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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1. 1887 .-TWEiAE PAGES.:
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.at » . a # ' K A Art * ud LeOera—New boulbern Macirln*.
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THl TKLXGBAPE,
Macon Oa.
Wittfiiuu ami Eugland,
Colonel Watterson, in Washington, occu
pies bis spare time, while the signal for the
assault upon Bandall s bill to out down the
Internal Revenue tax is withhold, by writ
ing letters to the Star-Eyed Courier Journal
npon entertaining topics. His remarks up
on the administration and pnblio officers
magazine is to be tried again, tbit time in
New Orleans. Itbas been often tried be
fore; always unsuccessfully, speaking from
a financial standpoint. Richmond, Balti
more, Charleston, Hacon, all have had
their ventures—financial failures wers the
most conspicnons results obtained. When I aro reproduced ia the Tkluobaph to illua-
we look baek upon these and the conditions Irate public opinion, with which, on these
that surround them, there seems now bnt matters, Colonel Watterson baa every facil
little esnse for surprise. ity for becoming acquainted,
A Southern literary magazine cannot sne- Colonel Watterion’s letters are always
coed now upon the idea that it ia to entertaining, because they are not only bril-
be merely a Southern magazine. It liaat bnt impolitic. He does not stop to
must aim for a national scope if consider whether the present impression he
it is desired to carry Southern is about to state as belongiog to the card!
thought into midstream. Oar writers nal doctrines of his belief conflicts with
may be strong enongb to win their way anything he may have previously stated;
over all comers in the oontest by wealth of he does not weigh and examine it to deter-
fanoy, by weight of intelleot, by the beauty mine whether or not it ia from the doctrines
of their crestions; miy overbear the forces of his belief or m rely the impression re-
they meet end establish a school of fiction, oeived from a recent companion. It it
of philosophy, or of poetry; bnt this will I pleases end impn
him ha wings it with
not be because of a Southern magazine, nor I pretty phrases and bids it fly; a eorreapon-
will this Insure the success of such a ven- dent's hsblt that the editor has not been
i XInr oriel skills, tto .ikoull be m»4* pays-1 tore. There is a business principle that I able to shake off.
H 0. Harrow Manage | will govern that Anyone eeerohing through | Nothing oould better illuatrate this habit
Komance of tofStMelL th ® volum6s of th ® Anthem Literary Mag- of Col Watterson'* than hie enlogv of In-
The Great Southern Mail one day chel- * zin ® and other;pubUoations of like ambi- galls's dennt.ci.tion of England. Th«* vitid
lenged an Aged Terrapin to run a Itace tion Polished In ibis section prior to rhetorio of me Senator charmed the Ken*
from New York to Macon in tbe State of th ® war * and y et to b ® fonncl u P on tnckian. Ten minntes before reading it he
Georgia. The Aged Terrapin aooepted tbo th ® •h® 1 *®’ of old-time libraries, must be was on probably speaking terms with En-
Chaiienge with Ghoulish Glee and they I im pressed with the splendor of their con- gland; ten minntes after, he was probably
Started. The G«eat Southern Mail laughed ^* >n ** ons - From some of these Poe’s gems backing up Ingalls with the fiery com-
"Ha! ha!" kiokod np his Hoela and with I were dn 8 after Ua fstue was made, and there munication to the Courier-Journal, that
many Stamps and Flourishes rushed down "”*? b * fonnd man ? others that "blush must forever make him an enemy of John
to Washington in lees than No time. unseen." It was not then for want of merit, Bull. Here is a specimen:
But the Aged Terrapin was not * or tbat ‘W possessed in the highest de-1 "It is true that the ruling classes in- Eng-
discouraged ; he said, seid be, aa he paddled B 16 ®' bet because of their narrow scope that I land hate America and the Americans. It
along the crossties; "I care nothing for ^he South was too sparsely I is true that most Americans regret Water-
•Ha! ha!' It take* wind and judgement to sa4 Sed for the sucoess of sectional mega- loo. It is trne that England deceived both
win A Long Distance race. I’ll save my zlne ®' “d tb ®y were too Southern, or shall the North and the South in our sectional
Wind and see yon later." So he saved his w ® *®y a oti-Nationri, to succeed financially, straggle. It is trne that England is onrone
wind and bnckled down to business. The conspicnons success of the Centnry enemy among the powers of Christendom;
In the meantime the Great Southern Mail m, S ,z ' n * i» based npon the national idea It is true, too, to quote Mr. Ingalls's exact
had reached Washington, fresh and tri- tbat *<s management, end the language, that ‘England has always been
nmphant, so Fresh in fset that it Oocnrred Jjj* 8 ®* lm P n ' 50 °* Harper’s dates back to the the ruffian, the coward and the bully among
to him to Hire a dancing master to tench ' l acce P ted Hie same idea. Neitherjonr- the nations of earth; insolent to the weak,
him fancy steps, so that at tbe Finish he na * ra P res *oto a school of flotion, of poetry arrogant to the feeble, cringing and obse-
migbt Modify tha Aged -Terrapin by a die- ° r °. f Philosophy, and the same is true of qnious to the strong, her history for centu-
■play of great Agility. Besides, he was a Eippincotta and Scribner's. If they have ries has been a record of crimes against the
great admirer of Graoe. * sli B ht beDt 01 bias in any one direction human race. In Ireland, in Scotland and
And so he studied til the steps. And one '? dn ® to i B| i aen ces that unconsciomly I Wales, against the Roman Catholics,against
Starry night tha Aged Terrapin ambled wcigb n P 0E minds that strive to be abso- the Boers of Snnth Africa, against the Hin-
,through Washington, crossed tbe Long | impartial. Thus in the Century’s doos and tho Chinese, against the Afghans,
Bridge and left a Painful trail across the * ar papers we have reason to know the Persians, and tho Egyptians, wherever
Virginia hills. The only thing of Interest I taut ft “"® _ opportunity to | there has been a .feeble and helpless people,
he heard in Washington was the sound of‘ l,nlu '
up Northern men
B'uuuls, Utge Late
I’rslty little Lou,
Backstop, too,
1’ratty little Loo,
Forward, little Lon.
Pro tty lltUa Lon,
Pretty ns you—
Pretty Util# Lou.
_ and Great Britain has appeared for tha purpose
Dancing and Patting and Singing, To-Wit fame at tb ® **!>*<>•• of the South bus been I of rapacity, plunder, and conquest.’ And
and As Follows: * resolutely set aside, and in more than one 1 these things being true, as they are, why
| instance it baa seemed to ns the South, I should Sot Mr. Ingalls refer to them in dis-
I through an efiort en the part of the editor onssing the brutal and inhospitable con-
I not to lean Northward has been favoxed. duct of the British.in Canada to our Ameri-
I Certainly in this magtzine did we first got a can fishermen?
I fair showing to express the history of tbe I "To be sure onr fishermen are aprovok-
I war as we saw it, and we are glad of this ing and a conning set. They go into
I opportunity to testify to the fairness and Canadian ports for cheap outfits, and sell
The sged Terrapin, peeping through o I patriotism that has characterized itseditorial I their oatcb of fish under a protective duty.
OTaok, caught sight of tha prooeedingi and I mnnogomont. and the genuineness of the! They are as rapacious ns the ‘robber
Smiled as he Ambled away. I national idea pervading it. Both magazines I Barone' themselves. Bnt they are Ameri
By and by tho Great Southern Mail at-1 bM ® loaned npon tho South in the field of I oane, they are our fellow-oiUzens, and,
tained all the Grace it desired and trotted I Action also. They have given place to I much as we may quarrel among ourselves
off Southward, aid in Oouno of Time ar- untried authors and sought with I over domestic political differences, wa
rived at Macon, The first thing that mot I tbeir “A 40 belanee the demands I ahould ail belong to the same pasty when
his Astonished gaze wsa the Aged Terrapin of the idea pervading them. Nearly all! H comes to tho fulfilment of treaty stipnle-
aittiog on the poit-oflloe steps reading a Southern fiction writers who have gained I tiout by foreign powers, and partiealarly
New York paper two Week* old that he had prominence in the last ten years have eomo by England, onr ancient and natural
brought with Him. When he eaw hie De- Into notice through these magazines. enemy."
tested competitor come np Graoefnl'y, he I The New Orlean'e magazine, if editod as I We do not ettaoh any special importance
removedhls spectacle* and as ha wiped them 1 11 national ventnre, and well edited, will we 1 to the foot that Democratic Watterson ia
he saM with Groat emphasis, "ha! Us!" b«'levo evontuaUy succeed in establishing guilty of lauding Republican Ingalls's Jingo
" | itself. If it ia to be merely the mouthpiece 1 Bunoombe, andof tbnshelping toemphaaize
A Horry M*ht. I of Southern writers who have not been I the oatary when the Democratic House
Tbo Dade County Times, in reply to ol)1# to fln( j expreaaion, or who desire to I ignores tho Senate bill, as it asinredly will,
somo observations in this journal on tbe I uvitlidr*w and form a literary clique, it will I but merely call attention to the fact that In
recent outbreak at tho lilting Fawn eon- not gnoo#w j. Bat there is not yet proper J this O no letter he answers every position
viot camp, among other things, eaye; I oon jiUons for the assertion that tha South I he has hitherto taken relative to
mnttaoaa*oontoc^ln^thtscoun^Itwonldb* J. U»t«>ng enoagh to hold the first plao. in U. Am.rienn tariff. His study of eco-
loney oaths put 0(th0M who have thorn nndu 4t * <>*“ magazine. A good lit- nomio meaenree has been^ confined to tbe
eontroL From thaolrtnnuUncw connutod wtth I eralure is almost Rnpoasibla to I English system; it ia (his system he would
tho roesnt mutiny at Btslsi Fawn. It Is svtdsnt tbit I a poor peoplo; it is impoiaible to a sparsely I apply to America, though lta oufornament,
had tho Laden bun dealt with summarily, P“®‘ settled country. A glance around at the ita policy has made England "the ruffian
dirae#*,^e'urimuTtnTn*that mo*sffalr took* would I few authors who uphold Southern lattar. uud th. coward, and the. bully among the
• have bean evirtad. Jut at tho time tha ooevtot w >“ »now them to be men and women who nations of the earth. Insolent to the weak,
mentioned was kULd. almost the satire camp-1 labor for a livelihood in other and poorly I arrogant to tbe feeble, cringing and obseqni-
•varr convict ao disposed-was in revolt, throw-1 paid departmonts, and grind out their brain I 0 ua to the etrong,” with a hiatory that lot
. y* 1 ** ... . "“**“•! "Z* ereaUoqe at midnight This is literally trne. oentories "hae been a record of orlmee
and Um authorities present, railing the moit^hlde I ^® io nnd, abiding, healthy literature can I against the human raoe." He would, if
on and Insolent yells. Ihraateulnf Immediate and b * bQ iit npon snoh foundation. There there is aright in logio, oommit this country
■acton# violence to nny who would nstet. As soon I must be at the base of aneb, leisure and to a policy that ornshed Ireland, impover-
u the report o( Uw sun had died away ovary thing money; lelsnre to oreate, money to pur-1 tehed Scotland and Wales, end plundered
wnaeo qntet that onaoonldhavn^ard n pin drop. [ phua. But with oommerclal proapertty, theBoera, tha Hindoos, the Chinese, IbeAf-
JL^posdble the .huklss wmteksn off th. with the rash of invutm.nte, with an in- ghaMt u,, Perslana, tha Egyptians, and
wounded convict and carried to tho hospUahwhoro 0reusing density in population and with flash every feeble and helpless people.
Immediate surgical attention was (Ivan him. Its times, comes encouragement for art and We uy that this is the logical aouclution,
was not hit anywhere only on the um.ibowln« letters, and when thia commercial move- bnt we do not wish even to intimate that
mCso^roeudhlm^lnrordsrtoonsllthoravott^dn I m '“ l ° f 0U " U belUlt d ® Telo P« d * nd “* the eonolueion ehonld be eppUed to Goto-
artory was cut, (rom which daaih resulted in e commercial remits assured, we may look j ne i Watterson. Why, bless your soul, no !
ahoit white, iiu arm was abet nearly o# and very I'M tho army of embryo authors now quar- jj 0 is a genial, friendly, loveable man, in-
niou to hi* shoulder. tored in tha farm honsea, tha cabins and capable of cruelty and of wrong. But he is
It ia submitted that convicts who are the book rooms ot the cities, to bloom out the editor of a great journal printed in a
trestedwith a leniency which invitee mutiny, and fling their incense to the breere. There section favored by the internal revenae law,
are not pnniehed as the law requires and is no doubt bnt thet they are with us. The an< i u U obliged to give hie constituency
directs. H thcro is any piano shore strict j sunlight of prosperity upon «*<• rich soil in anti-tariff and pro-internal revenue thun-
obedience should be enforced at all times it I which they are implanted will warm them <] er< which would be more effective if it
is in prisons. The piotnre of an entire oon- into life and flU the land with tha heantj I V ere not for tha circumstances surround-
wiot force pelting their guards with bottles, of their blossoms. We trust the hour is at { Dg ^
is not a pleasant one to contemplate, par- band. . Lu.w Uos. v.a r.oi T»w Kbem.* Ur.
tieniariy tho guarda and aulhoriUca is- There U a close affinity between our de- Jonniiser*
fined to. I fenseleee coasts and our unopened iron I Washington Special.
The marksmanship mentioned wee bed, mines that should at ones strike every The President's reception was held thfa
very bad, Tha man onght to have fired at Bonthern Congressman. Tha prejeotile of I aiternoon in the East Room amid the ex-
tho arm at little lower down, it he did not the future may not h.v. yet been evolred,
mean to do serious work. An arm shot off but it is certain that iron is to be tha basis I nnm ber, were among those who paid their
near tbe shoulder may be classed among I of all groat defensive works, whether afloat I respects to the President. They came by
the most dangerous ot wonnds. I or ashore. Protect onr iron and onr iron special appointment at t p. m., and were
It is not the dn.yof th. Tshsosara to wiU protect the Union.
inspect convict eemps, and it has not th.| go,,, uninformed correspondent ha, been {“^^to^ch^^Siri
lamnlinn Ia 80IIIII0 I Km aoslili a! AoamIo I . 1 . . ’ •
Shall 1 he sute luonopollas KdusMIos?
fit. Louis Kepobllosn.
The pnblication of a protest agednet
'higher education" at publie expense in the
organ of tbe German Evangelical Hr nod ia
especially notable from the foe! that the
protect wse directed alao against State
teaching of the German language, which all
Germans ere supposed to favor. As a mat
ter of fact, evanta are forcing a revalaion to
tho original American standard of pnblio
education, according to whieh it is held to
be tha Btate'e duty to afford only such tn-
strnction as ia necessary to oitizenship—to
an understanding of the laws and the sys
tem of government. Religion is among the
potent causes at work in forcing the revul
sion. People of deeply religious na
tures and strong convictions naturally
dec ire that their enildren ehonld be reared
and educated in the same comic
tions. If they are Christiana
they desire that the education of
their children ehonld be a Christian educe
tion. The pnblio schools ere for all creod-,
and, being so, no creed most be tsugbt in
them or opposed in them. They must
have no religion in them. This is one of
the necessities of their existence, but relig
ions people are alarmed on finding that the
"higher education,” which has grown np as
and exoresceuce on the common school
system, involves inetraotion in sundry phil
osophies, scientifiic theories and oiogies,
whiob, from their standpoint, are regarded
as militating against Christian oonrictlon.
This has had its influence, bnt even s wider
inflneBcehis been exeraised by the drift
toward a monopoly of all education in the
bands of the State. This tendency is inev
itable whenever tho line which divides the
rudiments from the higher learning is
crossed in the free schools. Crossing it
brings them into direet competition
with schools mnnsged' as private
enterprises and forces nch schools
slowly, tut surely, to the waN.
If the State assumes to give education in
all branches of learning it necessarily mo
nopolizes education, since the promoters of
irivste schools are pnt under the double
jnrdon of maintaining them by the pay
ment of tnition, and of maintaining tbe
S nblia school by the payment' of taxes.
fsintalned at public expense, the pnblio
school is able to oompets without being in
reach ot competition. When tho original
American theory of tree-school education
is departed from, and the publio school un
dertakes to make its pupils learned in all
branofaes of knowledge,, the question whieh
is presented is: "Is it advisable that the
State shall take all education into its own
hands?"
Apprehension that this is the real ques
tion has not been quick, tank it is sure. It
is hastened by complication with the relig
ious phase of the question,, and a feeling of
hostility m produced which extends to the
system, though it is only justified against
its abuses. The efforts to maintain private
schools have been attended with great difT.i-
culties, and these difficulties are found to
be on tbo increase as one branch after an
other has been added to tho pnblio school
curriculum,, bringing the State more and
more into competition with its citizens cn
gaged in oducationsl work.
A DYNAfiHTK GUN.
comprehended that to allow this to go on
unchecked i» to give the StaVv a monopoly
inthe'workof education, and, along with ibis
certainty, another certainty presented itself
—that in competing against the privato
school ia whieh religions instruction is
givsn the Htata is pursuing a policy whieh
virtnally forbids religions instruction to be
mode a part of the child's scholastic train
ing. The patrons of parochial schools
maintained by Chris liens of various denom
inations accept State competition in mat-
ten beyond rudimentary edcaation aa a
manaee that, though they maintain the puli-
lie sobools by payment of taxes, they will
finally be deprived ot choice and forced to
avail themselves of them by the rain of
their private schools. As religious instruc
tion oan never be given in public schools
without revolutionizing the theory of the
American government, they were able to
see tbe manifest Injustice of innovations in
the pnblio school system by wUeh it was
diverted from its original purpose end
made a means of ondermining private in
■traction.
Our German t’atholto contemporary, tbe
Amerika, has for a long time boon engaged
in denouncing what it oorreotly names "the
Boeislism” of this perversion oS - the com'
mon schools, bnt the intelligent opposition
to the "higher education" innovation is by
no means confined to those whose religions
convictions are antagonized by it. The
prospeat of the State monopoly ot educa
tion—a Socialistic precedent lihely to be of
inealcnlable importance—is alarming to
American patriotism and revolting to Amer
ican instinoie. It is plain! UiatU the sys
tem be not regnletod by the American
standard the whole tendency of it will be
away from free education toa servile educe-
Tha Terrible Implement of Deitruotlon
With Which the Government
Is Experimenting
The Chicago Tribune prints n detailed
sod very interesting description of tbe near
gun end prrjcctlle (or tho use ot which,
subject to the approval of the Secretary of
the Navy, Congress b.w appropriated the
sum ot |:)5,0i0, to be applied in the con
struction of a vessel which will carry three
of them. The gun itself, which will carry
a 400 pound projectile, is twelve and a half
inch calibre and fifty feet in length, and
will be operated by compressed air, the ex
trema length of the ga» bring necessary to
secure greater speed for the projectile, as
the air continues to aocelerote its motion
from the breech to the muzzle. There will
be a battery of throe of these guns, trained
on tho perpendicular, for the vessel which
carries them sill never expose her brand-
side to the enemy. She will flru stem sn,
and then, if accessary, retire to load with
out turning, so that she will never preseat
much of a mark to be fired at, and each gun
oan be loaded and worked by a sirgle nine.
The explosive agent to be nsed in this
gur is nitro-geiatiue or nitro-glycerine gela
tinized. It will be placed in a steel pro
jectile eleven feet in length. As a fuse
oould not be used without exploding the
projectile prematnrely, and percussion is
hazardous, electricity i» used for exploding
it, a battery being placed in the point of
the projectile which produces a spark by
ooncn-Bion or by the action of water an a
sensitized surface, while at tbo other end
of tho prejeotile is a knob which answers
the pnrpbse of a rudder an l steers it with
tha greatest sconraey. From the experi
ments which have been made at Fort La-
Foqette with one of these guns it is found
that the nitro-gelatine can be fired two
milts with precision and with no lisk to
thoee handling it, as the sir-gan generates
no nest. It wiU in ioct throw a projectile
of tbs some relative proportions two-thirds
as far as a rilled canuon. It has tba advan
tage oifco of making no noise or smoke, so
that no attention would lie called to its
: ditchsrge from a vessel or a shore battery.
Its adaptability to field operations is also
established, as it is found that guns are
perfectly practicable which will throw" fro in
ten to twenty-live pounds of nitro-gelatino
tbe distance of a mile.
Huc-U in substance are the general chavae-
toriatics of tha now explosive and the gun
which lim it. Its deadly effects have been
so well demonstrated that naval experts did
net hesitate to say that one of these pro
jectiles, striking her amidships, would de-
stray any vessel of war afloat and every ode
on board o.l her. This is sufficiently de
structive, to say the least, and it brir gs up
the rn'.erc'SliDg question bow long war coaid
last if all nations were supplied with il,
eud 11 tho result of tho atrngglo were simply’
dependent on the skztncss of one enemy- in
firiuphis nirro-gelatiue first. A combat of
this sort, whore a single shot can destroy
the most powerful vesaei and ail on board,
raze a fortification to tho ground, or, if
used in the field, blow a whole regiment to
kingdexa oomey would not be a very desira-
It has been 'jhle one. Strategic minenvera would bo
supplanted by wholesale slaughter, and it
is questionable whether uteri could be
louud to march>to certain death.
Wish jr»Tofi, January 26.—The Chineso
1 sinister, Chong .Yen Qoon/invited 400 per
sons to a ball held at the legation last
night. r lo hie utter amazement and to the
scloniehment of a great number of the in
vited guests the house wes invaded by «
orowd of well-dressed people variously estl
mated from HOO to l,3U0-in number. Hav
ing obtained admission, the self-invited ap-
rear to have behaved ia aaappa llingly vulgar
time to devote to this work. Ferh*pa thU ' T 'VJ JT ■pwch, to a
. . . . ■ attempting to btliUle tba wealth of Georgia I inond-d huroilv
^ -1? n .Utmmo»;.n d th. Savannah Tune, ruahe'e ^ , h . cllMt s hau
‘T to th. re.su. with the facte from th. record. TortWorlA
entrusted with this duly, it is to be hoped a j t b# charged ^ , gD0 J Thomas R Conner, U going to Mexico-
*° d ** ti * faat0t7 inTevl 8 aUon m K I >na , uui misstatement we will add, that United States secretory of legation. He
Benator Colquitt and Governor Gordon jhouM provide him^f with a chvet pro-
Hoh» rale to a pretty good thing to talk k, T# been, and possibly are still, among the teCtor "” Ctd ***'
about, but there to no each thing as home millionaire magnates. Careful compilation Ue - to °- "*• buir.red.
nle in America even, so long as the excise (rom lh , o( y,, Atlanta Constitution | 1
officer can go into the 8tales and shoot (hows that the
down men for violating an excise tow.
Thi shortest and most dignified way ont
of the trouble would have bean for the Sen
ate to have chipped into a common jack
pot and have bought Canada. It vroold
have been a mere trifle for tha American
Senate.
, profits of these gentlemen ‘^to^to ££ th^woM
from mining, railroading, and other ven- “days," the meaning of tho editor to apt to
tares during the put ton years mount up to | be mode somewhat obscure,
tho splendid figure of $26,£32,000, using car- t. w... . w>-.-
eular numerals. Boston Bsiaie.
Tna painful news comes from WmUf
ton that Mr. Speaker Csrltoto site on tho tion. tbe feminine fLhion for Veeto wM go
bald-head bench ballet nights at the theatre. I ont forever.
tion, declared and monopolized by the State
on Hooialtotio theories. The common school
is either to he the nnreery ot liberty or the
beginning of the end ot it, end, called to
ohooee, there are few, rxoept doctrainairee,
who will not demand that tha uneommon
features shall be eradioated from the 00m
mon schools that they may, remain free
schools for a free people.
USB OF Oil. Iff WAHHISO.
IlnSilKlit Oil Said tu ba of Help la Cleans
ing Olothia.
Maoeynak Oferoalete.
Have you tried coal oil? This to the ques
tion which todies all over tha ward are ask
ing each other in relation to the new meth
od of washing clothing which was published
in the Chronicle on December 17. Thoeo
who have tried it are enthnaiulio in ite
favor, because it does at leist four things,
namely: It uni time, it uvrs labor, it
uvea the goods and it cleanses the elothing
more thoronghly then bv any other method.
TteuiuuuLdn to iU wonderful efficacy reach
ruby the dozen nearly every day. Boon
alter the recipe appeared one of tbs best
known physicians ia the town called to
thank the editor personally for printing it,
saying it was one of tho beet inventions he
had ever heard of. Wo here reproduce the
recipe with onr fullest indorsement after
repeated tests:
Filled a good-sized boiler with water,
adding a pound of ordinary washing aoap,
ah re. ded fine, and when tbe soap is dis
solved two end a half tobiespoonfuti of
headlight oil. When the water has come to
a boil pnt in the finest white goods, taming
them over occationaUy, and takiDg them
ont in ten minutes; then piece in clear
(hot) rinsing water end from that into (he
a water. No rubbing to required or-
y, and tbe clothes are soft and of
dazzling whiteneis. Should any speck of
dirt remain, a alight rubbing of the hand*
will remove it without the addition of more
■oap.
When the finer goods are shaken ont of
tho boiler coarse goods can be put through
the same process, then flan* els (white)
and then towels, after which the water it
serviceable to wavh colored goods. Should
the water boil lowadd more, and alto half a
pound of (shredded)soap,and another epoon-
ful of oil That to all there to abont it; and
if these simple director ■ ere followed the
terrors of wath-dey will belong only to the
past, aad hundred* of well-worn women
will take on a new lease of Ufa.
"Fie the Kvtl la the Bub.** Skp tkatcoaakla Its
erst Blast*, baton saxloua msipsteeee cease.
Dr. f. It. McLaaa'e Tat Wim Las* a-i—- ;» u
THE GREAT AMERICAN HOG
lashiop. TheStoroaya that tbe"dining-room
wav thrown open at 11 o'clock and there was
a v ild and disguising scramble for position.
Women stood two-deop heside the wall and
moa straggled three deep at the table to ee-
onto refreshments bit them, as though food
had-not been taeUd for two daya before.
Though the raid upon th refreshment
rooma wes so heavy at limes aa temporarily
to awssp tha tables, stilt the supply wsa so
ample that it required only a lew miontes
to replenish; At 22JI) a. in. freeh and warm
terrapin atevr, with aaVada and cream and
champagne was handed out."
Aao.irding to the report of the Critic, the
sosna-wse not less offensive to oil persona
of decent breeding. “In the sapper room,
where a hot meal of everything substantial
and dainty was served with champagne and
innah, there was the same hungry rash for
iood, which to disgusting genteel peo-
4e hero, and which must cer-
ainly be considered one of the American
traits by the diplomats in Washington who
entertain. The same scenes that occurred
at the Japanese legation Monday night were
repeated. Wall dressed men and women
pushed, jostled aad nearly dragged the
clothes off one another in a mad rath for
the refreshment table, and the snpply, whiob
was amply sufficient for the needs of all the
gnests,had moat of them displayed common
good breeding, was exhausted nearly amom
tha famine-stricken, who bore down in ini
foroe upon the corps of waiters, and, brac
ing themselves up against convenient door
jambs, went through the uenn with no-
uiareaa encores and a generous washing,
down of punch end champagne. Aa
rarticnlar aa the minuter and
hto secretaries were in the choice of their
company, it was pretty gonerally concluded
tost night that another consideration might
bo added with tho necessary social position
in making out an invitation list that the
'hog*' onght to bo carefully weeded oat."
Editorially the Critic says that "it seemi
to be generally agreed by those who were
there and took calm and candid view of the
situation that tho forey mule upon the
banquet tobia at the CuauaM Miuia^x’z bail
last night exceeded in voracity and inde-
ocnoy anything ot the kind that had ever
ooeurred in Washington. The simile of
hog* at a trough, coarse aa it to in.langungs
and suggestion, is said to fit tbe occasion
more appropriately than any other,’’
BURNING OF SHELtEYR BODj
A Frtsh Description of a Boreawa
markable Kraut. **'
DowJen'e Life of Btulley,
The people from the snrronnlinesi.
flocked in crowds to witness
spectacle. "The sea, with tho
Gorgone, Capr.’ja and Elba, i.l, 1
old baUlemculed watch-to-ver, al ‘ 0! '
along the coast, backed by the ’ n
created Apeuninf.v glistening i n th 51
picturesque from tbeir di7ersifled omi'
and notahumin dwelling ,r a , j n U;
Three white wands stack in the yellow®
from low-water to high-water m at t
cated, bm not with precision, th a
of bnriah An hoar of ail e£i « 0.1'
past before they had dbcorered lh
a whieh the body lay conaeaJed:
a mattock with a dull hollow boudH ,,
tbe skull, during a general shudder ,
the men drew back. The iuruac' l
plated and surrounded by wood th
mains were removed from Sheir m!
resting-place. It waa Byron's Tri* t2
skull, which was of unusual be.vutv
be preserved;: but it almost instcouj
pieces. Of the volume of Kerta'i
which had been butted with Skedey';!
only the binding remained, and tL
cut npen tho pyre. Although thofira
greater than that of the preceding d«
body waa bnt riowly consumed f
Pours elapsed before it separated; it
fell open neroBS the breast; tbe heart v
was unusually large, seemed impr tm
to the fire, irelawney plunged hi-fi
into the flames and snatched this relic 1
tbe burning. The day was one of
autumnal calm and beauty.
Daring the whole tuners] oereoo
solitary sea bird crossing and teens
the pile was tbe only intruder that bi
the vigilanoe of the guard. Byron/
oould not face the scene, hod swum\
the yacht. Leigh Hunt looked on fron
carriage. Having sooiod ths fstuta
sea, Trelawoey eoliected the fragn..
bone* and the ashes and deposited the:
the oaken-box, Ail was-over. Byron
Hunt returned to Pisa in their can
Shenley and Trelawney, b-aring theo
aoffer, went on board tbe Bolivar. Tt
ies of Shelley's heart, given soon afti
Trewlaney to Hunt, were, at Miry sir
earnest request, supported py the en:
of Mrs. Williams, confided to Mary'* bi
After her death, in a copy of the Pin
tion of "Adonais," at the ptge which
how death is owallowed np in immorti
•M found under a silken oovoriug thi
browned ashes, now shrank and with
whieh she had secretly treaeured.
Tortured by 2(vd Devils.
St. Fan) Globa.
Col. Sueiiry (Mexiosn Joe)- was sl
the earliest American settlers in cld Ct
fins, locating a large ranch in the !
valley. He imported tho first Jeresji
Durham cattle into the country, sod
flouriahiug ranch when the must tu
trial of his life took place. “Ofisiay
out on a solitary prowl among th* 1
Mafire mountains,” said OoL Shelltj
other day, "when I met two while me!
a Mouiean, and was invited to their
terg. I was just maxing an intn
Raul In a gams of mccte,
my bands were selzod irom t
!»B was thrash into
month, and I was relieved of my nit
in a style that was refreshing-in its rap
Bound like a trussed tnrkey, I- was 1
all night up the mountains on pony
and at the break of day was driven ih
tbo narrow natnral gateway that led
mountain fastness of Ohibanhsu—sp'
surrounded by nitnral mountain
Cliff* rising from Cfi to 100 feet abov-
ordinary level, approaohed by to:
mountain paths, made impregnahii
eyrie from wbieh the famous ohie
his followers emerged to raid ov
the aarronnding country. For three
and nights I was bound
sappling between two stak
was an animated target for jeers and
and arrows of tbe boeke and squaws,
Colonel bis the marks that famish thi
umanta tor his latter statement tatt
his entile body). The arrow- heads vi
sharp aa the blade ot a knife, and s«n
so as to cut through toe skin and
pienty-of blood without touching 1
spot. Throe days I-defied them wi
my powere of euduranoe, eUbongh m;
of language waa hardly ecnal to the
of blood I wasted, and at 'the end
time I • wes assigned to the care cl
gunsie to do mental duties with the tq
"For eighteen months I *0raped bid
stood the rough racket of an Indian p
er. Finally one of ths chiefs aquas
a great fancy to ■ me, and tbroagn hs
saw a chance for escape. I shall nev
get the beau til ad moonlight night
Tha outfit had a big celebration, an
cal had tba beat of tjaair brains. (
my guards waa asleep, ths other d
My band wenbover ths mouth of on
my knife through hto heart at tbs
instant, Uy other guard was su
treated. I crawled ont ot the si
camp through tbe gateway, and Ik
nsy way down the tough
about a mils and a. halt,
the faithful squaw was waiting ri!
ponies. Then oame a wild ride do-
Sierra Mad res. I rode one and dxow
ahead of me. Thua I went 225- milt
to Garcia, taking a fresh pony evsi
one wea exhausted."
This story wea told with an sir of
simplicity that characterizes Col. l-
His whole life has bees one of sir
and daring, and every member of th
boy's Gonvention has hto story of
malice and rough life.
NEWSPAPER FUN.
IS caste a kottte.
Theodora Tutna and Fred. Oeoglat*.
London Correspond vac* Vow York. Tims*.
Fred. Douglass and his wife have beam in
Paris thia wiuts:—for that matter, may be
thert lull—and hava received much polite
attention from, a section of the Amciicin
colony i h-re. Douglas* and Theodore Til
ton had been friends in the old days, end
naturally they went abont a good deal to
gether, now that they were met again. The
two heavy, large-featured, dtotlngutohed-
lookiog men, with thair massive heads of
white heir, attracted very general notice on
the boulevards. One day they dined to
gether at a reaUnrani, and talked together
for a long time. A Frenchman sat mar and
watched them attentively. A day or two
afterward Ur. Tilton cams clone to this
cafe. The Frenchman, after a-me hesita
tion, approached him and politely asked
permission to pnt a question. Ur. Tilton
said. “Certainly, if yon will speak slowly,
for my French to still very imperfect."
Then the stringer said: "When I eaw yon
and voor brother together here, although I
could, of course, understand n .thing that
yon arid, I made up my mind, from the re
fined modulation of your vei sea, that yon
must bath be orator*. I should like to ask
if in England it to usual to have two broth
ers *0 equally gifted and experienced in
pnblio speaking."
Behind two feather fans: '
aba waar inch outre things?"
has no oonvarevtion, yon know, andi
her partner eometning to tala
‘‘flow clever!"—Boston Herald.
The new city and county clerk is
leu enoagh to pot np a sign reading
dy applicants for positions will
weep in the ante-room, as the cltr
fen greatly from damp feet."—S«
cisco Wasp.
Msissohnsclts to to have a new
that will rival Harvard. Some of «
football playen in the country ban 1
been engaged, and other places in*
ulty will be filled aa quiexly as po»
Philadelphia Press.
Pint Kentuckian—I bear your D
dead. Second Kentockian—■¥**•»'
away very peacefully. First Kent*
Natural death? Second Kentucky
Fils'. Kentuckian—l thought be »•*
to have 'em.—New Haven News
Dnmley (who has stood an afto
rigar)—Good cigar, (puff) eh W
Robinson (dubional;)—Ye-es, bat
c in have too much ot a good things
•rif—How’s that, Robinson? Ef®
we had orn be f and cabbage W 1
yon know.—Norristown Herald.
A Congressman who to keeping h*
started down town this morning. n
wife stopped him. "My dear," <•
"don't forget to send up that os*
isn't enough in tbepiaeetogeto 1 ®®:
"Can't it go over a day?" "No,it**
arid, flushing np a little. “H *
special order for to-day, ac-1 if 11
come up yon will hear fromoojj
constituents who t* not to be tr- -
It came up.—Washington Critic.