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TUB CfflMis Defflocrat.
CRAWFORD VILL t V GEORGIA.
LOUISE MICHEL.
A COMMUNIST JOAN <>K vttC HYING.
To he Grnntrd a K» The -Inry ••> Hi*
laUt* of -ir«»h»l Noumea.
Paris dispatches that it is the in
tention of tiie Government soon to re
base Louise Michel, the Communist,
tr im prison and to grunt her a ii'oe par
don. Bile ill iu a dyil/f? condition. Hhe
has ton iu prit <u thin time nearly a
year. Her life hits been thus admirably
summed up: Louise is a sort of repre
(tentative child of the revolution aud she
has a strange history. Fifty years ago
she was born in an aristocratic French
chateau without toing an aristocrat. Her
mother was a aeu'hou who worked iu the
chatcan and her father was master of the
house. She was brought up in the place
and she received an education suited to
her father’s rattier than to her mother’s
rank. In time, when the father’s own
son was sent wit ift for disobedience, she
took his place iu the family circle, ssUll
acknowledging on her own part and
tending the peasant mother who had
brought, her into the world. Then, as
sbe owns to be a woman she caught the
Victor Hugo fever of the revolution and
in a most perilous relief way, of not the as soul, a mere but
outpouring for the
Mi n series of precepts for action. Biie
began to write—n rnewbat in imitation
01 tiio ouster, as shown in the titles
of sons of the things she gave hi the
world: “Our Lady of Vroncourt,” “Oc
cnlentalu,” ’ Bpn g Is ■-ves,” “Bummer
Storm*,” “Winter Winds,” “Dawn
Songs” and “Voices,” both lrom heave n
and the other place, with uow and then
something in the grotesquely comic vein,
like the “Men nr* of a i rug." She sent
some of these things to the poet and lie
gent her back an edition of bis w.irks
with a priceless autograph. She was
evidently smitten witli the disease of lit
crature, but events were to determine
her career otherwise. The aristocratic
father died, the protecting lady Louise of the
botiso followed him and was
turned out with lver mother ou her hands
to earn hi'.id for two t re she learned to
earn it for one. That was bad, hut a
prop ition made to her to alleviate her
Jo! was worse. They actually wanted to
jji,irry her to some \<r shopmen—she,
tile inspired feminine Isaiah of the new
tins-! That ih eided tier; she rushed
away to Paris with all sp ed and set up
a si'hool for little boys and gills at
M iiitmartrc. Here the Commune found
her. This is, iu brief, the history of
Louise. strange
To the r .amunihts t.ho
schoolmistress of Noumea is looked
upon as a kind of modern Joan of Arc.
A caricature represented her musket ns a rod instead Sis¬
ter oi Mercy,aim* d with .i
of a cro-s and the symbol of Who Masonic
fraternity instead of a rosary. was
bore in 1835, iu the Hante-Muruo. She
Studied history, aud discovered that at
each evil epoch it would have sufficed to
»nppress one mini iu oi ' -r to bsvo t he
country. Charlotte Coteav in aseassi
nMirig* Marat hoped object to in save view France. Louisa
\V h the name
Michel, white u Kc ideii'tn -a at Mont
mintre, wished to kill Napoleon mind. III.
The ilDrt was deeply fixed ill her
She had her photograph taken, standing
at a table, with one hand losting on n
rlenili’n head and the other hand railed
aud pointing upward i II 11 tragic attitude.
At :lmt time Louise Miehel wore mourn,
ing Dr L i tv; she dressed entirely in
black, well the exception of a red rose
in her dies a or in her bonnet. In 1870
Ron e v< ;ehel la came an anibulauri i r.
Dim the siege of Paris i>y the Wr
sanies troopi hhe fought dressed us a
natieiml guard and picked uji the
wounded with the bullets whistling
urounu her eu * « During the Commune,
exeitod by the fever of the first siege,
she offered the insurrectional govern
meiit to go and [loot i'luei'H at Ver*
saint's. The government refused at first,
telling her that she could not go to Ver
gaiilofl. To show that it was possible.
Louise Michel went there and returned
She had not attempted to so Thiers,
having given her word this time. Then
Ferre disarmed her, saying that the
Revolution must not bo established ou a
crime. At the time of the repression of
the Commune Louise Michel denounced
herself. She was tried before a council
of war mid Bent to New Caledonia,
whore nbo taught the children of the
exile's and looked after their sick. She
returned to Paris amuoatied, aud re¬
mained quiet until the (S'tiy bread riot
of 1883. Lionise Mtctiel demands for
women the right of voting and eligibil¬
ity. She believes in the equal division wicked
of goods end in «future when the
»liail have disapjH'ared lu short, she
is a victim of Victor Hugo. Her head
has beon turned by “Les Chatimeiits,”
and for want of an opportunity she lias
remained a platonic Charlotte Corduy.
liONt Its IMacp*
Chatting with General W. T. Sher¬
man the other day, says u newspaper
correspondent, he said a few pretty hard
things of newspaoor men, though he ad¬
mitted that there were exceptions, i’o
illustrate liow liia kindness hud boeu
abused at times, he said : “When the
dispatch entile to me about the I'tisier
m:issacD> I called tho new pujx-r buys all
in tenet her. ‘Now,’ I says, ‘here u the
dispatch, I put you ail <-*.! your honor
to OOP and return it to me. Then I
gave it out two puges to this one. two
pages to that one, so they could all work
at once. I turned my back, and whisk
—Jack Robinson—the dispatch was
gone. It never turned up. either, aud
it is iu consequence absent lrom the
pi ac«> it ought to occupy iu tho official
records."
Migran —“Mercy, Bridget 1 what’s
the n: iter With > w lit This did
on! the r. did it?”
Bad, “iii fAtle it (IU, wum.” “That
*• l am aCraiti you not
ate *1- :at this very
1V* a lot of stuff
Whv, mum.
r.rt, mum. ?'*
What kind l dut
irco.d. mum.
RESIDE THE STILE.
We both wa k"d g’owly o’er the yellow gra«a
Beneath the minuet sky;
And then lie climbed the stile I did not pass,
And there we said Good-bye.
II„ paiwij one moment; I leaned on the utile.
And faced the hazy lane;
]; t neither of u» enoke until we both
Just s&ifl Good-bye again.
And I went homeward to our quaint old farm.
And he went on hi* way;
And he has never cro-sed that field again,
From that time to this day.
I wonder if he over gives a thought
To what he left behind;
As I start sometime* dreaming that I hear
A footstep in the wind.
jf he had stud hut one regretful word,
O ( had shed ft tear,
H. would not go alone about the world,
Nor 1 sit lonely here.
A ,. t \ „„ r hearts were full of angry pride,
A ,. d J(jTO *. aH ,,bokc*l in strife;
And «'> the strlc, beyond (he yellow grans,
Stands Htraight across our life.
- Every Other Saturday,
4 1 >i*i Myrtle. 55
i
a number of letters were awaiting
(Jol. Ilaldauo, Commandant of Newly,
on |,| s return from parade. He was un¬
married, rich and rather distinguished
looking. It will therefore surprise no
one (hat lie was accustomed to receive a
great many sweetly-scented, dolicalely
monogramed, prettily-worded letters
from the various members of the fair
B( X with whom lie was acquainted.
Amongst the little heap which lay be
f or() [,i tn was one conspicuous for its
careless handwriting aud this rough envei
ope. Oddly enough, was the one
he selected first for perusal. Bcrawled
, m u, 0 jjp of the Myrtle.” envelope were theso
words: “Bring his gentlemanly
Col. Haldane put up
eye-glass, and held liis head a little on
one side; ho twisted his iron-gray
mustache into a yet more poignant ox
pression as ho inspected those curious
words: “Bring Myrtle.” Who was
Myrtle? What was Myrtle? How many
times he road and re-read that message
was perhaps unaware. But it was
useless. “Bring Myrtle” remained unsolved ou
the lip of the envelope, an
enigma. opened It
Slowly he the letter. was
nl) invitation to afternoon tea at the
Whites people he know heavily-garrisoned slightly, as he
knew so many in the
naval and military town close to the bar
ra rkn at Newly.
The letter was from Miss Florence
White, who wrote in her mother’s
He" called up a vision of Florence
White. Tall and stately, a girl with a
mass of golden brown hair, rolled oil
her forehead- 'Tone a tori ho had Se greatly ad
mired mlmiresa and
lnvfslv nrovokiiitrl landsc-w a “f^teish .-irl who "Ollwt made him
feel v
vounc ladies rattled away at him as if
he were *1 a sub asked him to play tennis
vomivster' with tom and Iroated him like a mere
f, But w“thduo this y voung lady had
^iximb'in a aJhadowvSi regard to hfe
of the
drawing-room on one or two occasions
when introdiSd he had taken “tea” there and
had him to some deep
iotu d matron “• as if in that direction lav
s natural hi and now this statdv
von ,w r |mly houd.s him n jocular post
soriiit bidding him “Bring Mvrtle 1”
fortetle Cl j) ah hum FQ t downin' the fS com
vdvG chair which
r.nv.i,b>-(ri Lie Ani>il and nommanded a
li in vi *w of ever-comotiiiioiiabiesea.
Tim little rippling waves had an ex
prcHsion of infant wiiiles to-dav, and the
biioj ant clouds were chasing one an
other like schoolboys "fair on a the- common. world
dim linw iiiiKHMiit mi cl was
t urc ! I To sat, d rcun i m« over his
problem “Bring Myrtle” quite happily.
a knock with the knob of a stick ou
the door breaks into his reflections aud
IjniClo Cant in [biton Sffitv cut. rs with his customary
"WeH iml Icllow" eh?’ what’s up? Boa
and sentiment It’s fatal to sit iu
that attitude, looking at the sea. What
CoL i ,,,k you ?”
lbihlaue roused himself from his
reverie with an effort; he gently Upped
his left hand with the letter which yet
remained idly between his finger and
f liiinvli “Jaiie
1” ho said, addressing Captain
Hilton by his nickname; “Jane 1 what
on earth does it mean when you receive
a message from a young lady to ‘Bring
M.vrtlo?’ ’and he liauded tho envelope
to Capt. 11 ilton.
Jane, who had a rolling eye and a
rollicking smile, took the envelope dain¬
tily, and, after reading it, pressed it to
his heart, and said with a strong brogue:
“Why, man, it’s a proposal 1 What do
the ladies wear on their festal brows and
twist in the flown g satin of their bridal
gowns but mvrtle ? ‘Bring myrtle,' I
tell vou it’s n proposal—a bona tide pro
posttl. I wish a’bohl von every joy! She is a
sweet girl, if one.”
Without a word, Col. Haldane sprang,
in a molodram.itio manner, at the throat
of Capt. Hilton, and held him with a
grip of iron.
“ITow dare yon speak of Mlss Wmte
like that? She is the most distinguished
givl of my Acquaiutauoe. Apologize!
Captain HilUm ro!!od his eye with a
ghastly appeal on Col. Haldane, when
iho latter as suddenly relaxed his grasp
and said:
“Forgive me, IliUon; but really I—I
—object to such an unseemly idea.”
“I bee your pardon. Colonel,” said
Captain Hilton, stdlly: “I oVj.x-tequally
to toing throCVd. Allow mo to wish
you good morning.”
“fi- :>. ray frit :id.” aid Col. Haldane,
.’.uifu-idly; •'! dvil’t k iov. what i- the
rontter with mo! I'm half asleep, I
think. Sea and sentiment, as you said
just now. C 'me. my friend ! Do tell
me what on earth Miss White means.”
“Means ? something green,” said Hil
ton. viciously; ••but whether sprouting
In the tub. after the fashion of the Mos
sum in ? shrub, or ( one up m a g;ass caso
after the art ; ft mede. I know not. I
wish von good morning, Colonel.”
Aud with that he retreated to the
mushroom.
‘ ‘Blossom shrub,” usurmtired Col.
Haidxn^, “i '.w his Hibernian wit!
Eureka ! Now I have it P And with
that he Eat down at Ids writing-table and
penned the following letter:
"An Myopotis, 10 Aram* Victor Emmanuel,
a Menton, Aip-n Maritime*.
“Send the finest fi >wering myrtle von
possess to the following address: Miss
Florenee White. The Grange, Porter
down, Sussex. The September myrtle must arrive
on the afternoon of the 7th,
one week from this date. ’
Then Colonel Haldane rang the bell
hastily, and told his man to post the let
ter. This done be placed the note from
Miss Florence B lute m the pocket of
liis frogged coat and then proceeded to
read the rest of his correspondence.
* ♦ *
The afternoon of the 7th duly arrived,
and with a strange palpitation at his
heart (a sensation which ought to have
aroused his suspicions as to the exact
date of drove his susceptibilities), in little Col. Hal¬
dane up his hooded ear
‘‘Here wines the pig in the poke,'* said
S „ %T 1 S''T , , . ,
; r ■
ieihWB. “If a man wili drive a carriage
with a hood, what is one to call him but
n pig in a poke, you know? He is fid
geting at the gate most awfully, Florence;
do come aud look.”
“I like that hooded carriage.” said
orenoe. “Le style e’est I’homme
meme.” And then she turned with
ready grace to meet Col. Haidane, who
had just entered the room.
“Felicity and I were drawn to the
window by the magnetieal influence of
your charming little carriage,” she said.
“Iso admire your‘poke.’”
“Do you?” smd Col. Haldane, grate
fully. “It is very kind of you!” and
then be looked steadfastly at Florence,
absolutely blushing as he did so.
Florence, catching the glance inter¬
rogative, was arrested in her amtsbie in¬
tention of transporting him to the other
end of the long l ine drawing-room, and
introducing him to Mrs. Burlington,
the Rector’s wife. This agitated gentle
man did not look exactly in a state to be
discoursed to about winter blanket clubs
and working men’s clubs and friendly
societies.
It is very fine to talk about leading an
nnpuzzled existence, like Jane Austen;
tint why on earth did Col. Haldane look
at her with this unfathomable glance
lrnm his undeniably She fine gray eyes?
Whut did it mean? foil away from
him, musing, aml^ turned the outward
machinery of trite commonplaces on her
greeting of the numerous guests, whe
were rapidly arriving. started
The Whites had just a page,
who answered to the ubiquitous name of
“Tommy;” one of those specimens
much adapted by ambitions matrons as
il » improvement on parlor maids; a
creature raw of the fields, with the ex
prc«won of an animated turnip and
drains to match. In the midst of a
>",zz <* voices intermingling with the
frou-frou of rich dresses, Tommysud
denly darted into the room and made
straight for Miss Florence White, carry
in suggestive & in his lobster-colored hands a book
of the P. D. Company. solidary
Colonel Haldtonb.v dfeep ’ recesTTf fromj^his theAay
seat in the facinf
window Orange,’’ felt the awful entrance sensation to , ^
an come
ovr ' him. Was this the myrtle arriv
fa* ' and had the Menton folk abso
lutely charged the carnage to ! Miss He
White ? What should he do
shrunk behind the deep amber of the
curtains, then as suddenly emerged. her
“Bring and' Myrtle!” these were rush own
wordu, he made a violent
across (he room to lier side.
“It’s the myrtle 1" lie said breath
lessly. “Allow me I The stupid continued, people
have made a mistake,” ho
ineolicreutly “The idea of charging
the carriage to you 1 And ho throw a
sovereign into Tommy s bashful fingers,
Miss White locked at Col. Haldane
with ever-enlarging pupils. He had re
turned lately from Egypt, had been in
defatigable at the bombardment of Alex
andria, had had an illness on liis return,
Ami she remembered hearing that he
had been obliged to have his head
shaved. She continued to look at him
quite tenderjy, as these thoughts flitted
phantom-like about her.
“Thank you, Col. Haldane,” she
said “Yon have saved me the trouble
of fetching my purse. I his is a new
boy-country manners, you know; he
wants instruction! and smiling pleas
antly, she moved out of the room after
the
In
“Au “It’s'a Myosotis, flowering a Menton,” myrtle, etc. Miss,” said
Tommy; "the biggest the carrier says it
over foil his duty to deliver."
“Fetch a pair of White; gardening “aud scissors,
Tommy,” said Miss anotb
er time never venture, to .bring P. D. C.
books into the drawing room. Go to the
housekeeper with that land of thing.”
Tommy took thefcolor natural to him
in yet deeper hues and ran for the scis
sors- Miss White soon snipped the de
taining strings and gave way to a very
natural delight as the starry view. blossoming
mvrtle was exposed to thought; “it’s ad
“Very odd, ’ she Poor
dressed unmistakably to me. Col.
Haldane 1 What does it mean ?”
^ Thinking Lie bombLlment again of the shaven head
of Alexandria she
ojhtHU * 1; ttle pensively and a little com
passionate.y, . and returned to the draw* T
mg room just in time to escape the en
try of Mrs. Danvers, whose forest cart,
drawn by a lovely pair of Welsh pomes,
she saw turning in at the gate. That
huly now entered, followed bv her insep
iirable companiou, long-bodied, a perfect low-legged, Dandy Din- flap
moiit, a
eartnl, pedigreed creature, which rejoiced
in the possession immediately of seven made prizes. rush
FI-•rence a at
-V'• ,'ou have bronga. M»i
t,e ! I wtw afraid, u leu I saw you tins
morning, tha. you would forget, though
I menhouei it in my no.e . -Both ladies
sM^rflJdane e Dlnug^ U inlSelre
flections, in the rtoess of the window,
Was this long-backed ow-legged flap
eared dog the honored object of the
‘Of course, I brought dear old ^ Myr
tte,” retorted Mrs. Danvers. “tohouid
suffocate at an afternoon tea if I hadn’t
a bit of natural life like that trusty
Scotchman about me.”
‘ Now i‘s explained!” said a deep
voice from behind the amber curtains,
Ilf. <i Go!. Haldane came forward once
'»• e.
»« tatlon . of ... h,S maUDer had , , Vaa ’
'h i; "e was smiling serenely, aud his
- e* were fixed with an expression of
w. r! co understanding on the counte
nance of Miss White.
Mv-tiesWe -,^Xlv. ‘“This is MyrtiXRival
may be; but this form of
%J rtJe 0 „ n ’ t be improved upon !”
'
l ja Vi( , 8 White’s pupils enlarged
, vm „ ath «,icA;iv. Worse and worse !
Co) Haldane ! She trembled for
hu Not so Mrs. Danvers. Fix
m „ biia w ; tb ber bright eyes, she said:
“What is explained ? Confusion of cir
oumsfaaces ?”
• Confusion of envelopes. Bring Myr
tie was scribbled on the wrong back—
that's all,” said Col. Haldane.
With a sudden illumination, Miss
tied confusion.
-‘Does that account for the presence
«•*«*» »
asked, after a moment of bonified 31
fence.
“Daw Charming mistake for me,’
muttered Col. Haldane. “Gave mean
opportunity that I ” and he looked
at Mrs. Danvers, who, with a finesse
worthy of her, dashed away to the other
end of the room to meet the extended
handof' an apropos acquaintance. He
went on smoothly enough now. “An
opportunity that I wanted. Wiil you
one day wear a sprig of that other myr
tie for me, Florence?”
Miss White didn’t say “No;” so she
evidentlv intended to sav “Yes.”— The
Argosy,
fnmiNG DESERTERS
How : Genera! Win field Scott Treated
the Skulker® From Hi* Army,
At the battle of Cherubusco, in the
valley of Mexico, writes a correspond*
ent, one of those series of battles
which took place before the capital was
captured, occurred one of the most itn
pressive acts of the entire war. I mean
as to its effect upon the men of the
army. It was one of those evente which
carried instant conviction to the minds
of the soldiers that discipline and alle
giauce to the flag were of paramount im
portanee. After a desperate struggle
the works were carried, and among the
captured were found a number of de¬
serters, men who joined the Mexicans
and served the guns against their own
comrades, and the full force of their aid
to the enemy is apparent when it is
known that they were nearly all trajned
artillerists.
On the discovery being made, intense
indignation . prevailed, aud nothing hut
the strictest discipline and prompt obe
dience to orders prevented the men from
dealing the out an But Distant drum vengeance head upon
deserters. a evurt
martial decided, with due formality,
their fate, which was to be hanged igno
miniously in the presence of all the army
then at that point assembled It must
be undersood that a portion of the forces
were then engaged with almost the "accessible enemy at
p*of $ stronghold of the enemy,
uoldiBg farther advances upon the city,
and that most desperate engagement
Was dkwn then undecided. The men were
up in due order, each with a rope
around his neck, thirty deluded victnna
about to receive merited punishment
for basely deserting tho flag Jind turning
the enemy’s guns against iheirowncom
raaes.
The officer in charge, upon whom
devolved the duty, cast a quick g.ance
m the directum of Chepuitepee. bnd
denlya- R o^med to impress him
and lie said,. Let l “f n ‘ 4 L
they see tjhe American nag npou the
hights of Chepuitepee” With breath
less anxiety they waited. It was a hard
fought battle, the fitm. result being
doubtful. Many brave men went down
to rise no more and many a man carried
the wounds there received through fate
to his grave. The gallant Colonel
Fvmsom of tacNew Lnglaud regiment
his hie; Gap am Mayne Le .
wbome J. knew, and others were wound
ed and were among the firs, to enter
™
f‘‘ofl hfc t that car .
„• those wmVnw
waicners, and anaaismay dismay to to the me hearts uearis of o
£l the Starry Sinner turned floated the to sad the
bi ize AH eyes then to
spectacle stood motionless before (hem. as statues, The deserters awaiting
the doom they could not shun. ..hey
had taken their last loot ot the flag
i5) ey had sworn to p.otect, and were
Ft ‘ nt “nuanointed and unannealed tc
answer to the last great roll-call,
A Determined Woman.
Ben: Perley Poore, in his reminis
ounces of Mrs. Gen. Gaines, says that
during the last illness of her father he
made a will in hie daughter’s favor.
When he died this will could not be
found, but a previous one was pro
duoed which contained no recognition of
Myra. Under this wul his real estate
in New Orleans was administered on and
sold. Nor did his daughter Myra, then
a child, know anything about her P a
rentage and history until she had grown
and become the wife of Mr. Whit
n She at once commenced the prose
on tion of her claim to be recognized as
y, e legitimate daughter and heiress of
Daniel Clark. This she continued, and
when, after the death of Mr. Whitney,
Q en _ Games addressed her, she con
se nted to become his wife only after lie
bad promised to second her interested litigation.
The great number of persons
io defeat her, aud their large means,
rendered the contest apparently a mos.
unequal one.
_--
_Thp Fort Wor th
Twas, GazeUe savs of the Staked Plain.
a
eastenipartof New
«;«» ‘_ •*““» ° ^^
„ ( r , lt) bv Weils of splendid Welcome water
tbe fluid
time aft« breuto feet,
has been stock^but du" Tins water not only
sa»plie8 enough is expected
to be obtained *o use suecessful'v ' ter
irrigating purposes.”
MILLIONAIRE YH”S WIFE 30. G.
An Oriental Tale ot Love and JLoss and
Literature irtsut Citututi.
In the Canton Sum Ye Bo appeared
the following card :
Ten years ago our well-known bat
eccentric townsman Yip Ta Show estimated was a
millionaire, his wealth being
at 4,250,009 taels (§5,950,000 ). He lived
in elegant style, ana lor eacu of his ten
wives he provided a mansion and a
retinue of servants. He frequently paid
@50 lor a perfumed bath, ana @400 lor a
dinner or evening supper. he
Beyond this extravagant living in¬
dulged in cards and speculation on the
Bourse. His wives, and especially wife
No. 6, became alarmed and repeatedly
besought him to change his ways and
give up his spendthrift habits. He
promised to reform, but did not re¬
form.
His wives a war,
after a long discussion among them¬
selves, and with their friends leu Yip in
a body, taking what property they
could. Wife No. 6 was the fa
vorite, aud succeeded m carrying off
about 350,000 taels. Instead ot fleeing
the realm she went to another part of
the city, and there, under the assumed
name of Mrs. Woo, bought a handsome
residence and settled down to live.
Yip persevered iu his downward
course, and in another year had lost his
entire fortune. He became a street
peddier. He had some poetic and liter¬
ary ability, and made a miserable in¬
come by printing and selling his poems
and other literary productions at about
one oent a copy. Thus for nine years
he managed lo keep body and soul to¬
gether, making sometimes ten taels a
week, and sometimes, when he met the
friends of his past, two or three thou¬
sand taels at once. He was not alto¬
gether friendless; as wife No. 6 kept her
eyes on bun, and time and time again,
when business was \ ery bad and he was
penniless, she bought up his snack of
songs and essays at full value, he being
ignorant who the purchaser was.
On the 17th of last month, when his
wife aud son were celebrating the lat¬
ter’s birthday, he entered the house to
sell his latest poems. By accident the
servant, an ignorant woman from Yu
Nam, sue wed him into the sitting-room
of the house. His son, whom he did
not know, bought several poems, and
had just paid iur them when the door
opened and wife No. 6 entered.
The recognition was mutual, and
after ten minutes of explanation a rec¬
onciliation was effected. Tne other day
written agreement was filed in the
Chefoo’s yamen (Mayor’s office) whereby
Yip was assured an annual income of
10,000 taels, subject to revocation by his
wife and son on six months’ notice in
writing to Hon Qua. the banker, who
has assumed the trust. Yip has given
up poetry as a retail business, and
when seen by our editor, was attired in
silk worthy of a Viceroy of Naukin.
He Got to Know Him.
A LITTLE STOKY ABOUT A COLONEL "WHO
WANTJSL AN OFFICE.
Washington correspondents me telling
stories of aspirants for office, and dig up
that of Colonel John McPherson oi
Page county, Va. Soon after the elec¬
tion of President Pierce, Colonel Mc¬
Pherson turned up in Washington. He
was a fine old Virginia gentleman. Ar¬
raying himself in purple and fine linen
and armed with a magnificent gold
headed cane, he appeared at the White
House and procured an interview with
the President, whe blandly asked what
he could do fos him.
Colonel McPherson
had been a warm supporter of the Presi
dent, and that he desired a consulship
iu a salubrious climaie, where the pay
was- good and there was little to do. The
President informed him that his case
should receive attention and invited him
to call often.
Hu did so tho next day mid on many
succeeding i.ays. to would say: ‘Good
morning, Mr. President, and the Presi
dent would reply. Good morning, Col¬
onel McPherson.” After some days the
President cordially invited him to return
to liis home, and assured him that his
caee would receive consideration at the
proper time.
Weeks passed, and as no message
came from the President, Colonel Mc¬
Pherson returned to Washington and
again appeared at the Executive Man¬
sion. With some surprise Mr. Pierce
greeted him, and asked what be could
do for him. Colonel McPherson replied
that lie had come after that consulship.
The President regretted that ail the
places had been filled. After Colonel
McPherson had coo led off he said to e
friend: “Well, I’ll be hanged if the
President didn’t get to know me, any¬
how l”
The Club Man anil liis Wife.
jj e j s a club man with a nice little
wife> Like many other married men
a j so possessing nice little wives, he has
groW n careless in his attentions. He
rans down to the club nearly every
nigh t. She stays at home every night,
But then her place is at home. A box
o( cai; d y makes amends for any slight,
t hinks he. Now, she don’t cry when
he j nst goes out “for an hour.” She
simply calls “good by’ from the hern!
G f t ^ ie stairs, then goes into her room,
puts on her prettiest dress, dabs a little
powder on her nose and waits for the
door-bell tc caliber down. Then she
8 kips into the parlor and spends a de
Hofitlul evening with another club man.
Oue of those dear fellows who hate to
seo a woman neglected. It’s all per
f ee tlv proper so far. But some day
tller e will be a row. Then, poor little
wife, you wiil to the sufferer. “There
’ ; and another for
is U K j aw ; 0 r the man
the woman .”—Sin Francisco Report,
-—--—
Bad Boys.—“C ollege boys are no re
'Doctor- of persons,” said a gentleman
who lives at Princeton. “When Presi
Sceten the Ctiief 18 foralpoech. Magistrate was He
reloaded,'and on by the in'conclusion boys remarked
with a great deal of fading that he was
about to confide to their care what was
to him the dearest thing on earth. The
words were scarcely out of his mouth
when one of the youth rose and sung
out in stentorian tones: Three cheers
for the thing T ”—Fhiladdphta Press.
ODDS AXD EXDS.
Anna Dickinson is again lecturing.
China has taken np with postal cards*
Capt. Howgate is 6aid to be in New
Mexico.
It takes five men a year to make a
locom otive.
The Standard Oil Company employs
93.000 men.
Tee latest novelty is chicken hatch
ing by electricity.
The Jeannette Monument fund now
amounts to $2,652.
Mb. David Dudley Field will be
eighty in February.
The colored population of California
is estimated at 7,500.
The peppermint farmers of Pennsyl¬
vania are getting rich.
The American tiettle can be used to
make seersucker cloth.
Thebe are 3,589 postoffices in the
State of Pennsylvania,
John Bskht was seventy-three yeara
of age on November 16.
Venison is not dear in Idaho, where
it sells for 2 cents a pound.
Tee dividends payable in Boston in
January aggregate $9,710,478.
Mme. Ristobi receives 40 per cent, of
the gross receipts of her tour.
The conductors on street cars in
Mexico always carry revolvers.
Observing travelers say the Japanese
are more polite than the French.
Thebe are at present sixteen locomo
works in the United States.
The figures grow. Washington now
expects 200,000 visitors March 4.
Mbs. William H. V andebbilt always
dresses in black for church-going.
The Redistribution bill gives the next
House of Commons C70 members.
Thebe is now @13,986,134 deposited in
the postofiice savings bank of Canada.
Linutpoon has a larger fleet of mer¬
chant ships than any port in the world.
The increasing number of Jewish un¬
dergraduates is much remarked at Ox
ford.
Nearly all the winter resort hotels in
Florida are conducted by Northern
men.
Seventy-five newspapers have started
and died in New York city in thirty
years.
Tnn New Orleans Exhibition will not
be in full running order before Feb¬
ruary.
The total number of cigars produced
iu the United States is 3,090,000,000 an¬
nually.
Tboy ice harvesters expect to take
from the Hudson this winter about 135,*
000 tons.
In Ohio the standard weight of a bush¬
el of ear corn is 68 instead of 70 pounds as
formerly.
The Maryland home, Representatives going and in
Congress reside at in
out daily.
The Maine rivers have frozen up in
unusually good shape, very smooth- and
very clean.
Seven churches were destroyed in the
city of Anticpiera, Spain, by the recent
earthquake.
It is estimated that about fifteen thou¬
sand persons are out of employment in
St. Louis alone.
On a trip around the globe the cost¬
liest link is that from San Francisco to
Yokohama, $250.
The Spanish treaty will be greatly
modified and chiefly in behalf of our
tobacco interests.
Twenty years ago the Danes im¬
ported nearly all their sugar. Now they
raise it from beets,
There are twenty-two retired rear
admirals living in Washington, aud only
two commodores.
A monument made of cement, has just
been b uiit oa ‘-he spot in Hawaii where
Captain Cook fell.
A society for the eradication of pro
f an j(y is ike latest moral reform move¬
iu Now T cxk.
It is said that no town having a poo
ulation of 5,000 or more is now without
a rollerskating rink.
Haupeb’s Magazine is sold for eight¬
een cents and the Century at twenty
five cents in London.
About 2,000 Scotch people colony are making
arrangements to form a in Los
Angeles county, Cai.
Among the enriosities collected by the
Alaska Fur Company is a salmon which
in life weighed 130 pounds.
Policemen who serve on the New
York force for twenty years are retired
on a pension of §600 a year.
A man with $100,000 in cash, if at all
smart, can go into Wall street and lose
the last dollar in four weeks.
Too Bright.
A bright but forward boy frequently
finds that his brightness does not save
him from punishment for indulging in
forwardness, of which distressing fact
to forward boys we give ilia following
illustration: At one of Sheridan’s din¬
ner-parties, the conversation turned
upon the difficulty of satisfactorily de¬
fining “wit.”
Forgetting that he was expected to
hear, see, blit say nothing, Master Tom
Sheridan informed the company—
“Wit is that which sparkles and cuts.”
“Very good, Tom,” said his father.
“Then, as you have sparkled, you can
cut 1” and poor Tom had to leave his
dinner unfinished, and retire to private
apartments.
a saw mill the safest btsixess.
“Father,” he said, as he looked up
from the paper, “there were three hnn
dred and forty-eight commercial failures
last week.”
“Great Scott 1”
There was silence for the next five
Kh4 foom hS p^Smarket
“Three hundred and forty-eight, eh?
Jist exactly what I counted on when I
stopped you from going into the mercan
tile business and put you into a saw mill.
A saw mill is sunthia’ that can’t fail
once iu fifty years, and when it does the
law gives ye the mill-dam, and ye can
steal all the saws from the creditors.”—
Wait Street News.
