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INDEX TO KEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— Executive Committee Chatham
flun Club; Solomon s Lodge No. 1. F. A A. M.;
The Workman sand Trader's Loan and Build
ing Association.
Special Notices—As to Bills Against Italian
Bark Assucta Jlarchese; Easter Cards, the
Noah's Ark Company.
Military Orders— General Orders No. 18,
Georgia Hussars
EmcATioNAL—Commercial College of Ken
tueky Unlvereity, Lexington, Ky.
Steamship Schedules—Ocean Steamship
Comiiany; Baltimore Steamship Company.
What a Rvsh for Easter Suits, Etc. —At
Ilryfus Bros.'
Railroad Schedule— City and Suburban Rail
way.
Auction Sale— Furniture, etc., by C. P.
Miller.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
Brother Wanainaker’s native state is still
•without a c-loretl postmister. H jiv is this,
Brother Wananmker t
Senator-elect Brice is no longer the special
target for the shafts of millionaire editors
who object to miilionaira senators.
The proposed monument of Alexander H.
Stephen has not yet been erected. The
people of Georgia should hasten to complete
the fund for erecting it.
The rumor that Queen Victoria is going
to abdicate in favor of the Prince of A Vales
is again current. It has been sprung on the
public so often that nobody pays much at
tention to it.
Bishop Turner continuos to advocate the
emigration of a number of colored people
to Africa. He delivered an address in Bos
ton the other day. and indorsed Senator
Butler’s scheme.
Senator Sherman is no doubt very willing
for bis anti-trust bill to bo pige >u holed. It
is very doubtful if he ever wanted the
Senate to pass it. At least Gen. Alger does
not believe that he did.
Tee esteemed northern repub ican organs
arc quite willing for the farmers’ alliance
to go actively into politics in the south, but
when it come3 to Kansas or any other re
publican state they object.
The Sparta Ishmaelite is quite violently
opposed to the sub-treasury plan to which
■Col. L. F. Livingston has committed him
self. What is the Ishmaelite going to say
now that its own candidate for governor,
■CoL Northen, hasexpressed himself in favor
of it?
Prof. Wiggins never makes a true predic
tion concerning the weather, but it is diffi
cult for anything to happen without his
claiming to have predicted it. He claims
to have predicted the Louisville tornado.
2t has been intimated frequently that Wig
gins is a fraud.
Mr. Mills says that the McKinley tariff
bill will hasten the triumph of tariff reform.
A republican organ calls this droll hum or,
but it may find that Mr. Mills is right.
The McKinley bill has furnished additional
evidence that the people cannot look to the
Republican party for a proper reduction
of the tariff.
A sort of Bender mystery has been de
veloped near Cheyenne, W. T. Last
December the body of a girl was found in
the earthen floor of a deserted cabin. A
recent search revealed the body of a man
and woman, whose skulls seem to have been
broken with an ax. The officers have no
clew to the murderers.
Maj. Charles H. Smith, popularly known
as “Bill Arp,” rays he has no wish to become
a candidate for governor. The public may
regard Maj. Smith as being pre-eininently
a humorous writer and lecturer, but it does
not overlook the fact that he mixes a grea*
deal of philosophy with his fun. Who says
he wouldn’t make a tip-top governor?
Gen. Grant’s declaration that he would
not givo a dollar to able bxliel ex-soldiers
will not help the service pension bill. In
fact, it might be applie i against a good
deal of the pension legislation of recent
years, and be used to rebuke the dema
gogue* who are willing to bankrupt the
government in order to retain their hold
upon the soldier vote.
Mr. McKinley and His Tariff Bill.
The impression In Washington appears to
be that Mr. McKinley and his ways and
means committee have framed a tariff bill
that has no chance whatever of becoming; a
law in itspres?n! shape. All the democrats
will oppose it, and many republicans will
not vote for certain features of it. The re
publican congressmen fr>m Kansas object
to the very large reluction in the duty on
sugar, because they hops that
their state will soon become a
large sugar-producing state, and the re
publican c mgresimeu from Massachusetts
and several other states, in which there are
large shoe factories, object to the duty on
hides. Thera are other f*atu-es that do
not meet the approval of quits a number of
other republican congressmen. The re
publicans have a very deader majority in
tbe House, and they will need all of their
votes to pass a tariff bill. The McKinley
bill, in its present shape, cannot command
anywhere near all the republican yotes.and it
may, therefore, be very safely assumed that
there will be no tariff legislation during
this congress, because the indications are
that the bill cannot be so changed as to
give general satisfacti on to the republicans.
In speaking of his bill, Mr. McKinley was
reported in our dispatches yesterday to
have said that tbe tariff was a system, and
it must stand or fall as such. Ha said this
in explanation of the action of his commit
tee in talcing hides from the free list and
making them dutiable. He also intimated
that hides were made dutiable to satisfy
the west.
From this it seems that the system to
which Mr. McKinley had reference was
that which requires tariff legislation to be
shaped so as to control the largest number
of votes. Hides have been oa the free list
for a long time and the shoe manufacturing
industry has become very prosperous. The
west demands that hide3 shall be made
dutiable and several of the eastern stites
object. Mr. McKinley decided that the
Republican party would be beneQted more
by yielding to the west than by pleasing the
east. The tariff system therefore was made
to serve the interests of the Republican
party.
The McKinley bill is not satisfactory even
to his own party, and the more it is studied
the greater the dissatisfaction will become.
It is said th it it provides for a reduction of
#47),000,000 in the revenues. With the ex
ception of the reduction in the duty ou
sugar it is doubtful if it pcovidei for a re
duction in the revenues worth noticing.
How great a failure it is will appear pretty
clearly wheu the <1 is tussiou of it begini.
A Flood Prophet Denounced.
A few days ago Sargt Dunn of the signal
service predicted that New Orleans would
bo inundated within ten davj, and he nl
- the people of that city to prepare for
such a disastor. The New Orleans Board
of Trade adoptel resolutions denouncing
Dunn as a sensationalist and demanded his
removal from the signal service. The im
mediate eauso of this action of the board
was the damage which Dunn’s prediction
had done to the business interests of New
Orleans.
Dunn does not appear to bo afraid that he
will be removed. He has reiterated his
prediction, though in a somewhat modified
form. He has no doubt apparently that
water will be several feet deep in the streets
of New Orleans within a very few days.
It is quite evident that Dunn has very
little knowledge of Mississippi river floods
in the vicinity of New Orleans. The New
Orleans people know all about them, and
they are not at all apprehensive of danger.
They have seen many such floods ns the
present one, and their city never suffered
any great amount of damage from them.
The lovees all along the river are break
ing and the waters are spreading over the
adjacent conutry. A vast amount of water
is reaching the gulf by ways other than the
Mississippi river. It is quite safe to say,
therefore, that the water in the river will
be greatly lowered by reason of the numer
ous outlets which it has made for itself be
fore it roaches New Orleans. Doubtless
Dunn is sincere in what he says, but it is
pretty certaiu that he is mistaken. It is
certainly to bo hoped that he is.
State Senator Bassett, of New York, is
prominently mentioned as the republican
candidate for governor of that state, and it
is thought that he would bo delighted t) get
the nomination. Among others who are
mentioned in the same connection are
George Z. Erwin and Frank Hendricks.
On the democratic side it is conceded that
Lieut. Gov. Jones will boa candidate,
though it is not conceded that he will be
nominated; and Senator William L. Brown
lias many friends who would like to elevate
him to the governorship. As the governor
ship of New York is a sort of stepping-stone
to the presidency, the democrats of that
state should be very careful to put forward
their best man.
The Philadelphia Press has the gall to
talk about the Georgia convict system in
the face of the recent disclosures of cruel
treatment in various Pennsylvania institu
tions. The attention of the Press is
directed to the following from the Washing
ton Post: “For the Jpast few weeks the
state of Pennsylvania has been furnishing
some revelations which, had they happened
iu Siberia, would have sent a thrill of hor
ror through the country.” The Post refers
to the treatment of people in the oeniten
tiary, an orphans’ home and the lunatic
asylum. Hadn’t the Press better induce
Pennsylvania to adopt more civilized
methods before saying anything about
Georgia?
The pictures on the new postage stamps
placed on the market a short time ago are
as follows: One-cent stamp, Benjamin
Franklin; 2-cent stamo, Georgs Washing
ton; 3-eent stamp, Andrew Jackson; 4-cent
stamp, Abraham Lincoln; 5-cent stamp, U.
8. Grant; (>-cent stamp, James A. Gariield;
10-cent stamp, Daniel Webster; 15-cent
stamp, Henry Clay; 30-cent stamp, Thomas
Jefferson;93-oentstamp, Commodore Perry.
As the9o-cent stamp is the most valuable of
the entire lot, it is a little surprising that
Mr. Wanamaker did not place upon it a
picture of Senator Q lay, who ha i him
made Postmaster General for his aid to the
republican campaign fund.
A peculiar case was tried at Troy, Tenn.,
a few days ago. R. if. King, a Seventh
Day Adventist, was indicted for plowing
and doing other work on the Sabbath. Like
other members of his church, he observed
Saturday as the Sabbath. The jury brought
in a verdict of guilty, and assessed the fine
at $75. A motion for anew trial was
made, but the judge overruled it, and in
doing so he took occasion to say that Mr.
King and his brethren might observe any
day they wished as the Sabbath, but that
they must respect the day recognized by
the state.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1890.
Plain Words to a Boston Preacher.
Iter. IT. Gregg, a well-meaning minister
of the gospel ia Boston, worked himself
into a pissioa during the dalivsrv of a
i sermon in his chtir h oa the negro question
a week ago last Sunday, and went so far as
11 say that to the defense of the rights of
the blacks in the south he consecrated his
head, his neart, bis purse, bis time, his
i patriotism, an 1 bis rill a. Of course, he did
not know anything of the subject of which
he was speaking. But. having read the re
publican newspapers of Boston, he thought
he did, and he therefore proceeded to give
his hearers his false impressio s.
The editor of the Boston Globe, who had
just returned from a visit to tbe south, and
who had >n the blacks at home, and knew
how thov ware treated, addressed the Rev.
Ur. Gregg an open letter, which we pub
lish elsewhere in this issue. The reading of
this letter must have made the doctor
ashamed of himself if he is an boaest man,
aud seeks only to preach the truth.
The editor of the Globe points out ihat
the blacks of tbe south are better off than
the blacks in, li -ston, aud that there are
more occupations and ways for making n
living open to them. He declares that there
is as much prejudice in B iston against the
blacks as there is anywhere in the south, and
that in that city, which has always pre
tended to bo the friend of the blacks, a
black man can only be a barber, waiter,
bootblack or porter. The blacks in Boston
are not found iu the pews with the whites
in the churches, they are not the part
ners of the whites in business, they do
not walk with the whites in the
street, they do not visit the
club of the whites and they are not ad
mitted to the mechanical trades.
Very properly the editor of the Globe
suggests that Dr. Gregg had better devote
himself to the improvement of the condi
tion of the blacks in Boston, and let the
southern people settle the race problem in
their section in their own way. There are
many people like this Dr. Gregg who at
tack other people for things of which they
themselves are guilty. It is to be hoped
that Dr. Gregg will hee 1 the suggestions of
the editor of the Globe.
Maryland's Defaulting Treasurer.
Several days ago it was announced that
Stevenson Archer, treasurer of the state of
Marylaud, was a defaulter. His friends
hoped, however, that there was some mis
take about the announcement aud they
waited patiently for the report of the com
mittee of the legislature that was appointed
to investigate his accounts. Our dispatches
yesterday stated that the committee had
made a report adverse to the treasurer. It
now the duty of the governor of the state to
have him prosecuted for malfeasauce iu
office.
Tbe exact amount of the treasurer’s
shortage is not known, but there is no doubt
that it is very large. If it do'S not reach
$500,000 it will not probably fall much be
low that amount. It seems that he engaged
in hazardous speculations with the state’s
money and lost. He was anxious to be rich
airl was tempted to commit crime. He
took very little of the state’s money at first,
doubtless, and was led to take more by the
hope of recovering what he had lost.
Treasurer Archer’s career had been a very
honorable one until he began to rob the
state. No other man in Maryland had
more friends, aud no other man was more
ready to help his friends. The discovery of
his wrong-doing therefore produced a
profound sensation in Maryland. His
bondsmen are bound to the extent of
#200,000. Some of them will find it pretty
hard work to pay their share of the amount.
There has been a sort of epidemic of de
falcations among state treasurers recently.
It is certain that legislatures do not take as
great precaution as they should to protect
the moneys of the state. A strict investi
gation of the treasurers’ offices of some of
the other states might disclose a very sensa
tional condition of affairs. The rece it de
falcations of state treasurers would cer
taiuly justify investigations of that kind.
The Farmers Becoming Aroused.
The farmers are demanding more recog
nition from the law-makers than they have
heretofore. Thej' are very much in earnest.
They are making themselves acquainted
with national questions which directly af
fect them. Tlic-y purpose to find out what
measures will benefit them most, and it is
safe to say that designing politicians will
experience a very decided shock if they at
tempt to deceive them.
An evidence of this was given in last fall’s
elections in lowa, Ohio and other states.
In lowa a democrat and tariff reformer was
elected governor, and Senator Allison, who
framed the Senate tariff bill of the republi
cans in 1888, narrowly escaped being re
tired to private life. He lias since discov
ered that his tariff bill of 1888 would not
begin to do now. Iu Ohio the tariff issue
was not so prominent, but it had consider
able influence in the election of a democratic
governor and legislature.
While the farmers are talking about dif
ferent plans for the betterment of their ma
terial condition they should bear in mind
that it is to the Democratic party that they
must look for aid. The Republican party
never was the friend of the farmer. It is
b mnd over to the monopolies, from which
it receives great financial aid in national
campaigns, and it isn’t going to do anything
that will cause the monopolies to turn
against it. It is not, like the Democratic
party, the party of the people, and the
farmers will make a lo.ig stride coward im
provement if they help to place every branch
of the government in the hands of the dem
ocrats. With a dem cratic congress and
President, tariff reform after the Cleveland
idea would be assured, and after all there is
nothing that would so much help the
farmers as tariff reform. Some of the plans
now under discussion may be very good
ones, but at the bottom of many of the ills
of the farmers is the oppressive tariff, and
those who really dosire to help the farmers
will keep that fact in mind.
Ex-Minister Charles H. J. Taylor wants
the best colored men m the south to meet in
convention and express a few opinions. He
was disgusted with too “Afro-American”
convention in Chicago, and also with the
other conventions which were ordered by
white republican leaders. He wants colored
men like Bishop Turner to meet and discuss
the race question with the intention of
benefiting the colored people rather than
the Republican party. His idea is an ex
cellent one, and it ought to be put into
execution.
While Louisville is not asking aid for her
storm sufferers, her mayor says that she
will not refuse it. Would it not be better
to help the sufferers in the other towns?
Louisville can attend 'to her own needs;
some of the towns will find it almost impos
sible to provide for thei-s.
PERSONAL*
A SI-TER IJC-bAW of Frank StOCktOD, the IlOY
elist. is a missionary In India.
Misa Ella Ewing, a girl, only 18
years of age, is 7 fe-t 8 inches tall and weighs
•££s pounds.
Tennyson still occasional ’v smoke* the pip?,
which haa always been his favorite style of
u>.ng tbe weed.
Ignaties Donnelly never suffers from the
nervousness common to orators on beginning
tbrir speeches.
The Dcchess or Albany, laughter in-law of
Vieen Victoria, is attending a coarse of lectures
on domestic hygiene.
Christina Niuteox is to emerge from her re
tirement to sing at tbe for * veil concert of Sims
Reeves In London iu June.
The Sultan of Mono o has thirty-seven
wives. 11 .'s domestic affair* are more trouble
some than his foreign relations.
Sister Rosa s self-sacrifice does
not appear r<ybe hailed with sat .-faction by the
quiet Franciscan nuns at Molokai.
001. C. J. Murphy. an .American, proposes to
build a corn palace at the Ed lburgh inter
national exposition which will be held this
summer.
This Princess of Wales takes a lively interest
in hammered brass wor.., an .art in which she
herself Is proficient and which is taught a: her
school iu Sandringham.
Joshua Hood, o:ia of the committee ap
pointed to welcome Gen. Lafayette during his
visit to this country iu 1524. died recently in
Baltimore at the age of K.
Editor Kearny, of the San Bernardino (Cal.)
Courier, ]>eaned one sentence in a leading ar
tide recently that broke all records. It took
105 lines of solid brevier to hold that sentence.
Justin McCarthy has been for some years an
ardent and enthusiastic student of the period
of the French revolution, and is about to pub
lish the first instalment of the result of his re
searches.
Ex-Gov. Tom Moonlight of Kausas lias gone
into the life insurance business. This only goes
to prove that men are bound, sooner or later, to
find the sphere of action tor which nature has
fitted them.
Miss Elaine, one of the Goodale sisters has
been made superintendent of all of the Indian
schools in the state of South Dakota. She has
already had an abunilm.ee of experience at
(Jen. Armstrong’s school at Hampton, Va.
Thomas M. Cooley, ebarmain of the inter
state commerce commission, has been com
pelled to return to Florida on account of the
severe cold ho contracted iu attending the
Frieze memorial exercises at Ann Arbor, Mich.
Mrs. Sltherlaxd-Okr is likely to write a
good biography of Browning. She is a Bister to
Sir Frederick Leighton, president of the Royal
Academy, and was ou** of Browning's moat in
timate friends. Her volume will contain a great
number of valuable reminiscences.
Baron Dowse, the joking Irish judge who
died the other day, once told an American that
it was better to have a small career in Ireland
than a great one in England, because in Ireland
when one said tunny things people understood
t hem, and that-made life worth living.
Morerlby Bell succeeds the late Mr. Mac*
don&ld as manager of the Loudon Times. Mr.
Bell distinguished himself as representative of
the Times at Cairo, Egypt. He is not experi
enced as a managing editor, but he is a man of
ability and used to the ways of the Times.
Mrs. Emma D. Mills, who was regarded as the
founder of type-writing as a profession for
women in New York, says that next to being a
good executant on the instrument it is most
valuable for a girl who wants a place to be
pretty or at least stylish looking. A notion of
t bis kind has previously grown up iu the popu
lar mind somehow or other.
BRIGHT BITS,
“Papa, what is a green grocer';"
“He * a grocer who trios to sell sugar with
out sand in it.”— Life.
Pai.e Youth (to Dusky Brother)—Wouldn't I
be a fool to fight wid you. anyhow; if I gave you
a black eye it wouldn't show.— Life.
“What is that tremendous noise in the next
apartment?”
“it’s the Bronsons keeping lyent.”— Life.
Wipe—Great heavens, John! There were bur
glars in the house last night.
Husband—l know it- about 2 o'clock. The
idiots made so much noise that 1 couldn't sleep. -
Harper's bazar.
In the Navy.— Captain—How is that fellow I
cut down.
Doctor—Dead. sir.
Captain Well, don't bury him until he has
apologized. Pud;.
Berespobh (in an undertone)-Your Aunt
Roxana reminds me very much of our Now
York weather. Miss Fay.
.Miss Fay Because she's erratic?
Beresford—No. She won't clear away.—
Judge.
Appearances were Deceitful.—Miss Teehee
(fishing for a compliment)—Do you think lam
so very old ?
Mr. Blundering (anxious to please)—No, in
deed: You are not half so old as you look.
Chicago Times.
“It's very pizzlins,” said a worried looking
woman to one of her neighbors
“What is that?”
“I can’t tell whether Willie is corrupting the
parrot or whether the parrot is corrupting
Willie”— Washington Post.
Ills Great Chance.—“l would like. Mr. Levi,"
said the young man nervously, “to pay niy ad
dresses to your daughter.”
“VAt?'' said the great clothing merchant.
“Pay? Vhy, certainly, Mister Schmidt. Dat
girl is shoost like her vadder.”—.Vein York
Herald.
“There is a young man in Georgia who never
was intoxicated in his life," remarked one con
gressman to another. “Don’t you think that is
something extraordinary?”
“1 don't know as it is,” was the reply. “Did
you ever drink auy Georgia liquor?”— Raleigh
Observer. •
Stranger (to Oregon granger)—How much of
a rainfall did vou have in this section last win
ter?
Granger—About forty feet
Stranger—Forty feet: Y'ou mean forty
inches.
Granger—No, I don’t; I mean forty feet.
Stranger How did you wake the measure
ment?
Granger—Do you sec that barrel under tha
spout at the end of the house? Well. .sir. that
tiarrel is four feet deep, and 1 dumped it ten
times last winter.”— Racket.
Rev. <l. W. Feathsrson tells this: “I was
puzzled by a Tennessee lady about her marriage.
Sitting by her in a parlor and wishing to intro
duce conversation, I asked her. ‘Arc you a
married or a single lady?’ She replied. ‘I am
only half fnarried.' and remained as silent as
before This stumped me, as I had never heard
of such a eas > before. She saw she had excited
mv curiosity aul u > doubt enjoyed it. At length
1 ventured to ask. Will you please explain that
half married? I don't understand it.' She re
plied, 'lt you must know the truth about it, I
have gained mv own consent to marry, and
Avhen the other half of the couple to make tin
match gives his consent we will have a wed
ding.”—Louisville Western Recorder.
CURRENT COMMENT.
O, Ho! Senator Evarts.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal (Deni.).
A California editor has just written a sen
tence 105 lines lonjj. Is Senator Evarts after all
a mere plagiarist from the California papers?
That’s What They Will Do.
From the Philadelphia Record (DemX
Sergt. Dunn, of signal service fame, has
aroused a storm of indignation at New Orleans
by his recent pr'diction that the city is in im
minent peril of being overwhelmed by the
waters wit hin the next three %veeks. Inasmuch
as Gen. Greely also declares that the situation
along the Mississippi has not been exaggerated,
it would seem the port of wis loin for tue irate
Crescent City folks to pocket their indignation
and do all that may lie within their power to
make the prediction impossible of fulfillment.
Doomed? Of Course It Is.
From the .Vein York Press (Rep.).
Clearly the portiere is doomed. Bashful
young lovers are complaining that, Avhen in a
room with his girl an t a mysterious portiere,
the wooer cannot tell whetner he is alone or
not. There is generally a door behind a por
tiere, and is that door &ut? It' it is open, how
does he know that the prospective mother-in
law is not concealed tberebehind? And who
AA-ants to tell a m iiden. in the words of Gilbert-
A-Suilivan Gilbert, that she is “the essence of
every hope, the tree upon w hich the fruit of his
heart is growing,” if a dowager is peeping and
listening from behind a portiere, ready to bottle
and label toe essence of his hope.
Painting the town red means headache in
the morning. Simmons Liver Regulator
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Pretty Love Story About Henry Glad
stone.
You will perhaps remember that a fortnight
ago I gave you the particulars of the wedding
of! Henry Gladstone, eon of the ex-premier,
and Miss Maud Ben lei, says Eugene Field in the
Chicago Newt. The story of tbe wooing has
jtist transpired. It seems that the two met last
summer at Poilllpo, the young lady’s father
having at that picturesque little hamlet oa the
G.ilf of Naples a lovely villa. One beautiful
evening the two were in the garden overlooking
the water upon which the moonlight hung like
a misty gauze; the w as one of poetic love
liness-young Gladstone felt that there never
could be a fairer spot or a better in orient for
the confession of his love, so he declared himself
to bis inamorata with a fervor which tne pictur
esquene*s “of the surroundings enhanced, if it
did not inspire. Instead, however, ot answering
him, ihe pretty girl covered her face with
her hands and fiv*d precipitately iuto the villa.
Of course this astoundei tne youn : lover; he
could not understand it at all; should he inter
pret the maiden's conduct as a rei action? If
so, it were better for him to Dave Posillipo at
once. But no, his Scotch instincus came to his
rescue; he had done the proper thing properly
—he would bid? his time. Next morning after
breakfast, at wb ch his idol did not appear, he
sought the garden and me m lered gloomily
therein, wonderiag what tactics he ought to
pursue. Suddenly he heard Miss Maud cal! to
huu, and turning he beheld that young girl ad
vancing. .She put both her hands in nia aud
sail, with charming frankness: ‘T would not
auHwer you last night fearing you were under
the inrtu?nce of the insidious summer evening
aud of the poetical and almost mag cal scene,
an 1 that it was not your heart that spoke; ho 1
would hear in the daytime if you love ino, aud,
if this is so, 1 will t*\jl you that l am willing to
give you my life ana my love. " 1
Now. isn't this bit of truth quite as pretty as
anything that could be culled from fiction?
Fame, Wealth, Life, Death,
From the Academy .
What is fame?
*Tis the sun-gleam on the mountain,
Spreading origatly ere it flies;
’Tis the bubble on the fountain.
Rising lightly ere it dies;
Or, if here and there a hero
Be remembered through the years,
Yet to him the gain is zero;
If but only In the air
May be h ard some eager mention of their
name.
Though they hear it not themselves, ’tis much
the same.
What is wealth?
’Tig a rainbow still receding
As the panting fool pursues;
Or a toy that j’outh unheeding,
Becks the readier way to lose;
But the wise man keeps due measure,
Neither out of breath nor base;
lie but holds in trust his treasure
For the welfare of the race.
Yet what crimes some men will dare
But to gain their slender share
In some profit, though with loss of name or
health.
Iu some plunder, sp at ou vices or by stealth.
What is life?
’Tis the earthly hour of trial * •
For a life i hat's but begun; ' S
When the prize of self-den al 1 :
May be quickly lost or won;
’Tis the hour when love mav burgeon
To an everlasting flower;
Or when lusts their victims urge on
To defy immortal power.
Yet how lightly m n ignora
All the future holds in store.
Spending brief hut golden momenta all in strife.
Or iu suicidal madness grasp the knife.
What is death?
Past its dark mysterious portal
Human eye may never roaui;
Yet. the hope stiil springs immortal
That it leads the wanderer home.
O, the bliss that lies before us
When the secret shall be known.
And the vast ange.ic chorus
Sounds the hymn before the throne
What is fame, or wealth, or life?
Past are praises, fortune, strife;
All but love, that lives forever, cast beneath.
When the good and faithful servant takes the
wreath.
His Smartness Cost Him His Saw mill.
“Did I ever see a grizzly?” repeated the man
iu the bearskin overcoat. "Hell, 1 should re
mark : Y'ea, sir, and killed oue. too. What do
you think of these four claws?”
And he pulled out and passed around for in
spection, says the New Y ork Suit, several c'ravs
Avhich gave one the shivers with their lengLh
and sharpness.
“1 had a sawmill out in Nevada,” continued
the man, after the claws had been gathered in.
“and one day when l was all alone a thumping
big grizzly came down out of a gulch, entered
the mill and drove me out,. He didn’t seem
very ferocious, but as soon as he had chased me
out he began rolling and plaving in a pile of
sawdust, His antics were laughable, and it was
plain that he was almost tickled to death. He
staid around for an hour or two. and then
walked off. Next day, at about the same hour,
he came agaiu, and again he played iu the saw
dust, like a pup rolling on the grass.”
“But why didn't you shoot him?” asked one
of the group.
“Because my man had gone off to get my
Winchester repaired, and I had only a revolver.
You might as well shoot at him with a popgun.
I determined to do for him. however, and on
themorningof the third day I planted twenty
pounds of powder in the center of that sawdust
pile and laid a train around behind the mill. At
noon I shut down and watched foroid Ephraim,
and at 2 o’clock be hove in sight. He came
right along, as if he had the best right in the
Avorld to be there, and without looking around
for me, he made for the sawdust and began to
enjoy himself. I let go for him with the train
and took to my bee.'s. Tnero was a flash and a
crash and a smash, and i looked back to find
everything gone and the Heavens showering
down the blood and hair of the grizzly. 1 had
blown him up, but tha mill Avent, too,”
“But where was the sawdust?"
"In the mill.”
“And it didn't occur to you that in blowing
up the bear you would—?”
“Also blow up the mill? No. it dal not. It
was an error of judgment on my part, and that
accounts for my being dead broke at present,
and under the necessity of traveling second
class. Gentleman, ba warned of mv sad fate.
If you ever want to Ijloav up a bear lead him off
to some desolate spot waere no harm can come
of it, and five pounds of powder will hoist him
as high as ten.”
A Light Broke in Upon Him.
The following is from the pen of the Chicago
Tribune's humorist: “Mr. Brod\vei^fh, ,, ’ said the
lovely Boston girl, a flush mounting her pale
forehead and her voice trembling slightly, “I
will not deny that your avowal moves me
strangely. I cannot disguise the fact that my
heart pleads for you. But in matters that in
volve the whole future happiness of two human
beings no step should be lightly taken. Mr.
Brodweigh,’* she continued, softly wiping her
spec acles, "w hile I should not look upon your
residence in another city as a wholly insur
mountable barrier to our union, there are. never
theless. other things to be consider ed. You are
not aware, possibly, that Ia n a vegetarian? 1 ’
“Are you, indeed,“exclaimed the young inan,
delightedly. “Why, so am I! Miss How jamas—
my own dear Emersonia. I—“
“One moment, Mr. Brodw’eigh. It may seem
trivial to you, but is, I am persuaded, a matter
of vital importance that we should entertain
harmonious view’s in particulars as well as gen
erals. Pardon me, but what are your prefer
ences among vegetables?”
The young mans anus dropped to his side.
“The vegetables to which I ani—er—ad
dicted,” he replied, “are tomatoes, cabbages,
turnips, rice, rutabagas, egg plant, beets, sweet
corn."peas, potatoes, lettuce, parsley, and man
gel wurzel. I also eat a great deal of oat meal
and cracked wheat.”
“Nothing else. Mr. Brodweigh?” inquired
Mis* Rowjames, anxiously.
“Of course 1 use ail the principal fruits,” he
said. “I consider apples, i>eaches, pears,
grapes, melons, cherries, currants, and berries
of all kinds as really vegetables.”
“You have omitted from your list nothing
that—that seems to you peculiarly aud dis
tinctively braiu-nourishiug and—and repre
sentatively vegetarian in itself ?” she sail with
an effort.
“Nothing that I can think of. I have men
tioned all the varieties. I think, that I—but
why this agitation, Miss Howjames? Are you
ill? Havel ”
“Mr. Brodweigh,” faintly spoke the young
lady, “in the agony of this disappointment, the
keenest that l have ever felt, and whose bitter
ness you, too, must share ”
“Emersor.ia Howjames!” he exclaimed in a
thrilling voice, a light breaking iu upon him,
“did I forget beans? Did I omit beaus? Why,
beaus, my darling, are ray very lifo!”
fell into his outstretched arms, they
mingled their tears of ecstasy together, and
New York and Boston again communed iu
spirit, a4 they have done orce in a great while
from the beginning, do occasionally even now,
and probably ever shall do at rare intervals
world without end.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST, '
The cost of the grip epidemic to the people
of England is estimated at $10,030,000, including
life insurance and loss of wage*.
Maryland's new cigarette law requires the
seller to pay an extra tax of SSO, and to make
afftl&vit that the cigarettes he sells contain no
injurious drug.
The Argentine Republic is endeavoring to
place a $12.500,*)0J C per cent, loan in London to
defray tbe expense of a proposed cable between
Buenos Ayres arid France.
Mr, Kerr of Yakima county, Washington,
has sent to Japan for a large quantity or tea
cuttings. He intend *to see what can be done
with that plant iu his own country.
A i axis TniKr stole the Uoi'se out of the
shafts of a cab while the driver slept, aud
nioiiut-ing it, was ridin > off. and would have rot
away if a passing c.rizen had not awakened thi
driver.
A cat ia Millville, N. J.. finds pleasure in
swimming, and often catches fish in shallow
water with its paws, “ft has ben known to
swim iu pursuit of a dock rat clear across the
river."
Loris SciiLOfts, who Las oust2d young Jim
Flood from the control of the great Nevada
bank, is known as the sealskin monarch of the
Pacific, fie is at the heal of the Alaska Com
mercial Company.
The cannery of Armour & Cos. lias a capacity
of putting up in one day 225,00) pounds of
corned b;ef, 50,000 pounds of fresh boiled beef,
10,000 lunch tongues, 4,000 ox tongues and a
multitude of minor products.
The most noted figure at the Putnam house
at Palatka. Fla , is Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher,
who has spent the past three seasons in that
c.ty Ehe is beginning to show her age. Though
her rair is as white as snow, Mrs. Beecher's
activity H quite remarkable.
The Farmers’ Alliance of the United States
have concluded to establish the Alliauci Agri
cultural Works at Iron (late, Allegheny county,
Virginia Tbe wonts will employ from3ooto
500 hands, and their products will go to every
sub-alliance in the country, representing 4,000,-
000 members.
There are to-day royal and imperial orders
in the world, with a prodigious assortment of
collars, crosses, stars, and other fancy insignia,
laid up f r tue tickling of human ambition.
The oldest is St. Andrew's order, first instituted
in England in 787. disused afterward, and re
established in 1540.
Late advice* form Australia state that the
ravages of rust on the wheat crop have
more severe than was at first anticipated. It is
estimated that in South Australia the loss to the
fanners amounts to at least £1,000,000, in Vic
toria to between £500,000 and £600,000 and in
New South Wales to nearly £500,000.
The man wdio runs the passenger elevator at
the St. Louis custom house is Gen. J. H. Coates,
who won his way from the station of private to
that of brevet brigadier general during the civil
war. It is stated that his salary has been cut
down from $720 to SOOO a year, and the official
who did it was formerly tlie captain of one of
the regiments under his command.
Bi *hop Ridley, w'ho recently arrived in Lon
don Iron his district in Vancouver's Island,
brought to the queen a gift of SIOO from the
chief of the tribe among whom he had been at
work. The chief offered it in such a a way that
the bishop could not. refuse it without giving
him dire offense, but he is as afraid to offer it
tot he queen as he would have been to refuse to
take it from the chief, and eau't make up his
mind what to do with it.
G. F. Watts, R. A., has hern at work for five
years upon a piece of sculpture which he in
tends to represent Vital Energy. It is the
gigantic figure of a man mounted upon a horse.
The model being made in piaster in the gar
den of Mr. Watt's house, so arranged beueath a
shed that it can be run out upon rails iu fair
weather to be worked upon, and when it rains
can be run back out of the wet. The stutue is
so large that the top of the sculptor s head does
not reach half wav up the horse's Lg when he
stands in front of it.
The new storage battery for lighting cars by
electricity, recently tested on the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad, has a capacity that w'iil
supply ten lamps with light for thirty consecu
tive hours. This has been accomplished by
other systems, but the point of greatest inter
est to railway corporations is that this appa
ratus weighs but 1.250 pounds, or about one
half the weight of storage batteries hitherto in
ns?. This reduction iu weight means a reduc
tion in cost that will tend very materially to
recommend the new system for general adop
tion.
How long should a pastoral call be ? A Massa
chusetts clergyman settles this question iu an
original way. He has a fine dog which ahvays
accompanies him in his pastoral calls, nestling
down in the parlor beside his master in respect
ful silence. When the dog-brain, with the abso
lute accuracy of dog instincts, decides that the
proper limit of the call is reached, he lifts his
head, rises erect, put his nose on his master’s
knee and Avinks at him, saying: “Time’s up.”
And, thereupon, the good man makes his adieus
gracefully and departs. How much better this
is than the furtive consultation of a watch.
The number of foreign students at German
universities has been larger this winter than it
has ever been before. Out of a total number
of 2.1,007 students 1.000 are non-Germans, 1,381
being Europeans, and 546 having come to the
seats of learning from other parts of the world.
Of these latter 436 are from America, 90 from
Asia (mostly Japanese), 11 from Africa, and 9
from Australia. Of the European foreigners
Russia sends 331. Austria-Hungary 293, Switzer
land 255. Great Britain 117, Greece 19, Turkey
44, the Netherlands 42, France 37, Luxemburg
34, Roumania 33. Bulgaria 31, Scandinavia 29,
Italy 27, Servia 27, Belgium 26, Denmark 5,
Spain 2, and Portugal and Lichtenstein 1 each.
The central council of the New Y'ork Asso
ciation of tha Working Girls’ Societies an
nounces that it has arranged to hold a conven
tion on April 15, 16 and 17 under the auspices of
the New YTork. Boston and Brooklyn Associa
tion of Working Girls’ Societies and the Phila
delphia New Century Working YVomen's Guild.
This is also tne annual meeting of the New
Y'ork association. The working girls’ society is
an organization formed among busy women
and gil ls to secure, by co-operatiou, means of
self-improvement, opportunities of social inter
course, and the development of higher and
nobler aims, and the object of holding the con
vention is the discussion more fully than has
hitherto been possible of the various interests
of Avorking girls’ club.
The recent tendency iu Sunday schools to
pay a great deal of attention to the Old Testa
ment is open to criticism. Not long ago a newly
appointed Sunday school teacher in Baltimore
asked one of her scholars what Christmas com
memorated. “The end of the year,” Avas the
reply. Another question brought out the fact
that the girl, who was old enough to bea church
“professor,” had never heard that Christ was on
this earth. She thought lie was crucified in
heaven. Then the teacher tackled a boy, who
bad been a Sunday school scholar for five years.
He was equally ignoraut. "I don’t know about
Christinas, M ss.” he said. “I have learned all
anout Adam anil Eve, though. They lived in the
Garden of Eden and one of them et some kind
of fruit, but 1 don't know whether it was Adam
or Eve. or Avhat kind of fruit it was, but I think
it was apples,”
A correspondent of the Richmond (Va.) Dis
patch says; Recently reading an account of a
duel fought during the war by two confederate
officers well known here in Richmond, I am re
minded of on? of the most remarkable in the
annals of Listory, between a confederate officer
and sutler, which I will relate for the benefit of
your readers. In 1862 there was encamped on
the peninsula, near Yorktown, tne Fifth Louisi
ana regiment, composed principally of the
sporting men of New Orlea s. and a lively set
ot m-n they were. With them was the Rich
mond Howitzers, many of whom will remem
ber to day the incident. It seems that a lieu
tenant of (ni of the eompauies had occasion
to send to the quarters of the sutler of the regi
ment for a lot of candles (then tallow was
only available!. The order was filled, but
upon examination of them one was found
without a wick, which was returned ivith an im
pertinent message. Tnat so nettled the sutler
that be replied in greator force. The result was
a challenge was passed, and strange to sav.
accepted by the sutler, and a meeting wqs
arranged for the next morning at sunrise. At
the appointed time the ti\o met just outside of
their camp, and ivith Mississippi rifles at twenty
puces. Cool and collected, they stood confront
ing each other, with their seconds, the distance
having been stepped off and market by a porter
bottle. At the word “Fire:” tha crack of both
rifles Avas heard, and simultaneously both me i
fell as dead ns beeves, neither one knowing
what hurt him. They were brought into camp,
and a military funeral was givep them. En
wrapped in confederate colors, the two bodies
w ere forwarded to Mew Orleans for burial. Thus
ended the most remarkable duel on record.
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