1 TV They lie deep, deep; but I at time tjehold in doumlul gumpM, on lome reery neir, Tht gleam of irrecoverable gold. THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO. Moaae Time-Honored Historical He. tlona Called la question. Cor. Chieago Time 1 The Indians were never civilized, nor even half civilize 1, and their condition in Mexico at the time it wan invadod by Cortez, and as it is Riven by Fresi ott, is the merest fuble. They had no great cities, had no large buildings, and their numbers have been overeHtimated in the niOHt outrageous manner. It was to the interost of Cortez to make the king of (Spain and the Spanish people behove he had conquered a civilized people an 1 a numerous one. The fact is he did nothing of the kind. He took the town which is now occupied br the City of Mexico, and found theroiu a oonsiderablo amount of cold, but he found no imposing edi flees no house which has stood to the present day and a people so few in numbers that the handful of (Spaniards and the llascalans, who followed him, killod them all out of hand, and de stroyed the town utterly. It is con ceded that the Tlascalans were next in power to the Aztecs. They had, it is said, a large town, and it is not claimed that their town ever was destroyed. What has become of it? Thoro they live to this day, improved greatly, it is true, by their contact With the whites few in numbers by no means rich, with no traces of an imposing city, and no signs that there ever was one. I be liove that the pyramid of Cholula is a Jiatural hill and I have been on it and all over it. That it was usod as a place of sepulture I believe to bo true, but it was on a mttiral hill, on which the Indians built a square building mado of bricks the size of a man s bund ; they also faced portions of the pyramid witii the sanio kind of bricks. It is true that we should bogin to titko a common-sense view of mutters. The renowned halls of the Montexumus wore nothing more than a series of mud built houses, such as are now called adobe, poorly constructed. The con' querers wishes to havo tlioir country' men believe they had ovorpowered a race of kings, as it was fashionable in those duys to worship kings and potentates. Jlut the ancient Mexican kings were a squalid raco, scurocly deserving tho name. The cruelty which tho Spaniards manifested towards them, tho wholosalu robbery of thorn, tho currying them oil' as slaves, and tho total absence of all principle in tlfe treatment of tho half-armed and almost totally holplots Indians, form a picture not pleasant to contemplate. When this country was discovered it was very sparsely populated, anil it is probable that thoro aro more Indians living in North and South America to day then there were when the muiii' land was discovered by tho Kuropoaus. home tribes have become extinct, while others have increased in numbers very niateriully. The I'ntameil Arab. (I.tter In Nbw York Tunc It is worthy of romark, houovor, that with all the Arabs innate pride, and his Mussulman, hatred of tho "unbo lievers," ho is nothing without Euro- poan o lieors. ' "They would nevor obey c no or themselves, said a veteran French otlicer to mo in the Sahara desert foine joars ago. "They would say, 'Why should wo obey you? lou and wo are "kif-kif" meaning "just tho same. J Iho rroiichman is stronger than wo, for he has oonquored us in war; we will obey him, not you.' " But even to his French leaders tho Mauri tanian Arab yields a tery mod died and capriciom obedienco at best. No threats of punishment can deter him from carrying nut to the utmost tho un wrilton law of "Thar," t r blood for blood, hundod down to him from tho davs of Moses. Even in the host of battle, any order of his commander, however reasonable and necessary in itself, w hich happens to clash with his own poculiar trad.tions, will meet an unhesitating refusal. In one of tho but tles of the t ranoo-liormau war a num ber of Turcot (Arab foot-soldiers) were ordered to lie down, as a protection against the German lire. "That is not our custom," answered tho haughty warriors standing proudly erect to fare tho deadly cannonade that was mowing them down by scores. What ctTW't France's ordinary methods of colonial government would be likely to produoo upon such men may bo easily guessed. Haw Mhn Wan Applause. Chamber's Journal. J Fannie llorton, a once celebrated actress, won her tlrst applause in a somewhat singular manner. During hor performance in a particular scene ho was loudly .hissed, when, advancing to the footlights, she asked: "Which do you dislike my playing or my person?" "The playing, the playing! wis tho answer from all parts of the house. "Well," sho returnod, "that consoles me; for my playing may be lettered, but my person I cannot alter!" The audience were so struck with the ingenuity of this retort that they im mediately applauded a loudly as they had the moment before condomoed her; and from that night alio improved in her acting, and soon became a favorite with the public Am Kaajr-tialBK Heart Kicbange, Tbera is a physician in Rochester, N. T., whose heart makes only tweuty-sit pulsations' a minute. lis is 41 years old, and enjoys excellent health. The average for teal thy men is sixty-fir heart beats in ths minute. In lonelier deptus than where the ill vjjp- MAKING THE DUMB SPEAK. Sot by n Miracle, Bat br Patleoee, Ingeaalty and Frartlee. !New York Bun. A hundred years ago most persons, if asked how the dumb could bo made to speak, would no doubt havo answered without lieiitation: Uy a miracle Yet noarly a quarter of a century earlier, in 17t0, a German, Samuel Heinieke, had started a school in Leip sic for teaching deaf mutes to talk. This school is still in existence, and other schools based on Heinicke's method, which, of course, has been greatly improved, have been founded in different countries, so that at the present time tho teaching of the dumb to speak forms nn important branch of education. Few persons who have not paid special attention to the subject have any idea of this. On the west side of Lexington avenne extending from Mxty-seventh to Sixty eighth street, stands a five-story brick building with a quaint little cupola over its central division. It is called the Institution for the Improved In struction of Deaf Mutes. Within its walls nearly 100 little tongues, upon which nature has imposed the burden of silenco, are daily taught the mtrica ciesand usefulness of speech. Asa rule childron are dumb solely because they are deaf, and therefore unable to hear and imitate the vocal sounds ut tered by those around them. It is very rare .that the vocal organs ot a deaf mute are defective. On the other hand, clul dren under 7 years who have learned to speak perfectly almost always become mute ii thoy lose their hearing, as they frequently do by such causes as measles, scarlet lover, and cerebro spinal menin iritis. Children born deaf are technic ally termed congenital deaf mutes, and those that become so in earlv childhood are called semi-mutes. Strange as it may appear, it is generally easier to touch the former than the latter to talk. ' Hince the child cannot hear, his other senses must be enlisted as substitiitt s for hearing, and the method of teach ing him to speak must, therefore, com sist in making him see and fed the words spoken to him. How this is done cun best be seen in the primary class, mado up as a rule of children from ti to It years old. At present it consists of about a dozen little bovs and girls and is taught with much skill patienco, and gord humor by Miss heeler. I hese little ones whd entered the institution perfectly dumb in Sep tomber last are all able now to utter simple words anil sontences distinctly, while one or two can speak almost fluently, lint another thing that stir pritestho visitor quite as much as their speaking is that the youngest of these children can write readilv and legibly as woll as spell correctly any word ho can utter. Theditliculty of teaching the dumb child to speak is, in reality, not so great as it may seem to the roader. Nosrlv all deaf mutes can utter inar ticulate sounds resembling somewhat "Ah," "Oo." Tho first stop is to touch them to utter those simplo vowel sounds correctly, as well as o. on, e, i, and the easier of the cousonants, as p, b, t, 1, and o. "lo teach the vowel sounds, savs Mr. David (iroenbergor, tho principal of the institution, "it is generally sum ciont to let tho pupil placo his hand on tho teacher's chest, wiioro he can feel tlm vilu ntiou and let him watch tho shnpo of the teacher's mouth, for, in order to distinguish between their van eties, tho doaf mute depends ontirolv on watching tho relative positions of tho lips and the tonguo. These organs aro tho two principal ugents in vowol nio(litlcat:on. The pupils in most cases show a ro murkuhlo aptness to loam, and they ex 1 ress a petuliar delight when they iirst find out tho real object of the funny pud's, blows, and lassos, which thoy learn to produeo, and thoy labor cheerfully to overcomo tho dilliculties necessarily uttcuding tlioir attempts at articulation. Tho development of speech sounds oroupios, according to capacities of nt dividual pupils, from three to four, or at the utmost, live months. They aro kept in tho primary class genorally for one year, thon instructed in the F.ng- Ush language, ami finally carried through higher branches of study. 'I he nioro advanced pupils, as a rule onun . . . cintu dearly, though thoy are apt to fall into a kind of lisp. Lut when their attention is called to it they quioklv remedy the defect. It is not an uncommon thing to see one of thoso ad vnuced pupils talking with his hand on hisclust. Doing asked why ho holds Ins hand there, ho replies that it as sists him in modulating his voice. A Heaaonab'e Ksrnae. Yonke t S ntmmnn. "This is a prettv timo of ni jht for you to be get ting in, Mr. Crimsonbeak! exclaimed Mrs. ('. when her hu band returned home late tho other night slightly under tho inrlucneo of a full moon, or something nioro exhilarating. " hv hie love, 1 don t soeanvthin tho matter with the hio time," was his husband's reply, vainly trying to got his optic on tl e family time-piece. Well, if you could look straight enough Mr. t'limsonlieak, you would sco that it is 1'.' :.'!() o'clock, l oil should havo been homo full two hours ago!" Imposs.blo, love- hie impossible for mo to be home full two hours ago." And why w as it impossible. I should like to know?" said tho better half, Icokuiff as though she could chew her husband up iu her anger. Because, explained the lour man. "because hie I wasn't full two hours ago." Th.a and That. Life. A rich joke the ono I plaved on Brown. A foolish and witless piece of folly tho one that Brown placed on mo. An obstinate cuss tho msn who will not yield to me. Froper and self- respecting firmness my refusal to yield to him. A well trained child - the on that belongs to me. a ill mannered brat the ono that ielongs to my noighbor. A crank th man 1iom views do not coincide with my own. A very intelligent person the man who agrees with me in everything. lioehefort at Horn aod at Work Paris Cor. New York World. He owns a pretty little home in the Cite Malesherbes, which is connected by telephone with the otlice of his news paper in the Hue du Croissant. Since lie has given over his passion lor bet ting at the various race courses around Fans, owing to the sweeping stakes he lost on them nearly two years ago lioehefort has become a perfect con noisseur of art-treasures, and his maisonette may be aptly called a veri table museum in itself. Several orig inal paintings of the Italian masters- some purchased at fabulous prices. others piesented by admirers to the great pamphleteer d ck tho walls of his salon; while here, there and every where the visitor's eyes fall on tiny bronze statues, or marble pieces of workmanship, and tiny busts ranged in order and with taste and elegance. ' When lioehefort rises in the forenoon his first occupation is generally to scan the morning newspapers "to tee," as himself once put it, "how the stupid world has wagged since he had last the honor of leaving it." He then takes a hurried repast and drives in the liois de Boulogne, or strolls through the couloirs of the chamber of deputies to hear the gossip and discuss, as best he can, the political situatir n. He returns home towards 7 o clock and in the company of a few friends, he dines and chats till 9, when he leaves thera and goes np to his library, where he sits down to write the daily leading article which will appear in the morrows In transigeaut. llochefort's head is full of the subject-matter of his contribution before he abandons his guests at all. He dashes it off with all the fiery ardor which is his invariable characteristic when a pen is in his hand and an ink' stand and a few sheets of paper are by his side. In less than an hour he brings his manuscript down to the salon and rings for one of his servants, who carries it in hot haste to the office of The In transigoant, whore it is "set up" as soon as possible, and where, an hour or two subsequently, its proof sheots are revised by the author himself. Next morning the elite as well as the work ing classes of the capital read with gusto the burning satire, the brilliant epigrams, the pungent wit and the ex quisitoly poised paragraphs of the famous journalist on the current topics of the day. His immense power and prestige as a pressman have been long appreciated and acknowledged. Napo Icon 111 owed his full more to the pen thrusts of The Lautcrne than to the dofeat at Sedan. Gambetta himself broke down and became unpopular un dor the fiery attacks and grim irony of the man. A Milkman Idea. Chicago Herald. A short, ruddy-faced, wagging tonguod mau told he was returning from the west, whore he had beon traveling for pleasure, and with a view to making mining investments. He was not at- all backward in giving me the impression that he , was worth money, and upon inquiry 1 found ho was just as free to toll the manner of its acquirement. "I have been in the milk business in an eastern town for a good many years," ho said. "In fact, I am iu the business in a number of towns, and have a prettv good thing of it. Of course you aro thinking right away that I put water iu the cans, but you are mistaken. 1 never watered a milk can in my life. There is an honestor, surer, safer way than that to get rich in the milk business, and I'll give you tho se cret, as I know vou'ro not in tho biz. "Whon 1 first started, driving mv own wagon, fourteen years ago, l quickly found that nothing, not even good milk and low prices, would bring customers like gossip, les, sir, gossip -somo town scandal, familv secret, bit of news or something. Well, I used to take particular pains to havo something of that kind every morning. If there had been any births or deaths during the night, accidents, tires, arrests of town folk, a new scandal or anything, I had it on my tongue's end, and while drawing tho milk would spit it out at a lively rate. You would be surprised to seo how the mistresses ou my route got to coming out after their Own milk, in stead of sending the hired girl. Why, they usod to bo on tho wait for me and take an extra pint half tho timo, just to keep me talking a littlo longer, Before long I had more customers than 1 could servo, though I claimed better milk than anybody olso and sold it 1 cent higher. Then I branched out hired other drivers and bought a dairy of my own. Every ono of my drivers has to be up to snuff in the gossip, though. When thoro isn't anything else for 'em to toll I inveut little, short stories and say ings, not improper ones, but double double what do-vou-oall-'om? double- intondors, and they catch on big. The result is I havo a practical monopoly of the milk business in four good towns aud am making money hand over list. If yon want to build up a trade in any thing vou must stndv to please, von L now 11 nnil thn riiil1r-4liekttil luun laughed ami scorned to feel real good. Milk Collar Tor Women. Helen Wilmsus' California Le'ter. For somo reason or other stock com panies havo utterly failed in the raising I silk worms. It is a business that has detied corporations. I think I eavon must have intended it for Wiimeii and children, it is so perfectly adapted to them. It requires gentle ness, patienco and tenderness. The silk worm is tho creature of a dav. From tho hour of its birth unt:l it is readv to spin its cocoon, it requires that interested) caro ouly given b. those of womanly intuitiou; and, whdo for its remaining eight days it is spin ning its littlo life out in one unbro .en thread of silk, over 1,000 feet long, it must be guarded with the watchfulness of a mother. It works for womon. It spends its existence for her richest adornment, aud so far it has refined to yield its best results except r.ndor her protecting care. Ruskin, in a recent loctnre, said : "If s on want to show your country friends how the sun looks in a London fog throw a bad half crown into a basin of dirty water." AROUND ST. AUGUSTINE. The ,athedral"Ojaiera..eeerr A CrackerMoonlight Halt. Olelia Bllnn ii Olcatro Njw I What of the people in Augustine? There sre several very large hot Is here, which are filled "chock full of northerners and foreigners for six months of the year, and comfortably full the rest of the time by the same sort of boarders. The natives are hid den or tucked out of our sight six days out of seven. Somehow all the busi ness is done by northerners, foreigners, and negroes. When a native is caught at brea i-winning a long string of apol ogies has to be listened to as a penalty, perhaps. It was Sunday. I had seen no natives yet, consequently my curiosity to see one or more wus great, time was slipping away, and to-morrow I would be far away. Uemembering that I was in a Span sh. town, and, as a matter of course, Cath olic, my way to the natives, as well as my religious duty, was plain. I went to church at the cathedral, and while reading several Latin inscriptions, such as "Lanete Joseph, oTa pro nobis," "Lanete Augustine, ora pro nobis," I also looked around among the audi ence (having the good taste to remain standing behind every one), and no ticed that they looked like many peo ple at the north, and were quiet, intel ligent, and well-behaved. Now I am satisfied as to their looks, but not as to why they prefer to do anything by proxy, and their proxy usually black. The cathedral is of the Moorish style, a century old, has four bells, making a chime, one of them being the oldest bell in the country. The audience room will seat 300 people. We stopped at one of the first-class hotels, and we were instructed by the intelligence of the colored waiters. A large party of us went to hear a "plantation concert," as probably our only chance of ever listening to one. "Admission free," but the hat was passed by "de pastor of do church" no less than five t.mes. The next day, "Professor Jones," one of the waiters at the hotel, as well as the chief leader at the concert, was very hoarse. When asked why he was hoarse, he said: "Well, ma'am, I sing a good deal las' night at the concert, and when I sings much I alius gets a voioe o nat ural hoarseness." The same Jones handed me an oyster stew for the first course at tho supper table. It was to suit that it seemed bitter, and in consternation I said: "Frof. Jones, what makes these oystors so salt ?" "Salt, bodoy, ma'm?" "Yes. sir, very salt." "Well, ma'm, de oysters comes from de salt water, an' ob course dey is salt you know dat de ocean is salt water, right in de harbor, an' ob course all de oysters we gets from de ocean is salt !" upon which he politely bowed himself away to another hungry boarder, and left me saying, in a crest fallen manner, "of course that must be the reason I" Condensed milk is used almost altogether down here, but it does not answer so well as fresh milk from the cow, and has to be doctored with salt and pepper to disgu'se the sweetish taste. But we are oif again to Tocoi, and down the St. John's to Green Cove Springs a cozy little place, 13 years old, having three ini- monse hotels, each accommodating 100 guests, ono church, a school, soveral restaurants, a sulphur spring, to wl i di is attached a tin dipper, and two swim ming pools. It is situated on a bluff overlooking the river; and leading from the dock is St. David s path, past the church up through a civilized forest of stately magnolias, cabbage palmct- toes, and mossy pinos, to the beautiful mansion whose owuor has given his name to the path and site. We rum bled about tho bluff, enjoying the cool breeze, from the river, (thermometer NO degrees Fahrenheit in the shade (gath ering mementoes to transplant in the north. Watching a hord of cattle feeding on a nioro which grows luxuriantly in the river, and occasionally seeing in the distance a cracker drive by with his two-wheeled cart drawu by a mule or ono ox (tho latter treated as a horse), the driver (man or woman) invariably sitting on tho mule to drive. The crackers seldom hae reins, and so they get within reach of tho check-rein by sitting on the horse (or mule). The boll is ringing at the dock, which means for us to to on board the steamer for Jacksonville. We rtlnctnntly scamper for tho wharf, but we shall never forget the perfect day wo spent at this loveli est dot of an embrvo heaven. l id you ever witness a beautiful sunset, or a perfect moonlight, or soe tho starry upper rest exactly on tho free end of tho handle? ' Fi r all of which you must take a moonlight sail on the St. John's river, Florida. We are at Jackson ville merely to make it a convenience to start properly for New Orleans, and hone. It seems to to the great g.ite to Flor'da. It is remarkable for only three thiugs, viz. : Its few giant like hotels, the great number of fool ish invalids who tlook here during the winter months, and the excrbit.mt prices put upon ovrrything. Do I like ilon. 1 1.' All that it lucks to make it the glorious great hereafter is the golden pavement and augels. . Sew Klement In Wll'a. K'S ice.) A paper recently read beforo the French Academr of Afodieine expressed the writer's conviction that one in every O.tN 0 pi rsons is buried alive. 1 his estimate, however exaggerated, is not calculated to allay an apprehension which is conspicuous anions the French people, and which was lately brought to public attention by the declaration of the president of the chamber of no taries that express instructions are eiven in one will out of every ten to have the testator's heart pierced by a quali fied surgi on before the lid of the cofhn is screwed down. A rremlaa for Adhering to frla- elple. Philadelphia Tim-1 The Presbyterian hospital, which some tin e ago refused a check for $2, 500, its share ot the fund raised by the chnr ty ball in this citv, has recently re ceived a check for 13,000 from a resi dent of Pucks county. The writor ex plains that $2,500 is in lien of the money w hich the hospital did not re ceive and the remaining $500 is a proa ion for adhering to princ pie. Worshiping the White Elephant. NeW York World. Religious services in which Toung Taloung, the sacred white elephant, took a passive part and fifteen Burmese natives a decided active part, were held in Madison Square garden occording to the time honored traditions of Buddha and the strict regulations of George Arstingstall, chief elephant trainer to liarn urn's circus. Toung stood on a hay-covered floor beneath a ceiling adorned with red sdk. Iiefore hira was a wall of the same col ored silk on which were hung blue ban ners with white elephants, red banners with more elephants and crimson banners npon which the elephant was also emblazoned. Beneath the banners the Burmese were seated. The women wore short red skirts, while jackets and green turbans dotted with spangles. Some of them had children at their breasts and smoked cigars. Others were eating sandwiches and others drinking soda water. The Siamese men did the worshiping. One Siamese, who has lived twenty-two years burdened with the name of Tayee Waynee, sat on a box inside two circles of brown wood, between the outer circumference of one of which and the inner one of the other being depended sixteen copper plates upon which Tayee thumped with a stick. Wa Tsine, a young man in red, green and yellow was beating drums, another was playing a musical instru ment resembling a cornet, a fourth manipulated the cymbals and a solemn Burmese struck bamboo sticks at the most infrequont intervals and gave the spectators the idea that he was chief of the band. Paris from the Inalde. Lflttet to New York Sun. Social life in Taris is evidently un dergoing a transformation. Great balls and great dinners are becoming more aud morn rare. Informal afternoon and evening receptions are the main feature of social intercourse. They are cheaper, less fatiguing, and less trouble some. Another innovation is the large use of hot ox's blood by weakly and anemic young girls and women, 'ihey drive daily to the slaughter-house to have a big cup of it just as thoy would drive to the spring at some watering place. Some of them take a bath of hot blood once or twice a weok. A rare tender loin steak, broiled and served without gravy or any vegetable, is the most fashiouable supper among men who live fast. They don't touch the supper at parties, but on their way home drop in at the club or some night resort, eat the middle part of a steak with the blood of the rest of it, squeezed by a machine like those used ut the Hoff man house for squeezing the blood out of canvas-back ducks. Our much-abused and laughed at American dude appears, after all, to be a much more decent and inoffensive in dividual than his brother on the other side of the pond, tome time ago the Duke de Morny got up a performance, in which he appeared as a bullet girl, and more recently, at an amateur circus at Fau, a young man of society appeared as a bareback female rider in short tulle skirts, low-neck corsage, aud all the head ornaments of a circus woman. All our dudes do is to make fools of them selves, aud this they certainly have the privilege of doing. Extravagance and Htyle. Lime-Kiln Club. One of de evils of de present einer- ashuu am its pronene.s to squander an' waste. It am only when we cum down to do las' nickel dat we bogin to query whether we haven't bin too extravagant. I doun' koer fur do white folks, but I dosiuh to say to my fellow-citizens dat what a man aims doan' count. It am what ho ves. I soe seberal watches among you. I see dat some of you have on diamou' pins. I has bin in some o' your houses an' found china Bhugar bowls an' silver-plated knivos an' nap kins wid a red border to , 'em. Do yot need sich things? Am you mo' happy duu when de shugar w as placed in a sassor an' passed around, an' you. cut your meat wid a jack-knife? Bewar' of what doy call stile. Stile fo'ces you to put a $50 carpet on de parlor tloo' an' go widout wood fur de kitchen stove. Stile fo'ces your wife to put ou a silk dress an' go widout 'nuff to eat. Stile demands dat you put a $10 lambrequin at one winder an' stuff an ole hut iuto de next. Stile fo'ces you to give a birthday purty fur your darter, while your son has to go bar futteel to make up fur it. Take olf dem diamou' pins an' sell 'em fur $2 apiece an' pdt do money in de bank fur a rainy day. Go trade dem watches fur saw bucks an' buck-saws. Peol off dem sto' jloe, an' donn' fear to let de world soo you in duds mo' appropriate to de wages you airu. An OM Ktory In a Mew Urea. Detroit Free Press. There is a colcrod man living in Yar mouth, Nova Scotia, writes a Halifax subscriber of The Freo Press, who is somewhat of a celebrity. He has a peculiar shape, and for that reason is gonerally known by the sobriquet of Layback, ou account of being so straight and having his shoulders set back somewhat after the stylo of a bass drum player. He started on a trip from Yarmouth to Argylo by coach. There then being no other passengers in the coach, the driver said to him : "Mr. Johns, you may take a seat in side." When some other passengers arrived he said : "Johns, take a seat outsiJo on the box." Other passengers still arriving, he said to him : "Lavback, sit back on the roof." As Johns thought he was not being used according to the colored folks' standard of equality heretortod by say ing: "Look here, driver, when I first took passage it was 'Mister Johns," then it was 'Johns,' and now it is 'Layback.' I expec' if any mo' passengers come along it will be, 'Xiggah, you can hang on behind !" Archibald Forbes, the war mrra. spondent, has made his numerous foreign orders into a necklace for his daughter. SHERMAN ON THE FLAG. Ilia Tribute to the Mtars and Mtrlpea A Vlowlng Knlogjr. . St Louli Republican. Gen. Lyon Post. No. 2, lost by the fire of last Christmas eve everything contained in their headquarters. Among the things much prized, the flag of the post was destroyed dum ber of ladies volunteered to replace it, and they completed a beautiful new banner in convenient time to make the presentation on the occasion of Wash ington's birthday. There was a good attendance at Mercantile Library hall lost night, where the presentation was made by Gen. W. T. Sherman, his speech being as follows: "Ladiks asd Gentlemen: It is made my pleasant office this evening to transfer from the fair hands which have wrought it to the care and keeping of Gen. Lyon Post, No. 2, G. A. It., this beautiful banner, i "ded to replace the one destroyed bj e last December. It is, as you soe, a ujmple staff su mounted by an eagle, to which are 4. tached the thirteen stripes of bunting, alternate red and white, representing the original thirteen states of onr Union, with a field of blue, on which are inserted thirty-eight stars, repre senting the states which compose onr present nation. It is very beautiful, even here in the dingy gas light. More so when cast to the breeze in the sun light from the dome of thecapitol, from the lofty Mag-staff of some fort, or at the masthead of a frigate at sea; and still more so as you and I, Gen. Fletcher, have seen it in the sulphurous smoke of battle. "But it is not of this I would speak to you now. The flag of our country is the emblem of nationality, typical of all that is good and grand and glorious in the human nature. It is the emblem of authority, of peace and liberty the world over. It has for 10U years" been at the head of the columns which have swept across our continent and planted cities and towns and settlements from the Atlantio to the Pacific, giving se curity and peace everywhere, making the desert to bloom as the rose and the wild prairies to wave with the most beautiful harvests. It has led our ves sels upon the high seas, penetrating every bay and every part of the civil ized and savage world, recognized everywhere as the banner of liberty and progress. It has been the tcgis of pro tection to the weak against the strong, and at this very moment of time it is feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and sheltering the homeless, whose houses and possessions have been swept away by the mighty flood of the Ohio, leading in the grand cause of charity and not waiting till the cries of distress had become pitiable. "Yes, my friends, we all have abund ant reason to reverence and love the flag and members of the Grand Army of the Fopublic who have followed in the glare of the scorching sun, by the moon's pale beams, and by the lurid light of the blazing pine torch, and w ho now in their old age have dedi cated their lives anew to acts of frater nity, loyalty, and charity. I am sure that every member will cheerfully give his body as a shiohl to protect it, and if again it should be threatened by a foreign foe or by domestic treason a million sabres will spring j tLi'. scabbards and come to i s aViiko the cherubims and the flaming sword which tho Lord posted at the gate of the Garden of Eden to keep the way of the Tree of Life. "And finally, as the agent of the fair ladies whose nimble fingers have so gracefully preparod the flog, I commit it to the strong hands of the honored commander of Gen. Lyon Post, No. 2, District of Missouri, Grand Army of the llopnblic, with absolute faith that it will be duly honored and protected; that it will go down another century, not a star obliterated, not a stripe dimmed, and that it will continue for the future as it has in past, to be the emblem of liberty and law, of charity and good-will to man on earth." Eating HasgN In Honor of Burns. St James' Gazette. Yesterday throughout Scotland was Facred to liobert Burns and haggis, la every city and town, and in many a Scottish village as wi 11, there was cele brated a "Burns festival," at which the poems of the national bard were recited, and his songs w ere sung, it is needless to say, amid the most perfervid enthusi asm. Dinners and suppers were every where partaken of in I is honor, the bills of fare being, of course, remark able for their nationality; cojk-a-leekie, sheep's head pie, salt beef and greens, and other substantial Scottish dishes were not forgotten, while on every table appeared a haggis, "great chieftain o' the puddm race. It is worth noting that the haggis is now a regular article of commerce in Scotland, a trade having sprung up in that famed comestible since the days of the Bui'ls centenary celebration a quarter of a century ago. Orders for haggis como now from the most distant parts of the globe, and that dainty dish was eaten yesterday by persons living, many thousand miles away from tho the land of burns, who had months pre viously ordered their haggis from one of the .Scottish manufacturers of the article, of whom there are probably more than a score. Xot Allowed to Urow Old. Chicago Times. Governor Grant, of Colorado, made quite a hit at tho White House during his recent Washington visit. Upon presenting his comply its to President Arthur, the latter astonished to find tho chief execute of Colorado so youthful. "I confess, I am surprised," said the president. "Yon are very young to be the governor of a state. And I am at a loss to understand why the people of Colorado elected so yonng a man." The governor, who is natur ally quick at repartee, wi not confused in the least. "Well, Jhe Vrnth of the matter is," he repjyf,'the pistol practice has got down o ruch a fine art out in Colorado that people are not al lowed to grow old out there." It is need less to add that the president's curiosity was satisfied. Quren Victoria pays postage the tanxi as any other Briton.