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la the lnboHtiK bi.foal woke;
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A the 'Ileal r!r tinokp.
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la t puilDtule torrent D:oe.
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Our uvd, woo reil the dflui hour.
All the Yer Round.
The Cilile lln Iness.
A correspondent familiar with the
cattle business of Wyoming, writes tbo
Denver Tribune soma interesting facts
bout that great industry in that territo
ry. He Hays:
Stock is looking remarkubly well and
the beof o.ittle aro very f.tt. Large ship
ments are being made ilnily from Lara
mie City, Cheyenne ami l'ine Bluffs to
Chicago to market. 8orae one makes
the prediction that when the western
country commences its shipment of beef
io tho fall, Chicago will receive from
40,000 to 50,01)0 per week. Tho Leader
doubts this to somo extent and nays:
"They may and they may not. To start
withcattle are bringiug about the same
figure per hundred as they were at this
season last year. The Wyoming season,
short live I as it is by a month as com
pared with last year, may not bring so
many cattle to Chicago as it did last
year! Then the high prices induced
stockmen to ship all marketable cattle.
Thero were cases where two-year-olds
went to market as their owners saw
'quick money' in their sales. As the
probability of realizing high prices in
duced large shipments from this range
the last year, the likelihood of low
prices may restrain stockmen from
throwing cattlo in largo numbers upon
tho markot tho coming season. We Lave
boon informed by an old stock raiser of
Sweetwater that but 73 per cent, of the
number shipped from that region in
188J will bo sent in 1883. It was almost
tho general opinion hint spring that this
year's shipment would not equal this
fall, and it is now an opinion held by
many that the coming shipment will fall
considerably below tho last one.
The cattlemen evincod a strong deter
mination to soil out few cattlo this fall if
the prices should bo low. A well known
member of the stock association, in con
versation with tho writer said: "We are
so situated at prosent that a drop in the
cattlo market, when wo commence our
heavy shipments, would have a very de
pressing influence upon business. For
tunately wo at e so situated that we do
not have to sell any cattle unless we so
desire. We will soli the beef steers, but
there will not be the, desire to soil every
thing in tho meat lino, as there was last
year. Cows, calves and st ers were
shipped to market and brought a good
price. This at once encouraged a num
ber of capitalists to embark in the cattle
business. The eastern states woro
cleanod out of cattle and brought wost.
Iu fact, the tendency has been to overdo
tho business of late and a reaction must
necessarily follow. I do not think, how
ever, that the market will be overrun
with beef cattlo this fall to such an ex
tent as it will next next, and I am of tho
opinion at that time, unless something
happens to make an iucreased demand
for beef, thai the market wtll be .corre
spondingly low, as compared to former
years.
The stock business of Wyoming has
passed largely into the hands of English
companies, who own all the great herds.
They have invested in the business bo
cattBe of tho large profits, have organized
a stock association which governs every
thing connected with the business, and
holps protect their property. By close
examination of all cattle imported into
the territory, disease is kept out and the
best class of animals are , raised. The
cattle business of Wyoming has bocome
so great that it effects this industry in
Utah, Idaho and Montana. That almost
every man tngagod in this stocs raising
in these territories should become rich,
is'the bestevidonco that can be given,
that tho cattle business in the weBt is one
of the most profitable.
Pension Frauds.
"There aro more tricks practiced fin
the procurement of pension than in ho
whole of the other departments," saill a
pension office examiner the other nif-idit.
"In what direction are tuese nosuy
attemtirmi?"
"Tim crjxil hulk of them aro colored
cases. Not that colored people aw a given
to fraudulent practices, but Ja8D7.
them are easier victims to jpesigning
lawyers, and it is less diffloult JR o person
ate a dead negro than a dead white man.
As soon as a colored caw cornes before
the office it is subjected fto an tr
amount of scrutiny. A larpe proportion
of the colored widows drawng pensions
have remarried, and quite a number of
the claimants and not the relicts of sol
diers at all, but mere dnlrumies put up
by wicked lawyers, and Jtthers in place
of the widows who havdf long agomar
ried and relingoisbed t!f ieir claims."
"How is this fraud nflianaged?"
"Easily enough, f A decent time is
allowed to elapse afteir the marriage.and
the woman frightoniyd in honest aban
donment of berclaiftt. Then another
colored woman is of tined who makes
the necessary affldafv-it before a conven
ient notary who crrtifles to her identity
and tiie rett is sjwple, straightforward
work, which ia frequently put into the
bands of a derJent lawyer to carry
through in allf good faith. Where
woman is I abont to remarry
who in likely to formally renounce
her rights, a member of the gtng
will proffer hisservicv to make the an
nouncement in duehbape, so to leave her
free to contract tl:e new relation in safo
ty, This is the prelude to tho proceed
ings I have Kpuken of. She receive a
seam permit to marry from tho pension
office, with perhaps a unall extra pay
ment that has been promihcd her its a re
sult of huviug tho thing done properly."
"Is the law which limits tho attorney's
fee for services in procuring a pensiuu to
810 in each case ever ovndod?"
"They got over that very easily. The
common way is to have the ponsionor de
clare before witnesses that ho ttihhcs to
muko his attorney a prevent of, say, 20
per crnt. in addition to tho $10 allowed.
This prevents till trouble). Then ngain,
many of tho dishonest lawyerj have
three, four and soiuotimes tivo aocilled
firms. One will open correspondence
with a would bo pensioner, or one who
doeires his nllowaneo increased. After
obtaining half tho feo in advance for
necessary expenses a 1oij delay enanns.
Then hero eomcs st circular front another
member of tho ring slatinir that ho has
special facilities for procuring the pas
sage of tho claim, which it represented
to liavo been hopelessly shelved. In
cuse of a favorablo " rosponso tho
next circular in the series is sent to
him by tho third conspirator, and so on
until tho list is exhausted, or the pen
sioner's patience gives out. As a matter
of fact there is no need for attorneys'
services to procure pensions. Every
facility ii offered by the ollion, and the
applicant has only to fill the blanks fur
nished him and tell the truth in his story
of reasons for asking the bounty. Ho
must cot all this certified to in accord
ance with instructions, and tuen his case
will go through and be acted on just as
speedily as thongh he had hired a dozen
lawyers. Of course ignorant men some
times fail to comprehend the simplest in
structions, and muoh delay and troublo
is caused. Hence the employment of a
lawyer is rather favored by those who
havo tho cases to pass npon.as less labor
is involved as a rnlo in tho cases pie
pared by professional hands."
" Does all this exhaust tho possibilities
of fraud by attorneys ?"
"By no means. Men will go into a
small town and, after getting tho signa
tures of a number of loading citizens,
leading the war records for that neigh
borhood. Among the latter aro sure to
bo found the names of men entitled to
pensions who have never nppliod for
them. Applications will be mado out in
these names, and the signatutes of the
necessary number of leading men of tho
placo forged to tho certificate of service,
etc. The rest of tho process is easier
than with a genuino case."
"Are these men never caught and pun
ished?' "They aro, quite freqrently. But in
nocont frauds are sometimes even moro
severely dealt with. Two cases I re
meraheV. One was a preacher, a man of
irreproachable character, who had been
a chaplain in tho army, but with little
knowledge of the world. In his first steps
to getting a pension ho consulted with
former comrades and noighbors ai to what
facts they would swear to for him. Then
ho got the necessary blanks and went
ahead. But ho found that to get his
friends' signatures to their statements
would cause considerable delay. To ob
viato this ho simply signed tho nnraes
himself and sent on tho papers. The
similarity of writing was detected, ond
tho resnit was the states prison for two
or three years, though tho men whoso
names had been forced promptly ex
pressed their readiness to sign the par
pers, while admitting thot they had ot
ilono so. r
"Another case having the 6ame('nding
was that of a man who kept copies of
his papers, which woro afterward lost in
the office. Ho was requied to send
another sot, and simply e ,owgb, sent his
copies, the names of wbi'u were lold to
bo forgeries, and bo w.il duly convicted
and imprisonod. So for law aid
justioo." Washington Post.
A rcciillar Divorce Stilt.
Divid Holtz, iA an action in the Court
of Common Plea, w seeking to havo his
marriage with y'anline Moses annulled.
In his complai jit ho says that he became
engaged to Jliss Moses on the 1st of
April last. At that time she and her
relations rcpresented to htm. he beinsr a
foreigner, ttfiafc it was necessary under
the laws of his state that the marriage
should bo iferformed by some official at
the city htll. He objected to this sort
of proc'eeiling, as ho desired to consult
his mothe. and also becomo hotter ac
quainted with Miss Moses.
Ho wtfs told, however, that the cere
mony ivuld not bo binding upon them,
and th: t an actual marriago would tako
placo f toward by a Rabbi. He was in
duceT toconsant to tho marriage at the
cilVhall, which was performed by one
of It ho aldermen, aud on tho 15th of
ijnl another ceremony was periormou
ll..lirnn miniurnr. On the morninsr
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2 . .. ..... i 1.-1 ai. ..l
Ol April lotn, na declares iiiui un mm
became iusano, and that some time after
ward she was taken to tho Blackwell's
Island insane asylum.
Mr. Holtz charges upon information
and belief, that his wife has been a luna
tio for some years, and that she has been
confined in an asylum several times. He
says, moreover, that occasionally she has
lucid intervals of from five days to
twelve months, and while in this condi
tion appears to be perfectly sane. He
declares that sho was aware that she was
insane, and thot she was led to believe
that if she got married she could be
enred. Mr. Holtz charges that her rela
tives kept from him the fact that Miss
Moses was insane, that they wanted him
to marry her, and that the marriage oc
curred while she was in a sane condition.
He declares that sines he ascertained
that she was insane he has not lived with
her, and he asks that the marriage shall
be annulled. '
The case was before Judge J. F. Daly
yesterday in the court of common pleas.
Several affidavits were presented bow
ing that Mrs. Holtz was in no condition
to be served with the summons. Morris
J. Friedlander.plaintirs counsel, assert
ed that Dr. Thomas M. Franklin, the
physician at the asylum, asserted that
r ITIl mrmm in tin condition to bo
WIS. - ' ,
served with the papers, and he refused
to allow ner io uo serTeu. iu
vere placed in the hands of the sheriff,
who also failed to serve tbem. An affi
davit made by the plaintiff himself stated
that he bad never aeen the girl's father,
bnt he believe that he is a lnn tio and
has boon for ten years. Judge D;dy di
rected that the summons in the suit
should be served personally upon Mrs.
Holtz, Dr. l'ranklin and Mrs. Annie
Moses, tho girl's mother.
Keener of Mad mi's Secret;.
Tho lady's maid with the white cap is
moro common than tho vulet. All of the
more prominent nctresses Iiavo maids,
and neatly till leading society l.ulies
havo them, also. Ono of the most no
ticeablo results of foreign travel it the
acquibitbn of tho lady's maid. These
maids aro often niaids-of-ttll work and
occupy tho dual capacity of maid ond
companion or ronfiduute. A well-kuown
actress gives all her lutters to her timid
to answer; iudcod, except to lep;al docu
ments, cho K'hlom takes pen iu Lumd, ua
her education wa neglected in early lifo
and she is not skilled either in chirogm
phv, syntax cr etymology.
There is a great difference in ladies'
maids, according to their nationality.
The foreign la lies' maida, French, Sn iss
or English, seem subservient or deferen
tial, and, it uny bo added, syeophatitio.
Tho colored maids aro tho' most nffeo
tionato and reliable. The maids selected
from poor families are the most intelli
gent, aud at tho s:i me time most inde
pendent. The French and Sw iss maids
penorally succeed in eliciting the con
fidence of their mistresses nod occupy
tho position of a confidante, though
mercenary, and it is dangerous to trust
them with valuable secrets.
The position of governess or compa
nion must not bo confounded with that
of ladios' maids, though they are in the
families of tho parvenu, and at tho
hotels, whero a companion can rido in
the elevator, tho maid not being permit
ted therein, but compelled to walk up
and down stairs tbo same as tho other
BcrvttntB. Tho governess and companion
are generally ladies of position in re
duced ciroumstanoes, who are every way
fit associates of those who employ them,
and ofteu much superior in every re
spect to them, excepting eociul positions
and resources. The governess or com
panion is permitted to dress to suit her
taste, while the lady's maid is compelled
to wear the white linen cap and the plain
garb of the household subordinate.
Ladies' msids are genorally young
women, past 25, or elderly women, child
less widows of deceased barbers or wait
ers or grooms. Their functions are
identical in regard to the ladios who em
ploy them as thosa of tho valet toward
the master, only moro confidential and
more social, as tho two former are
brought more together and more inti
mate thon tho lattsr, and consequently
intercourse is more familiar. Ladies'
maids have muoh leisuro, and going
about with their mistresses have a much
pleasanter tiiue thau the other servants,
whe have only their hebdomadel "duy
off" for personal enjoyment.
The remuneration of the lady's maid
depends on circumstances aud disposi
tion of the employer. Some are gener
ous and clothe tho maid well, while
others are close fisted and conaider tho
position so attractive that small wages
should satisfy. Tho lady's maid must
be moro rigorous and decorous in her
lifo than any other of the servants. She
is exposed to less temptation, and it is
seldom one hears of a lady's maid in
volved in scandal. iloine Journal.
'linn i
Cliineie (iordoii.
VeuerablttL'jutlon.
1
Lovidroi. is slowly awakening to see
ths'.t it is not only thebiggest and rinh
frtit city in the world, tut ia many ways
the grandest ami luosl historic. Koiuo
has her ruins; Paris ht her boulevards,
palaces and quays; Hosuow has her
Kremlin; and Constintinople has her
minarets an J domes. Itch of these, aud
perhaps some famous ejies in Italy or
Spain, are superior to Bndou in tho sin
gle cloment of beauty, ll magnificence,
or age. But the greass of London
lies in its historic contiiiity, in the sur
vival of its true organiottvntnrics in all
their essential charactei It possesses
in the Abbey, in WestmUter Hall, and
in tho Tower three of thnoblest build
ings in the world; alloflbom have an
unbroken history of eight lenturies; and
are still devoted to the les for whioh
they were designed ; and for 800 years
they have all been tho lcc. scats of our
national existence. Thes threo great
monuments are bound t) with each
other as well as bound up rith the his
tory of England. As cathedral, hall and
castlo, no one ol them has .ny superior
in Europe But, in the ty that they
are inwoven with the grealess, the gen
ius, the poetry, the destnies of tho
country, as also of length atl continuity
of service, no one of them as its equal
in Europe The city whiohjosseeses all
three at onoe has a dignityof her own;
nor teed we think of St. Paul's
and the Temple, the Guildhall
and the palaco of Westdnster, the
parks, the bridges, and the ocks to be
lieve that we are truly citens of no
mean c.ty. Neither mud noremoke, nor
stucco neither vestrios no railways,
can make London moan, for in thn
mass, in the antiquity, in n historic
splendor of her national monments, in
the halo which the heroism, le crimes,
and the imagination of eigh centuries
have shed over them, London-emaiDs to
the thoughtful spirit the mostvenerable
city of the modern world London
Times.
Dust, Duiteri and Wlf.
Do not dust, bnt wipe. 1
Who would believe it? Tualustor
that peaceful emblem of dometio toil
may, under certain oircumstoces, be
come more dangerous to handl than a
six-shooter.
We are in dead earnest. Ateminent
scientist declares it to be a fact
Do yon know just what yon an doing
when yon brush away dust? ,'ou dis
seminate the air, and coniqnently
introduce into vonrown inteior, into
yonr tissues and respiratory oans, all
sort of eggs, spores, epidemj germs
and murderous vibion which ast con
tains. One movement with a feathe duster
may be enough to poison both n and
yonr neighbor to inoculate youtll with
typus, varioloid r cholera atrage ai it
may appear. j
Instead of a f either duster tak cloth
and wipe away tie dnst instead of stir
ring it np. Ins'kort, wipe nevr dnstl
Exchange,
The
pati
doctor
e general jnderstanding i that a
ntia not bnt of dinger ntilthe
r haa beendischarged.
The most celebrated feat of Chinese
Gordon was the suppression of tho Taep
in if rebillioo, wliieli in the spring of
180d bad readied iu npogoe. In thir
teen years Uuug-sew-tsuei), tho vision
ary school teacher of Canton, had mus
tered a following of 500.1HK) men. Most
of tho principal cities on both bunks of
tho lang'tse-kiiing were in his hands.
His professions of Christianity and his
control of the tea district hud at tlrst
enlisted many foreign nutioes in
his favor. Tho resistance of Matikin to
his orms turned the current of fenliug
ngainbt him. For days the inhabitants
and tho imperial garrison had lived ou
the batk of trees, aud roots of grass.
Leather, boiled iu nir.ow slips, was
eagerly swallowed. Human llnsli was
openly hawked in the streets. The sur
rounding country was devantated. Water
courses were filled with broken furni
ture, rotten boats aud ruiu. Onco
nourishing marts were entirely deserted
and thousands of houses wero burned to
tho ground. Here and thero a solitary
old man tninlit bo seen moving with
trembling limbs among tho ruins, niilly
musing over tho desolation that reigned
around. In tho midst of theso tveuts
the Tacping leader put forth a proilania
tiou. "The Father and trio Elder
Brother," ho said, "havo descended up
on earth nnd established tho heavenly
kingdom, and have taken mo and Junior
Lord to regulate a Hun appertaining to
tho world."
Tho foreign nations at onco withdrew
their support and waived their ardor for
Christianity iu favor their interest in
tea.
Tho first to take advnnhtgo of the
clmngo was nn American named Yad.
He had been a mate on a BoMon ship,
and bad landed at Shanghai with a s'lit
of clothes upon his back aud six Mexi
can dollars m his pocket. Ho went to
Prince Kung and offered to crush tho
rebellion for $10,000,000. The prince
accepted and paid a considerable sum in
advance. Ward's lifo was full of adven
ture. He had been with Walker in his
earlier expeditions, and had o taste of
civil warfare in South America. He
first set to work to recruit his menand
then to drill them. Dozens applied
every day. Marines, sailors from meu
of war, tea plantor, members of tho po
lice foroo, all the European nd venturers
whom chanoo had brought to China,
were enrollod under Ward's banners.
They wero a mutinous and rapacious
mob. They plundered all who camo in
their way. They broke iuto pagodas
and despoiled thorn of thoir raro con
tents. They tore out diamonds from the
idols' eyes dug up treasures whioh priests
had concealed, and scattered precious
manuscripts of Buddhist classics to tho
wind. Ward was soon disgusted with
tlietu. He had boon created a Mandarin
of the Blue Button, ho had married a
Chinese wife, and he was preparing to
enjoy the immense fortune ho had won
when a 'leaping rebel shot him through
tho heart before the walls of Ningpo.
That was Gordon's opportunity, Bur
gevine, who succeeded to Ward's com
mands, was disposed to sell his men to
the highest bidder. Tho young British
engineer forestalled him. Fortified with
counsels from Calcutta and promises of
unlimited pay from Pckin, he called tho
remnant of Ward's force around him aud
offered them terms of sorvice. There
was to bo no looting so long as thoir pay
was regularly distributed. Ho then
went to work to maturo his scotno of
attack. Heretofore the plan for de
fending the city of Shanghai was to
guard a radius of thirty miles around it
ind remain wholly on tho defensive
This policy he at onco reversed. Having
raised most of the Europoans to posts of
oommaud and drilled au army of some
four thousand Chinese ho moved boldly
against the enemy. He did not diroct
bis attack on their front, whero their
numbers roust havo overwhelmed him,
but determined to throw himself upon
their communication, seizo them, point
after point, with the aid of a small flo
tilla, and so clear the whole country
down to the gates of Nankin.
A study of tho operations by which
he cut off tho groat city of Soochow
proves him a master of strategy in its
highest sense, as his extraordinary con
trol over his native contingout and the
wild spirits that officered it had marked
him a true loader of men. His difficul
ties wero nnpre oodented. The Yang-tso-Eiang
had so long been closod to foreign
commerce that the villagers had never
Been Europeans. They mistook the
array of succor for Tartar robbers. The
whistlo of Gordon's steamer, the sparks
that issued from its funnel, added to
thoir terrors. Wholo villages flod from
the "fiery dragon ship." Women threw
themselves down frop great heights.
They saw that at Taitsan .-i faithful sub
ject of the emperor rushed into the
rebel lines and fought desperately on
tho side of the detested Taepings.
Dimly through the smoke ho saw the
black And yellow banner and hesitated.
Then the firing ceased and he was sur
rounded by his conn try rneu rushing
through the breach. Io his amazement
he still was ablo to cry "Good China
man !"
"Show vonr gun," was the reply. Tho
barrel was still warm.
"Yonr hands." His hands wero black
with powder.
They pushed him back against the wall
and fired. Ho died iu ignorance of his
offense.
With the arrival of winter Colonel
Gordon was before Soocho, and
opened tho siege with which his name is
inseparably connected. Soochow is tho
Venico of the east. When the city of
)ho Foscari was a marshy wasto poets
were singing the glories of Soochow, the
splendor of its temples, the beauty of
its women. Its canals traced their way
through arches of osier and weeping
willow. Its shops and streets wore an
air of Parisian gayety. In the Morning
Pulace the Mowang or commandant of
the oity wandered among exquisite
grottca and summer houses. Girls
fanned him as he reclined in his divan;
musical boxes tinkled in his halls. De
spite his luxurionsneas he was a man of
character and ability. He was the fa
vorite disciple of the cbi?f revolutionist,
and differed in every respect from the
other wangs, whose banners 'were at all
times flaunting through the city and
whose soldiers quarrelled and fought in
the tea bonses. Meanwhile the cannon
of the common enemy was making itself
heard. The Low-man stockade, one of
the keys to the town, bad been captured.
From the creitt stone wall and th. water
gate tho rebela had poured a tire of
grape, canister mid musketry. Fitniing
liis native troops too cowardly to llutat
night for after twilight liny feared
their own shadows Gordon had daahi j
into tho moat with his European fol
lowers, had hwuiii across iu the faeu of a
murderous volley, had snatched Iho
snake tlag of tho comir.anduut from the
breastwork and had planted his own
within a hundred y r-r.lt of tho city.
When the Xaraar.ir, who was second
in onuituaud, heard of this bold advance
he held a secret conference with the
other subordinate wangs, and was rowed
down the Grand Canal into Gordon's
camp. II j offered to throw open tho
gates of the city if he and his followers
were limited un unconditional pardon.
Gordon communicated this order to
General filing, who ennimaudeil the im
perial treoH, and it as speedily ac
cepted. Narwung Ihcit called the con
spirators together, and they repaired to
the palace of the Mowang
Hero, iu the hall of tho heavenly
Father, surrounded by representatives ol
tho passion of Christ, prayer wero offered
and tl.e Mowang asceuded the throne in
his robe aud crown, lie made a short
address to the captains, suying that Soo
chow Bhould never yield to mlldcls. At
the last word the I'otigwatig rose in tho
hall, took off his robe, walked to the
steps of tho throno and deliberately
stabbed thn speaker to tho heart. The
Mowang fell over the table in front of
the throne, nd the other wnmrs seized
him and decapitated him. Then thoy
mounted their horses, rode eueli to his
palace, and the head was st-ut to Gordon
as a peace offering.
Tho colonel was not a man to waste
timo in fruitless threats. Ho had prom
ised these wretches immunity and bo
meant to keep his word. The entry huv
iug beeu affected peacefully enough, ho
walked up alouo to tho neighboring
heights, feeling for tho first timo dis
couraged and sick at heart. In tho plain
below he suddenly noticed a great com
motion. Tbf. imperial troops wore rush
ing iu wild confusion through tho gates.
Yells and shouts filled the air. Not
without misgivings ho mado his way to
the Morning Palaeo and found it in
ruins, half molton bronzes choking np
tho passage and only a solitary drum
standing as sonttnel at tho gate. Enter
ing ono of tho chambers and calling for
his servant ho learned that tho imperial
ist had beheaded him. The courtyard
round the palace was filled with an angry
mob; swords woro being drawn and
pistols tired. In tho midst of the hub
bub Gordon appeared on tho threshold.
The crowd full back as though lightning
had stricken thou. Calmly tho colonel
raised his hand and the noise ceased.
A passago was clearod for him, and,
touching his pith helmet iu ironical
salute, he walked at au easy pace to Gen
eral Ching's stookado. There, iu a
ghastly row, woro the heads of all tho
Wangs. Tho bodies hud beon slashed
down tho chest; tho wounds on the head
woro most terrible. Gordon said not a
word, mo know that c grout clamor of
treachery would bo raised ngaiust him;
but he silently turned away, went back
to tho pahtoe, scrawled four words on
papor "Thou prince of liars" sent
them to General Clang, and, bidding
those of his soldiers follow him who
would, rodo hastily from tho city. Ho
wrote to Sir Frederick Bruce, thn Am
bassador, taking upon himself ull re
sponsibility for Ching's basenoss. Ho
ullowod tho British missionurivs to eurry
homo maudlin stories of his atrocities.
Ho suffered tho philanthropists of Exeter
Hall to prate of tho wronas whioh thy
Taepings had auffcrod at his hands. Ho
merely said that he would not aheatho his
sword until the robollion h id bat n crushod
and he kept his word. His men oluag
to him with tho devotion of the Tenth
Legion to Cinsar. With his gunboats ho
cut off so oompletely the communica
tions of Nankin that not a sound could
bo heard from the beleagured city but
tho bamboo signals of tho sentinels
around tho forts and tho drums of tho
guards in tho lookout houses on walk.
Before tho spring was past the capital
had fallen, the leader of the Taepings
had poisoned himself with gold leaf and
his fugitive was suing for peace in tho
southern provinces. Colonel Gordon
was offered a fortune by the grateful
country whioh he had saved. He ro
plied that he had not served toe money
and would accept nothing. Ho left China
as poor as he came.
Ho was to visit thn country onco moro.
In the spring of 1580 ho went to Pekin
on a mission of peaoe. He had boon
elected to mediate between Russia and
China. Strange emotions tided his mind
as he sailed toward the capital. Passing
tho mouth of the Yang tso-Eiang, under
a aapphire sky and bright eastern snn,
he thought of the desolation he hud left
upon its shores. Onco moro the richest
land in China, he remembered when its
horizon was unbroken except by graves,
commemorativo arches and houps of
ruins. Over its ravaged hills, now
olothed with wild tea, ho followed in
memory the peasants in their llight, the
men staggering under heavy loads of
goods ami chattels, the women hobbling
along on their small feet, their arms
filled with babies. Tho paddy Holds
which the husbandmen wero now irri
gating had been white with dead men's
bones. The reed but of the fisherman
and the many storied pagoda had been
choked with corpses. The boatmen with
their hooks drew shoals of mangled
bodies to the sea, where the priest to day
sat drumming by the waterside to soothe
the great fish that carries the world npon
Its back. It was Gordon who had re
stored peace to the nation, and as bo
saved it frcm rnin in 18G4 bo he saved it
from war in 1880.
Was Into Oil.
"Now, then, what is it?" queried
Now York broker, as his daughter camo
tripping into the library.
"Father, Charles Henry b-s asked mo
to marry him."
"He has, eh? Wants to marry you, eh?
Well, what are his prospects?'
"Ho has 840.000 on a deal in oil. What
answef shall I givo him?"
"None at all,' my love not just now.
Wait and see how oil goes. If it goea
booming, answer bim yea. If it drops
tell him that you havo made np yonr
mind that yon ean never be bappy exoept
with a husband who deals in railroad
stock". Never pot yourself in a position
to be closed oat. "-'Wall Street News.
A Possibility of the Future,
Ou moro than one occasion during the
last throe thousand years tiio barbaric
hordes of the east have ovet flowed their
boundaries nnd havs swept westward,
overwhelming tho young civilization of
Europe and obliterating nearly all the
landmark! of western art and progress;
and at tho present lime, if we may credit
tho Pekin correspondent of one of the
Calcutta papers, there is In China a pow
erful and rapidly growing party that ad
vocates the making of yet another gigan
tic excursion toward tlie land of tho jot
ting sun. Tho Celestial Empire is, no
doubt, immensely ovcrpopti luted, and
will probably rre long seek somo new
outlet for her surplus citizens; but it is
difficult to believe that sho will attempt,
save by peaceful means, to obtain tho
desired result. Tho great unknown
eouutry haa been qniocoeut for so long
that it is almost impossible for a Euro
pean to contemplate that the sleeping
myriads should ever again put forth
their herculean strength. Yet, if China
were to awake; if she were to look west
ward with covetous glance, and wero
onco morn to burst hor bonndii, in ro
sponso to that mysterious impnlso which
in tho oust occasionally ncizes upon n
whole people, how could sho bo resisted?
According to the lust edition of the
Itevolkernntr der Erde, sho has a popu
lation of 4:M,C0tl,(HM); and, supposing
that estimate for it is only an estimate
to bo even approximately correot,
Chlua could put int.) the field more sol
diera thau there nre souls in Germany;
and if sho to willed, could, with a host
ol eighty millions, trample all tho civili
zation of Europe beneath her feet. St.
James' Gazette.
IlejN anil (Irls.
"If I had n dozen children 1 should
want them all boys," said Mrs. Thrifty,
Hoys can tako earo of themselves,
they aro energetic, cujovablo, and it
doesn't tako half as much sewing to
keen a family of boys along."
"Now, if I should have any choice,
said Mrs. Workhard, "I should rathor
havo niv childron all cirls. Girls are
so gentle, so hopeful, and havo so much
moro rcuuement thun ;oys: and then it
is such a pleasure to sow for thorn, they
look so prettily in the garments made
for them."
"Very well, ladies." said Mrs. Sensi
ble, "yon uro both rizhtand wrong. I
believe in a mixod family part boys,
part girls. The boys influence tho girla
to solf-relianco, tiio girls refino the
boys by their gentleness. A boy who
is brought up with his sisters makos
tho most manly man, aud the girl who
is brought up with brothers makes the
most womanly woman." New Haven
itegister,
Thomas Hawdou, of Norwalk, has a
son 17 years of age, who is wonderfully
misshapen. He is totally dovoid of
shoulders, and from the centro of his
back two arms, with well formed hands
grow from a sinizle joint. The hands and
arms are devoid of tho power of feeling,
and aro also sluieted with a strango con
tinual motion, sweeping around in a
circle liko a windmill, the arms being
stretched out at full length and moving
in opposite directions. This motion
uover comes except when tho arms aro
tided together, and aro oovered with soars
from contact with tho walls, tablos,
chairs, etc. His body is further deformed
by tho joining of tho legs as far as the
knee. Here tho right leg is turned back "
und upward until the heel xtrikes the cen
tre of tho back, whero it is firmly im
lioded in tho flesh. Ho is montally
bright, and conversed freely and intolli
goutly with tho reporter about tho fow
boohs his parents had been able to pro
vide for him and about articles ho had
read in the newspapers, which aro occa
sionally supplied to him. Thoy have
been offered big monoy by showmen for
tho privilege of exhibiting him, but thoy
think too muoh of him for that.
Mr. Oliver Cassilay lias only boon
married a few years, but his apprecia
tion of bis wife has already begun to de
preciate. Thore is a discount of 20 per
cent, on it already, Last Sunday after
noon they wero taking a walk, when sbe
requested bim to carry her dolman, at
which ho grumbled exceedingly, "Be
foro we wore married," said Mrs. Cassi
lay, bitterly, "you used to suy thore was
nothing in the world you would not do
for mo, and now yon growl when 1 ask
you to do any little thing." "Yes, it in
all very well to talk that way, but if I
bad known before we were married that
you wore going to load me down this
way, with cloaks, umbrellas, hats and
thing wheuever you got a chanoe, I
would advise you to wed a hatrack."
If I had done that," retorted Mrs. Cas
silay, with telling sarcasm "I would, at
least, have had an hat rao tive husband,
whioh is moro thau I oan say now."
Texas Siftiogs.
Cuiiiko a Cnnaa Ciiilu. Bright
young mothers may not bo told bow
uselul is human surprise in diverting
the attention of a criing child. When
he cries from nervousness or from pain.
It is very good to try this simple meth
od: If he is Mile to understand wuat you
say, ask him, with great impressivenesa,
if he knows that tears are salt? Tell the
story of the little boy who tried to find
this out for himself while be was cry
ing, and how he turned his tongue
around on his cheek to catch a toar.
The young imitator naturally begins to
do the same thing, which checks the
tears nt onoe; be generally will not find
a single one to experiment on. and, in
fuct, will be laughing heartily before he
give un the experiment.
Lost spring the leading dealers in but
ter in New York and Boston bought np
all the butter obtainable in the west at
an average of 21 centa, and placed 10,
000,000 ponnds in cold storage in Chica
go, it is said with the belief that the pro
duct would go np this month. There
baa beon large production, however,
and tdo stored butter ia depreciating io
valuo. It is said that tome will have to
be aold from ten to twelve cents. The '
loss on the deal ia estimated from $500,
000 to $1,000,000.
"Are anprels ever sleepy?" ia a question
which an English psychological aociety
is trying to solve. We hardly know
whether onr angel is ever sleepy or not.
We've nevor stayed lata coon go. to find
out.