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THE GERMAN TRAMP.
Till' <? UK AT Alt .MY ON Till: 1M)A O Til VI
AlAIOMMi THU A V Til OK ITU-*
or tiiii oi.o hiim i:v.
Trailin').
Of Into years tho number of German
tramps hns been steadily inciv m-lug nil*
til it bus reached a figure which is nl .> in -
ing. In some districts from ton to
fifteen of these wr.ndi rora will daily m-
plore alma at a way.hlo cottngo 01 inn
lonely village, while the men are busy
in tlio fields, ami as their wives and
daughters, partly from good nature and
partly from fear, hardly like to refnso a
crust no inconsiderable ti.x is levied on
the honest nud the industrious. It is
only thoso parts of the country which
otter unusual attractions to the vagabond
which are subjected to such visitation ns
this; but no pi.see is entirely free from
annoyance. According (o one t stimato
the number of tramps in Germany Inst
year amounted to 200,000, and the ox-
treuse they caused the community to was
73,000,000 marks, or about £8,000,000;
and though, from (lie difficulty of ob
taining accurate information, it is im
possible to rely on snob a calculation,
most of those who have made the matter
a subject of study seem to think it fairly
correct.
It would bo a grant mistake to look
upon all these wayfarers ns idle or im
provident. Many of them nro horn fitly
in search of employment in tlicir various
professions; indeed, almost all seem to
lmvo begun their wanderings with tho
best intentions, but by degrees they nro
npt to loso their taste for regular work
and a settled life, and so a largo mid
growing class has been formed which is
contented to live upon alms, which benrs
tho hunger ot to-day in tho hope of tho
orgies o[ to-morrow, and so wanders from
place to place not to seek lmt to avoid
work. As this stato of things is compara
tively new to the country it is notstrango
that it should have excited attention
nud flint great i Hurts should bo made by
both tho authorities and by private olmr-
,ty to meet tho evil.
From time inimi morlnl tho Wander-
jalir hnvo been recognized ns a distinct
period iu tho life of the Gcrmnu handi
craftsman and almost as a neeor ary part
of his education. As soon as his appren
ticeship was over it used to bo consid
ered a matter of oonrso that ho should
shoulder his knapsack and go out into
the world to seek employment, if not a
fortune. Unless ho had very pressing
rensons for doing so, the youth who
stayed at homo was considered a milk
sop unworthy of the freedom that wan
now his by right. Willi a few thalers
in Ids pocket, and nil his other posses
sions upon his shoulders, tho young
tnilor, smith or watolirnnker, startl'd on
his travels, Whilo his money lasted ho
led a pleasant nud careless life in tho
opeu air and tho little inns frequented
by persons of his class. When it roitched
a low ebb ho sought for work in sumo
neighboring tov.-n. How long' lm re
mained in Ids new position dep mde 1 up- 1
on circumstances. Ju summer it was I
seldom longer than enabled him to earn
money enough to resume his vagrant |
life. When autumn enmo ho grew erit- j
ier.l as to tho character of tho masters,
and mndo full inquiry of his companions ,
ns to tho mistress's liberality with re- |
fipoct to diet before lie applied for work;
tor it would hnvo been unpleasant to
havo to turn out ngaiu iu tho ice nud {
snow. Two or three years would be
pas sod iu this way nud then the wan- I
derer would full in love and either re- |
turn home or sottlo down in tho place in 1
which he happened to he.
As soon as a youth had finished his ap
prenticeship ho was furnished with n i
book, in which his master t< stttlod to his !
conduct and attainments. Wherever lie i
stopped for the night his hook had to tie I
submitted to tho authorities, and wne
duly signed by them, finch of'Ills new I
employers had to insert a statement ns !
to tho length of his engagement, his ho- j
havior, nud tho character of his work.
If lie was guilty of insubordination or |
the slightest lnlringoment of the law, l
tho fact was entered, and thus, as it was
impossible for lit ■ workman to find a ,
slugl ' night's lodging without producing I
his Wandc Inch, excess of all kinds
was effectively discouraged, and roughs
and criminals found the diameter of a
Htiudnorksbursch a difficult and un
profitable one to assume.
It would, of course, sometimes happen
that tlio wanderer's money ran out be
fore he could obtain new employment. !
Often, particularly iu his fir.-! your, Ibis ,
was the fault of his own carelessness, j
but it was more frequently caused by the j
fact that no employment was to he louinl
in the places where he expected it. 1 n !
tho old times the guilds made a provision •
against this eventuality. Tho traveler
applied to the one to which lie belonged; I
if work was to bo lmd in the town, lie |
was told where to go to seek il; if there
was none and ho was di statute, ho was
provided with a sum si illdeut to enable
him to reach another place and make u
new trial. When tho guilds lost their
wealth nud ii finance, their plnco was, to
u grout extent, filled' by tho single mem
bers of tho profession. Tho master
tradesman would generally supply tho
applicant with a meal even when ho had
no employment to offer. Tho wealthy
burgher who remembered the merry
days when ho too lia l often been hiingiy
and footsore, and tho matron whose sou
was trudging along tho mountain ways
of somo distant province, wore nt least
equally liberal. If tho worst came to
tho worst, the wanderer had a right to
beg, which was generally allowed, though
not legally recognized. It was only
when they were far from homo, and tho
uecd was great, that tho moro respectable
of the class availed themselves of this I
privilege; but after tho first month or
wo mast of them wero ready to re
ceive voluntary contributions toward
their traveling expenses, and these wero
treoly offered by persons of all ranks.
They were healthy, young, and light
hearted, and it miut bo confessed that
even when they had linen compelled to
beg- fcchtcn was their cant name for it
—-they would often indulge In a moro
plentiful supper and moro copious
draughts of beer than wero absolutely
ueoeessary for the support of life. But
no one looked upon them as common
tramps or beggars. They wore general
favorites, and society rognrdod their
mild excesses with the samo kindly tol
erance which it extended to organized
misrule of the students.
Yet this harmless body of wandering
craftsmen seems to have formed tho
centre round which the groat army of
tramps that now afflicts Germany lias
formed.
In oarrying homo to their country seat
tho wedding presents ot the lately mar
ried Lord and lady Stafford four large
vans were loadrd.
Hon. Kuokne Kelly, President of
the New York Electoral College, donated
his salary ($00) to the Little S;,tors of
the Poor at Albany.
A Canadian constable, who allowed a
prisoner to escape, wus sentenced to pay
85 fine and $05 costs, and to bo impris
oned until he so pays.
A tkavelino tiiinois thief, unaware
that his wife had gone to housekeeping
in Elgin, broke iu at night and carried
off a lut of his own jewelry.
Tins editor of Punch, Mr. Bn run ml
has among his "Happy Thoughts'’
eleven unmarried daughter.?.
Eleven hundred and nine women reg
istered in Botton to vote for School
Committee against 701 last year.
TintUK are so many seals iu the river
at Oregon City, Or,, that salmon catch
ing with a seine has been suspended,
till) NOT TAKE VEX I SOX.
How it Hlrl nml n Worn mi Kept Klsht licit,
lonl Men in Hay.
Eight residents of Bedford county,
Pa., Avont doer hunting on Buffalo Moun
tain. They tracln.d a largo tine doer,
and ono of them got a shot nt it. The
door was wounded, hut it seemed in a
1 Hi.-cr hurry to gi t away tlmn ever, and
i • an hour tho Nimrods followed itonly
by the trail ot blood which it left, Fi
nally a bouse loomed up before
them, and the trail of blood led right in
to tho cncloaod back yard.
Tno party halted under a tree, and
Cyrus Young was appointed a commit-
I o of on -to go to the bouse, explain
the circumstance, and a°k for tho game.
The r of tho crowd watched Cyrus
and !i-l. ■ d. Cyrus knocked boldly nt
tho front door, and was mot by a half-
grown girl with a revolver in her hand.
“ Il-ii-how inr is it to Bedford ?’ asked
the embarrassed hunter, as tho rest ol
tho parly dropped to the ground, to be
out of sight of the armed maiden.
Just then (ho armed maiden’s mother
appeared behind her nud struck out for
Young's eye with a brawny fist that
s emed to top off an arm a yard long.
-Young would have retreated but. tho gill
pointed tho revolverat him, and ho halt
ed with sudden enthusiasm,
"I wonder if thero nro any men about?"
asked Harcleroilo.
" I think not," said Minniok. " You
tackle the girl, and I’ll paralyze tho old
woman.”
“Give mo two or throe guns," said
Watson Stiffler, “ and I’ll surround tho
house.”
“Yon fellers fight ’em in front,” said
Crouse, "and i'll go nrontul and steal
tho deer out of the back door.”
Satisfied with knocking Youug out in
ono round, the old woman returned
indoors, as wo tho thought., but Crouse,
avIio had crawled aronn I to tho back
(loot, hurriedly returned to his comrades
and announced that she had marched
into the woods with an energy that
could mean nothing less than a set pur
pose to summon the m do members of
the family.
Ho didn't bring the deer, either. Each
ono of tno lied ford party had double
hurrahed shotguns but nobody was nox
ious to lm carried homo on a stretcher,
ami Crouse was again detailed to see how
large tlio male portion ot tho family
would ho when it came in, Ho soon
Saw tho old woman approaching avith
•tour sturdy woodsmen. One of them
carried a revolver, the second a shotgun,
tho third a cross-cut saw, and tho fourth
n double-bitted iix.
“ Boys, wo hud hotter start,” said Ar
nold, “it avc want to got to Bedford be-
furo dark.”
"Yen, lotus go,” said Bates; " I ain’t
feeling well.”
“Good dav, miss," said Young, ns ho
hacked off, bowing politely to tho fair
damsel iu tho doorway nud hooping a
sharp eye on tho revolver.
“1 never did liko venison,” repliod
Minnick.
“I wouldn't bo bothered lugging the
nnirnnl home,” growled George Ht ffl :r,
“if I wasn't so awful tired,” bind
Crouse, “I’d lunkn them fellers think
a cyclone had fit ruck ’em,”
“The doctor told mo tho other day,”
el.Ira 1 in Stiffler “ that venikon wasn't
lieu!' 1 v l ilting this mild Weather.”
"Well, boys,” raid Ilnroloi'odo, “if
you want I bul l I'll lend you. I've fit a
powciful sight in my timo, and I’m not
afraid of tLut gang;, old woman and nil."
'J ho Vote, however, stood seven against
blood tonne for blood, nnd as Hnrolerodo
magnanimously moved to make it unani
mous and they stinted off, the old
woman was again soon at tho door with
her thumb lo her nose and her Ungers iu
active oscillation.
Ha Didn’t Heemtnlzo Himself,
A family, wlios'i name can ho d>
scribed ns Hmith, living atLoeiist Moun
tain, ciiiiiiiiiia twin boys, whoso natural
reseiiibl.-.iioo fairly rivals that of tho two
Dromn s, and a httlo girl,
“On i f you boys," said Mrs. Bmitli a
day or t.n 'ago. “must go to town to-day
for your. lstc-r’b bouiii-t.”
Thorn in nothing mi an about John.
Ho was r. a.ly to concede Tom the privi
lege of going to Jit. Carmel, but Tom,
who is always anxious to go when hie
nothcr doesn't want him to go, had a
Midd. il s; , m of fondness for the retire
ment ol tho domes La* heal til, and au-
noui;e. d tin l lm would inngiiniiimchsly
consent to John’s dep-u'tiiro.
Maternal arbitration was lieees-ary to
BOtllo the ip'i'slinn and John was decid
ed mi as t iu* bonnet.hringer. IIo start
'd off with n suspicious glance at Tom,
ns though ho anticipated a motion to re
consider and a desire on tho part of Ins
brother to make a trip to town oil tlm
sly. His serious view of the wrong done
him by Tom’s perversity hud not modi
fied when lie reach) d Ilia millinery store
on O ik street. In tho rent' of the store
is a largo mirror, henind which the work
of tlio establishment is done. John saw
himself iu tho mirror and thought it was
lorn. In an instant his dingo: t nt tlu
manner in wlboU ho supposed Tom had
deceived him became rampant. Shak
ing his list at tho mirror lie shouted,
loud enough to throw one of the milli
ner’s girls into hysterics; "Well, if yon
want to get tho bonnet, get it 1"
'I'm niug on his heel John went homo,
where lie found Tom reading the adven
tures of “Gory Dick, tho Healthy Hood-
luui of Idaho.” And that’s whv John’s
sister wasn't at prsyor mooting on Wed
nesday night.
Our Honored Citizen.
While I was riding around Quebeo in
a calash onr two wheeledvohiolu narrow
ly escaped collision in the restricted
stroot with n gorgeous equipage driven
by a very stylish ooaohman. A gentle
man and a lady wero riding in the car
riage, and the gentleman put his head
out of tho window and cautioned tho
coachmnu. The splendid matohedspan,
the gold-mounted harness, mid tho glit
tering black chariot got safely past when
I noticed that my driver hadobseqiiious-
ly removed his bat in honor of tho dis
tinguished citizen.
"Who's that? Tho Governor?” I
askod.
"He’s a belter man for this town than
tho Governor," said tho driver. “It's
him that spends tho money iu an ele
gant way intiroly. Bure lie's tho only
I real gentleman in tho wholo town, and
i he's one of your men, too."
"My man ? How is that ?’’
“Oh, it’s au American ho is, an’ a
kind man to tlio poor—Oel), yo’vo heard
of him a hundred times I’ll warrant.
For the life of ran I can’t mind bin name.
It’s—it’s—oh—Kono, that's the name.”
. “Iv no? Never heard of him."
“Well, it’s sore troublo tlioy give tho
j poor man trying toget him bae.k."
’ “Oh, youmcun Euo—J. O. Euo, the
defaulting bank president.”
“That’s it—that’s it—andsuro loaded
him Km 10.”
“Well you’re wrong. ‘Keuo’is ‘cor-
, reel,’ Euo isn’t.”
Found No I'oison.
I Dr. iSamucl K. Cox, D. D., Practical
1 Analytical Ciiemi i, Washington, D. C.,
who made thorough and careful analyses,
, reports that there is neither morphia,
! opium, emetics nor poisons in tho I!ed
Star Cough Cure; that it must proven
boon to there whose systems shrink from
. the use of such compounds, nnd espe-
I ciiilly k. mothers, who justly dread the
! evil, and, nt times, fatal effects of thoso
■ dangerous drugs. He lurther states it is
i not only free from all opiates, poisons and
I emities, (n thing which not one cough
I preparation in ton can boast) but it is
i altogether an original ami most, happy
I combination of the best remedial agents,
! and is as harmless ns it is effective.
ODDS AND ENDS.
Maud S. goes barefoot all winter.
Tub snn dial was tho first timo-mens-
tircr.
A Sr. Louis company is canning
eggs.
Tup. Homans used water clooks in 1G0
B. O.
Woutii, tho French dressmaker, is an
Englishman.
Tm: hardest clock to keep wound is
nil eight-day ono.
FobtuoaTj has 120,000 soldiers—big
army, little country.
Bomb enorgetin Boston ladies nro
working for six fairs.
Goimif.us aro esteemed n delicacy for
the tatilo in Georgia.
Baciiki.ou apirlmcnt lnmscs nro a
failure in Now York.
There nro 8,580 post offices in tlio
Blnto of Pennsylvania.
DituNETTF.s na a rule louk older tlinn
blondes of tho samo ago.
Thomas HaiiiiHon, tho “hoy”
pronoker, is -111 yearn old.
Mn. Gladstone ri ceivcs salaries which
nggregnto 8.')7,500 a year.
Twkntv-onb thousand houses were
built in London Inst year.
Many of tho hack drivers of Boston
sow wear a handsome livery.
A'Uestcs cloth is now used in Europe
for fireproof theatrical scenery.
A school for printers' apprentices has
been opened in Bt. Petersburg.
Pitts ton, Pa., pastors have united in
n card against Sunday funerals.
Maj. u-Genf.ual Hancock will retire
from the army in February, 1888,
T'iieub nro five persons of foreign
birth iu tlio United States Senate,
Kansas boasts a post office named
Plowboy and another called Cowboy.
A Ni MUKit of western farmers are Iry-
ing tourgnnizo a gigantic potato pool.
] )ciiino the last week of October Lon
don had 80,221 paupers on tho hooks.
Cleveland will lmvo tho appointment
of two majors and six brigadicr-gener-
ills.
Cn m s have twenty-seven different
cries, i nch refcrablo to a different ac
tion,
Till! increasing number if Jewish nn-
der-grnduates is much remniked at Ox
ford.
Du Lewis reaches the conclusion
that consumption is found iu every cli
mate,
It is said Hint thero wore never so
many impocunioiis Americans in London
ns now.
It is believed that within tlio next fow
years ten new Ktates will he added to
tho Union.
Kquaiic, dances will ho performed
fashionably by eight couples in a set
this winter.
Tub foreign papers announce an Trisli
opera by Mrs. Parnell, mother of the
Irish loader.
An Englishman married his sunt in
Milwaukee to eviulo tho laws of their
owu country.
Canned salmon from Oregon and to
matoes from Now York aro now shipped
to tlio Congo.
A UEMAiiKAiiLE migration of crows
from Now England to tho South lias
been noticed.
Tim new Capitol at Bismarck, Dak.,
is said to bn tho finest Territorial Capi
tol in the West.
Boston is believed to lmvo more
music teachers than any ether city in
the United States.
Duniso tho dry season now about to
begin 50,000 men will bo employed on
the Panama Calm!.
Mu. Douse,v says ho gave Hubert 111-
gcrsoli $JOO,llO;) for defending him in
the star route trials.
May Aones Fleming lias boon dead
for yiais, but Urn Mii'ceseiou of her
novels does not stop.
A Biirrisiiun has discovered that
North America was at ono timo colon-
ized by the Romans,
The recent election decided that
elinreh property will horeafter lie taxed
in Washington Territory.
Memphis is said to ho full of gambling
lion ea now that tlio authorities have re
pealed tho gambling net.
It was in tlio Bond,
Catarrh
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1 Riire up all hopes of
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priso, after ft fow applica
tions I wtiB entirely ro-
lieved. R. Watson
If ARlUfl, Trotter Carrier,
Nowark, N. J.
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An Illinois railroad company recently
sold some land to a farmer, reserving
the right to removo such amounts of
grnvol as it might noed. When the 1
company attempted to removo the gravel i
Ihe farmer served notice on it that it !
must removo tho gravel nnd nothing
else—no sand, soil, dust or decayed ,nt''
vegetation; for gravel only was written
iu tlio bond. The company brought the Rf J®
cose before tho Supreme Court of the , 87^-’p-a^ n U,ii arm i.„ f i b Mi,-
Btulc, which decided that in tho right to j HTlfW r.E. Vfcire<-*-• ■ «'■*!™ni»djimid-
removc gravel was implied tho right to
removo wlmt necessarily went with it.
The Supremo Ccairt evidently hns littlo
respect for tlio precedent furnished by
Portia’s celebrated decision in tho Shy.
lock caso.
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.•aid Davlil nr old. 1 lo v. us probably prompted
LI inako I ho above remark after living some
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milted to live until tlio pn ionulny, nnd tried
Dr. Kitgo’s Homedy, bo might lmvo had a hot-
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you of its eilluocy. By
foots of tills AVOlld
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druggists; fifty
nts.
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is latte
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A f; 10,000 cotton factory iR projected at Den-
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I W iim n. Nnu-tiellnvoi*
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rac-iuiia til chvonio bowel troubles tlmn tho
Llucliburry. Dr. Diggors’ ftuokb licrry Cordial,
tlio ClltKAT HOC rllllllN Hl.MEDi’, will re-
istoro tho littlo child autTorlng from tlio olfccta
of to tiling, and onroa- Dmrrlmia, Dyaentory
and all bowul affootluuB. For Halo by all drug-
giati) at 00 cents.
Who Kllloil Ti'cmiikoli J
‘■Hliout and Htiig, rinnjiay, tumpay,
Col. JolniHon killed TcoumHeh.”
Bonj. B. Griswold in u letter t:> tlio
Century Magazine anyti:—Hnving oli-
solved in ono number of your ndmirublo
monthly, not very long ago, n query nnd a. "uliin-ln
u re ply in ri forcnoo to tlio killing of tuuatuly, it i
Tecumsoh, I lmvo ever sinco intfindod to
add iv romnrk of my own. Tho purport
of tlio reply, to tlio linst of my recoili o
lion, was that it lmd gonornlly boon sup
posed tlmt Colonel ltioimrd M. Johnson,
Vico President during Mr. Vim Huron's
Pre-sidontiid term, had sliiin Teoumseh,
in n porsotml oncountor, during tlio imt-
llo of tlio Themes; hut tlmt somo degree,
ol douht still rested oil tlio faot. Tliis
reply recalled to my mind tho oireum-
stiuiuo that uliout 1812 I lmpponed to
be present whero Colonel Johnson M’ns
giving grnphio nooount of tho wlioio
imttlo, nud in pnrtienlar of ids lmud-to-
hand couilict witti a powerful Indian,
whom he finally killed. Tlio colonel
then remarked that for somo timo n
doubt had existed whether tho Indian
killed was really tho formidable cliiot or
not; but ho added, iu terms entirely un-
qualified, that recently developed cir-
cumstanocs had removed all uncertainty
ns to tliis fact, no gave no information
showing what circumstances had deter
mined his question, but simply spolto
with positivoness on tho subject.
Life on Hie Ocean Wave.
In Washington tlio other day nnys a
correspondent, I met a well-known
writer of short stories tor tlio magazines.
Hoshowod mo a lotior from W. Clark
Bussell, tho Englishman, whoso
stories are having snob a run. “Bus
sell is an American by birth," ho said,
“though I suppose tlmro nro few tlmt
know it. Ho is a sou of Houry Bussell,
who, some thirty-fivo years ago, was a
popular ballad singer, traveling in tliis
country, singing ‘A Life on the Oo.-nn
Wave.’ ‘A Film O.d English Gentle
man,’ otc. Clark was born in New York
at tlmt time.” Tho letter said: “If my
life is spared I hope some day to visit
Now York and muse, if musing ho pos
sible on Broadway, on tlio site of the
old Oarloton Hotel, in whioh I emitted
my first cry of suffering—my first illus
tration of my theory of life. I
Del that tho best sen Stories over written
nro these of Henry Melville nud Biolmrd
II. Daim. Jr. If you know that Uno
writer, Melville, why not write his life?
Why not let tho iv: rid know as much ns
ean bo gathered of tho seafaring experi
ences and personal story of the greatest
genius your country has produced—
leagues u'u a l ot Longfellow and Bryant
as a poet. There aro no people of
old who t quid tlio Americans in their
peculiar love of the ocean and in tin ir
methods of expressing a senso of its sub
limity.”
A dke keeper at Oiliawa, Oat., makes
tlio cells himself, and thus enables his
bees to produce honey in oue-teuth of
tho usual time.
Lrttp.i:s to tlio Sau Francisco nows-
papers complain Unit t lie missionaries in
Alaska are, in many instances, unprin
cipled nd venturers.
Dhuneennem and theft lmvo become
very eenim-ni in the interior'of Africa,
Before tlio advent of white men tlioy
were almost unknown.
8ovraitron nor of wnlmita in Don Angoloa,
Cul., brought tho owner §2,701) tliiB Hcaron,
DoHcato cliKAnsoH of,oithor box, liowovor in-
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TOWARD THE NORTH POLE.
DKHKKTKt) Vll.t.Allli.
The I'mintr Hc-nl ol ilirUaunlrx l’inchn»cij
From It ii..In liy Uncle hum-
Milk.v in n sort of n deserted village,
holding tcnncionsly to tlio memory ol
busy dnys, bnt lending nl) ixmloneo ot
stidu Iti^nrlAbln dullness tlmt ihero
sectns Fcareelt to hnvo been ever any
lifo or gnyoty in tho plnCei Even the
public buildings, whioh oued Were
bright with paint nud tho tonics of
movement nnd notlvity, lire lieiuly do-
Bcrted now, nnd stnndblaoU nnd ruinous
beside (Ii9 hnrbor shores, nml tlio “CDs-
Ho” on tlio high hit) overlooking Hilkn
Bny linn lost, its windows With its lull-
Hens, nud tho winds whistlo unmolested
through tlio grent rooms iu which thu
Russian Princess used to hold her court,
in iiio days when tlio people hero owed
slIeglniiCH to tho Czar. Ono cannot help
fooling it sort of pity for tho plnco, It
looks so lonely; but perhnps if it were
smnrter, it wonld not bo so picturesque,
nml plet'trosqueiioss, nfter nil. Is What
tlio majority of its visit Aluskn for,
There nro not over 1,00(1 people living in
Sitkn now, Imlinns nnd nil, nml while
tlm town nt present is tho Government
bond([darters of tho Territory, it is not
unlikely tlmt Jitnen» will in lime rob it
even ot this distinction, ithd then Bitkn
iudeod will bo loft to the elements, I
hope there will not bo a general forsak
ing of tho old plnco, for it is tlio most
picturesquely situated town in Aluskn,
nnd 1ms lind n romantic history. Tin
first visitor of note wns Alexander Bnr-
auoff, of Russia, who onme to Sitka nnd
captured it from tlio Indians in 1703.
Afterward it was retaken by tho Datives
nud tlmn roonpturod b.v Bnrnnoff in 1811,
From Hint year to 18fi7, when tlio coun
try wns transferred to tlio United Btatos,
Sitka wus tlm home of imperin! govern
ors. nnd held n prominent position ns n
shipping station nud tho sont of Uussinn
power in America. Thero wns more
tlmn one cruel fight between tho Indinim
nnd foreigners during tho Czar’s owner
ship, But by tlio time Bnrnnoff retired,
old but vigorous nnd determined ns ever,
there wns not much Ironblo, nud u con
siderable number of Russians lmd mi
grated hero nnd formed n colony of re-
speotnhle hz There wns n marked
distinction then between tlm commoners
nnd tbo gentle folk. A peasant lmd lmr
dress prescribed for her, nnd people
made way for their betters when they
met them, and dropped n courtesy too.
In the ensile there wns n throne room,
elaborately decorated, nnd In tho conlro
of tho town tho Princess hod n gnrdoii
made, with walks nnd tlowors nlidn oot-
tugo, while tho men frcqnouted n club
house, full of good things to cat, whioh
still flaunts ils desorlol balcony over the
main street of Hitkn. When tho Kih-
siniiH wont away, however, the cnstlo
vns pillaged by tlio Indians, nnd sinco
limn hns billon moro nnd more to decay
every year. Tho garden, too, is neglected
and in ruins, nud tlio onco hospitable
ciuh lmnso is tlio dronry homo of those
who nro too poor to lmvo any other
abode.
B tkn hns nn excellent harbor nnd n
pretty location, The bny is formed by
two long arms of the main Island, end
ing in tlio peaks of Edgecombe nndVos-
tovia, nud is protected from tlio opeu
sea by a group of islands covered with a
heavy growth ot timber. Behind tho
town are piled up mountains with steep
sides, between two ot which flows In
dian River, working its way through n
dense mass < f shrubbery, and crossed
by rustic bridges.. Between thu wharf
and tho river, a distance of two miles,
runs tiie one street of Bitks. which lends
past tlio warehouses, down by the water
at first, nnd then by the side of tlio pa
rade ground and tho Government build
ings nml Rnssinu Ohnrch. Later it
leaves tlio houses nnd follows the cres
cent curve of u rooky bench, whero
boats are hauled out, from which nn ex
tended view is lmd of Vestovin nud tho
intervening islands. Following this
highway, Hitkn seen from the end of tlio
road appears not unliko n fishing villngo
of distant Maine, for ono sees tho nets
spread out to dry upon tho bcaoli, and
tho houses nil hnvo tho weather-beaten
look so noticonblo in tho odttnges on the
enstern const.
Shaking a Man.
Isnno Newton, Commissioner of Agri
culture, during President Lincoln's ad-
ministration, wns n member of tlio So
ciety ot Friends. After every draft, his
services were sought to secure tho ro-
lenso of some (.).laker, who, against his
peace priucq 1 a,.had been forced into
tho army.
Once while conversing about fighting
with Adjutnnt-Gjucrnl E. D. Townsend,
tho latter naked him if ho boliovod it
proper always to curry out tho striot lot-
tor of tho Scriptures, nnd undor uo cir-
oumstnuoes to resist.
“Oh, no,”snid Frisud Newton, “there
nro other ways of resisting beside light
ing. Ouco, wlion I wns a driver, I mot
n man in a wngou. Tho road was very
unrrow, and tho man, seeing that I was
a Friend, refused to turn out and stopped
direotly in tho rond.
“I asked him kindly to turn out nnd
let mo pass, but ho gruffly refused.
•Friend,’said I, ‘if thee will not turn
thy horso, I will turn him for thee.'
“So I took the horse’s head to turn
him. Tho man jumpod out nud van to
ward mo ns if intending to attack mo. I
seized him by both arms above tho el
bow, hold him, nud said, ‘Friend, if theo
resists, I will shake theo.'
“I gave him a shako as n finmple, nnd
ho, seeing that I was powerful and de-
termiued, apologized and turned his
horse out ns far as ho could. But K did
uot strike him,”
Stoipino a Tn.urt.—A few weeks n<*o
nman walking from Peekskill fo Sing
sing, N. Y., become tired and coolly
turned the signal light near him and
stopped n train. Ho got aboard tho
train, but was arrested nnd has been
sentenced to ono year in State prisou for
tlio offence.
Suicides are ou tho increase in Franco,
hive years ago the number was 17 to
every 100,000 inhabitants. Now it is 19.
TnEBE were 189,105 deserters from
the Union armies during the rebellion
and 104,428 from tho Confederate
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How Cotton Bums.
ItnMAUKADT.n 0AT1FT,PS«NKHS OP TIIO!T.'
WUO HANDLE THE STAPLE.
“Urn, yum, I smdl burnt cotton,'
said a cotton-buyer in nn Amoricun
Gn., warehouse several days ago.
“Here it is,” said another bnyer,luck
ing u]i a handful of scorched cotton
which wns lying on tlio ground. “There
is no lire in it, though,” ho added, oarc-
Icssly.
“How fast will cotton burn ?” asked fl
Pcaorcler man, who wan ntnnding by.
“It will burn faster than anything f
know of,” said the buyer, an he turned
the stapio nronnd in his hand and exam •
inod it. “Just to show you—hero,” and
ho picked up a handful of the clean cot
ton and handed it to the reporter.
“Now, wad that up tight nnd put your
cigar to it. Then fold it up and pul
your hands over it.”
Tho reporter did no. Tlio momont the.
cigar was applied tho cotton caught and
thu tiro began to sink down liko a drill
into tho handful. He olosod his hands
over it, and iu a short time it became so
hot that ho wan unnblo to hold it. Pick
ing up another handful, lio wrapped it
around tho (Ire, and, holding it tightly
in both hands, succeeded in crushing
out the jire, as ho thought. When it
wns again opened, however, it began to
burn as hard as ever.
“It is almost impossible to put the
lire out when it once catches cotton.
Tho closor a halo is paoked tho faster it
will burn. It don’t spread out liko any
thing else, bnt burns directly to tho
center and consumes the inside of tho
bale first. I remember onco in Savan
nah ou the wharf, when I was biffin”
somo compressed bales, that all at once
a boy yelled nt mo, and, looking around,
I saw a bnle which had just passed fall
to pieces ami flames begin to come from
it. By good luck tho lire got no fur
ther. That balo probably had been
burning a couple of days, Ginhonses
are often burned np by the piokers
Btnoking in the fietd and letting a spark
drop into n notion basket. It is dumped
into the wagon nnd then into the gin-
house, and does not get fairly started
before night, and before anyone knows
it the house is on fire nud bntnf.”
“Big fires in warehouses,” be contin
ued, “are often oaused by careless
drivers, who smoko ns they drive tho
cotton to town. Tho tiniest kind of n
spark will sink into a bale, and if no*
! discovered will lmrn thousands of dol-
l laro’ worih of cotton. That is why buy-
! ers always carry as much insurance as
! they can get. Thero is no telling when
; a big tire is going to occur.”