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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY. JUNE 12.1888.-TWELVE PAGES.
A BEHARYtAfttAk SUCCESS.
0r lgta and BUcof tbp Great Houko of Tif
fany & Co.
Krora the New York Press.
jrifiy years ago a young man living in a
small township in Connecticut maiie up his
iind to seek his fortune in New York. He
bought for $100,000; a big ruby that onco ' Dickens's Gentlemen,
fhea its rosy light on the stately white 1 From the New York Tribune,
throat of Catharine II. of Russia; the! In the June‘‘Scribner” Mr. Robert Louis
e eralds anti diamonds of the fit and flir- Stevenson has a paper on “Some Gentle-
tatious ex-Queen of Spain, and many of men in Fiction,” which does somewhat less
the crown jewels of France. They have than justice to Charles Dickens. The as-
now a famous ruby, the largest and most j sertion that Dickens could not create a
perfect ever brought to this country. It is gentleman is a horry libel, and Mr. Steven-
had never been to the metropolis, but that j wor th $33,000, and is set in a ring for a j son does not indorse it. lint he docs ex
on one finger.
DU. H.YYGOOD
Cnptlvates a Soutli Carolina Audience—An
Interesting Sketch.
A correspondent of the Charleston News
and Courier, writing from Orangeburg,
didn’t daunt him; he had no business cx.
perience, but that didn’t dismay him. As
Jo capital, he did ha m $500, and a fund of
courage, hope, audacitv and perseverance.
That has since proved worth more than
<5 000,000. When he came to the city he
broight with him his brother-in-law, and
without loss of time rented the ground o
lloor of a Btnall dwelling liotiso at 269 ^ speaks of the address of Dr. Aiticus U.
Broadway. Here in the autumn of 1837 | Huy-good at the recent commencement of
he formally open d a new. shop. i Claftin University, as follows:
'Ihc stock in trade consi-ted of imported I The remarks of Dr. ilaygood given above
goo Is, such a* stationery, cutlery, walking | convey hut a faint idea of the impression
sticks, Berlin iron anil Chinese goods. The i mude upon his vast audience or of the
latter were at that time the fashion, and manner of its delivery. I’, rhaps eight out
the grotesque chessmen, the monstrous . 0 f ten of the readers of “Our Bruther, in
punch howls, the red clay teanotB and huge ; Black” have formed an idea of the per-
jardinieres *<dd in that liitle shop still I sonal appearance and manner of its au-
lady—who can afford to carry a fortune j press the opinion that “for many years
figure in the houses of good society. T he thor, anu half of these have doubtless
sales for the first day amounted to $3.98; > pictured to themselves the conven ional
on the secur'd, public curiosity being par-, Methodist circuit rider of the Empire
tially gratified, tu $2.i7. Alter this the | State, tall, commanding figure, clerical
fluctuations became less marked, and the coat and vest, and a stamp on Ids face
sales increased. On Christmas day they suggestive of “grace before meat” or of
amounted 1-235, aud on New rear s, which long sermons,
plainly ieHs the fashion of that time for
miking gifts, to $075.
Dickens labored in vain to create agent!
man.” Of course ony discussion on such
point requires preliminary definitions of
the word “gentleman,” and here it is not
volved on its axis once in every twen ty
four hours.
After the lecture was concluded a rough
looking young man arose in the audience
and laid, addressing the lecturer:
“Sir, do I understand you to say that the
sun stand still and tluit the earth turns
upside down once every day ?’’
The lecturer'replied tluit the science of
astronomy so taught and that he so be
lieved.
The young man, who was none other
than Bill Martin, a young lawyer, who lias
ince become celebrated as “Howdy Bill
The picture is entirely wrong. Doctor
, Haygood is not the typical or conventional
Ti-e new -tore became popular. New Methodist minister, I no disrespect intended
Yorkers may make fun of it, but there is j to the cloth,) either In appearance orman-
, K 'u v respect more sim erely than . ner; uur fi, j, e a typical or conventional
\ . I iml ml gei* anil New England in- any thing else. He is si oply Attieus Hay-
trgri / fhvy lonnd it personified in the goo'il, and he would be the last man to be
juiine man from Como client, and they , taken in a crowd for a Methodist minister,
tiair-iiiis d him so steadily that, little by Short and rather stout in figure, with a
liitle lie expanded Iiis slock, moved again , head half bald, and a beard and whiskers
and again tu make room for it, and had to , half gray, attired in a dark blue business
tske in ni w partners to help manage it.. coat, and wearing a slouch hat, he might
One of the latter was sent to Pans in 341 j i, e taken for a plain, ordinary business
and returned great quantities of the dax- nmn, or, perhap-, for a country lawyer,
sting l’.dais Royal jevri-.ry, which took im- Having been in roduced to him, you
mfitatfiv. . In 1845 iha tinn bettan to Bell w.julU soon begio to UQdorsMwd ih?it you
realgoW jewelry, and in 1848, when, owing jj a( j met a very genial, lively, witty and
lo the rreiicn Involution, dinmonds de- pungent conversationalist; gtt him talking
dined in price, 'hey, imported a large and j on a subject that interests him, and you
valuable amount ot them. I w jjj see c l ear gray eyes snap and spar-
In 1857 wa« btgun the manufacture of flip as | le wa rms up, and then he
silverware, a branch of their business, mav talk to you for two hours,
which now employs 1,000 iu»n, and in 1870 an( J you will, at the end, think
they moved up to Union square into the that you have been listening for
big building, which is pointed oat with , fi v „ minutes only. He is. by long odds,
pr du to every stranger ss that of 1 iflanv • the most earnest, forcible, pithy, attractive
A C ._ The largest establishment of ns speaker that this correspondent has heard
kind in the world, and the only one which , j n a career running over nearly a quarter
confides itself to the ret dl trade, it ha- 8 of a century. Mixed metaphors and pleas-
reputation for the beatify and worth ul its , i ng platitudes are not in his line; nor does
productions t hat has made the heart of ), e j D ,lulge in flightsof eloquence or grand-
many a patriotic American glow with ^ iloquent figures ,of speech. Dr. Ilaygood
easv to ascertain what Mr. Stevenson's Martin" of Tcxa., challenged the lecturer
definition is, for while he cites some to a joint discu--ion of the qmstion. The
instances in fiction to which no objection challenge was immediately accepted, and
can be taken, he names at least one char- j t wfl9 agrt . ( ,j to )cave t fi e decision to three
acter—Richardson’s Lovelace—whose ad- arbhers there selected by the parties. If
mission to the order involves fatal eonces- t he decision should be in favor of the lec-
sions. Of Dicken’s people Mr. Stevenson turer Martin was to pay him $100, and if
names David Copperfield, Carton, Wray- in favor of the young lawyer, the lecturer
nrn and Twemlow as saiisfyiog Ins ideal, vag t0 j cave all h ; g g i 0 be- charts and pic-
thoughas to the first of these he hesitates. „, re , there, and leave the Slate amt go
W e should have been somewhat In doubt borne anil earn an honest living as Murtin
concerning the last i f the four, ami his expressed it. Tho joint discussion began
admission seems to indicate a tendency to t i„. next niorn i n g an d continued for two
accept a definition based rather on conven- entire dayB before an immense audience,
tion than ethics. But surelv a larger esti The three arbiters eat on a stage and looked
mate should be made of Dickens’ purposes as wise as three owls. Martin ponred hot
and methods. HU books do not present shot, thick nnd fast, into the New Yorker,
many conventional gentlemen, though ~ . _ . ....
even of them there are some typical por
traits. But when we look for the traits
TIIK IIK11NAMH) HOItltOK.
le Case Revived aril Knshrouried in Stl
Furllitr Mystery.
Reader! of the f l ki-kgrapii will remern-
He quoted Scripture, and especially that
part where Joshua commaudeil the sun to
, , , , , 6tand sti 1. He appealed to the
and the behavior which ought to, but by common sense of the people, many of whom
no means always do, distinguish those had trav li il fr in the old Slates lo Texas,
stand, ns I had done in former years, but I
could only answer, that not being nvited
myself, it would be presumption for me to
ask the favor for others.
But I did want to witness the reremonics . . - -
at the Metropllitan Opera House last her the arrest m Macon many men*hs ago
evening especially to hear the Hon.Chaun- , Deputy United. Slates Marshal Bledsoe
cev M. Depew srd Robert i+. Insereoll, . the iMiuinatlon of cue Jo bn
and came back from Hoboken In time with Hfdltfield, in Henundo, Fla., by Detective
that intention, but was informed that tire I'bodes. Mr. Bledsoe was taken to Florida
seals were all sold. Ina-iuuch as tire re- and released on bond. Other parties were
ceipts would go to Borne good charily under and jailed. It now teems that
the rules of the Grand Army of the Re- there are person* who have teen Hollifield
public, I frit rather i ratified thin neg- af'or the date of the murder, and in Jack-
Icctcd. I did not go, and trusted to the "°?i G *o •"« former home of Hollifield,
press to enable me lo read their expres- evidence on that line was taken. The Jack-
sions, which were both patriotic and elo- son News says:
quent. j From the evidence taken before Judge
And now I address my comrades of the Carmichael la-t Monday, from some of llie
Grand Army, which made these civic cere- nl °st reliable citizens of Butts county, anil
monies possible, as one of ihtmselveB, not “* s * r8 ' Bufus Cruse, anil The*. Weaver,of
claiming any privileges by reason of ex- : Coving'on, considerable donbt lias been
sited rank and honors far atove my createti ns to the muriler of John Hollifield
deserts, if it is not better that wc should ’** Floiida, on or about the 15th day of
devote Decoration Day to the cemeteries November, 1884. Several witnesses swore
which contain our honored dead and the positively that they had si cn and con-
dedication of permanent monuments in versed with John Hollifield in this ccnnty
their honor for the teaching ol patriotism j" 1885 and 1888. Mr. Cruse, who keeps a
to future generations, instead of swelling “ott-l in Covington, swore that in the
Btreet parades and pagensts for the glorifi- {*•• D85, John Hollifiid applied to
cation of the “belligerent non-combat- ! l', m * or 8 night’* lodging, and Mr. 3 ho*.
of us for their own 5*eaver, who at that time carried on
who are called gentlemen, we find them
easily and often.
Dickens was a true Demeicrat, and a
contemner of rank and artificial distinct
ions. It was natural to him to put his
finest spirits into rougli envelopes, and to
ami hail never seen eny evidences of tho
rotundity ot the earth. lie accused the
lecturer of trying to fool the people with
his new-f ingled ideas, and trying to lead
them astray from the faith of their fathers.
He also mildly intima'ed that the propa-
ants," who make use
purposes? Your friend,
W. T. Siif.ruAN.
Tlis New Mms or llio Henson.
From th*- London Standard.
Isabella of Bavaria, who wore a peaked
bonnet one and three quarter yinls in
height, would find herself, if she'rt-til'nid
livery stable business in Covington, tes
tified that he carried John Ilollifielel to
i lie Georgia railroad depot at Covington
and that he boarded th ( * train for Atlan
ta. about the tune in 1886 that Mr. Ciu-c
says Hollifield applied to him for lodging.
It is a Utile sfrange, however, that John
Hull field should have been in Bntta
develop their innate nobility in adverse grtors of such notions ought to be taken
Blit if we are to give its truest up and burned for heresy. The earnest
the wo o “gentleman, wo * *— —-• *• - ! -
tnuBt bestow it, not only upon the charac
ters Mr. tstevenson has named, bin upon
Mr. Pcggotty, old Riah, the Jew, Joe Gar-
conditions. _ ^ __
me ning to the *0 (1 “gentleman/’ wo manner and stentorian voice of Martin,
. . with hi* charge it heresy and the usual
imnLhuient therefor, made the New
Yorker tremble in his shoes. The lectur-
gery, Stephen Blackpool, and other noble- eFs polished argument and scientific dis-
minded, loyal, true, hemic personages sfi-tstisn were atUtvatliSS.
in these novels. Why should that great- , ~ The'arhUer* retD^F81°'the close of the
hearted gentleman, Lawrence Bovthorn, digcuRHion and returned in a few minutes
be exciud d from Mr. Stevenson s iiNt, with the verdict that “the sun do move and
either? Surely, he is a better example, the earth is flat.”
even of the conventional gentleman, th.-in , Tin- lccturci was crestfallen. lie doubt
the feeble Twemlow. No doubt there are i e8S , houg | lt he had met the toughest lot of
people wh -, if asked to decide which was heathens »n earth, lie never saw the
the truer gentleman—Lord Chesterfii Id or point of the joke. He ret red from the
Jean Valjean—would give their votes to leciur _ field, laying his whole outfit in
the peer without hesitation, i lint, per- the hands of the victorious enemy. One
among us in that particular bonnet, quite .
in the fashion still, for, though linnet* T n f "“! er0 " 3 rcIauvl '?
are fiattcr, lower and cloir as regards their ’ dl ' , "' IU ( po t . ,on ’’ ® f ,. lhe r ”" n ‘7. “ nd
absolute s>,.e, yet trimm ng is piled on to p, " t,® 0 L 'f. r f rT r". her , fa,r
...>k ?i__* , him or knew nothing of of his being here,
pride when iu a foreign land.
is a plain speaker; he calls a spade a
In a private office in the rear of the I spade, when the calling of it does not vio-
store hang letters patent from the crowned t i ate t j, c rn |e, g(K)( l breeding, bnt his
heads of Europe enough to placard the ' - '
shew windows. A single one of the-e
would make the fortune of a silversmith
or jeweler in England. There if a butch
er enjoys the sublime distinction of serv
ing H. U. H. with a si. glc chop he has-
whole soul is in his words. He hammeis
his argument into you so pleasantly hut so
forcibly that you are not conscious of the
process. He cm paint a picture (and did
this afternoon) so faithfully in words that
the subject seems t-i stand out before your
tens input over his shop door the evcrlast- vision. It is difficult to describe bis ad-
■ j ostrich tips and motto, “ich Wen,”
which wouldn’t be a bad odc for his
bntchership either. There is nothing that
shows Mr. I iflanv to be more strongly
American than the non-display of these
bits of royal parchment. * He pays his
countrymen tl e compliment of thinking
they ask for no foreign indorsement ot
their taste.
For half a centnry through hail, rain,
shine and even blizzard, Mr. Titlany lias
never failed to enter his store nl 10 o clock
in the morning. Here he comM now, the
young man tronr Connecticut. His step
is quick, energetic, his figure straight,
bead crecL and in the eye remarkable for
itacliaf blue ami norm complexion, you
see the health which regular habits has
kept jicrfect for fifty years under a stress
of bu-iness grown tremendous. Mr. Tif
fany is now 7G yoare of ngc. It is a com
mon form ol Uattcry to say of a man he
looks younger then he is, but it is the sim
ple truth ol the great developer of indus
trial art in America, who would pats for
twenty years younger.
Mr. Tiflany has never hada fit of illness
nor missed but one day from business on
account of indisposition. During the bliz
zard he walked tu his slurs every day. and
on the Monday was amused to find the
receipts even smaller than the first day of
hit business life; ninety cents for tw*>
boxes of plate powder renr. settled the sales
of the G00 employe* in Ins shop. When ho
wants a stroll Mr. Tiffany walks down to
hi* silver manufactory on l’rince strict.
His advent in either place is iooked for
ward to with pleasure. There is not a man
or boy in bis employment whom he does
not know and for whom he has not a word,
given iq that manner that makes of it a
personal comp! iment. Just tri atment, lib
eral nay, and a quick recognition of talent
has drawn into his etntdov a magnificent
body of men.
Mr Tiffany carries in his high forehead
*nd keen eye th* sagacity which enables
him to pick out hiB men, and iu his mouth
snd chin the firmness and benevolence
that enable him to hold them. Preference
is always given the native American, and
numbers ot his artisans can trace back
their American descent for generations.
The talk about our c udeuess in art, the
inability of our workmen to originate and
design falls meaningless here,anil Tiffany’s
ware of American design, American work-
manihip, and American silver, commands
the admiration of the civilized world.
The first foreign connoisseur in art to
•how his appreciati. n of Tifiany’s work
was the celebrated l’rince Dcmiii .ff, whoso
matchless collection was sold iu 1880. The
prince had seen a piece of the work which
astounded him. lie at once sent a check
for $2,000. leaving the form of his pur
chase to the firm. There was made for
him a aniierb ailver tankard, beaten out
from a solid block of silver. It was in the
ma German style, about a loot and a hail
in height, rather bulky, and one mats of
exquisite repousse work in leave* and
flowers. The work which il took the time
of a skilled a llsao for one yeai to do was
ro boldly and clevrrly executed that the
thumb nails could easily be imcrled be
tween the leaves of tiie blossoms.
At the Psri* exhibition Tiffany A *3o.
took the great golo medal. Their work as
tonished the old world and brought orders
from every court. Among the specimens
•bey had on exhibition was a portion of
the spl. nil id dinner service made for Mr.
John W. Mackey. The cost of the work
on this set came to $100,000 without the
dies, which Mr. Mackey bought outright
that the set might never be re ( roduced.
Thcsilver w*» .grubbed from his own
mines and cash niece stamped with the
family arms. Rome people were rude
•oongh to poke fun at the last touch, but,
after all, It will eneble the Princess di
‘-'donna to show the coming Ittliao that
•he was bom, not simply “grown” in
America.
A volume r n the romance of jewelry
rotllht be drawn from the records of tin
$reat hon-e . Union xiiurr. Tbroigl
their bands p»«..<! th, ol diamond-
*'*rn by the baemllul M«rie Antoni. »<
» jewels ol the fsmoui Prince Iff' -rhszy
haps, is the result of heredity; a survival
of the long drill in the system of caste.
Nevertheless, there is no room for rational
doubt on the quiBlion Before any Court
of the arbiters was Tom Murchison, who
was elected by the Fort Worth convention
this wcik as a delegate from the Second
Congre sionnl district of Texas to the
AN KXriMimnlN tllY I.KTTKIl.
of Morals the epistolary nobleman must national Democratic convention at St
give place to the social outcast j Louis.
We do not altogether like Mr. Steven- 1
son’s choice of Wrayburn. Compared
with Steve Blackpool he is a poor sort of ! What tlorace Greeley Once Allowed ntm-
creature The rongh miner is full of dolt- 1 self to \v "
cacy, patience, loyalty, devotion to duty. From the Century.
— • " - ' ** - * .... i The following extraordinary letter wns
The Ir gedy of his life is ennobled by his |
principle, and hut for external help would i" printed now for the first time. It will
behavior under hopeless anflering, where- J written bv Horace Greeiey to President
■ Wrayburn is infirm of purpose, lax of' Lincoln after the battle of Bull Run, anil
dress or the stylo of its delivery. Ills.re
marks were addressed to every person in
the audience individually. It was punc
tuated new with a funny story that would
set would set the audience in a roar; now
with a touch of pathos that wonid brii g
the tears to the eyes of ev- ry one, and now
with a home thrust of truth that would
sink into the hearts of his hearers. It
was delivered without notes, and yet was
so clear, consistent, charming, pointed,
forcible, earnest, eloquent, that the whole
crowd seemed to ho under the spell ol a
wizard.
During its delivery lie paused once, and
turning to Governor Richardson paid him
the high compliment of saying that Claftin
owed much to the broad statesmanship
that characterized hi- rec.mimen.lntinii. ,.n
the subject of education to tho Legislature,
an announcement that was greeted with
applause from the students.
The address was a masterly effort, and
created a profound impression on all who
heard it, white and colored.
No Tariff fur Surplus.
From the New Y'ork World.
It is violence to history and gross injus
tice to tho early leaders of the Democratic
party to cite Jefferson anil Jackson in de
fense of the present unnecessary and
Iniquitous war tariff.
Like all the founders of the Republic,
Jefferson believed in giving encourage
ment and protection to what a hundred
years ago were called “infant industries.”
But tho tariff deemed sufficient tor this
purposo in Washington’s time averaged
but 8) per cent, ad valorem. Daring Jef
ferson’s administration the need of mo'e
revenue led to an increase of the average
duty to about 15 per cent. And yet after
tho expiration of eighty year* the name of
Jefferscn is cited in hchafl of a tariff' that
averaged last vear 47 per cent—and pro
duced a surplus revenue greater each
month than the entire cost of the Foil ora I
government for a year in Jefferssn's time!
It was during Jackson’s administration
that the “Tariff of Abominations” was
scaled down to 32 per cent., 20 per cent,
lower than the Mills bill would leave it.
And the most powerful argument auu
cmn warning in Jackson’s farewell address
were against the maintenance of a tariff
higher than was required for either pro
tection or revenue.
Tho Democratic party has favored a
tariff'for revenue and a tariff fir protec
tion, bnt it never favored a tariff for sur
plus.
Matthew Arnold’s Will.
George Smalley In the New York Tribune.
The publication of Arnold’s will ha*
made some impression. The property he
leaves amounts to $5,000. That is the
sum which remains, alter death out of
what tile British government and British
public thought adequate pay for all that
% *»?_!• Ut. r.fr*Smr» sliil (np Krtlh
“I leave everything of which I die pus-
sessed to ury wi'e, France* Lucy Arnold.”
That Is his will, verbatim, under dste of
July 21,1802 Yet I hear o no British
propo*sl to improve mis state of thing*
or tiid something to thia meagre mm of
money. hst it there should be an Amcr-
* C The'schid*rah ip of English literature at
Oxford, sugg-wtiil as » memorial to Arnold,
is obviously going u> give rise to a contro
versy. Tbe senior tutor of Lhn-t church
publishes a letter of protest against ik He
prof etuis to approve of the study of for-
eigu Ifiigusges, lot only as subsidury to
ancient language*. A student ought, In
bis opinion, to know breneb and German
eontjgb io enable him to read French and
German bonk* about Latin and Greek or
other proper nnivemity studies. Yet this
tutor, Mr. Case, is beckoned o .e of the
most advanced of hi* kind.
Oxford move*, n. verthelr-*. Sfi .i
ing toadmit wome.i. not only int mens
cnll.-s- br-> to compete for hon >: iu final
.IS - sal linatioaa. In this s’ <• i* hut
have drifted into infamy. Even the poor be remembered that before the battle Mr,
r0[ -_'. c . tjj Expectation-" is more Grrelev had kept a standing headline in
of a man than the listfess, briefless y ling
barrister, and the purpo e of his life indi
cates fine nst'tral aptitud « in him. Mr.
his paper—urging the armies “Forward to
Richmond—Forward to Richmond:"
New York, Monday, July 29, 1861.
they
>nco before
gland jury of Hernando enmity, Flor
ida, that Ihe partiis occused murdered
John HoliG 111 in that county, on i-r about
tbe fifteenth day i f November, 1884; for
true bills were found against them, and
they are now in jail. And to well con
vinced were Detective Rhodes and ids as-
so- iates of the fact that John Ilolifield
was murdered 1 hat (hey offered a reward
of $16,000 to any person who would pro
duce J' lin Ilolifield alive, either to his
relatives in Bints rounty or to the author
ities in Hernando countv, Florida, any
time within six months from the date of
the advcrtizeniem, which was published
continuous in the Jackson News du
ring the time, and attention
was called to tho reward by
by all _ the leading daily papers
rn Georgia. And yet no one lias produced
John Ilolifield. It is thought the evi
dence adduced here last Monday will be
si fiicicnt to release the accused panics on
bail. It is to Vie hoped that the mystery
surrounding this important rase will be
elvarcil up, and if a murder hns been com
mitted. ilie uuilty parties brought to ius-
If Hoilfield was not msrdcrcd a
Stevenson scoffs at the old Jew. To us he . [Midnight.]—Dear Sir: This is my sev
appears much more than a lay figure:
nothing less, in fact, than a beautiful
character. But how cocld any one in
Bearch of a gentlcntan overlook Mr.
I’eggotty and Joe Gargery? Oh, lmt th y
are uneducated they speak bad English,
they nrc wholly uncultivated—it may be
said Perhaps Dickens had a purpose in
putting such -owls into rude and homely
cases. Certainly he could have cited f r
his course one of the most venerable pre
cedent* known io Curiulemiom. lie to ay
have desired to enforce Burns’s doctrine
that
“The rank Is but the guinea stamp.
A man's a man for a' that."
Mr. Stevenson writes so pleasantly and
genially that one think* its pity ho should
take a Philistine view of Dicken’s gentle-
men. Dickens, indeed, may be said to have
sympathized rather with the masses than
witli the classes, but this wns bi-causo his
genius was too lsrgc for the artificial bun of
social caste; because be looked beyond the
iser* accidents of position snd up-bringing,
and recognized and honored worth and
manliness, no matter where pinccd or how
manifested. He drew bis definition of
genllemanhood not from any society mnn-
irxl or code, bnt from insight to the great
heart of hnmanity.
QniloM Lul wf DiiTrrciiv^ai
From tbe Neil York Commercial AffTc-rtlser. . —
Wc of America and Europe shake each I change or release of prisoneis and
other’s hand*. A Chinaman shakes hands , handmeutof forces. I do notconsi
entl. Steeplers night—your», too, doubtless
—yrt I think I shall not die, because I
have no. right to die. I must struggle to
live, however biUerly. But tu uu-im—-.
You are not considered a great man, and I
am a liopi-lc— ly broken one You are
now undergoing a terrible ordeal,
ami God has thrown the greatest
responsibilities upon you. Do not fear to
nu-et them, Can the rebels be beaten after
all tliat has occurriil, anil iu view of the
actual state o! feeling caused by our Isle
awful disaster? If they can—and it is
your business to ascertain and decide—
write me that such is your judgment, so
that I may know and do my duly. And if
they cannot be beaten—if our recent dis
aster is fat*l—do not fear to sacrifice your
self to your country. If the rebels are
not to be lieoten—if that is your judgment
in view of all the light you can get—then
every drop of blood henceforth shed in
this quarrel will be wantonly shed, and the
guilt will rest heavily upon the soul of
every promoter of the crime. I p»»y you
to dt-t-idequickly and let mo know my duly.
“If the Union is irrevocably gone, an
armistanc* for thirty, sixty, ninety, one
hundred and twenty days—brttcr still for
a year—ought at once to he proposed, with
a view to a peaceful adjustment. Then
Cougri ss should call a national convention
Itomaat xt tbe sariUst possible. day. And
tin r<- hIioiiLI lx- -in iinini-di.iti- mutual ev-
dis
consider my
with himself. We uncover tbe head :■» a ' self at present a judge of anything but the
mark of respect; the Chinese keep their! public sentiment. That seems to me
heads covered, but take off tbeir shoes for!
politeness. Wo shave the face; they I
shave the head snd eyebrows. Tho Chi- {
verywhere gathering and deepening
gainst a prosecution of the war. The
in tliir city is funereal; for our dead
naman’s waistcoat is outside his coat, and j at Bull Run were many, and they lie un-
his drawers are outside his trou-i rs. W# lb Dried yet On every brew sits sullen,
blacken shoe*; he whitenstbem. We have 1
soup as a first cour-e and dissert as last;
clung bl-tck despair. It would beeasy
- Imvc Mr. Crittenilcn move any pro;-1
the Chinese have dessert at first and soup, t.-n that ought to be adopted, or to have
at last. Wc want * our wines ice-cola; it come from any proper quarter. The
they- drink theirs scalding hot. We bury , fir-t pnii, is to ascertain what is best that
in the earth: they on its surface. With c.m t>e done—which is the measure of our
us black clothes is a badge of mourning; • duty, anil do that very thing at the earliest
with them, white garments indicate the ' mo ent.
lost of friends. In that laud of j “• bis letter is written (p the strictest
opposites it is the. old men who J cousidenru and is for your eye ajone. But
fly kites, walk on stilts ami plsy you arc at liberty to say to members of
at shutt'ecock, and, to keep np their nda v.- ,r cabinet that you know I will second
way of doing things, they play the game | *ny im ve you may see fit to make. But
’ nl t’ " ' ‘
with their feet instead of their hands. In
Lhina, women do men's work, and men
nothing timidlji or by hflves. Send me
I what to do. I will live till I can
are the milliners, dressmakers and wastur-i hi ir it ut all events. If it i* best for tbe
women. With ui the right hand is ihelo
plan* of honor; with them it is the left |p
hand. In dating letters we place tho year own terms, do not shrink even from that.
intry and for mankind that we make
villi the rebels at onre anil on their
last; they write the year first. They
ways site k of the mariner's .comp..
, IM
•Wl
in mind the greatest truth
ould lose his life for my sake
Horace Grrelev."
pointing to the south. We pay our pbv*i- *1. ill save it.’ IX> tbe think that is the
jl— -V_ —J ™ -l-v.. p.. —L— • nt-fc..; -j.n --J jOi «.-_ T __
they are well but a* anon as tfley get sick nmi you. * Your*, in the depth of bitter-
the pay stops. Here men kill their Che
rnies; a Chinaman get* re.en^e by killing
him-rlf. We use a *o’t pillow; they a
block of wood. They launch ship* side
wise, ring hells from the outside, .and ac
tually turn their screws in the bppesil*
direction from onr*.
TUE JOKE ON TIIK LECTUBKH.
How CoBgrtAfiman Mnritn Once Disputed
ui* Ajitronomtr.
tolls* Letter t» tbe Globe-Demrerst
About a third of centnry ago, a New
Yorker was traveling through r< xas lec
turing on astronomy, aud illustrating hi-*
lectnrea with globe*, charts, sml tnagic
h iitern pictures. He evidently kanakl
more ei.tl usiasm in the inter. ,t of s ien e
than he did pr II tiral « as i-e, t r -
would never have fallen into the tr. ■ • ■
libermtely set for Mm,and bei- mu th« -
Ject ■ i the following practical j e T . •
lecturer .niveil at Athens :.n.l -.ribiu.d
hi- hai.d-bills. He hid a line :n ,:i
liRKEit XL SiiKIt 'IAN HLIQIirED.
folic
fint
adopts*
at cxj
ring th
• pleol Cambri'l e. TL-- J,,i, .i
hoe v
L it th
still, and
! ir -d it.
all the nil i.r |C
!(• U Not Invited lo Take Part In tbe
Dsenrailon Day Kverelsei.
From ILc New York Ho aid.
New York, May 31,1888.—To the edi-
tor- of the Herald: Many news reporters
have been here, aad others will follow
liki ly to find me absent, so that l prefer to
write yon authoritatively that I attended
j the decoration services yesterday at Hobo-
7 —' k-n, N. J., leaving the hotel at 11 a. m.,
and returned about 7 p. m., in compliance
with a promise made a committee two
month i ago. I had no purpoeeor desire to
march with the procession % d«w" Fifth
vi nu v.-tenhy, or to vpp-ar on the re-
vi'-wii n-' it > !b-n 8qua», and
liev.d whew I was not invited,
invitation was sent me,
> far as I or my clerk
any nimmiltea or Indi-
r the advertised procen-
« a Grand Army pro
’the S' ue guard*, o
r in rice cniti-'P of the
redtancy straw, with gold’thrcad inter- ! ,,? n ‘, h * “'K ,,aD 'l’, '
piaii, d with i.; the crown w.s high, and |
on liie extreme t<«p ot it was pmn tnc ' -
trimming, consisting of flnme-coloreu rib
bon set in large upstanding loops snd ends,
glorified hnlrushes and brnwnish-grren
grasses resring their hesds amid the hows
—a fiery furnace on the head the height
attained by crown and trimming combined
being ittle short of two feet Truly ihe
tendency to run to extremes in fashion
marks women in every »g-. Not that mon
strosities such as these are worn by those
wbqse tas e in dress is good; neither are
they sent out by the brat houses Shapes
are, however, very fanciful; turned up
here and indented there, cloven in front,
or behind, or at the side, and in most cases
overtrimmed. Many of the funcy straws
have silver or gold thread introduced, snd
those shapes iuteuded more especially for
summer wear are, if possib’e, more trans
parent than they were last season, the hair
being seen through them in those few cose*
in which they are UOt literally loaded vrit’ll
fi were and foli go.
The insect mania has broken out again,
and beetles meander over gauze nnd tnlle,
perch themselves on bows or ribbons, or
find a home in the heart of a full-blown
rose. .Soldier ants, green nnd red hectics
nnd extremely realistic caterpillars are
bonnet ornaments of n by no means pleas
ing character. nnd, though preferable on
the 6ccre of humanity to the wearing of
dead birds nrp meaningless, and, the
fnrr, irritating realism pushed to a point
Ridicule, which has to a certain exte
cured women of sacrificing the feather
tribe to their whims, will probably prcvi-
them from making amateur entomologists
of themselves, and so the creepy, crawly
crate will soon lie over.
Lace, artistically arranged, is one of the
most perfect materials used in bonnet trim
ming—it lends itself so admirably, In
clover fingers, to the purpose; nnd the new
method ot raising it above the brim in a
circular shape, thickly gathered with a
knot in the center, is as graceful as it is
pretty. Very fine wire is used to keep the
lace in place and shape.
Hats are larger than ever; here, also, the
fashions run to extremes. Either “picture
hats" are worn, or else lints, or toques, so
small as to be, so far as shade is concerned
absolutely useless. Thus the brim of the
new sailor-shape Is so abbreviated that it
hardly deserves to be called a brim. IVhat
these hats have lost in brim they hnvc
gaincil in crown, which is considerably
deeper. Most of the new hats arc made of
one-colored straw and lined with that of
another shade or color, or else one of the
fancy straws already named—black and
hsige, black anil msizo, blsek anil pale
gray, black and green, and navy blue nnd
red aro popular combinations in straws.
Cleveland and Thurman.
From tbe New York Herald.
The announcement that Mr. Thurman,
of Ohio, will accept the Democratic nom
ination for the Vtce-Presidencv upon the
same ticket as Mr. Clevcland-ts unit im
portant. It is not a rash speculation to
say that if Mr. Thurman will accept this
nomination it will go to him by acclama
tion.
Tbe objections to Mr. Thurman’s nomi
nation for the Vice-Presidency on the part
of his friends are that he should have the
first place. This is true. Mr Thurman
would adorn the Presidency, but so would
many other Democrats—Bayard, Randall,
Hewitt, Breckinridge, Carlisle, Morrison
and a hundred whom we conld name.
But there can only be one candidate. Mr.
Cleveland fills the bill, and the party will
bava no one else at this time.
That being the case, what is there about
the vice-Presidency that Mr. Thurman or
any of the eminent Democrats we have
named should decline it. Why should
the second office in tbe gift of the people
go begging?
There is no reason. Some of the ablest
men in the country have la-en Vice-Presi
dents, and orf several ticktt* the second
iiisce has beet: lurid by inn suuiiger m:,u.
Mr. Hendricks was so deemed when he ran
second to Cleveland, bathe took tie- nomi
nation to help the ticket. What so emi
nent s statesman as Mr. Hendricks did in
1884, Mr. Thurman could well do now.
A Brae Sin w err j Patch.
Prom tbe Lexlncton L no.
Mr. 8. Bsiler ( of Maxeys, has made a
great snoces -this spring with his famous
Nellie Bitch finely of slrawberrie*.
From oue-foimii of an acre he has gatb
trtd something more than eight hundred
quarts, moat of which ho has rapidly dis
posed of a* twenty cents per quart. He
had three on exhibition last week that
jast filled a pint cup. lie will continue
to increxie his patch until he. has four
acres in.
tier.
groat wrong has been done the accused
parties snil should he righted.
McGuire, who wn* Miid In have fired lbs
fatal shot that killed Ilolifield, is dead,
nnd if guilty is beyond the reach of lin-
rann punishment. The others will proba
bly be at liberty under bond in a short
time, and if, ns it ih claimed, Itolifield
still lives the shortest wny out of the diffi
culty will be to look him up by the time
the trial comes off, which will be in
May, 18»9.
MOIIKIMIN I1N THE OUTLOOK.
Clevslanil the ritnlre, XVItti Oruy or Thur
man ror Vlce-rrrsltlent.
From the rhibulelphl* Times
St. Louis, May 30.--F.x-Congrrssman W.
It. Morrison, of Illinois, arrived in the city
last night nnd in a little chat with a re-
porter said: “I don’t see why the Demo-
gaged longer than two days. There is
nobody talki'd of for Presidential candi
dal* bnt Mr. Cleveland. The delegatee
will all come here to vote for him. and
their first expression of opinion will be
nnanlmotis. lie is stronger to-day with
Ihe people than he was four years ago and
we were very well pleased with him then.
Of the doubtful States I have no srteeial
information except from Indiana, which I
believe the Democrats will certainly carry.”
. Speaking of th* Vie* Presidential can
didates Mr. Morrison said that he had
never considered liims-lf in the race at all.
ih' M'l powii licit tin- custom Hist bad ob
tained in several conventions past wonlil
again be followed and that the parly
would go to Indiana for the second place
on tho ticket. He had never met Govern
or Gray, but regarded him with considera
ble favor. A* to Senator Thurman Mr.
Morrison thought that if he could he pre
vailed upon to ac opt the nomination he
could probably have it.
The Hokh (inmhliiig Yarn.
From the WANhington Post.
“Follow the play of a lucky man,” is a
motto that n great manv gamblers oliserve,
but a story from El I’aso, Texas, shows
that the nuinlier which is fatal to one
man’s pile may be the means of good for
tune. A man who wsb down to his last
nickle was wandering aimlessly along the
street, when he saw another man standing
in the door of a gambling saloon muttering
to himself, “Rnincd bv two.”
The first man went into the saloon
and with the number two ringing in his
car* he dropped his nickle on “two” on
the roulette wheel. It won anil he re-
ceivul $1.80. He placed the whole amount
on the same nnmber and again it won, in
ewalng Jii* pile to $64 80. For the third
time lie risked his all on number two and
a third time he wi.n, swelling his checks
to $2,382. 25, whirl) he cashed in and de-
ihe other yrung man had been entirely
mined by playing the same rut.! cr at il
teekii-g him out lie made him accept i''O
ol his own winning*.
Tlie Bur
ml III* K.e
chronicle
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If
wa- n t rece
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% illllai c dl
did 1 i , . ,
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Can’t I'rat lire on Then.
Frnra tbe Tort Valley Enterprlss.
W. T. Christopher, editor of the Monle-
/um* Record, api nt a few hour- in town
l st Babbit lb and some of our young ladiei
- iv th\t quite a change ha- corne over
him. They think In- is in love a* be nt-
ti aip'ed sereral limes lo start that sub-
jiit. They *1-0 say th the need not ix
[s * t tr- [-rarli on theio. so he ran n.ski
love to the Amrri'-us girl with n.i re com-
]—i u re.
From tbe Fen Frspr!-
The Barman i- a rather peculiar feeder,
not bell'd T,r . T n ' ce bis selection o: pre
paration of fold. H* is 10)1, how-ve- , -o
varied a caterer, nor dot- lie take in m. Ii
a large si let tics, as his near relation, the
Chinaman. Ihe Barman dio»- ti,. ii„e
rats and mire, which delirsrii- brio no
porti n of Id- daily for.-. Heir forbidden
by hi- r--l gild to sited tbe blood lit aov
at-in-al for had purpo—s .-ilune, although
I - may rod d< es . i- I, ti -!,. :,i ii <»L- tfi- -tv
Hi- e( n-« iri.ie finds a r a l- t , - ,,-t
that *f er tbe li-h are caught left
to die; be *-11 not bleed them, although
he may often given them a sly kins l on
.he head to aecelerste d,eir dfeea-r. He
may keep cattle, nogs, chicken*. ;c., am),
being ot a kind and humane di-;
he feeds them well, keeping them ir
rondition, but he does not do r.» to
i-h hi- larder, lie nt .hi mi.k .-I
ufltn nt t..r lame Inn. berr-eil bnh
i of go11*■. for bis fan..1 r.r for sal-
I also eat the eg-* of low La. -
goisl
pi. n-
io or
e e ill