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Gossip About People. Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth has jus' finished her severity-first novel tta more than one for every year of hei life. Bonner has aa iron-clad contrary with her, binding her to write for him alone, and on demand, at $8,000 a year. The total number of hogs packed in Cincinnati the past winter was 395,435, against 365,451 for the preceding season, an increase of nearly 20,000. Capt. G. W. Bourke, U. S. A., o! Gen. Crook's staff, at Whipple barracks, says he recently delivered a lecture tt the people of Prescott, and that "hall the audience were asleep in twenty min utes. WhSn I stated that I would nol detain them longer the applause was deafening." Of the seventy-six United States senators, at least thirty-two are pro fessors of religion, including one Jew. one Boman Catholic, and two Unitari ans. Of these, sixteen, or just half, ar Presbyterians. A Boston girl who & teaching in Col orado writes home astollows: "I hav tforty scholars of all ages and teach al most everything, grammar, history, physiology, mathematics, manners, morals, common sense, personal clean liness, fancv wok and general civiliza tion." "No," said a Wrmont deacon, "Idon'l approve of boisse racin', but when an other memberef the church becomes sc godless as to try to pass me on th road comin' home from meetm' I fed it my duty to let out a little on the rt ns, just to&eep him from puttin'ihis trust in earthly things. " In a recent breach of promise suit ttee "course of tree love" was traced in fhis manner: 'Dear Mr. Smith," "Myfteai John," "My darling John," "My -owl darling John, "My darling John,' "Dear JohnV" Dear Sir,' "Sir," and all was over. One of J'the prominent citirens ol Adairsville, Ga., fell asleep while in church. iJSis wife, sitting by, pushed him geritly to arouse him, when the "old soldier," in a half sleepy way, cried ortt' audibly, "Oh. get up Mly, and make the fire yourself. General C. W. Dowry, -T?rinciphl oi the Blue Mountain Female College of Blue Mountain, Miss?., 'fell dead from heart'disease as he was getting on a train for New Orleans. He was a prominent General in the Confederate army. Miss Mary Andersen, in an " inter view!"' recently published in a London paper; says : "I leave with my compa ny in September. We make a tour ol oveihsdx months' duration in the United States, including California. With re gtrE'to subsequent arrangements foi 1886'nothing is yet settled. Iam refus ing uat present flattening offers to ap pear) in Spain and France; but next year!! may accept these from the for-men-eountry and go ic.Spain, Cuba and South America. iAfc-a recent dinner-party in London a discission arose concerning the ex change of genius between England and the United States. -For every actor, singer, lecturer, or person of note sent here by England the United States madaa return. There was Booth for Irving, Mary Anderson for Ellen Terry, Eatti for Nilsson, as Tatti really be longed to us first; -Jee JefferscBE foi Southern, and so oc. t length, Alma Tadeaaa, who was one af the guests, said : ' "England is one ahead of the United States. We sent Oscar Wilde over there but she hatLco fool to send hack." SOME TURKISH PROVERBS. ferns from George Eliot. Habit is the purgatory in which we suffer 'for our past sine. BeopMo who can't be witty exert them selves be be pious or affectionate. Somes -eople are boon. to take life pretty, --Mud others to garmable thsr. it is nstipvetty enough. JBut pray Etake a paint. 6f, liking me in fpite of my defteSenee ... It as one of the afBietiem of author ship to iknow that the ibrains which should ibeansed in un derstaEdin g a book are wasted in disesssing r'.he haslk:.-! miscsaoeptions aboat it. Apnoposi.of jokes, we noticed tfeat durmg the whole seren months of mac stay in Gerir.any we never heard one witticism or even one feliciSap.s idea or expression from a German. We sS'W axaplendid marble monument, nearly completed, of the late Xing cl ; Hanover. Billable that getius ud . spotless WhiteHtnarble should ho thiols ,away on jeh human tcash. It seems as ii a close view of almost I f verv human let woniil disclose som i offering that makes life a doubtful ;gcod except perhaps at certain epochs lOliresh love, frafch, creative activity, or BSjLinl power of helping others. S think Btoekir- has -not been en eoaraged abtmt women by his ma:r ar:d persistent attempt: to teach them. Be seem 3 to have found them wanting in real scientific interest bent on een fcimentalhung in everything. I object stronger to ms-self, as a bundle of nnpleaseet sensations with palpitating heart and.awkwad manners. Impossible to imagine the huge charity .1 have fr people who detest, me. But don't yon be one of them. ' I itt : t - . ? i'i.iH .a 1 . . . - portraits. .How can a thing which is! Uways tne same oe an -adequate representation of a living being who is always varying especially of a living being who is sensitive, bright, jaauy nded? Those that knew Mr. Wehster veil enow that no profasie word ever f ell from his lips. Mrs. Wendell Phillies is still Ii - jig quietly in the house which was her ri band's List home, in the southern Ml t oi Boston. Sayings of the Turk that Are Very Like Our Own. If the Turk has been qualified as "unspeakable," he is very far from being inarticulate. Strange as it may seem to those who have formed their opinion of him from hearsay, it is iot the less true that he is common jy a good conversationalist, and cafl sav well and pointedly what he has. got to say, with a wealth of illustration in anecdote, quotation, and pr'jVerb. The latter form commends itself especially to the sententious Turkish mind. The synthetic form of the language, too, secure brevity and conciseness, and opportunities are afforded for those assonances, or rr-.yming vowels, which are so dear to tae Oriental. On look ing over a noe-book containing sev eral hundrej Turkish proverbs, taken down in the course of reading and conversation, or borrowed from a col lection made at the Oriental academy at Vienna, the writer has amused him self by grouping them roughly under certain heads, so as to illustrate some aspects of the national character and surroundings. But first it may be interesting to re mark how many well-known English and other European proverbs have their exact counterpart in Turkish. How tar are these to be accounted for by contact with or conquest of Indo European races? Or has it been a case of "les beaux esprits se ren contrent?" For instance, we find "You shall not look a gift horse in the mouth" in exactly the same words, as well as "He that is born to be hanged will never be drowned," the Trukish version having the advantage of being expressed in two woTds. The change of words is but slight in "Troubled waters suit the fisher," "One flower does not make summer," and "The robe does not make the dervish;" while in Turkey it is not pot that says to kettle, but negro to negro, that his face is black. We are disposed to pre fer "The nail saved tne shoe, the shoe the horse, the horse the man, the man the kingdom," to our somewhat lum bering "For want of a nail the shoe was lost," etc. "Wake not the sleep ing dog" has as a corollary "Step not on the sleeping serpent," and we are warned that there is "No rose without a thorn, nor love without a rival." One instance in which our proverbial wisdom is opposed to the Turkish is to be found in the expres sion "To kill two birds with one stone." The attempt to do this is con demned by sundry proverbs, such as "One arrow does not bring down two birds," and "You can not knockdown nine walnuts with one stone." Often we are reminded of scriptural proverbs and aphorisms. "Nothing unheard of in the world" sounds Solo monian enough, while "Out with the eye that profits me not." "The negro does not whiten with washing," and "That which thou sowest, that also shalt thou reap," are strikingly like New Testament teaching. Again ad again we find expressed in other words lessons of charity, consid erateness, and justice that would not be unworthy of a Christian teacher, as "The stranger's prayer is heard," "The heart's testimony is stronger than a thousand witnesses," "Among the blind, close your eyes," -"In truth Ms Tight," "Justice is half religion," Neighbor's right, God's right." The heading under which, perhaps, the largest number of proverbs can be grouped is that of opportune speech and silence. If the Turk, as has been said, talks well, he also knows how to hold his tongue. He looks -down with the greatest contempt on the idle chat terer, and does not even think that good manners require him to make small-talk when he has nothing to say. In fact, when on a visit to a well-bred Shirk with whom you have no com mon subjects of interest to discuss, after exhausting those suggested by politeness his health, your own, that of your family, the weather, and the water (a most interesting topic in the east), you may safely fall back upon that golden silence whiefc their pro verb, like ours, rates above silver epeech. Here his comment on the ehatterer; "There is no ass but brays;": "The dog barks, the caravan -.passes; "Fool is he who alone talks, and is his; only listener;" "The tool wears his faetwl on his tongue, tne wise man beeps his tongue in his heart, and "Many words, an unsound beart." He -warns us of the mischief -of e vil speaking: "The knife" wound heals, the tangue's never;" "The s tongue slays, more than the sword," and -'The tongue is boneless, but at . breaks bones'.'" Again, he feels keenly the danger of free speech under a corrupt and despotic rule, while he extols iion esty and good faith, and generals eon demae'.iying. The latter 3s oandoned in certain cases, for "Some iies are better than truth,'" and we may-"Lie, but with measure." The enpreseio veri k even strongly recommend ed, for is not the "truth-teller banished out of nine cities?1 ' while -"He . who holds his tongue saves his head," an "There isino better answer thanthis, 'I know net, I saw not.' But to turn to something pleasanter, we will quote a few sayings still fa miliar in -ear Turk mouth, which hare survived the corruption of the palace and .official kings, and seem still to breathe the hardy and inde pendent spirit ot the ld days, when courage and enterprise were the only passports to the highest places in a conquering empire. The it could be said sthat "The horse is to him th.vt mou" to. the sword to him who gird it on," "The brave man's word is a coat of mail," Fortune is not far from the brave men's head," "The hero Is known on the battle-field," and "tear not ifco-morrow's mis chance." Who but a conquering race eouid have produced such a proverb as "Power on my head, or the raven on my corpse?" and srho can .fail to hear a true ring in "Peasant erect is taller than noble on bended knee." or "I am the slave of him who regards mo; the king of him who disregards me?" Almsgiving is ereditable, for "the hand w&ich gives is above that which takes;" and it offer temporal advan tages as well as spiritual. In this world "No one cut the hand that gives," and "What thou givest that shalt th, take with thee" to the next. Bet beware of accepting alms or f av or if yOU would keep your self resP sct, and "accept the largess of thv friend as if thou wert an enemy." "Great is the Dower of wealth. "Even the mountains fear the rich man. It covers a multitude of fail ures and averts many ills, "If a man's money is white, no matter if his face be black " "The knife cuts not hand of gold." But then the disadvantages and dangers of it in a land where empty treasuries are filled by the sup pression of a few rich men and the confiscation of their prooerty! Truly the vacuus viator has the better part where brigands swarm. "Not even a thousand men in armor can strip a naked man." Our Turk is a man of wants pilaff, coffee, and tobacco are enough for him. and so he will rest contented in the "health that is bet ter than fortune," sagely reflecting that "a big head has a big ache," that "he who has many vineyards has many cares," and -congratulates him self if he can say, "My money is little, my head without strife." He is not likely to make a fortune in business, being destitute of the enterprise, as well as of the sharpness and hardness, necessary to success. "The bazaai knows neither father nor mother," and our easy-going friend has a great re gard for these domestic ties. Besides, his religion forbids him either to spec ulate or to put out money at interest, although he sometimes avoids this prohibition by the clumsy expedient of a fictitious sale or a "present" tafcenby the lender. It is a pity that his rulers should not have profited by his experiences of debt. "Poor without debts is better than prince." "A thousand cares do not pay one debt," and "Creditors have better memories than debtors," are explicit enough, but perhaps were not supposed to apply to government loans. We find some sound advice on the subject of friendship. Do not expect your friend to be a paragon "Who seeks a faultless friend rests friend less." But when you have found him keep him "Old friend, old path," you will do better to change neither, and if he is "a true friend he is better than a relation." On the other hand, avoid the British error of underrating your foe; he is always dangerous. "Water sleeps, the enemy wakes," and "Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant," for "A thousand friends are few, one foe many." The references to women are as tin gallant as they are unjust. She is to be treated as a child, and as such con temptuously pardoned for her short comings. "You should lecture neither child nor woman;" it would be waste of time. Her intelligence, too, is un derrated "her hair is long, her wits short!" It is she who as a mother "makes the house and mars it," and she is classed with good wine as "a sweet poison." But it must be ad mitted that in this want of gallantry the Turk is far surpassed by the Per sian, who says: "The dog is faithful, woman never." ' The lover is regarded as a lunatic, unfit for the society of his fellows. "If you are in love, fly to the mountains," for "Love and king brook no compan ion." He is "blind," and distance is nothing to him, "Bagdad is not far," and the only cures for this malady are "travel and patience." A word of ad vice to those about to marry. "Mar ry below you. but do not marry your daughter above you;" and "Choose cloth by its edge, and a wife by hei mother." London Spectator. Chinese Immigration. Collector of the Port Sears has pre pared a report of the Chinese arrivals at this port from foreign ports from Aug. 5, 18S2, to Dec 31, 1884, of which the following is a synopsis: Total number landed, 16,124; 9,655 as permanent-residents and 6,769 in transit. In 1882, 24 merchants were landed.; in 1883, 1,197 came ashore, and in 1884, 659 were admitted. Early in 1884 the issue of "Canton" certificates to "tra ders" was suspended. But since De cember, 1883, the ratio of merchants and "other than laborers" reported as landed is about one to every nine la borers. The certificates issued here to Chinese "other than laborers" are very few. According to the report, "the first year of restriction brought nine Chinese classed as laborers, and twenty-four classed as 'other than la borers,' who were here landed. The second year saw the real beginning of L ua increasing business, bringing fees anto the pocKets or lawyers, clerks of the court. United States commission ers, United States marshals, United .-States district attorneys, Chinese court interpreters, stenographic reporters, .and a large number of Chinese, and the last named have a regular organ ization for and are doing a regular bnokerage -business in 'beating re striction.' The fees in the Chinese habeas corpus cases heard in the fed eral courts in the twenty-five months reported, exclusive of the fees to law yers and Chinese interpreters, and dis tributed exclusively among federal court officials, aggregate the sum of $19,4)88, or practically $812 per month." From 1882 to 1884 the Chi nese were admitted as follows : Cus-.tom-heuse certificates, 6,o22; Chinese government certificates, 676; attaches Chinese government, 12; American consular certificates, 198; Chinese con sular certificates, Ml ; affidavits, 625; statements verified, 183; naturalized .citizens of the United States, 7; land ed by habeas corpus.812; unaccounted tfor, 25; missing or escaped, 5; total landed, 9,boo; laborers, 7,362 other than laborers, 1,880: .females, .413; in transit, 6,769. Alta California. His Off Year! A candidate for a ekv office was reading a morning paper which dtring the previous vear fcad been condemn ing aim furiously, but had changed its tone. He smiled ae :fce read a pleasant paragraph and remarked sneeringly to a friend, sittfng near; "Ha, the blamed sheet is teconunjr qmte complimentary." "Is it?" "Yes; it cal?? me a gentleman now, but last year it called me a thief, a liar, and a scoundrel." "Oh, you mustn't notice that; this is your off year.you know." Merciani Traveler. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Black walnut sawdust is now mixed with linseed gum and molded into or namentation for furniture. When varnished, it is handsome and more durable than carved wood. Turpentine in small quantities may be used with advantage in the laundry, but rosin, which is usually found in soap, is injurious, discoloring some goods and shrinking woolens. When a knob comes off a door han dle, you can fasten it on again by fill ing the cavity in the knob with sul phur, then heat the iron end of the handle which goes in the knob just hot enough to melt the sulphur, put the knob in and let it cool. It will be firmly fixed in place, A novel way of mending a woolen dress, in which a round hole has been torn, and where only a patch could remedy matters, is as follows: The frayed portions around the tear were carefully smoothed, and a piece of the material, moistened with very thin mucilage, was placed under the hole. A heavy weight was put upon it until it was dry, when it was only possible to discover the mended place by care ful observation. A solution of oxalic acid has been used for removing ink stains from cotton, linen, or the fingers, but it is attended with the danger of injuring textiles and the - skin. A much safer and better treatment of ink or rust stains consists in the application of two parts of powdered cream of tar tar and one part of finely powdered oxalic acid. Shake up the ingredients well together and apply the powder with a dry rag to the dampened stain. When the spot has disappeared the part should be very well washed. To boil rice properly you must first wash out all the dried starch from among the grains, not by soaking it in a bowl of water as is usually done, but by letting water run over and through it, in a seive. To half a pint of rice put a pint of cold water and a heaped teaspoonful of salt into the saucepan. The moment it begins to boil take the lid off the saucepan; let it boil very fast but do not stir it. When holes be gin to appear in the top it is done. Turn out in a buttered dish and keep hot in the oven. Every grain should be distinct by this process! After tea has been steeped in boiling water over five-sixths of the valuable constituents are extracted. At the end of ten minutes the leaves are al most entirely exhausted. Prolonged infusion gives no additional strength to the liquid, but it does cause the loss, by volatilization, of the flavoring prin ciples. Hard waters are to be pre ferred to soft waters in the teapot, as the hard waters dissolve less of the tannin out of the leaves. The Gearing of these laboratory results on the art of making a good cup of tea is ob vious. A serviceable article of a mother's nursury outfit is an apron made of a straight piece of goods muslin, ging ham, or any suitable material that is alike on both sides turned upward at the bottom to the depth of about ten inches, and stitched vertically at inter vals, so that pockets are formed, into which scissors, thimble, cotton, or whatever one has in hand can be drop ped at a moment's notice, when it is necessary suddenly to cast one's work aside. This will not only prevent dangerous playthings from falling into Daby's hands, but save the trouble of collecting scattered work; materials. Cut a piece of pasteboard eight inches sauare and four triangular pieces, one side of each being eight inches long. Cut also the same num ber of pieces of thin cardboard. Cover the pasteboard neatly with olive satin, and the cardboard with bright rose color, and sew together. Take a strip of olive satin, one and one-half yards long 'and three inches wide, and one of pink ; sew on each edge, trim and shirr. Sew one edge of the puff to the edge oi the square board and the other triangular pieces paint or em broider a little spray of flowers or an initial, and bows of ribbon at the corners. To make a very handsome cover for a parlor or library table procure a suffi . ciently large square of dark felt, and i border it with old geld plush half the width of the material, which will be j about eleven inches. Cut large leaves f fi . f ri f h ran Oidnc if .Aliirn.ivnann rtlruih and apply upon the old gold plush, ar ranging them without much apparent method, to look as if carelessly scat tered upon the fabric. Sew the leawes on with common sewing-silk in but tonhole stich. The long nap of the material will readily lend itself to the concealment of the stitches used in ap plying. No fringe will be neces sary, but three plush balls ean be added to each corner of the -cloth. lit is not sufficiently known that when coffee beans are placed upon hot coals or on a hot plate the flavor aris ing is one of the most effective, and at the same time agreeable disinfectants. If no heat is disposable, even the spreading -of ground coffee on the ob ject to be disinfected, even if it be a cadaver, is most satisfactory. Some journals announce this as a newly i Ms covered fact, but it appears by inves tigation that it was well known by nurses and housewives forty years ago, while some members of the medical profession became only convinced of its value some twenty years ago, while at present the majority of the physi cians are not aware of the virtues of this -simple and agreeable remedy. Seeing Stars. They were young and romantic, and, although the minute hand was pointing to 12 o'clock, they stood, up on the porch gazing at the stars. "That's Jupiter, dear, isn't it?" she murmured. "Yes, pet, and that is Sirius," he replied, pointing to anoth er star. "Are you Sirius?" she cooed. He kissed her several time. Then he pointed upward and eaid: -"That's Mars, dove. "And that's pa's," she whispered, as a footstep sounded inside, and if the young man hadn't scooted he would have seen more stars than he ever dreamed of. Her pa wears a 12 with a brass toe. Wash ington Batchet. Large Crops of Corn. Although the average yield of corn throughout the country last year was less than thirty bushels per acre, the product of many fields was over a hundred bushels." The difference be tween the highest and lowest yields of corn was greater than for almost any crop produced. Farmers should en deavor to bring up the yield of corn to the highest point possible. Nearly as much labor is expended on land that produces but twenty bushels of corn per acre as on that which yields five times that amount. The time spent in plowing and otherwise preparing the soil is the same in either case. The cost of harvesting is nearly the same. More labor may be required to cut up and put in shock large stalks of corn than those that are small, but it is much easier to husk long, full-grown ears than those that are short and small. The former are shelled the more readily whether the work is per formed by hand or by the aid of a ma chine. The quality of a corn crop in almost every instance corresponds with the quantity produced. The larger the yield, the better is the grain. Both its keeping and its feeding quali ties are better. Large ears of corn part with the moisture they contain more readily than small ones do, chiefly for the reason that the propor tion of grain to cob is larger. Very large ears seldom become moldy in the crib. Climate has much to do in insuring a large yield of corn. The latitude of forty degrees appears to be most fa vorable to the production of corn. It is produced in all the southern states, and in most of them it is a fairly pro fitable crop, but the yield is much smaller than in what is known as the "corn belt." In places where the soil is naturally quite rich, the stalks at tain an enormous size, with correspond ingly large ears. But the size attain ed by the stalks makes it necessary to locate the hills so far apart that their number on an acre is much smaller than in the northern states. The warm season is much longer in the southern than in the northern states, and the continued warmth is favorable to the growth of corn, but the heat is likely to be attended by a long-continued, drought, which prevents the ears from filling out. In favorable reasons as large crops of corn are raised on the forty-second as on the fortieth degree of latitude, though some more labor is required to produce it. Smaller va rieties, and those that mature in a shorter time, are planted for pruden tial reasons. As the stalks are small er, the hills are placed nearer together, involving more labor in planting, cul tivation, and harvesting. Many of the largest crops of corn reported last season were produced in the latitude of this city. The grain was excellent and the fodder superior to that pro duced farther south. Many of the ordinary crops of corn produced last year that is, those where the yield was reported as over a hundred bushels per acre were pro duced on land to which commercial fertilizers had been liberally applied. Severel of the very large yields from small fields were the result of apply ing well-rotted manure, ashes, and bone-dust directly to the hill. A very large proportion of the best crops, however, were raised on land to which no fertilizers had been applied that season or the previous year. They were produced on red clover sod. The ground had in some previous year received a very heavy dressing, which had resulted in producing a luxurous growth of clover. The coarse manure had become rotten in the soil and stimulated the corn plants in the earlier period of their growth. Later in the season the roots of the clover became rotten, and furnished plant food. In England it has long been the practice to raise clover with a view of preparing the land to produce a crop of wheat. Experience in this country shows that land can be fitted for raising corn in the same way. In many parts of the west, rolling laud has been plowed and planted to corn for so long a time that large gullies have been produced in it. The soil has also been impoverished by raising the same crop year after year. These lands should have a period of rest and recuperation. Seeding them to clover will produce the desired result in a short time. Very few, of the premium corn crops reported Wjre put in with a horse planter. These machines are useful and perhaps necessary in places where labor is scarce and very large fields are to be planted. That they drop and cover corn as satisfactory as can be done by hand is not claimed. The best results were obtained by laying out the rows with a marker, dropping the seed by hand, and covering it with ' hoe. The hand hoe was employed in connection with the cultivator in tending the crop. It was used before the plants were sufficiently large to admit of the running of the cultivator between the rows. The use of the hand hoe was the most common in places outside the "corn belt," where the people do not rely chiefly on an ex cellent soil and climate to produce a good corn crop. The employment of the corn planter and the double team cultivator has enabled western farm ers to put in and tend very large fields of corn, but it is obvious to every ob server that these implements have not resulted in increasing the yield per acre. Hand planting and hand hoe ing appear to be necessary to produce very large crops of corn in any part of the country. Such, at least, is the report of those who raised the premium crops last season. Chicago Times. BRITISH ELOQUENCE. Demoralized by Marriage. "Have you noticed how Mary D. has changed of late?" asked a stately beauty, caressing a diminutive black-and-tan whose collar was ornamented with silver bells. "What's the matter with her?" was the query. 'Why, you know, she was married last week, and her maid informs me that she has not fed her dog once since her marriage; has scarcer; noticed him, in fact. She actual!; seems to prefer the society of hei husband." Exclamations of astonish ment Boston Courier. Us Exhibited In The House of Commons Gladstone and Bright. i?rom Paper by Justin McCarthy. The eloquence of the House of Com mons is curiously conventional in its oharacter. It is peculiar; it is local; it can hardly be appreciated by one not familiar with the place and the ways. A stranger is almost always disappointed with our Parliamentary speaking ; more so with the House of Commons, I think, than with the House of Lords. The allu sions, the illustrations, the hits that tell best in the House of Commons would not be understood by any one not well ac quainted with all that is going on in' English public life. We seldom or nevec hear in the House of Commons, now, a passage of sustained eloquence which would be interesting for it own sake; for its beauty of language, its power, or its pathos, the very size and shape of the chamber are unfavora ble t6the higher order of eloquence and are distinctly encouraging to the close and clever practical debater. We sel dom now have great principles to deal' with. The business cf the House of Commons is mainly practical, not to say parochial. The most eloquent and powerful de? bater in the House of Commons is Mr.. Gladstone; beyond all comparison, if we take him for all his remarkable qualities ; : fluency, readiness, resources of argu ment and of language, voice, delivery, . manner, dramatic gesture, variety of tone, style, phrase, I am inclined to doubt whether he is not the greatest de bater who ever sat in the House of Com mons. But he is certainly not the great est orator ; I sometimes feel inclined to question whether he is an orator at all. At the most I should call him a par liamentary orator; a House of Commons orator. His speeches will not be read. Even now in his own lifetime a speech of his is not read after its immediate oc casion has passed away. Mr. Gladstone is only to be appreciated by those who hear him. I have often heard innocent wonder expressed at the fact that one who is so great a speaker should not be a particularly good writer. But any body who listens to one of Mr. Glad stone's speeches and observes how the involved sentences are made clear by the speaker's mastery of tone, inflection' of tone and gesture will readily under -stand why a written essay from Mr. Gladstone should not be very easy reading. Of late years, indeed, the finer qualities of Mr. Gladstone's voice are often wanting. Sometimes it becomes almost feeble ; sometimes the speaker is; indistinctly heard. There was a time, and that not long ago, when every word, every syllable, swept easily over all parts of the House of Commons, and the most distant listener in the most inconvenient gallery never had to trouble himself by any anxiety lest, he- 1 1 1 1 ! . ( nnfMd i BI1UU1U lUe UUU pXJXOaO WL Uil "UL.jjui a eloquence. Years must tell ; one can not pass seventy and lose nothing. Mr. age; and, except in voiee I do not think he has suffered as a speaker. He is as ready, as varied, as full of re source, as rhetorical and rich iu lan guage as he ever was. So much cannot be said of Mr. Bright. At one time Mr. Bright stood distinctly above Mr. Gladstone as an orator; he never ap proached him as a debator. Mr. Bright's was a purer and a loftier elo quence; and, like Mr. Gladstone's it was aided by a voice of noble quality, Vk voice which lent it-en vu cicij cmw tion of-passion, of pathos, of humor, of scorn. Mr. Bright's voice now is almost gone, and his resources of language seem gone or nearly so. One who did not hear Mr. Bright in his better days would not do well to hear him now. He would not hear the real Mr. Blight;. .nnl ,1 , -,,,1,. ,3.-, nrnn t.s tVtk Mftmftrv 1 1 f. uiuu unit XJ niuiiK u wuv uio.jJtv and the fame of the real Mr. Bright.. After Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright who are the orators of the House of Commons ? One has to pause a little and think before giving an answer. The House of Commons has never been.- nm'fn tiul sftmA Ki'nf Tfr THsriiAli lpft it. It seems to have change! its char -acter since the days of those glorious duels, those splendid hand-to-hand combats, between Gladstone and Dis raeli. There is no one on the Conserv ative bench who is fit to break a lance with Mr. Gladstone ; nobody who is fit to stand before him for one moment.. Who comes next to Mr. Gladstone in. the present House? Mr. Bright Ave need not name; he is practically out of the debate. Next to Mr. Gladstone in my opinion comes Mr. Joseph Cowen, the Democratic member from Newcastle.. Effect of an Old Ballad. Talking of the war reminds me of sr pretty story of the bloody Confederate drama. .The father of Willie Black, of Atlanta, when 16 years old, left college joined the southern army, and remain ed in it from first to last. He was tak- times. He says that after the battle oi Gettysburg, when the baffled Confeder ates, worn, weary, heartsore, were re crossing the Potomac at dusk, many were groaning, , some were cursing, while the majority of them felt too un happy to express themselves boister ously. Finally they went into camp, cooked their frugal meal, and seUied , down to a grim quarrel with fortune oz lapsed into sullen silence. All at once, swelling melodiously through-the sum mer air, came a noble, resonant tenor voice singing "Give me a cot in the val ley I love. " The soldiers listened with rapture, and the dear vision of home turned the bitterness of their hearts to sweetness and peace. All blasphemy anger and unutterable anguish ceased. . By the power of song heaven descended upon the raging hell in their bosoms, . and when the ballad lulled into an echo, . dying plaintively away, it was as if an i angel had passed and touched the val iant men in gray with the healing of bin wing. Washington Correspondent ot. the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
