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.