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V II Person* ft Utrokl and Advertiser PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY HORNING THE NEWNAN PUBLISHING CO. i’-STA 11:- IX CAHTESTER 111! 1.1,1 NO VOL. XXII. NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1887. NO. 22. (Dencul Pircctoru. Nn NEWNAN. is tl»e oou nty-seal of Coweta county. <!»., :»n«l contain* a populati 3*ji»0. It is situated on the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, the main highway to Now Orleans from the Last and North; Is :«» miles from Atlanta, 4V7 miles from New Orleans, 30 miles from Grlflln and 24 miles from Carroll- ton. Tlie Savannaii, OrilTir. and North Ala bama Railroad running from Griffin to Car rollton) intersects the Atlanta and West Point Railroad at this point, making it the only im portant railroad Junction between Atlanta and Montgomery, A la. The people are enter prising. intelligent and socriaiile; tlie locality a?- healthy as can l»e found in the South. Four religious denominations are represented in the community — Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and Kpiscopa! is.n — and churches furn >h ample jar<oimnodntlons for church-going people. One female college of thirty-four years’standing, one male semi nary and numerous private schools comprise th** educational faeUUiestOf tlie cominrnily. There are now in successful operation in the city twenty-11 v< dry gorvl- and grocery stores, three <lrug stores, three millinery stores, two hardware stores, one shoe store, two hook stores, one jewelry store, two leather and har ness shops, two livery stables, two carriage repositories, two meat markets, one tin and stove store, three hotels, three restaurants, two coal yards, one furniture -tore, two tailor shops, two bakeries, several shoe shops, one cigar and tobacco store, two barber shops, one photograph gallery, one job printing twf • billiard salo spape T\ :.l estal ational hi apltali/.ed, furnish needed in the buslne fifteen ami twenty t) YorK, Sa xlat id »ply all tin islness community. Between tv thousand hales of coMon imally and four large brick required to store and handle on buyers, representing New i and Atlanta,are in flic mur- i. A handsome opera house, three stories high, with a scaling capaepyof seven hundred, does duly as town hall and theatre. Most of the leading theatrical troupes visit us during tin* fall and winter season. A public library, comprising of the popular instituti* the town. A mineral spring, whose cm properties have been thoroughly eflcinl in Itliin j Snr is located Tlie dm health-giving miles distant. The mysti sen ted hy three Masonic 1 of Odd Fellows The vai i enterprises that eontrihut mauent prosperity of l lie npl« • find 11 fed nf epair The id liln hundred hands the year rou sed as follows: Wood works chine shops k iiown as the • nfneturing Co.” ; one furnii whiskey distilleries; Hire shops; one manufacturing gar factory; one guano far seed oil mill; one marble nerv; one tin simp; om*grb Mill! b Shop. Between two a skilled mechanics of all cla> and remunerative employ diHerent professions are re lows: twenty-five lawyers, three dentists. Our nierelia men are noted for their eut« alltv, and l heir several branches of trade are as firmly established as cun he found In any town in tl.e State. Thu trade of the town is drawn from a wide territory, extending into all tlie adjoining counties, and is annually Increasing. MANUFACTURERS. Titk R. I>. Cold. Mamtacti'kisg Compa- Nv.-Kstahlished I hot; incorporated 1*81. Manufacture steam engines, boilers, saw mills, corn-mills, power cotton presses, shutt ing, mill gearing and castings ot all kinds; lumber, sash, doors, blinds ami moulding; house contractors and car-builders. Employ 12) hands in various departments. K. 1». Cole, president; M Cole, vice-president; R. 1>. Cole, .Ir., superintendent; M. F.Cole, M/ Co Or- Tiik Wif.i l*ANv.Mills located at Lodi, ti miles \ Newnaii, on the s., <i. and N. A. R. R. gani/.ed October 12th, ISOS. Manilla* I varus, knitting cotton, and carpet, w:u Yearly consumption of cotton, Tin) bale Avpruse pumher *»i hands emnloyeii, 7 Stephen |). Smith, president; II. J. sargen ami ir Co The Coweta Fkhti Manufaeture .several brands ol high-grade commercial Icrtili/. rs.u Cupaeity lun tons |wr day. Employ .lOhamlA during working sea- tXn. 11. C. Arnall, president; .1. A. Hunter, ' Vice.president; W. *I.l Ibis kill, superinten dent: II, C d'lslier, secretary ami treasurer; Uni- 1, Jnm wi uununil tj&cnt. ‘ i’l'HMTVItf FactOKV.— \. II. A J. C. Thompson, pioprletors. Established isi»7. Manufacture all kinds of house ami kitchen furniture. Employ from 8 to 12 hands. *•-»« I’ACTPltY.- M, Falhide, proprietor. Ci*. . • „ 0 ruitfur**, employing Ft it ST Nation-**#- Ban k.— Est yhlislnd 1871. Capital stock, surplus, .>70,(XM). \V. B. Berry, president; .loin dent; 11. C. 1- isher, ea assistant cashier. Nkwnan Natiun.m. Bank — Organized in 1SS.7. Cash capital. Cliarl. s C. l’arrott, president: .1. S. Blgby, vi,-e-preshlent; R W. Andrews, easliier; John S. llollinshead, teller. CHURCHES. Baptist Cii ititcil—IIcv. J. H. Hall, D. 1)., Pas chin • Subha tli lOJMI id a; rlmol at rraver Meet ng Wedm clock. Young Men’s Prayer Meeting eve Monday night. Methodist Chuavii—Rev. W. R. F*»o Past*»r. Preaching every Sunday at 10:30 u. nml 7:1.') p. Me Clrn Meeting ting Mo I p. n alay aft at I o'clock, ry Monday Wednesday YoungIdon’s Fr . night. Social Meeting night- at 7:3l) o'clock. The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Soei meets on the first Monday ailernoon in e; month at the church,at l o’eloek. PBKSHVTKUI an dir lien—Rev. .las. St si p, p„ Pastor. Preaching on the first ami II Sabbaths In each month at ll a. in. ami n. m. Sunday School every Sunday at J in. Prayer fleeting everyThuradn 7:30 o’clock. Comm rterly Eeisco Rector. :30 J M. CIVIC SOCIETIES. Nkwnan Lodge, N«». 102. 1. O. O. F.-J. T. Carpenter, N («.; T. E. l'« ll, \ • (L: \ t . Thomp-on.See y; W. B. Berry. P. s.. W C. Sm ad, Treasurer. Meets every b riday night. KVTH RKitKVCA I.odck. No. 12-Meets cverv seeoml ami t**urth Monday nights at Odd*Follows’ Hall. W. A. Mitchell, N. U.; W. E. Avery, Sec y. Coweta Lodge, No. GO. F. A A. >1.—Regular Meetings2ml and 4t!i Tuesday nights in each month. G. L. Johnson, NS • M. NS . -N. Mitchell Secretary. Nkwnan Chadtek, No.34, R. A. M.—Regu lar Meetings first and third Tuesday nights in each month. It. N\ . Freeman, H. P. \V. A. Mitchell, Secretary. Hikam Council No. IS U. A s. M.—Regu lar meeting first Monday evening in each month. Orlando McClendon, 1. 1. M-; K. W. Freeman, Recorder. A. J. Bkrky Cot ncii.. No. :■'*>, R. A.—Reg ular meetings seeoml and lourth Monday nigilts in each month. I.. K. Ray. Regent, Daniel Swint, Secretary. Nkwnan Lodge. No.37. A O. I . W.-Regu lar meetings first ami ihirti Satimlay nights in each month. Geo. 11. Carmieal, M.NN.: Daniel Swint, Recorder. PUBLIC LIBRARY. President—J. s. Powoli. Vick President—A. C. Pease. Secretary—>Hss Annic PeGra denned. Treasurer— H. C. Fisher.' Directors—R. W. Freem:w,. G. H- Carmi- cal, J. T. Moore, J. E. Brown. J. I. Leverett. Librarian—Miss Annie DeGraffenried. The Library is open on Wednesday’s and Sat urday’s from t>:S0 a. nr, to 12 n*. and from 7:30 to‘J;3Up. m. UITY GOVERNMENT, Mayor-W. B. Berry. v . Aldermen—J. J. *8 ood rum'TI. C. Aruall, H. W. Andrews, J. S. iPowell. L Treasurer—R. Wi Andrews. Clerk ok Counci i]. —H- S. Conyers. Marshal—J.E. Rfcbinpon. Deputy—J. A. Lee. IN THE LANE. JOHN VANI K CHUNKY. AiH art thou then, my heart, too old. Ever to leap with !ov«* again. To feel the strong hIood-torr* nt rolled Through heav ing breast and teemingbrai Is it no more, my heart, 'or tie.- Life's one unquestioned ecMiu y? Ar ided e tho-e dlin, far days mothered * very sound, town youth's happy way? WIk When up : Fa rod "Ir... Has chill of v-ar* killed .-very jov That blos.soin<.*d for the wandering boy? Tliune are the trees once known so well We f.*It t*» tii.-ni all but I.‘ known; Their very shadow we coufd t*-!I From others !,y the for*->t thrown. Tia* same glad song* from busii ami »>ough- re h* rd, - tliei And these sw.*«! flowers b- nr-ath m; i heir young eyes greet nmofyc The hop.* th.-iv! Still tie y think To Her glance that shall not answer To us .-done It cun no riiey’re looking up .< slo' j, l This is tile Behind tl As th. y do now, tin When evening on r.-'s tin* g’o be o tenderly. -ray path we took roingdav; light leave.-, sin I>1- ■ tl* is And h< up< Ah, no, good heart, thou still canst stir. • • - ti.* love first bid tb< e . ..j : They laid fiw.r Though el.xis b*-' In the dear old h mlerst-ep. as one, ot alone. CERS. • COUNTY iOFFI Clerk Superior CfouRT—Daniel Swint. Ordinary—W. H. 'Persons. Sheriff— George H. Carmieal. Tax Receiver—J. J- Farmer. Tax CoLLE0f OK —I. raruier. Treasurer—II. L. Jones. Surveyor—J. B. Gooiiwyn. Coroner—H. 1-. Duncan. COUNTY COURT. SV. Powell, Judge: P. s.. \i*hatU»y, Solics- Monthly sessions—ThirM Monday in each tii. Quarterly session—Third Mondays muary, April* July and October. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. J A Hunter, t'hairnmn; I-w tollinsworth; J l> Simms, .1 X ,-ewell. W ^ Sasser. Com missioners, H W Freeman, Clerk and At torney. Meet drst Wednesday in each month. POST OFFICE. Postmaster—J. K- McCollum. Office hours from7:30a. m. to tip. m. CLOSING THE ?IAIES. The up mall closes at I—4S p. m- and doirn mail at 2:11 p. m. Griffin mail closes at e a. m. and tlie Carrollton mail at 3 p. m. Office opeu ou Sunday ironi 3:iu to i.ii r. in. MAKING LOVE IN MEXICO. Him Francisco Chronicle.] Mexican ladies seldom go out with out some of the family or a servant. They do not have gentlemen visitors. There is no chance for gallant youth to Inirn the midnight oil or gas at his prospective father-in-law’s expense, if a young man has been acquainted with a girl from childhood, or by some accident is allowed to visit the family and becomes a lover, lie is im mediately forbidden tlie house, and must continue his courting as best lie ran. it is then the balcony is of ser vice. A signal is agreed upon, and the senorita with ears alert hears it, and appears upon the balcony and converses with tier lover below in the street. Notes are secretly exchanged, but never through the mail. To give you an idea of Mexican courtship and how Cupid breaks down the harriers made hy ignorance and superstition, I will explain what is here termed ‘‘playing the bear.” This is a very popular game—at least, it seems so among the Mexicans. It is played by two persons, a lady and a gentleman. Hoth are usually young—in their teens as it were—though there tire instances of the game being played hy couples who had passed that period hy several years. A young man becomes fniitleti with a fair charmer at the opera house or at church. He follows the lady to her home. Having that located, he makes it his business to be in that neighborhood as much as possflile. He will stroll by the house with his eyes expressive of the stale ol his heart, audit lie can catch a glimpse of liis fair one ho is happy. If he receives a smile he becomes intoxicated with love and is ready to play the “hear” for uu indefinite length of time. If tlie iady Is seated on the balcony when liomeo arrives upon tile scene she usually withdraws, alter exchang ing glances with him. This pro gramme i- kepi up for mouths. At last he receives a smile from fair Juliet. From smiles they get to exchanging a few words. There have been actual cases where tlie bear lias froilicked about for a year or two before the fickle maid would exchange a word with him. Very often there are two or three bears casting longing eyes'iu the same direction. This frequently causes had blood. As soon as tlie couple begin to know eauh other’s voices matters progress rapidly. Af ter they arrive at an understanding the persevering lover hastens to the padre. The kind priest, finding that there is no reason for objection Am either side, proceeds to intercede with the girl s parents and gain him ad mission to the domicile of his lady love. As soon as a young man enters the house he is considered engaged to tlie daughter. A Wedding quickly follows, and there is no more ‘‘playing tlie hear” so far as that young man is concerned. A great deal depends on the girl in this game. She can make it a short or long game. There has been a ease brought to my notice of a young man who lias never missed an evening for nearly three years, and lie is still only in ti e first stage of the game, passing or walking up and down iu front of tlie senorita’s home, hoping to receive a smile. Close observers say that, so far, she only condescends to let him see the least hit of her white dress through tlie half-closed Kreuch win dow's that open on the balcony. He was asked why he played the bear so long, when lie met with so little eu- eouragement. His reply was: ‘•Oh, I love her so dearly! And she is so rich!” t passed by a house a few evenings since and saw a lover stand ing in tlie shadow of a friendly door way. He had a guitar. I moved ofi in the shadow to see tlie by-play. As tlie soft notes broke tlie quietude of the evening I saw a window open in a house adjoining and a senorita step out on the balcony. The music con tinued for a few moments and then ceased. I saw the fair oue drop some thing over the balcony. The lover caught it and retired into the shadow again. I strolled up tlie street, crossed ’over, ami went toward them. I saw he w as holding something to his ear, and I knew telephone communication was perfect hetweeu those ttvo loviug hearts. There is no such thing as being in troduced, even though the lover he ac companied hy a relation, Should the parties meet ou the promenade aud the relative desires to speak with his fair relative he excuses himself aud joins her, leaving the lover out in the cold, as i* were, until lie gains admit tance to her parents’ li ntse through the intercession of the prie-t. If, while w alking iu the Alameda or Zoeolo he a es the object of his afleetious he keeps at a respectful distance, hoping that his presence may be noticed by her. If while riding he sees iier iu a carriage, he places hiinseif as near as possible and feels rewarded for ids l rou hie if he catches a glimpse of her f-o-e at each turning or receives a sly glance of recognition. An engage ment, broken in Mexico, is considered a serious matter. The lady is looked upon as disgraced acd seldom has another suitor. From Hoarding House to Court. Missouri Republican.' “This is indeed a peculiar world,” said a mining expert at the Planters’ House yesterday. “Here I pick up the papers and read of Mrs. Mackay’s doings iu l’aris—how she receives the scions of royalty, liow she entertains, how she appears at the opera, how she dresses, and how she does a thousand other things; and tlien I can scarcely c -nceive that eighteen years ago she kept a_ hoarding lmu.-e in Virginia ('ity, ajid that I was oue of her hoard ers. Vet it is true, and I often ponder over it. .She was a young widow then, with an interesting child, who has since matured info a young lady and was recently married to an Italian prince of some kind. That little girl lias often sat on my knee with a little tin can iu her hand which contained the contributions of her admirers. Iu those days we lived principally on canned food, and Mrs. Mackay’s hack yard was paved with tiu cans. The child had selected a very pretty can which one of the boarders transformed into a little bank. This was partly tilled with coin, tlie result of a tribute which she levied on litr friends, tslie would climb on tlie hoarders’ knees, and, shaking her little bank, would say: “Is yo u lucky to-day?” This query had tlie desired effect, and the hank receipts w ere increased. Even in her days ot distress Mrs. Mnckay was a good woman, isiie per sonally superintended aflairs aud made her boarders as comfortable as possible. I was then a superintendent under Fair, and Maekay was already a millionaire. Mining stock was the rage then, and I remember often how she would come to us and ask our ad vice about certain stocks, and I am happy to say that the advice I gave her was good, and hud I taken it my self I would now lie $-5,000,000 or $!!,- 000,000 better oil than I am. “Then Maekay look a shine to tlie widow, and being reputed one of tlie wealthiest meu in the camp, lie found smooth sailing. He couldn’t win on his shape nor his beauty, for every body t lint has seen Maekay knows that lie wouldn’t take a prize iu a con gress of beauty. They were married, and tlie little girl no longer sat on miners’ knees, and mamma's delicate hand no longer placed corued beef and cabbage oil miners'plates. They rose faster than Sheridan stock did last summer, the only difference being that their rise was hacked hy hard coin. The great Comstock lode con tinued to pour fort li its richness, and Maekay and his partner became im mensely wealth j*. Although reared in poor circumstances, Mrs. Maekay showed her good sense hy securing a, private tutor, hy whom she wasdrilled and educated for five years. The little daughter was put through the same course and lilted to shine in Ihe most cultured society of the old world. Then came the conquests in New York, San Francisco, and finally the trips to Europe. A year ago I was iu Paris and one evening attended a per- forman"e at the Grand Opera House. It was a first night, aud prominent iu a private box were two ladies, be decked with diamonds and festooned with flowers. They were the cyncsure of all eyes, and, leveling my glasses, I discovered behind tlie silks, flowers and diamonds the face of my former landlady in Virginia City. The out lines were the same, but time had wrought its changes. The young liply with her was the little girl who used to play ou my kuee. She had grown out of my recollection. As I stood looking at them amidst Ihe flashing lights, the incense of flowers, and the delicious music, I could not help re calling something of: “Some one who breasted lii&rli water. Swam the North Fork, and all that. Just to dance with old Foliansbee ! s daughter, The lily ol Poverty Flat.” Beecher .Ml Hell. In one of Henry Ward ileeelier’s last sermons, delivered in Plymouth j church about two weeks before liis death, he gave utterance to the fol lowing sentiment: “[f a mau believe in the old idea of hell to-day he is a candidate for a lun atic asylum. lie lias got to give up his Christ or liis hell. Men are res-, cued and saved by the voluntary sul- fering of love, aud the idea is inconsis tent with the old idea of a God of ven geance. The revised' Bible has left hell pretty much out aud has put in sheol and hades. This does not put out the idea of future punishment. I believe in that—but tlie old machin ery and methods of punishment are given up. No mau ought to he conver ted hy a sudden change unless he has been living in ihe lower plane of his animal nature. >ucli a mau fears only that he will go to hell aud he damned. If a man cannot be held by any other element let him be held hy that. Such a man begins by giving up swearing, tells as few lies as liis business will let him laughter , and he begins to try and do right. Such a mau lias not done much, but he lias laid a good foundation. “Repentance canuot. he done up by wholesale at once, but must he repeat ed aud re-repeated all.through life, Christians need to be converted every month. The great motive power of all change from evil to good ought to he love. This is the distinctive Christian genius working out wisdom and pow er. A man isn’t to repent aud he con verted because he will go to hell if he doesn’t. It is a rising and growing up to the supreme motive that if be edu cates and harmonizes all the qualities in him he becomes like God and lives for other men. Repentance is a repe- J titious circumstance for him.” THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. FOLLIES AND FOIBLES OF VARI OUS PROMINENT PEOPLE. (.ear of Some of the Leading Pub lic Mel). Ftica Duly Observer.] The hat.-i of many of the statesmen will give oue an index to e< riain of their characteristics, and if be will look the man over from heel to crown he can tell as much about him from his dress as from his physiognomy. Take President Cleveland and note the way he wears his tall, round silk ' hat, crowded down upon his eyes in tlie most determined way imaginable, and you can see his indomitable will shining out through his head gear. Kx-Alt.rney General Brewster’s white silk plugs with their nap an inch long show him to he a fussy old- style gentleman of the past. Secretary Whitney is called by soiiif tlie dude of tlie Cabinet. His hat G a broad-brimmed silk, one of tlie latest style. It is covered wjth^a mourning hand, and lie wears it well down upon liis head. Secretary En- dicott ulso wears a silk hat, but his New England head makes it look as cold as Massachusetts, and it lias not tlie air of good fellowship of Garland’s slouch nor Postmaster-General ."iias’ high hat. Bayard wears a pearl gray tile in tlie summer, and a stylish silk one in the winter. He is still iu mourning for the deaths which have lately occurred in his family, and his hats, like liis dress, are always im maculate. One of the queerest hats iu Wash ington is that of Civil Service Com missioner Edgerton. It is a straight, broad-brimmed silk plug of tlie vin tage of 1819, aud tlie picture of Edger- tnu as he walks the streets of Wash ington is that of an elegantly dressed statesman of Jackson’s day. He says he finds lie is in style about every ten years, and that hatters keep tlie same blocks aud bring out the same styles about so often. Cliace of Rhode Island, Ihe Quaker Senator, wears a broad brim, and tlie cut of his coat is after the style of the Society of Friends. Price, Arthur’s Indian Commissioner, wore an ex treme hat of this kind, hut he usually had ii made of felt rather than black silk. Beu Butler lias a new hat every time he comes to Washington, aud liis cocked eye assumes a diflerent air un der every one of them. Sometimes lie will wear a black slouch; at others a still, low-crowned white felt, with a | brim as broad as that of a Texan cow boy’s, and with a big black baud com ing nearly lo the crown. I have seen him in a black slouch, and tlie other day he appeared here with a beaver ' fur overcoat drawn around his fat old grandmotherly frame, and with a flat fur cup with a wide rim upon his bald head. Senator Ingalls is one of the best dressed men in Washington, aud his black silk headgear is the envy of his brother Senators. I saw him the other night, when he came out for the first timeinafurcap. It was atallone of the finest sealskin, and with Ingalls’ long overcoat, reaching to his feet, it , made him look like a Russian count iu the depth of winter. Joe McDon ald has been wearing a fur cap this winter, and he has laid aside liis statesman's plug for tliesummerseasou Speaking of the statesman's style of wearing his hat, Heuator Evarts is said to have it to perfection, aud, indeed, there are those who say he is the author of the style. It is to my mind a very poor style, and it consists of balancing the hat ou the back of: the head so that if the wearer lias bangs they will show forth in all their beauty. Evarts never wears ips black silk hat in any other way. Senator Payne covers liis head after the same fashion. Dan Voorhees wears a silk plug, aud he has one of the largest heads in the .-senate. His hat is V 5 C in size. He always keeps it well brushed, and lie has a great many hats presented to him. He is fond of betting hats with his friends during the elections, and ! lie wins from two to four during every campaign. Senator Sherman wears a tali hat, well brushed. Phiietus Sawyer, short and fat, covers his bald head with a derby, and his colleague, the brilliant John C. Spooner, wears a slouch, and don’t appear to care whether school keeps or not. Senator Vest wears a hjack slouch, which he pulls down over his eyes, making him look very belligerent as he walks about the hotels; and anoth er man of this same style is Represen- j tative Joe Cannon of Illinois, “ho of ten has the air of tlie bad man from Bitter Creek. Senator Vance of North (?aroljna covers liis big gray head with a black derby, aud M. C. Butler wears a jaun ty brown felt of the same style as that of Dob Cameron. Leiand Stanford wears a tall, blacksilk tile, and his in come is large enough to give him a dollar hill every month for every hair under it. E'i Sauisburyof Delaware, who is over six feet tall and hardly more than eighteen inches from shoulder to shoulder, makes himself look taller and thinner by a plug bat. The two Rs of the Senate, Riddleberger and Ransom, cover their heads with black slouch hats which they wear with a military air. Mahone usually wears j a cream colored slouch, which he turns up carefully at the sides and which he wears a* jauntily as a briga dier on dress parade. He is partic ular al out his hat and often brushes it. senator Platt of Coonecticutt wears a slouch. He is tall and slender, and when he puts his hat on he draws himself up and looks comfortable, as though he’d put on bis overcoat and had no fear of the cold. Senator Edmunds has lately taken to wearing a soft, light, crush travel ing hat. It weighs about five ounces, and has a little curled-up rim, and is blue iu color. I saw him out riding with it upon his head the other day. HeaBo wears atall silk hat, but inhis campaign fur tlie .Senate lie donned the Democratic derby. Sam Randall sometimes wears a slouch, hut more often a black silk, w ith a good-sized black hand around it. Randall wears h*s hat a good deal like the I’resideut does his, aud he makes a fine appearance with his classic features aud his bright black eyes shining out from under its rim. Col. Cooper of Ohio puts his hat on his head in a belligerent way, and he looks like a cavalry leader off duty, while Gen. Joe 'Wheeler, the dashing cavalryman of tlieCoufederacy, wears a soft, litile slouch, which he pulls dowu over his eyes, turns up this way aud that, and wears in all shapes im aginable. Sometimes he tucks it un der liis arm, and I saw him at Sena tor Miller’s funeral leaning agaiust the door of the Senate in a brown overcoat, with liis hat held iu this way. He cares hut little for appear ances, aud you would not take him, from his clothes, for the brilliant man that lie is. Tiie Speaker of the House wears a tall black list which is sometimes brushed, oftener not. Morrison, the free trader, has t.vo styles of hats, one of which he wears at Washington aud tlie other at home among liis constit uents. His Washington hat is a tall silk of (lie latest make and the best style. When he goes home it is said that he stops at St. Louis and leaves this at the hotel there and puts on the slouch, which makes him look a great deal more Democratic and com panionable. He then goes among his constituents clad like one of them, shaking hands, kissing tlie babies, aud making himself generally agreeable. Tim Campbell lias a silk tile, Beu Butterworth a deiby, Sam Cox a high plug, aud Martin Foran a slouch. Hemphill of South Carolina, oue of the brightest aud handsomest young men of Congress, wears a derby, as does also Warner, tlie silver dollar ad vocate, though he would look better in a plug. While Grant was President Ben Butler came lo tlie White House oue day and pui liis new silk hat in a comfortable armchair. While lie was talking to the General, Greeley sat down on Butler’s liat. It exploded like a pistol, and as Greeley jumped up Butler, with a squiut of liis left eye, said: “Greeley, I knew that hat wouldn’t fit you.” Otlil Characteristic* of Some of tlie Mem bers of Congress. In llie House and Senate the man ners and methods of diflerent men are very noticeable, and it is the same with men occupying positions of im portance in other departments of the Government. In tiie Congressional brandies, for instance, it sometimes, but very rarely, happens that men of real ability as debaters and speakers seldom have anything to say upon the floor except to the small extent that is absolutely necessary, such as in troducing hills or reporting committee work, which they do in the most per- ! functory manner. Representatives Clements ot Georgia, and Stewart of Vermont, are two such men in j l lie House, ami Senator Cliace of Rhode Island is a very good ex- ! ample in the Senate. Tlie people of Vermont are not as particular about oratory as they are about business. Stewart, who was once Governor of . tlie State, and who is one of her best j office lawyers, looks after the interests of his people and says nothing that lie j is not obliged !o say. He is oue of the very few meu in Congress who “say nothing, but saw wood.” He will he in the Fiftieth Congress. Senator Chaee, as is well known, is ] a Quaker, and like all that industrious and admirable sect, is opposed to war fare. He is also like his fellow Quak ers iu that he is usually a man of si lence, but he is sometimes heard from, and always to the advantage of Ihe listeners. He is oue of those wealthy ! meu in public life with whom “boo dle” is never associated. He is not an orator, but a plain aud incisive “stat ist” of facts. Then berivals Mr. Sauls- bury of Delaware as the champion floor pacer of tiie .Senate. In private conversation he lias a picturesque vat - i of expressing himself. A day or two ago iu the Senate cloak room tlie sub ject of discussion was (he much need ed coast defenses. Mr. Cliace was present when a certain Senator re marked that he did not suppose the Rhode Islard Seuator, because of liis faith, would be willing to vote any money for even defensive purposes. Mr. Chace did not reply directly, but what he said was: “In the old colon ial days the Quakers were in the ma jority in what we would now call the Pennsylvania Legislature. It was necessary to prepare for defense ’ agaiust the Indians, The Quakers did not vote any money for warlike pur poses, but they did provide liberaliy for the purchase of small graiDS.” “The graius of powder used in the arms of those days,” he added with oue of liis shrewd smiles, “were small, and they were purchased from tba, Quaker appropriation.” From this it is pretty evident that the Rhode Is- iaud tjenator would be willing to vote for an appropriation for even large grains, should it become necessary. Seuator Morrill, of Vermont, is tall, gaunt and dry iu appearance. To the average audience he would be dry in his utterances, for liis peculiarity is the tariff, and he seldom addresses the Senate on aDy subject. But to maDy, tariff discussions, even when they run largely to “Aggers,” are not dull, and thus the venerable and kindly old Senator frem Vermont is always as sured of an audieuce. He seems to have made the tariff the main study of his life. In this he has been great ly assisted by a remarkable memory. : The vast number of figures that he carries in his head is something ap- oftlie perennial candidates fertile Pres- pailing, and his memory of faces and ideney, who has had for many years names is equally remarkable. the experience in political life which Mr. Blaine is generally supposed to is so new to Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. he the public mau of the present day Folsom, has said so much that has in- who enjoys a monopoly of recalling jured her husband’s prospects. Du- faces and names, but Senator Morrill ring the winter before the last Nation- can give him points and beat him. al Convention she said in Washington For instance, early in tlie late war a society she would “devote the reiuain- Vermont soldier was killed on the Po- der of her life to helping her husband tomac, just below Washington. His punish liis enemies,” and she said it, brother saw Mr. Morrill aud asked too, with a most vindictive expression him to aid him in passiug the lines in of look aud loue, as it she would enjoy order to secure the dead man's body the pastime. and take it home for burial. He oh- Much has been said, and justly, too, tamed the assistance aud secured the in praise of tlie tact aud lack of all af- liody, which was taken hack to tlie fectation and seif-consciousness ob- green hills of Vermont. A short time served in the President’s wife during ago this man was in Washington,and, ‘ her first season as mistress of tiie calling on .Senator Morrill, asked him White House, aud those who kuow if he knew who his visitor .was. Mr. her mother, Mrs. Folsom, are no less Morrill promptly replied: “You are cordial in commending her for the Mr. Gould,” and mentioned when lie same lovable traits of character, had before met him. Quoth a Washington lady to Mrs. Colonel Morrison, of Illinois, is per- , Folsom, inspeakiugof Mrs. Cleveland, baps as well known as any public “It is easy to see whose daughter she mau iu tlie country. His name, like is by her looks and who brought her that of Senator Morrill, immediately up hy her manners.” suggests the tariff. It is hy his atti- To this Mrs. Folsom, though evident- tude upon that subject that Mr. Morri- ly much gratified, modestly replied: son has become so well known. In “Yes, I suppose she does resemble me order to impress himself upon con- j somewhat, physically, hut tlie lovely tensporaneous history, he was com- features of her mind and disposition pelled to select some oue thing as the which you have been observing she great object of his aim, for he has hy gets from her father. I often think no means what Shakespeare calls “in- she is tier father over and overagain in finite variety.” He lias a poor voice ! her gentle waysand bright mind. She and but little command of language j has been the sunshine of my life since when upon tlie floor, but he has great ■ her birth.” persistency—many would call it ob stinacy—and is a “stayer.” He lias stayed by his tariff"and sat up with it at nights so often that he has achieved a by no means contracted reputation as a statesman, although defeat lias so often been his portion. If he had not “tackled” the tariff he would have been only known as an every-day member of Congress and an exceed ingly good story teller. Sunset Cox is the opposite of Morri son. His variety is infinite, aud cus tom cannot stale or age wither it. He is an ail around member of Congress, whose wit is often as breezy as that of tlieuutrammeled West and as irresist- able; yet it is frequently as delicate as tlie finest touches of the old masters. He is, nevertheless, a man of good “horse sense,” and can iutelligen'ly handle any subject that comes before Congress. His besetting sin is liis in tense vanity and never ending selfish ness. All of liis associates iuCongress applaud his wit and commend his brains, but they kuow him too well to love him. He \Ya Chicago Xews.l Congressman Ben Le Fevre, of Ohio, is a large and handsome bache lor, and has suave manners. Spends a good deal of his time entertaining the ladies who visit tlie Capitol, aud gilt I p to Drink His Wilis- key Itare-lcggeiL Washington Letter.] I remember the good old times when the Democratic cloak-room of tlie Senate was kept supplied with the best of Apollinaris water, lemon, sugar, mint, sour mash, Bourbon whiskey and fine old brandy. It was there that Bayard, Thurman, Lamar, Garland, Pendleton, Baruum, Yest, Vance, Beck, Butler, Morgan and Pugh gath ered to talk over the affairs of State. It was around this Democratic hoard that I became acquainted with the demands of each Senator’s appetite. Jim Christie kept I lie key to the sideboard, and was always polite and attentive to his patrons. Bayard gen erally took two cuts of loaf sugar to one fluid ounce of Apollinaris, dashed with four ouuces of Bourbon, flavored with lemon, and washed it down with Apollinaris before going into file Senate chamber. Lamar took for a morning starter from three to five ounces of sour mash whiskey, apothe caries' measure, followed with filtered Potomac water. His reyeaters would diminish in quantity, but not in num bers. As the day passed hy a bite of licorice would generally follow. Garlaud took tlie regulation Arkan sas drink, six ouuces, or a small tum blerful of rye, sour mash, Bou'bon or is found in Ihe ladies’ gallery as often corn whiskey, whichever was most as in liis seat. The waiters in the res-i baud}’, without wateYor any flavor- taurant always expect him down with one of his lady friends ah ut 1:30 o’clock, and usually save up some thing nice. He treats all his favor ites impartially, but dislikes a crowd, and never invites more than one to lunch with him. Mr, Le Fevre has adopted a system of signals for com municating with his lady friends, and has given tlie key to quite a number of them, for lie is not devoted to any particular one. When he wants a la dy to lunch with him, for instance, he makes a sign toward the gallery where she is sitting aud she, like Da vy Crockett’s coon, comes down, so that he, being a heavy-waisted man and short of breath, will not have to climb the stairs. Home of the mem bers who sit alongside Le Fevre in the House have tumbled to this signal business, baviugseeu it going on for a year or more, aud now watch the Ohio statesman to see what the effect is. One of them says when they saw Le Fevre signal the words “Come down to lunch with me,” yesterday, they went out into the corridor to see who tlie lady was. To their surprise they fouud Le Fevre trj ingto dodge into a committee room. It so happened that the galleries were pretty well crowded with people, and LeFevre’slady friends were well represented. When he gave the signal to a particular one the rest saw it, and, supj'osing that it was for them, each left her seat, aud the six met in the corridor, all strangers to ing, which was repealed as often as circumstances required. A Senator asked him one day why he did not take water or something with his wine. “Why, sir,” came the reply, “I was brought up to driuk my whis key hare-legged, as we call it down in Arkansas, and now, because 1 am here in the United States Senate, [ don’t intend to put up any frills or silk stockings ou my drinks to appear fashionable. I came here direct from the people of my Htato.” All Styles Suit iier. Louisville Courier-Journal.] At tlie state dinner Mrs. Cleveland took a "new departure” in the style of dressing her hair, aud the change was very becoming. Her hair was rolled up from tlie nape of iier neck to tlie lop of her head and puffed as it was worn in the early pari of tills century. A high Spanish comb was stuck slantingly toward the left side of her head, and tiie effect was very beautiful. Her rich robe of crimson plush, with tucker and sleeve caps of poiDt Duehesse lace, threw out in strong relief her fair complexion, large, expressive gray eyes, nut- brown hair and round white throat. Although Mrs. Cleveland does not ap pear to care for ornauieuts, yet she always wears at her husband’s enter tainments the diamond necklace which was his wedding gift. Her ears have never been pierced, so that she each other. As he had sworn upon liis ! does not wear earrings nor does she credentials as a Congressman that he ; wear finger rings. From the fact that loved eaeli solely’ aud alone, he did not kuow wbat might happen if he met the crowd in the corridor, and dodged into the committee room just Mrs. Cleveland say’s that she never feels tired after shaking hands with thousands of people for two or more hours, many have observed how un- in time to escape. When I repeated j usually large and strong tier wrists the story to Mr. Le Fevre he declared are i though they were made for tlie j there was not a word of truth in it, j uses they are put to. From the elbow i and insisted that the six ladies were ail soliciting subscriptions for benevo lent purposes. He would have contrib uted to one or two of them, hut did not like to give away money to charity by wlioltsaie, aud wlieu he saw so mapy he dodged them, as any other Congressman would have done. Hoiv Mr*. Cleveland Helps Her Husband Politically. New York Herald.] Quoth a member of Gen. Grant’s Cabinet during the last year of the lat ter in the Executive Mansion: “There are two point that we too little consid er in our politics, the Vice-Presiden cy and women—the wives of the men we select for prominent positions.” President Cleveland seems to have to tlie hands, Mr3. Cleveland's arms i are large. Her hands are a good size j and well shaped. She probably wears ! six and a half gloves. She is fully five feet seven or eight inches in height, and well proportioned. She has a lofty, graceful hearitig, which is : natural and unstudied. Her mold and style is of the kind thatimproves with age, and merges the girl into, a grand woman who never fades or becomes unattractive. 'rressniHii. A Georgia C« One of tlie Georgia members of Con gress has a fashion of carrying a revol ver whenever he leaves the House at night. His friends have ridiculed him, and assured him that any part of Washington was as safe at mid- ADVERTISING RATES. One square 1 month, - - - - • f 200 1 One square 3months, ----- 3 M One square !> months, ----- 6 00 One square 12 months, - - -._7 - 10 00 Quarter column 1 mouth, - - - 5 00 Quarter column :! months, - — - 12 00 Quarter column 12 months, - - 30 00 Half column l month, ----- 7 50 Half column 3 months, - - - - 20 00 naif column 12 months, - - - - 60 00 One column 1 month, ----- 10 00 fine column 3 months, - - - - 25 00 One column 12 months, - - - - 100 00 out Hie left hand held a handsome gold watch and the right an ugly lookiug revolver. Holding both with in an inch of the footpad’s nose, he coolly said: “L<>ok for yourself, sir.” The negro did look. Then he polite ly touched liis hat and ran away as fast as iiis legs could carry him. The Georgia members may be depeuded on to takecare of themselves iu Wash ington. The Cost of Congress. Washington Letter.. An examination cf the expenses o the Benute and House reveals a few interesting facts. The total amount appropriated for the Senate is 1808,- 369, which does not include $11,000 asked for to pay private secretaries to Senators wiio are not chairmen of committees, and which amount the Senate will certainly add. The sala ries of seventy-six Senators amount to $380,000. To wait upon these seventy- six Senators the services of 216 officers and employes are required, at an annu al cost of $300,389. These figures show that tlie services of three atteudauts are necessary to each Senator, the average annual pay of tlie attendants beiug $1,391. The attendants are em ployed not more than teu months of the twenty-four months included in a session of Congress, which would give each of them a salary of $278 per month for tlie lime actually employed. To pay salaries to 32-3 Representa tives and eight Delegates, $!,69o,000 is required, and to pay 304 officers and employes, $3.88.113. Tlie difference he tweeu these figures and those repre senting tlie aggregate required to pay Senate officials, is worthy of notice, is it w ill explain iu some measure the annual squabble between the two branches on thequestiou. The average salary paid the House officials is $1,244 per annum, which is $147 less than that paid by the Senate. The Senate force is equal to three attendants to each Senator, while that of the House is less than one for each member. The mileage of Senators costs $33,000 per tnuum, that of Representatives $110,- 624. Tiie Senate mileage divided per capita, would give every Senator over $434, a sum sufficient to furnish each of them with first-class passage from San Francisco to London or Paris. The House mileage foots up $110,624, which is equivalent to $333 20 per capita. Tiie allowance per mile is 20c. each way. At Hie last session th* mileage of officers of the army and navy, when traveling under orders, was fixed at 8c. per mile. At the present session, in tlie suudry civil hill, this allowance was fixed at act ual expenses, exclusive of sleeping and parlor car charges, and 4c. per mile. Able arguments were made in tlie House to show that this allowanco was ample. If ample to cover the traveling expenses of all Government officials, why not apply to members of Congress? Here is a good oppor tunity to save $75,000 perannum. For contingent expenses the bill provides for the Senate $69,980 and for the House $113,937. These sums, divided per capita, would give each Senator from the contingent fund $921 and each Representative $342. Summar izing the incidental expenses of Con gressmen, exclusive of their annual salary of $-3,000, each Senator costs the Government, to provide him with at tendance, over .85,307 per annum, and the cost of each Representative and Delegate is $1,840. Tlie Senate’s total for personal attendance is $403,369; that of tiie House $612,674. The Modern I’rodigal Son. Bob Burdette.] No, my son, it isn't that the world has grown hard-hearted; it isn’t that we aren’t just as glad to-day to see the prodigal come back, and just as lov ingly anxious to welcome him home as ever was anybody iu the 15th chap ter of Luke. It is themaunerin which tlie I’rodigal Sou of 1887 frequently le- turns that throws a wet blanket over the festivities of the welcome. When he comes down the road with his hat hanging ou his ear and his hands iu his pocket; when he kicks the faith ful old house-dog as he lounges in at the gate; when he calls his father “Gov'uor,” and tlie hired man “(Jul;” when be wants to kuow "What’s for dinner?” before he lias been in the house 15 miDutes; when he gives his eider brother two fingers to shake and advises him to comb the hayseed out of his hair; when he throws himself into tlie easiest chair in the iiouse, perches his feet on tlie windowsill and announces that he'll “take a tub before dinner;” when he comes back with a generally forgiving air of good fellowship about him and tries to make all the rest of the family feel very easy and assured—then it is, my son, that yo jr father longs to run and meet you while you are a great way off and fall upon your neck with a plow line and welt you into a state of becoming humility and penitence by the lime you are able to take off your hat to the bound boy and crawl up to the front steps to ask your broth er to shake hands with you. Good people are just as glad to-day as they ever were, my son, to see the prodigal come home; but it does rattle them a little to see him come home in a hack and ask them to pay the driver and send for his baggage. mastered the situation, so far as the night as at noonday. But he wouldn’t latter part of this suggestion is con- be laughed out of his precautions, cerned, as is proved by hisc-hoice of a’ and now is glad that he wasn’t. He wifeaud a mother-in-law. How judi- had been attending a committee meet- cions both Mrs. Cievelaud and her in„ at one of Hie down-town hotels mother are in all they say is cous ant- tlie other night. It was nearly one ly the subject of favorable remark, and o’clock when he started home. As he it is universally conceded that noth- neared the corner of Fourteenth street ing will ever he said or done by eith- and the Thomas Circle, a burly negro er of them which can he used against stepped from tlie shade of the over- the President in a political campaign, hanging trees and insolently deniand- but that they will in every waj’, with- ed to know the time. Robbery was out seeming to think that they are do- undoubtedly his motive, hut the- Geor ing so, help him to a second term, if gia member was equal to the occa- he wantsone. Thisis the more remark- sion. He rammed both hands into able from the fact that the wife of oue his pockets, aud when he pulled them There is a virtue in the apparent discontent with our surroundings that forces us to labor on. It is the active principle of work and usefulness. A man who is satisfied with liis perform ances, aud sits down to an idle enjoy ment of the fruits of his labor, retro grades; hut he who in tlie active use of powers with which he has been en dowed, goes forward to the improve ment of his talents, is fulfilling the designs of Lis Greater. This restless ambition to improve our condition is a wise expression of Providence. Like the ceaseless wave motion of the ocean, the activity of individual molecules stirs tlie mass of society with a puri fying and elevating effect.