heard of the
great chancellor’s daughter. The young
lady, though not beautiful, is amiable
and accomplished, and accustomed to
the homage of the high society in which
she movet. With her father she has
been a great favorite ever sinoe she grew
up. When in Berlin, he has been wont
to spend with her whatever leisure mo
ments he could snatch from his labori
ous occupations, and in the country his
idle hours have been usually passed in
her society. The prince observed with
concern that his daughter repelled all
proposals of marriage made to her.
Though wooed by the most eligible
suitors, among the heirs of the richest
families, members of the most ancient
nobility, gentlemen filling the highest
official positions, even a prince—the
young lady declined them all. After
brooding a long time over the possible
reasons of his daughter’s conduct, the
chancellor, believing at last that he had
fathomed the secret of her severity,
opened his heart to her on the subject.
He told her that he felt sure that she
must have become profoundly attached
to some person inferior to herself in
position and wealth. He then begged
her to mention the name of the man to
whom she had given her heart, as he,
her father, was rich enough to change
the conditions which might seem to
render her lover an ineligible match.
With flowing tears the lady confessed
that she did cherish such an affection as
her father suspected, an affection that
was returned, bat that her lover was a
simple lieutenant in the army. The
next day the lieutenant appeared in the
presence of the father. The chancellor
hardly gave him time to speak before
saying, “ I know why it seems to you
impossible to become my son-in-law;
notwithstanding the difference of social
position your wish shal I be accomplished.
Though I do not know you, the love of
my daughter is to me sufficient guaran
tee of your worth.” But instead of the
joyful thanks which the prince naturally
expected, he received a reply of the fol
lowing tenor: “I thank yon for your
goodness, bat this union is impossible.
1 belong to an old Catholic family. I
cannot take home as my wife the daugh
ter of him whom my family regard as an
enemy of the church, whom I myself
am almost compelled to look upon as
such.” The officer then sadly took his
departure, leaving the chancellor utter
ly confounded, who had little antici
pated such a rejection of his condescen
sion. Having summoned his daughter,
the chancellor told her that the officer
wholly refused her hand and that she
must forget him." The daughter, be
coming paler than ever, replied : “He
is too honorable to deny his religious
faith. I will not ask him such a sacri
fice, and if he desires it I—less believ
ing than he—will adopt his religion, to
render our marriage possible.” The
father saw his child become more incon
solable from day to day, and at length
he was thrown into a state of fearful
excitement, which was not without con
sequence. So things stand at present.
(•ambling Women in England.
Seventy or eighty years ago gambling
was prevalent in English high society.
Our readers generally know perhaps
that Charles James Fox lost his millions
at play, while other distinguished per
sonages were equally heavy losers.
The women were as infatuated as the
men, and so me of them actually kept
faro tables. Three of them, Ladies
Buckinghamshire, Archer and Mount
Eugecombe, were particularly notorius
and were nick-named “ Faro’s daugh
ters.” Lord Kenyon said of them:
“ They think they are two great for the
law. I wish they could be punished.
If any prosecutions of this Bature are
fairly brought before me, and the par
ties are justly convicted, whatever be
their rank or station in the country,
though they should bo the first ladies
in the land, they should certainly ex
hibit themselves in the pillory.” When
this plain-spoken judge actually came
to try several aristocratic dames for
keeping gaming tables, he merely pun
ished them by fines. Gillroy, the caricat
urist, was less sparing, for he depicted
one lady as undergoing a public whip
ping, and represented others as stand
ing in the pillory. In Miss Edgeworth’s
novel of “ Belinda,” the blackleg mania
among the fair sex is graphically por
trayed. Playing at cards for moderate
stakes is still much more prevalent than
in this country, but lady gamesters are
much more rare than they formerly
were. Yet we read that a titled lady,
name not given, has recently lost $500,-
000 at ecarte, which will compel her
husband to sell a large portion of his
real estate and economize on the conti
nent for some years to come.
The Transit of Venus Expeditions.
Five of the parties to observe the
transit of Venus have already sailed for
their destination, in the United States
steamer Swatara, which vessel left New
York on the 7th of June for the South
ern Pacific ocean. The persons in com
mand of these five parties are Capt.
Raymond, United States army, Lieut.-
Commander G. P. Ryan, United States
navy, Prof. William Harkness, Prof. C.
H. F. Peters, and Mr. E. Smith, of the
coast survey.
The three remaining parties, i. e.,
those for Pekin, Nagasaki, and Nico
laievsk, will leave during the coming
month.
General instructions to all the obser
vers have been printed, and show how
carefully the transit of Venus commis
sion has planned out the work to be
done.
Should the astronomers arrive safely,
and the weather be favorable, it is safe
to predict that the results' deducible
from the American observations alone
will be of very high value.
Among the numerous investigations
that have been instituted in connection
with the preparations for this transit we
notice one by Bakhuysen, of Leyden,
who advances reasons for believing that
the annoying phenomenon of the “black
drop” is mostly a phenomenon of dif
fraction,' having its origin in the tele
scope. The photographic processes that
the American parties propose to use
will, however, be in great part entirely
free from any trouble on this score, as
the commission have decided not to rely,
to any great extent, on the observation
of contacts.— Harper's Magazine.
It is a town on a railroad running out
of Detroit, and it never had a paper.
The editor found a great absence of
sidewalks, a hotel where the patrons
helped themselves, and the only signs
of life on the main street were a lame
horse and two children playing in the
road. He had been recommended to
several citizens, and after searching
around the hotel for a while he found a
boy mending a horse blanket in the la
dies’ sitting room. “ Where’s Mr. ?”
inquired the editor, mentioning the
name of the first citizen on his list.
“Gone to the dog-fight.” answered the
boy. “And Mr. ?” “Well, he’s
down thar.” “ And Mr. ?” “ Same
place,” answered the lad. There was
one more name on the paper, and the
editor waited a moment and inquired
for its owner. “ Saw hi mto the dog
fight,” answered the boy. “ See here,
bub,” said the irritat. and editor, “ can
you tell me if there is any resident of
this town who didn’t go do wn to that
dog-fight ? I’ve got important busi
ness with the head men, and I want to
find ’em. ” The boy shook his head in a
solemn sort of way and replied : “ It’s
a poor time to find the head men of the
town when old Mt. Clemmens sends her
fighting dorg down here to clean our
prize anamul out! Yon’d better call
to-morrow !”—Detroit Free Prese.
A Chinese Theatre in ’Frisco.
The San Francisco Chronicle de
scribes the opening of the new Sing
Ting Yuen theatre in that city fs fol
lows : “ About. 1,800 persons were pres
ent during the performance, which
lasted from half-past seven in the even
ing until half-past two Sunday morn
ing. Many Americans, among whom
were a few ladies, took advantage of the
oocasion to witness the Chinese play,
but none except the celestial visitants
stayed until the last scene of the pro
longed drama was finished. The cos
tumes were gorgeous beyond dtscrip
tion, and all made especially for use on
the opening night. The stage presented
the usual characteristics. There were
the customary perpendicular legends
upon the scene behind that closed view,
which every one will presume to be
wise saws from Contuoius until he is
tcld the contrary on very good author
ity. The property-maD kept his traps
on one corner of the stage in sight of
the audience, brought forward articles
of dress or furniture when they were
wanted, and restored them to their
nook when they were no longer needed.
When not busy he made tea and drank
it before everybody—the play all the
while progressing—and even summoned
some of his companions from the au
dience to imbibe the refreshing lever
age with him in a convivial way. Ev
erything was in the freest and easiest
style. The audience smoked cigars
and cigarettes, and the musicians who
played the exhilarating yee-hin aid
clashed the deafening cymbals inhaled
m auwhilethe delicious fumes of opium.
The orchestra was composed, beside
the yee-hin, of the tien sok, the sam
tien, the tong-koo, and one or two other
pieces of melodious strains whose names
are not known to the average Amer
ican. The reporter sat in the
topmost gallery, between a Chiraman
who was nursing his big toe in the in
tervals of his dramatic rapture and a
dirty Celestial who understood enough
‘ Melican’ to explain the general drift
and tenor of the play. The plot of the
play had the usual deviations towards
immorality, with royal wars enough to
satisfy the most bloody-minded specta
tor, and now *nd then a domesti 3 epi
sode in which the scandalous element
was not lacking. A husband and wife
for instance, appeared upon the scene,
the former acoompanied by two cows—
represented by small Chinamen with
beast’s heads. The wife has lofty aspi
rations and does not like her liege lord
because of his devotion to agricultural
pursuits. Enter the heavy villian in
the guise of an invalid, as a destroyer
of the felicity of the hearthstone. He
gets access to the discontented wife,
and elopes with her. Enter husband
with two cows—which he instructs to
live in harmony, and on the green
grass, otherwise matting. He falls
asleep, and they fight it out on that
line. Enter a vile robber in miserable
dress. He gathers the two oows by the
horns and is making off with them,
when the owner awakes and rescut * his
property. Exit husband. Enter gay
deceiver with recreant wife. Emanciat
ed thief beats the gay deceiver, and
secures the nnfaithful baggage to him
self. Re-enter deserted husband, re
covers his wife, and finally puts her to
death with unheard of tortures. After
having expired in agony, the faithless
wife deliberately gets up and ooolly
walks off the stage. Another general
war, and so on, ab libitum. The thea
tre is a large and convenient building,
erected for the purpose; and is slid to
have cost 850,000. The seating is am
ple, and the means for entrance and
exit quite sufficient for the wants of the
place.” '
WALL STREET'S PERIL.
How the Grangers ate Worrying the
Kallroad .Monopolies- Pre paring for
a Battle that Will Slake the Globe
Reel.
The railroad interest, and its specula
tive allies, are therefore mad abot t the
agricultural impertinence of the west
ern grangers, and apprehensive about
the result of the decision just rendered
in Wisconsin.
GROUND J OF FEAR.
The granging party is looming up in
Wall street. It not only looks con
temptible and stilted, but also formid
able and ominous. Though foolish, vil
lainous and terrible, it apparently
means business. Wall street first
stares at it, then sneers at it, then
scowls at it, then watches the stock list
with horrible feelings, and then pro
poses to do anything that the devil
may require in order to secure pecuniary
salvation.
TURNING THE TABLES.
The railroad and stock-speculating
operators have for a long time had the
farming or producing interest by the
throat. How do you suppose they must
feel when the tables are turned and
they wake up to find out the farming
interest is so resolutely prepaiing to
take them by the nose.
The railroads have been able to regu
late the price of the produce raised by
the farmers. What must be their state
of mind when they find out that the
farmers are getting ready to regulate
the receipts of the railroads.
The Wall street man, accustomed to
reduce, from time to time, the in3ome
of the Wisconsin com-masticator, sud
denly finds that this eora-masticator
has begun to take on airs and talk
about reducing his income.
Wisconsin farms and things have
had the value put on them in Wall
street, But lo and behold! Wall Greet 1
stocks and things are Jo have the value
put on them in Wisconsin.
THE REELING GLOBE.
It can’t be done, without a bittle,
which will make the globe reel.
THE STAKE.
Wall street has not only thousaids of
millions at stake in the struggle, hut its
abiding intrinsic power and its jtower
of humbug are also at stake.
If the Wisconsin law-maker i, or
rather the western grangers, win the
day, we shall perhaps breed fewei pau
pers and millionaires during the rest of
the century than we have done vdthin
the last few years. If Wall street
wins, we shall doubtless go on I reed
ing millionaires and paupers quicker
than ever.
If Wisconsin wins, it will not le till
after Wall street has spent milliens to
beat it. —New York Correspon lence
Cincinnati Commercial.
Coming Up to the Scratch
A writer on pets, speaking ■>f a favor
ite cockatoo, says : “ Like all birds of
its tribe, it .iked very much to ht.ve its
head scratched. When visitors arrived
Cockatoo left its perch, climbec. up a
chair, and jumped on the table. Then
it walked straight up to the stringer,
looked at him in a peculiar m mner,
laid down its head on the table, and
pointed with its claw to the spot where
it wanted to be scracthed. This ma
noeuvre was geneially crowned with
success; but people sooner tiled of
scratching than Cockatoo, and ceased.
It raised its head, looked again it the
stranger, and then repeated its com
mand by showing the spot where it
wanted the finger. Having dene so
onoe or twice without effect, it suddenly
stretched itself to its utmost height,
with all its feathers bristling, and en
joyed the fear which its warlike atti
tude fproduoed on every one who did
not know its cowardice.”
VOL. 15—NO. 31.
SAiI.M.S AMI IMIINUS.
Sunday- school teacher—“ Anna, what
must one do in order to be forgiven ? ”
Anna—“ He must sin ! ”
The startling declaration is made by
an English writer that the whole civil
ized world, “ regarded in a mass, is liv
ing beyond its means.”
The latest joke about “Topper’s
Proverbial Philosophy ” is that it has
been dramatized by Mr. Dion Bouci
cault for the Queen’s Theater.
At 9 o’clock at night, when you see
the big dipper with the handle toward
you, and the tail of the comet in the
bowl, it is about time to take a drink.
It is painful to hear an ungodly man
remark during the heated term that
“it’s as hot as ginger,” when everybody
knows that he means something else.
Said Young America to his papa:
“ Pa, be you a Britisher ? ” “ Yes,
my son, I was bora in England.”
“Well, we whipped you,” retorted the
youngster.
The Austrain expedition which sailed
for the Polar seas two years ago has not
been heard from since, and the scien
tific people are turning themselves into
interrogation points.
“ Yes, sir,” said a Michigan Fourth
of July orator, “ Putnam went right
into the wolf’s den, dragged her out,
and the independence of America was
seeftred.
The Virginia youth who wouldn’t
enter college because the faculty
wouldn’t let him bring his three coach
dogs along, struck a Btrong blow at the
very roots of despotism.
Fbom every grain-growing oounty in
California there is now a demand for
labor, and on thousands of fields the
grain will have to be allowed to stand
until hands can b. procured to cut it.
An eastern paper contained no edito
rial and only one local item for four
days, on account of repairs to the office.
The “repairs” consisted of putting a
lock on a door and washing the win
dows.
It is proposed to plant the Ban Joa
quin valley, Cal., with the eucalyptus
or blue gum trees. For a length of two
hundred miles, and with a width vary
ing from forty to fifty miles, the bottom
is level and almost treeless.
Circumstances alter cases. For in
stance, when a Virginian arose in
ohurch and said : “Here’s a hundred
dollar bill for the old hoss behind the
pulpit!” no one thought of having him
put out.
When you see a young fellow strike
a match to light his cigar, and then re
store the unconsumed fragment to his
vest pocket, accept it as a sign that he
has been reading some good book on the
necessity of economy for young men
about to marry.
The amount of gabble performed by
a parlor crowd on a wet day at the sea
side is said to be perfectly appalling.
“The women, Ged bless them,” is not
exactly the exprescion of dyspeptic
guests at the hotels who are foroed to
listen to the din.
Little Peneiope Marrowfat is a child
who is keenly alive to what is going on
about her. Wiping the molasses
from her mouth, at the breakfast table,
the other morning, she sweetly said :
“If I should ever die of hydrophobia,
papa, you won’t let em cut out my liver,
will you!”
The acme has been reached in the
pathos of titles by a music publisher,
who has produced a touching pieoe of
mew-sick under the pathetic name of
“Mother Bring My Little Kitten.”
We propose getting out a companion
pieoe, “ Daddy, Have you Drowned
the Puppies ? "
Phebe Couzins doesn’t dress like her
brothers of the bar,” says the Chicago
Tribune, by way of commencing an item.
That’s undoubtedly true : she dresses
by putting on her clothes over her head,
while they don’t, and, what’s more,
they can’t. But what business is it of
the Tribune’s, anyhow ?
There is another big streak of light
in the South Carolina mirk. In spite
of all the thieving and rowing and or
ganized anarchy, the number of schools
in the state ran up within four years
from 634 to 1919, and of school-children
from 30,000 to nearly 77,000. There is
encouragement in these figures, and
hope.
A man in lowa, according to The Bur
lington Hawkeve, died reoently who
has taken his oounty paper for twelve
years without paying for it. Upon the
day of his bunal the kind-hearted, for
giving editor called to Bee him for the
last time, and stuffed a linen duster and
a couple of palm leaf hats ini ' a ooffiu.
He was preparing him for a warmer cli
mate.
Mount Arabat has been encroached
upon by journalistic enterprise, and
a newspaper, Whiffs from Ararat, has
been established by the American pil
grims at the very foot of the mountain.
The paper contains some local topics,
quotes the price of girls as wives in the
Amenian villages, varying from £2 to
£l6, and discusses the peasant notion
that the world rests on a large ox which,
being irritated by a fly, tosses its head
and thus causes earthquakes.
Danbuby News : “ Have you a letter
for Bridget Murphy ? ” “ No.” said the
Danbury postmaster, the other after
noon. “ Or for Kate Murphy ? ” “No.”
“Or Patrick Murphy ? ” “ No.” “Or
Michael Murphy? ,r “No.” “Or
Teddy Murphy ? ” “No.” “Or Tim
Murphy ?” “No; no letters here for
anybody named Murphy.” “Fhat a
post-office ! ” exclaimed Mrs. Murphy,
taking her leave. And, “I wonder
whether Tim Murphy was the baby,”
cogitated the postmaster, as he noted
her heavy-hearted departure.
Queen Victoria, not content with
dressing very plainly herself (and even
shabbily at times), and with repressing
every tendency to dressiness on the
part of the ladies of the royal family,
is in the habit of snubbing those ladies
of the court who indulge in what
her majesty is pleased to consider an
over-dressiness of style. I wish she
would get the English dames and dam
sels to have their evening dresses made
a little higher in the oorsage. I am
told that the bad taste in dress of the
Dachess of Edingburgh is something
fearful to contemplate. Her latest in
novation in that line consists in appear
ing at the opera in a largo laoe-oap,
plentifully bedizened with bows and
flowers, which novel head-dress causes
her royal and imperial highness to look
more like a middle aged dowager than
a blooming bride.— Lucy Hooper in
Phil. Press.
The Virginia City Enterprise says :
“As the 9 o’clock train left town last
night, the inevitable ‘ last man’ made
his appearance at the corner of Union
and C. streets. He had no more than
marked the train moving away, and got
his mouth into swearing shape, before
both heels flew, and he took a seat upon
the cold, cold ground, with Buch em
phasis that his plug hat bounded sev
eral feet in the air. In trying to save
his hat his valise escaped, and went
shooting down the steep cross-street.
He sat a moment and gazed at the re
treating train, the last car of which was
just crossing the lower part of the street
in which be was seated, when he male
a few profane remarks, which may be
thus represented : * 1-1-I—|—l—l—l—! ?’
but nothing that oould be called good
square Washoe swearing, until he got
up and began cleaning his overcoat
pocket of pieces of broken bottles and
whisky-soaked tobaooo aod other debris.
It was then that he got down to 14a
work.”