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THEY FELL FROM POWEB
THE FATE OF QUEENS NOT BORN
TO THE PURPLE.
Natalie’* Bad Experience In Sr-rria—Hoa
the Women o? the Bonaparte Family
Hare Fared—Some En*ll*h Example.
Set-cell of Catherine of Rnio!*,
fcopvrlaht. tent, by American iW Associa¬
tion.!
£ ATHERDiE I of
| / Russia may be
singled out as an
yjf tj" exception tie known to a Hi-
p rule—
the nil© that a
A a— queen sprung
from the people
is doomed at the
last to disappoint¬
and dethronement. ment, disaster
For some occult
^pafloji be Fn.l women to hold Hbt “bora the to tho bhr-
has placed crowns that
ciianco within their grasp
and under varying conditions drop from
their feeble fingers the visible insignia
of dominion. Natalie of Sema 13 the
latest victim o t this seemingly strange
decree of fate. She is protesting with
all the vigor of one deeply wronged and
who knows her rights, but eo fu** with-
but avail. A. shameful conspiracy sev-
t-i‘A the galling but bearable chains that
linked her to an unloved busbar d. An¬
other plot tore* trom her arms the youth¬
ful son who is now the nominal sore reign
it Scrvia. By a third attack she has
been expelled from her adopted country,
and at present endures the pangs of a
bereaved mother, an abandoned wifo, sin
5 naulted woiuuu /ind n dikerownor queen*
In face of it ail she holds her splendid
coura go aud her .regal front, Her ox-
pulsion from the kingdom cost several
liroa, aud who left behind at her enforced
departure a multitude of loyal subjects,
who only await an opportunity to bring
her home in triumph. But that oppor¬
tunity is among tho possibilities, not the
probabilities. The “peace of Europe,’’
the “bjdanco of power" and other diplo¬
matic exigencies are urged iu favor of
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KATA TIE.
her permanent exile and separation from
her son. A bitter cup fora beautiful
woman to drink at th * age of thirty-two,
is it not? And a la’ g* price she has p.-.id
for the privilege of gratifying her am¬
bition! It vvs in 1875 that Natalie,
daughter of the Rmriar •oloncl, Kecheo,
threw over a devoted suitor of her own
race to wed with the fat wilted sen-
Baalist Milan. By so doing she has fig¬
ured somewhat in the world’s affairs.
She might have been ob. cure and nappy.
Now the is neither.
Yet Natalie’s sorrows aio but n dupli¬
cation of those endured by many who
have gone before, and who rose, like her,
to find « thfeue an uneasy and rrecari-
ous feevTt. Chief on the h t of her un-
liapjsy predecessors appears tile name of
Josephine, that peerless maiden of Mar¬
tinique, who found in France her fame,
her Borrow and her death. Although
she w.-is not of noble blood, her friends
thought she had married beneath her
when she took for her second husband
the Republican general Bonaj arte. A
reversal of their decision followed when
the consulate gave way to the empire
nnd a crown graced her lovely brow.
There it Bhone ter a moment, only to be
torn off at the behest of hot ambitions
lord, who aspired to alliance with the
house of Austria. What followed iB
blazoned on the page of history.
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JOSEPHINE.
After Josephine’s enforced retirement
her daughter Hort*nse, queen of Hol¬
land and mother of Napoleon HI, was
compelled to lay aside the scepter. Caro¬
line Murat, queen of Naples and sister
of Bonaparte, saw her husband shot
down and herself thrust from a usurped
throne. The members of the family of
tho great Corsican climbed high, bat
they feU far, and the ex-Empress Eugenie
to-day wears weeds and endures sorrows
that, had she remained the Countess
Montijo, she might never have known.
Sweden and Spain also furnish exam¬
ples of women who have risen from the
unroyal ranks to be the consorts of kings,
and who have fallen from their high es¬
tate. but it is to England that one must
look for the longest list of discrowned
queens. There hare been fourteen of
them since the Conquest, counting among
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the number th« widow of Oliver Crom-
category with Natali© and the others
mentioned above as not having been
born to the purple. She was of good old
English stock, and was a widow when
Henry VIU chose her for his sixth wife.
This celebrated woman slayer found his
match in Catherine. She had had sev-
eral husbands, and knew how to manage
them.
At least she did fairly in controlling
"Bluff King Hal," but after his death
and her wedding with Lord Seymour
her success was no# so marked. Sey¬
mour get Up h tremendous flirtat ioii iHtK
Princess Elizabeth, to be known later as
the famous English queen, and carried
his familiarity so far a3 to enter the
young woman’s chamber in the morn¬
ings ami awaken her by tickling her feet.
The relict of Henry VIII sorrowed, sick¬
ened and died, and romantic vengeance
was soon wreaked on lord Seymour,
who lost his head because of treasonable
practices. So much for Catherine. As
cor the other British queens who lost
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their crowns, five remarried beneath
them, two were divorced, three were
exiled, two re tired to nunneries and one
suffered imprisonment.
Against this array of failures in the
art of getting and keeping the reins of
government it is gratifying to display
the brilliant exception already .alluded
to tiiat of Catherine l, empress of Rus-
eia Here was a woman who, tit the
start, seemed the Veriest plaything of ill
fortune, who roso to p nver by a combi¬
nation of good lack and good judgment,
and who, when her tima came, ruled a
vast empire as if to the manner born.
She was a Livonian peasant girl, reared
amid the surroundings of poverty and
5gum nee. Tho wars with which the
Eighteenth century opened brought her
apparent disaster but actual good fort-
une.
In 170?, wbeii but fourteen years Of
age, she becam. the prize of a Swedish
Lieutenant, who condescended to marry
her. He lort Uis life at Marienburg, and
sh'i L 11 into the hands of the Russian
soldiery^ who tr rt ?rtod her as semi-bar-
bariar.H lui\ e boon noted for treating
their female captives through all the
ages Cz<v. Peter rode by one day and
saw the ill used but undaunted girl de¬
fying her brutal captors. Pleased with
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CATHERINE I OF RUSSIA,
her pluck, he made her a member of his
household, in 1711 she became his law¬
ful wife, and iu 1724 the former peasant
girl was crowned empress of all the Rus-
si:is. Peter could not have chosen a bet¬
ter partner. Catherine proved at times
his equal in coning with the perils of the
moment. It was she who arranged the
treaty with the Turks and saved Russia
from utter humiliation, and after Peter’s
death she ascended the throne and ruled
as became the widow of a mighty em-
peror.
If a strict comparison of conditions is
to be made it is probable that Catherine
might not find a place in the accepted
list of those who have risen to queenly
power. There were no nice gradations
in her upward progress. Sbe simply
passed all intervening obstacles at a
bound. She covered the distance be¬
tween a peasant's hut and a palace in a
single year. Perhaps it was for that
reason she succeeded. Napoleon de¬
clared that a private promoted to a mar-
shalship did better work than a soldier
who had gone throegh all the interven¬
ing grades of military discipline and be¬
come a martinet and a theorist Cathe¬
rine had no intermediate experience.
She went from the lowest to the highest
station with tornado-like rapidity.
The others—Natalie, Eugenie, Joseph¬
ine, Hortens©, Caroline and Mrs. Parr—
were of good birth, and lived somewhat
within the charmed circle of royal influ¬
ence. When preferment came they could
uot cope with their surroundings, and
at the List furnish i Chateaubriand with
a text. That philosophic observer of
men and manners notes the fact that the
privilege of tears belongs not alone to
common people, aud that queens also
have been seen to weep. Two there are
of the present hour from whose eyre the
drops of sorrow and despair are seldom
absent. One is the exile of Servia, the
other the widowed and childless exile of
France. Feed C. Dayton*
In England, the barber who does Sun¬
day shaving renders himself liable to &
fine of three dollars or seven days’ im¬
prisonment in default.
LIVED TO A GOOD OLO AGE.
The Long Career amt Varied Public Swr-
lew of Alplionso Taft.
Alphonso Taft, who died recently at
San Diego, Cal., was secretary of war
under President Grant. He was born at
Townshend, Vt,
Nov. 5, 1810. By
Mm teaching a coun¬
try school in the
winter months
young Taft earn¬
„♦ » W ed enough money
to take a college
i cour.-se. He en-
tefed Yale when
he was nineteen
and graduated in
x V 1833. He was aft¬
AI.PUONSO TAFT. er ward a tutor at
Yale. Iu 1838 he
was admitted to the bar, and in 1810 he
opened a law office in Cincinnati. He
was defeated as a candidate for congress
in 1850, but was appointed judge of the
superior court of Cincinnati iu the same
year, and was elected twice to that office.
President Grant called Judge Taft to
his cabinet when Secretary Belknap re¬
signed in 1876. Ho was subsequently
transferred to the department of justice,
where he remained until the close of
Grant’s term, in 1877. He aspired to be
governor of Ohio in 1877 and 1879, but
was each time defeated in the conven¬
tion. President Arthur appointed him
minister to Austria in 1882. Two years
later he was sent to St. Petersburg,
where he remained until Aug. 1, 1885.
While in Russia he suffered severely
from pneumonia, aud on returning to
America went to Chili for his health.
He remained there until April, 1891, and
went to San Diego, where he died.
TEN YEARS WITH SHERMAN.
Su<l<1en Death of Colonel Lewis M. Day-
ton at Cincinnati.
By the death of Colonel Lewis H. Day-
ton, which occurred recently at the Queen
City club, Cincinnati lost one of its most
prominent citizens and the Loyal LegioD
a leading member. Colonel Dayton was
born in Lawrence county, N. Y., in 1835.
He attended and graduated from the
Sheffield school at Yale, and went to
Ohio to practice
civil engineering.
In 1859 he was a
sergeant in the 7 }
Lancaster rifles. X
Soon after the *
civil war began S
he joined Gen- ^ !
eral Mississippi, Sherman and in j^|jg
served on his staff
until tion his from resigna¬ % •vF
the
army, Dec. 31 , colonel l. m. dayton.
1870. He was brevetted first lieutenant,
captain and major for gallant service in
the Atlanta campaign, and lieuteflarit
colonel for meritorious conduct iri the
Carolina campaigns. In the regular ser¬
vice he reached the rank of eaptaiil.
Colonel Dayton went to Cincinnati
after the depth of his father-in-law, Mr.
Thomas Phillips, and took charge of the
large estate left by that gentleman. He
was closely identified with the iron in-
trests of the city. He served one term
in the Ohio legislature and held high
rank in the Masonic fraternity.
A Popular Secretary of War.
When Secretary of War Proctor went
to Washington he fouud that former
secretaries of war had maintained some
rather snobbish practices. For instance,
newspaper men were received only at
certain hours, and then by card. Again,
if the secretary was talking With a ma¬
jor, and a colonel entered, the etiquette
of the department required him to leave
the major and listen at once to the
colonel. This was drawing military eti¬
quette rather too fine for plain Mr.
Proctor, and he abolished the whole
business. If I10 happens to be talking
with a sergeant when a general comes in,
the general has to wait till the sergeant
has finished his business. One day I en¬
tered the secretary's room, and found
him talking with a noted general. Mr.
Proctor at once excused himself from the
first caller and came to mo. “Why do
you do this?" 1 asked him. “Because,”
he replied, “the general and I are talk¬
ing over a routine matter, about which
there is no hnrry. He has plenty of
time; yon have not. Yea are working
at the end of a telegraph wire and must
be ou the move.” Is it any wonder Mr.
Proctor is popular among newspaper
men?
The Summer Ronnet.
Lace gives its softness, flowers the’r
brightness and color, ribbon its superb
elegance, and broken lines anil irregular
shapes do away with that hard rigidity
that is so trying to most f;ices; and be¬
sides these there are soft fluffy feathers
that break uarsh outlines, an»l above
and among everything trail delicate
viues and peep tiny blossoms, until now
the summer bonnet leaves absolutely
nothing to desire, unless it is money
enough to bay every one that strikes
one’s fancy.
TI10 Prophet of tho riilleuuium.
Lieutenant C. A. L. Totten, whose
prediction that the millennium will be
imangurated l-efore March, 1899, has
caused no little
sensation in re-
ligious circles,
was born in New
London, Conn.,
Feb. 4, 1851.
When twelve
E/2 years old he en¬
tered the Episco-
ac:idenJ y at
Cheshire, Conn.,
g r a 3 n a ting in
1867. After
C. A. L. TOTTEN. spending two
years at Trinity college, Hartford, he
went to West Point, and cn graduating
in 1873 was assigned as lieutenant in the
Fourth artillery. Lieutenant Totten has
a distinguished record as an inventor as
well as a Biblical investigator. He is
the author of “Scrategos,” the American
game of war, which has been highly
commended by the military authorities
of Europ?
THE FAVORITE OF THE SULTAN.
Sh« li a Beautiful Georgian Woman
Scarcely Out of Her Trtit*.
Twenty years ago it would Itave been
considered an offense past forgiveness
for any one even to suggest to any lady
of the imperial harem that shes|t for
her picture, but as time passes progress
walks with it, and today not only all
other Turkish women, but also those of
the sultan’s household, feel as if it was a
right of which none should deprive
them to have their photographs taken.
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BULBUL HANOUM.
Another great change has been made,
and that lies iu the fact that now each
sultana has her card, with her name and
title, fastened on the door to her own
private apartment. Formerly even a
sultana’s name was unknown, and no one,
aside from those immediately surround¬
ing ber, ever mentioned her; lmt now it
is different, and with that'innovation
comes many more. Now in the stables
you may hear, “Harness Nazli Hanoum’s
horses,” or those of Aidelaida, or some
other favorite. So the names get to be
known, and today numbers of the sul¬
tanas are recognized as they ride in
their carriages, for the veil is small pro¬
tection.
The photograph from which the pict¬
ure here given was taken is that of a
woman who has been an inmate of the
imperial harem six years. She is about
twenty years old. Her name is Bulbul
Hanoum, and she is a Georgian by birth.
She was brought to Constantinople when
a child. She passed through several
hands before she was ten years old, at
which time she gave promise of great
beauty. Then she attracted the notice
of tho valide sultana, or sultan’s mother,
who placed her among the young girls
she keeps on hand in training for the po¬
sition of sultana, or oftener to be hastily
taken from seclusion and given to the
sultan as a child might receive a new
toy, to divert his mind from one of his
“kindly This sultana rages.” presented by the sul¬
was
tan's mother at the end of tb« feast of
Ramazan, which makes of ft£r a legal
sultatlfi from the time she entered the
harem. She received the name of Bul¬
bul on account of her beautiful voice,
which was cultivated by an Italian
teacher. She also plays quite well on
the piano and guitar, and is a woman of
considerable character. She is one of
the sultan’s prime favorites, though she
has never been a mother. She is dressed
simply in the picture, much as an ordi¬
nary Turkish woman might dress on go¬
ing out, as it would probably be forbid¬
den for her to be photographed in the
peculiar sort of crown which the sul¬
tanas wear on gala day. The veil really
hides little of the face, and is more of an
ornament than otherwise. This is just
as all Turkish women wear the j'ashmak
or veil, and the shapeless cloak or feridjee
which hide3 all the outlines of the fig¬
ure.
A Painting Three Miles Long.
John Banvard, the pioneer panoramist
of the world, died recently of heart fail¬
ure at Watertown, S. D., in his seventy-
first year. His career as an artist and
traveler was full of interest. He was
born in New York, but went to Louie-
ville at the age of fifteen, where he
opened a studio and began painting.
Soon afterward ho started on a southern
tour, exhibiting his pictures and lectur¬
ing upon their subjects.
At one time Mr. Baavard's ambition
was to paint the largest picture in the
World, and in
1840 he set about
preparing a pan¬ r'r
orama of the en¬
tire Mississippi J 70
river. He went
alone in an open / fj
skiff with no oth- \ ¥
er rifle outfit and drawing but a } I
implements. He JOHN BANVARD.
traveled t h o u-
sanda of miles, undergoing many priva¬
tions and meeting with many advent¬
ures, and in a year had accomplished
his task. The painting, which was at
first exhibited at Louisville, covered
three miles of canvas, aud was the larg¬
est ever made.
Mr. Banvard was a literary man as
well as an artist. He was the .author of
1,700 poems, and also published “A De¬
scription of the Mississippi River,” “Pil¬
grimage to the Holy Land,” “Private
Life of a King,” “Traditions of the Tem¬
ple” and other works. “Amasis,” one of
his dramas, was produced at the Boston
theater in 1S64; another, “Carinia,” was
played at the Broadway theater, New
York, in 1875.
Comparison of National Debts.
A recent census bulletin makes a com¬
parison of national debts which is very
encouraging to the people of th© United
States. In 1889 France had a debt per
capita of $116.35; Great Britain, $87.79;
Russia, $30.79; Austria-Hungary, $70.84;
Iti-ly, $76.06: Belgium, $63.10; the Neth¬
er! onds, $95.56, while the debt of tbe
United States was only $14.63. In 1880
the debt of the United States was $38.33
per capita. It is estimated that the ag¬
gregate receipts of another decade like
the one just past, could they be distrib-
nted for the purpose, would relieve the
country from nearly all national, state
and county indebtedness.
THEY SH AKE LONGER
FHE DISAPPEARANCE OF AGUE AND
“MILK SICK" FROM INDIANA.
Booster Pioneers of Fifty Years .4(0 En¬
countered Many Periii That Their Chil¬
dren Slight Enjoy a Goodly Heritage—A
“Clean Up’* of Criminals.
(Copyright. 1801. by American Press Associa¬
tion.!
There is an old story to the effect that
In the ’40s au eastern tourist was cross¬
ing the Ohio to land for the first time on
Indiana soil, when he noticed on the
boat a lank and yellow visaged man who
seemed sunk in the deepest melancholy.
To him tho tourist spoke thus:
“Are you an Indiana man:”
“Indiana! No!” thundered the other;
•Tm a Kentuckian. I’ve been on a big
drunk; that’s ail that nib me!”
lie was whisky soakel and slightly
malarious, hut still rejoiced that he was
not a Hoo-dr-r. And Indiana people call
now afford to admit that there was much
truth in the sarcasm, f >r Indiana was
not a very nice country -nty years ago.
The very fertility of the soil made it
deadly to the pioneers. A strip some
forty miles wide, and extending up the
Wabash as far as Fountain county, was
‘‘etfcled by one grand rush from Kentucky
and adjacent southern states; the native
timber was rapidly cut from about one-
fourth of the lands, and when the black
earth, half rotted roots aud debris of ages
of growth was rapidly turned up by the
plow and the hot summer sun shone upon
it, there went up a literal savor of death.
Men and boys fell on all sides, and the
other sex only suffered less because not
so much exposed to morning fogs. From
July till November there was generally
one sick in every house, and many an old
citizen tells of riding ten miles “at a
stretch” without finding at any one
house enough well ones to wait on the
sick, mnch less to cook a dinner for a
stranger.
The winter and spring were times of
comparative ease, save that in April al¬
most every one took “bitters,” com¬
pounded of whisky and “yarbs," to
“purify his blood.” Then during the
growiug season thing: went fairly well.
But when the “turn of the season” came
on—that is, when the vegetation began
to part with its juices to the air—when
the August nights began to lengthen and
the mornings grew cool, when the vile
“ague worm” crawled over the bare
cabin floor, then all animated nature
seemed to languish. The very dogi
whined instead of barking, the cattle
moved sluggishly and seemed to low
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more dismally, and the monotonous
droning of the billions of noisome flies,
which crawled over one's jterson instead
of jumping, all told too plainly that sad
days were at hand. Then the settler,
while about his daily tasks, would all at
once feel a strange laziness. Struggle
against it as he might and sumffion all
his energies, it would slowly grow upon
him, till exertion seemed worse than
death. Then came the deadly chill, the
strange shaking shiver, the “rattling
ague,” and after it the burning thirst,
which gallons of the coldest spring water
would not drown. The average of life
was twenty-nine years. It is now forty-
one.
Still more dreaded, though fortSnately
in limited localities, was the mysterious
“milk sick.” I have heard its cause dis¬
cussed ever since I could remember, and
am still in the dark. Suffice it here to
say that a certain poisonous vapor or
gas, probably a mineral exhalation,
steamed np through the soil in certain
spots and affected the streams. Homan
beings were rarely poisoned by drinking
the water. They suffered by using the
milk or flesh of “milk sicky” cattle.
Such was western Indiana in 1820-40,
and to some extent even Inter. Then
the great improvement began. Now* a
case of agqe is as rare as a case of small¬
pox, and the p.uient is nearly always a
newly arrived foreigner. Meanwhile
the wild wooded and hilly region of the
southern section became infested with
horse thieves, manufacturers of “bogus
money,” and general desperadoes, till, in
1869, the vigilantes rose and inaugurated
a reign of terror. Eleven persons were
hanged in one vicinity within a fort¬
night. Five persons were taken to the
New Albany jail for safe keeping. The
Jackson county vigilantes came down
one night, captured the jail, hanged all
five and departed without waking any
one except the sheriff. It was the “slick¬
est” job iu the record of Jn i Lynch’s
court. Altogether eighteen p rsons were
hanged in that one outbreak, and the
moral atmosphere was pnrifit d. It was
then that the noted Laura Reno k elt
by the corpses of her three brothers and
devoted her life to vengea »ee on the
lynchers. T\.<-nty-r,vo years nave passed
and uo vengeance is wrought yet; but
Laura is a happy wife au l mother, and
Jackson county is as peat-fame and law
abiding as any section of th • g-ite.
J. ii Beadle.
The problem of aver {• collation is
more than ever agitatin ; t ..■* minds of
those who seek to forecast the future
with mathematical accuracy A British
scientist declares that when the whole
earth is brought under cultivation it can
sustain six billions of people, aud that
this number will be living 180 years from
now.
VOLUME. XVI »
E. R. COLLINS' VARIEO CAREER.
Newspaper Stmif; Hamartft, Lectorer and
a Jereey Jiuticf kirarVfaed-
Edward Ralph Collins, whose! itfhftor-
ons stories hare been widely read, is On
the staff of Texas Siftings, and lives in
New Jersey, tfr&ff? where be is one of the jus¬
tices of rowity. In addition to
a humorist
« Mr. Coliftw is a
'
• great student, his
'*V« lectures tian history on Egyp¬ being
especially com¬
plete and force-
foL While they
are lighted up by
^ occasional flashes
of wit, ho appears
" in the rostrum as
an extremely in¬
4 E. it. teresting instruc-
tor more than as a fttfitty man. Because
Judge Collins has attracted attention as
a lecturer in this direction, it trust not
be conceived by those unacquainted with
his work that his jokes are Egyptian-
like. As a writer of short humorom
stories he has met with wide favor, and
a book of his sketches issued last snm
mer bad a ready Saif. has also writ
ten much poetry, both seridtib fifid comic.
Mr. Collins was born in 1859, and
passed most of liis boyhood on a farm.
He learned to be a telegraph operator,
and then a typesetter, after which the
natural bent of liis mind led him into
the laugh makiug Geld. In addition tc
writing humorouj matter he was suc¬
cessively editor of several Connecticut
and New Jersey ptftfcufti ftfter which he
enjoyed a brief business career, until b»
took his place on the staff of Texas Sift¬
ings. He has traveled extensively, and
is thoroughly familiar with western life,
a devotee of outdoor exercise, a good
shot, and pefEonnlly very popular among
his friends.
A DISTINGUISHED PRESDYf EfilAN.
Rev. Dr. William l!f try Orern, M»*I<*ra-
lor of 111 © (jeni r .! Asm-hiHI.t.
Rev. Dr. "William Henry Green, senior
professor of i't incet ni Theological sem
inary. \vk > acted ns moderator of the re¬
cent •; t ueral tiJ*
church 4611. Pre sbytcriuii bly at of De¬ the d
troit. boro l
was
near Bor den-
town, N. J., and
is sixtV'rix years *
ol«] He grwd
uate l from La- ,
fayette college in ^ A
1840, and after
teaching mathe- rev. w. u. green.
matics and classics for reveral years en¬
tered Princeton seminary, and graduated
therefrom in 1346. For some time he
was pastor of the Central Presbyterian
church of Philadelphia. In 1851 he ac¬
cepted the professorship of Oriental and
Old Testament literature in Princeton
seminary, and has held the chair for
forty years.
Dr. Grecu :; regarded as the highest
authority ill the United States on con¬
servative criticism Of the Bible. Be¬
sides his work as au instructor he has
published a “Hebrew Chrestomathy,”
“Moses and the Prophets,” “The Hebrew
Feasts,” and several of other books. He
was a member the committee on
the revised version of the &ble? and
one of the translators of Lange's “Com¬
mentary.”
Tho general assembly postponed the
great question of the revision of the
Westminster Confession, which has
gi veu the church at large so much con¬
cern of late years, until its next meeting.
Some Ccnrai Faeti.
“The smallest county in the United
States,” said Robert P. Porter in a
recent interview, “is Bristol, in Rhode
Island, containing twenty-five square
miles. The largest county is Yavapai,
m Arizona. It contains 29,236 sqnare
miles, anu is nearly ns big as Mas¬
sachusetts, Connecticut, New Hamp¬
shire, Vermont and Rhode Island to¬
gether. Florida contains a greater area
of water than any other state— 4,440
square miles; Minnesota is next with
4,100 miles. Tho white people of the
south are increasing in numbers faster
than the colored people. Massachusetts
has a greater number of cities and towns
than any other state. As Chicago is the
comet of American cities, so Illinois is
the most rapidly moving planet in the
constell ation of states. Eighty years ago
she was at the foot of the class, the
twenty-third state in rank. Now she is
third.”
More Dogs Than Furniture.
An odd experience was that of an as¬
sessor who made hi3 official rounds the
other day at Bncktown, Ind. He called
at the house of an old woman, whose
furniture was valued at fifty cents.
Under the La w he had to place the value
at one dollar, which would make ber tax
a fraction over a cent. As he was about
to leave he discovered that the old wom¬
an was the owner of six dogs, on which
she was assessed eleven dollars.
The New Political Organization.
The platform of the People’s party,
formed at the National Union confer¬
ence which was recently held in Cincin¬
nati, indoreed
the declarations
of the Farmers’
Alliance on ques¬
’•vt tions of finance
and tax a t i o n,
etc., but referred
\ further action to
a conference to
fe be held next Feb-
Hy fw ruary. Should
this conference
v-/y ,v fail to make
IGNATIUS DONNELLY. nominations for
president and
vice president a national convention
will be called in tbe following Jane for
that purpose. Ignatius Donnelly wad
chairman of the committee on platform#
and his name has already been brought
prominently forward as the new party’s
candidate for the presidency. General
Weaver, of Iowa, has also been men¬
tioned for the same honor.
AT A MASQUE RA Lie
A tn*b Vmmm Meet* «* -
la t h« OaiM ot •
It w«a (n a town not • thomaad ftam
JfoMotr of that there were recently private fh*** bc*«*eC *
SOfrile maequ«a parties at
At Wt eeeotodof thww the hosts* ot tL- ftra*
party futrttf h & «Nelf Whom tajWn* voy mrtty it .
with a mask d*s lu pp c ss fl ktr
to rfooktoiee p geettowan who bed w»e.> *w
twre just after hero** rjwjkiitg <*i*?ftA****i
§a$ fanpl/for throwing the sake fhe of ceUrtemea imnn. eff A* ies*»,
of
ef “Wereywl hardfa idenlity, Bl*rf^'raasq:uxi.perw> qbe naked:
*t Idr*, '‘t
with "fto/* latfonett.” h« fduwared; w»» net
an fee
“Ware Tee,? you he to»w«re4f| at the r, hat timer dw Mnit a&rfl,
M Ifew
■at like mo."
Consternation seined upon her? Mr* SQeaL, h;»
■he initWitiy determiuea to Natrav W.
■elf.
•'Doesn't Bher tit feturned, cardsertr
^Probably that it one of fhe tblm-n
yoa imagine. Borne people *r» alwnre w }
T^—rk that others do not Ilk# them. w>
b*ow.”
Bar companion seemed a trifle annoyed,
toft' Hot one of that aort,” he roto:‘,*2,
rather to that brusqtpehr/ did “Besides flke mo.” sbe has intiniar.j.*
“fait me ne ffot
fair to ask bowr v Urs. Blank aqfc--A
•nthrely mystified In regard to tbs identity of
her Interlocutor.
‘•Why, I should not mind telling y«» W t
ware sore that you wouldn’t repeat It.”
“Ob, I asrer betray a conOdenoe,’’ the lady
hU, eagerly.
The gentleman leaned ov< r until his fam
—am its mask was near to hers.
“I aaked.ber to marry me. ”
Mr*. Bhrnk was more startled than ever.
Ib* had tram of ber old suitors, and ift her day
not a few, came up before her men»
tfj vision, and she wondered which oai ot
Bmus chanoe bad brought to her side to-night,
hottu vain.
■But,” the said, slowly, “because a lady
rffosed fob it need cot follow that she dta-
11kad yofl. I am sure n woman is not to be
mpposed wih to dieiikft every man she does not
to marry. That WcoH be a most absurd
assumption ”
“To be sure It would,” he assented cb&n*
fully; “but In tbi* particular caac sh$ did nog
ret*we too
“tWd not refuse you?” echoed Mrs. Black
JS astonishdHtit, “She certainly did not ac¬
cept youf”
“That is precisely what she did do.”
“It is not”— Mrs. Blank began; and theu,
eoncidering that if she sajd true it would be
•horHirg more knf~ ‘^dge of Mrs. Blank'* af¬
fairs than vf*« <w“patible with pretending U>
be another perftW,; M*o cbnngci’. bor MttT'-uoe,
and said, “credttabid ^ferat She should accept
you and then marry anbAs; man hs»
“She didn’t, Kate,” her sa*a u*
torn voice, “sbe qur ried me ”
“Tom 1” she crieiT.
“Yes, my dear,” Tom answered; “yon told
me at our party that I couldn’t fool you.”
“You area wretch and a monster,” she de¬
clared, “and I will never forgive yoa.”
But She did, and told the joke at her own
expense before lb* evening wasovor.—
Courier.
Now Is the time of y<?ar for the v0*
{age improvement association to get in
tte best work. Under its fostering care
weedy, malaria breeding commons* ■•au
oe turned into beautiful parks; muddy,
impassable roads can be Changed to
jmooth turnpikes and graveled walk#,
while barren, dusty streets can be made
bowers of beauty by splendid maple and
chestnut shade trees. Hearty co-opera¬
tion on the part of farmers and villager*
would hi n few years make our Ameri¬
can Landscape « lovely as that of Eu¬
rope, which has knowtr the touch that
beautifies for centuries. For man’s touch
flrtt Aeriroys then beautified natuiVi
landscape.
German or French?
The president of a girls’ normal sqjhopl
jrliere the three languages Freqgfr,
German and Greek are made elective
expresses his surprise, somewhat in
tons of disapproval, of the fact that Ijlle
young ladies choose French in preference
to German in the proportion of nearly trwp
to one. He says that a knowledge of Gtp»
man is far more useftll Jn this country,
yet French b store fashionable; there¬
fore the girls *a&a French.
Now, it is not likely that the amount
of either language that the girls get in an
ordinary high school will be worth qwW'
reling about. Both these tongues ax©
usually taught In the schools as if they
were dead languages instead of living
ones, and as a consequence when tb© pit*
pil quits school he cannot speak nJfw?
than half a dozen words of either French
or German, or understand even bo many
os that when he hears them spoken. Sq
practically it is not of mnch moment
which language the girls choose.
But which language will be more use
ful to a student depends on the use h<
intendeds to make of it. If ho expects
to go to Europe and travel in different
countries then be should learn French.
French may be called the international
coin of language. It circulates every
where. At all tho hotels of Europe th*
servants and officials with whom tlia
traveler comes in contact speak that
tongue and expect foreigners of what¬
ever nationality to be able to speak it
also. As it is the language of diplogia-
cy it is for come reason also the lan¬
guage- of travel, though the French
themse-lves arc the poorest travelers in
civilization.
So, if the student wishes to learn a
foreign tongue with the view to foreign
travel, let him select French by all
means. But if he wants a tongue which
will enable him to transact busija:-ss and
convene with the largest num’jeg of
foreigners in this country, then 1 t hlpx
take German. And, if he has time, Ul
him take both French and German, and
learn them, not by the grammar r erely,
but by the conversational method, go
that he will have upon hir tongue a lit¬
tle of the learning he haa stuffed imper¬
fectly into his head. The average life¬
time, even of a busy woman or nan, is
quite long enough to master th-se two
great modern languages. We ought to
•indy modern languages in a really prac¬
tical way much more than w© do, for we
Americans ore shockingly poor Hr mists.
80 why not both French and Ger man?