I A LIGHT CONTINENT.
' WHAT HENRY M. STANLEY CALLS
t THIS HEMISPHERE.
Proud of Being an M. P.-UU Flnt Period
of Heal KhI Catiela BedUcovered.
find Fault Willi Our Bnllroad-Our
ftplendid llulldlng.
Ilenrv M. Stun Icy, owe the gre atest
f newspaper correspondents, then first
among explorers and now n member of
parliament 1" England, is row ou
vi.it to Amerien exploring the lilit
coutineut," an he call if. Ho xks in
splendid health. Hid checks me plump,
hia eyes are bright, and nis pnysique is
robust. The only traeea of bin African
hardi-bipa nre in hia hair. It mid bin
mustache nre white, and only hia eye
brows retain their original brown hue.
Asked if he could imagine hi awe If
going to Africa agaiu, he raid it wua
possi bio that he might go upon a com
mercial errand, but ns an explorer never
ugain. "I hure it wife now," paid lie,
"and she ha something everything, in
fact to aay about thut. "
He had to utteud parliament into the
hot nutumu, and the extraordinary habit
parliament him of Hitting up nil night
wore oil him, so thut be was glad to get
HENIlT M STAXLET.
over here ou a vacation. He ban just
finished a trip to the Pacific) nud back
; aud is resting in New York among hia
old friends.
Ho ia proud of being iu parliament,
and especially of having been elected iu
a great Loudon district, with only 15
duya iu which to make the canvass
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muuuK win vuirro. a iuu b pair u nunus
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hard a piece of work ns I ever did," he
1 i.u . i i. i
; buys, "but it nud its annoyances. "
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"In your journeys on tins side have
f you beu lecturing or pleasuring?"
"I am resting;-said Mr. Stanley.
"uud the two months mid a half that I
; am enjoying away from my duties are
. tho first real rest I have hud since I
, reached manhood, the first period in
5 which I have not bud something to do
i for somebody else. I have just mudo a
' trip to Montreal, then west to vancou
i ver nud Victoria, to Seattle, then dowL
i to Sun Francisco nud Los Angeles aud
' buck by the way of the Santa Ferail-
wuy. My parliamentary duties closed in
St-ptember, aud as the seasou iu Europe
. had ended I ran over here to see thut
part of the British dominion which' I
hud not seen before Cunuda."
J "Tho first thousand mile.-i westward
I uieau that vast tiact of woods and
nx'ks uud water that seems to feed tho
great lakes you found uninteresting?
I suppose, it is of little value. " Thus
spoke tho interviewer.
: "No, indeed," said Mr. Stanley, who
seems to have been again a discoverer
in that part of Canada. "That rugged
' woodland country uorth of the hikes
seemed to me to offer sites for millions
of homes. The ideal of a busy business
mail would be to summer in a place
more congenial than the near neighbor
hood of tho city, to live iu a grove bo
lide a lake and to satiate hia eyes with
a beautiful prospect of water, wood nnd
rock. Consider w hat money has been
abln to make of Monte Carlo. In its
neighborhood you may see any uuuilier
of places that show what it was. Yet it
has been made, a most complete place.
Up there in Canada a man may have a
lake of his own. Sir William Van
Horue says there, nre thousands of them
not pools, but winding lakes of crys
tal wuter, swarming with fish, where
you may enjoy fishing and hunting amid
the most perfect settings of wood aud
rock. Tho region is quite accessible to
your lending cities. From Ohio to New
York your jieople may reach there in
ten hours at the lutest. Your tired busi
ness men, roving und casting their eyes
about, could not find a more delightful
region on the globe.
"What do you find to be our progress
In railroading?"
1 "There," suid Mr. Stanloy, showing
that I bad opened a fruitful topic. "As
to your vaunted Pullman carriages,
they need further improvement. For one
stateroom, there are cfteu six applicants,
and not being able to secure a stateroom
five men are obliged to put up with
what is only nn improved accommoda
tion car, where they bear crying bubius,
are pestered all the time by traiuboys
and remain dissatisfied because they
taimot get what they wauted uud huve
not a moment to themselves. Then,
again, I do think that iustitntiou, the
American conductor, might be replaced
by a politer kiud of man. Ho need not,
when he comes into the door of a well
furnished Pullman, put ou that stem
air and forbidding appearance, because
it is very nulikely thut in such, a cur
, among well dressed passengers there is
; anybody who will need to lie forcibly
j ejected. It is possible that these big
railway corporations may find
more
courtly persons for conductors, but
l you'll keep pegging nway. Every ad-
vouced nation is stodgy as a whole, but
there are always individuals rising up
i who modify that stodgiuess mid improve
1 the country in spite of everything. I
"noticed the growth of the many cities
j very steady, the aspiring bouses, the
architecture. Ah, the architecture that
is what I huve been wondering at! I say I
that if tou ou during the next 100
years in (he same w ay us iu the past H5,
constantly improving, vying with one
. another iu producing thes costly struc
j turea aud completing your ideas of
i architectural art, peoi.le will be swnrni-
f iug over here from Kurone to wonder at '
Mm
i yoor buildings in the same mnuiier thnt
J yon Americans huve been swarming
J over to Europe. Europe is at a stand-
iu mese tuiugs. What surprises
juu over mere are the wonders of the
past the antique aud lnedia-val but
bat will surprise- Europe will be the
audacity of the modern age at exempli
fled in your grand buildings. "
-."Aren't yon hoqkeJ at some of our
ikyscrnpor Unit look like cliluiueys, all
pnnetnred with boles for windows?"
"Oh, no!" mild this liroail gauged
citizcu of the world. "They dou't shock
me Ircnnso I think theio is grout don)
it common sense in the building of tall
struct utes. The grout apprehension was
thut you could not raise there immense
LniliJiufjx without constant danger from
fir, tut by putting iu steel fiumcs and
making tlo rest of the material fire
proof, mid with the conveniences of lift
hm m ou ul rlcc-tric communication.
(,,,, is uo fear that the prodigious
! j,eiBht of your building! will interfere
with tbe safety of their occupants."
jnllall Knl, , Now y))rk jonrnaL
I WAVES OF DARKNESS.
! Curloos Fhrnomrnnn Htopa Uualneaa an4
! Work In I'lttsburg.
A meteorological phelioinenou of un
OHunl character attracted wide uttention
lu FittNborg mid vicinity between 10
' ind 11 o'clock (he other morning. Raiu
Mid wind were prevailing, the ntmos-
j phere was heavy, nud the clouds hung
low.
i Suddenly a fall of darkness, growing
hi intensity, cuuie up tho Ohio valley
from tlie northwest. It produced nn ef
fect like the shadow of an eclipse. It
twined to bo produced by mi nrca of low
iweoping clouds, large enough to cover
the heavens nud dense enough to cut
' iff all light from above. The darkness
' ivus remiirkablc and uluriuiiig.
i Curpenter stopped their work on new
buildings. People mh(d to the door
j and windows. ShoptierH and even cleiks
! poured out of the stores, mid in u few
minutes the streets were lllhd with
! throngs of people, ull liH.king upward
! apprehensively.
Business indoors mid out was sns-
pended. In the outskirts of the city tho
I air was filled with myriiids of leaves.
Down the Ohio river u beautiful fen-
tuie of the phenomenon was exhibited
I wbeu the darkness was at ils height by
: the sudden dawning of a spot of silver
brightness low down on the horizon, in
j the center of the Ohio vulley and over
; the rvuters of the Ohio. This wus the
rear guard of the darkness. Both it and
the cloud traveled w if h nbont the ve
! locity that a cloud shadow in inidsnm
1 mer does when it sweeps over tho mend
! ow. Tho brightness following was like
: molten silver, mid beneath it the river
tiHik ou tho same effect. The falls of the
river at Davis island dam, which n inn-
meut before bud been lost to sight in the
darkness, now seemed like a line of
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quicksilver across the river, above and
, . . . .. ... , , ,,,,
beyoud which the cilv was lost to fight
, ' . . . .: . ,. .. .,,
iu inky darkness. Th is light roveuled
. .
! ,on. clond ?,"',M traxv ibl
! PIT T T T" K
brightened up the city.
Three times came waves of darkness
and light. The lightwaves were uarrow
and of startling intensity, whilo the
dark wave covered tiie whole heavens.
It took but a few moments for each
manifestation to pass, but everybody
says nothing like it was ever seen there
before. New Yolk Sun.
QUAY AND THE PRESIDENCY.
The PnnrlTnl Hrimlur a Full Unlgeil
Candidate.
"Matthew Stanley Quay is a full
fledged candidate for tho Republican
nomination for tho presidency, " said
tho Hon. James Kerr, clerk of the house
of representatives, in Washington, the
other day. "1 want to tell yon uliont if.
Last week two gentlemen in the city re
ceived copies of a littlo pamphlet, cut
and bound in imitation of a morocco
covered memorandum book, milled
The Politicul History of Matthew Stan
ley Quay.' Now, Quay wus never known
to do such a thing as that before, mid
that of itself nt this juncture is ilos!
significant, indicating the existence of a
literury bureau.
"But, iu uddition, whilo I wus in
Pennsylvania tho other day I was told
that Senutor Quay bud made up his
mind to try for the nomination. His
friends say he feels thut tho Republican
victories of 181)4 uud his own triumph
over the opposition in his own party in
Pennsylvania last summer give insur
ance thut with him at tho head of the
ticket fcuccess will be certain. The state
will be worked between now mid next
spring to secure a Quay delegation to
the national convention, mid to this end
Senutor Cumerou bus been committed.
The constraint iu their personal rela
tions, if any ever really existed, has
disappeared, as their departure for a
fishing trip iu Florida demonstrates,
and all tho power of the old combina
tion will be exerted iu Quay's behalf."
Washington Post.
MOUND BUILDERS' CORN.
After Burial For Centorlet It Growl Like
Steed Grain.
A curious experiment was made this
rummer by Charles Graham, o nursery
man of Ohio Fulls, Ind., nnd the result
lies upon the desk before your corre
spondent as he writes. Last year Mr. A.
A. Graham of Mouut Vernon, Ind.,
mndo a visit to the vicinity of Alton.
Ills., aud culled upon a friend who bad
just opened a mound builders' buriul
mound.
Upon the mound grew several large
trees, among them nn oak 4 feet iu
diameter, mid thus thenge of the nio.'ud
was established as consideiable. - Iu it
were found the crumbling remains of
brines, und among other utensils n large
pot, containing a maize very much like
our present common red corn. Of thi
Mr. Graham secured several grains, aud
on returning home pluuted if. It grew,
and the result was that he produced a
strain of corn which is most likely the
ancestor of the corn we now cultivate.
In spite of having been iu the grave
for certainly not less thau 400 years, it
grew very rapidly and produced a htrge,
well shaped ear upon a fairly tall stalk.
The ear is well set, the grains being
somewhat smaller than any of the pres
ent varieties, except popcorn. In shape
IliA urnin reMCinldHri dried nwoot rnrn.
being rough and wrinkled. In tuste it
is sweet and agreeable. Indianapolis
News.
Hia Imperial Ulchnrte Meant Walk
There was a curious story, which I
am told is true, that the emperor of
Chinn. havina olitumed relief from some
'ailment by the use of patent pills that
' were sent him from Europe, ordered 400
' pounds of that remedy through a Tieu-
tsin druggist aud sent them to Korea to
be distributed among the Chinese troops.
But they never reached their destina
tion. Some skeptical or superstitious
mandarin bad them dumped into the
tea. Chicago Record.
PENN-YAN BILL.
(By F.iiifi ne Field.)
In fallua old Kiiitui'ky, wlicra the gnu t
very blue,
Whera ton llquur la the ainuul best aud the slrla
are fair and true.
Where the rrup of be ipiwd gvutli-roen l full
of hmrt and annd,
And the t'k f four time winner It the Bu
rnt In the land,
Where the IVmix-rutlc party In bonrbon hardl-bund
: For more limn half a century nnterrlfled h.t
l stuod,
I Where nod the M:i.-k ryi-d 8uim to the prat
I tie of the rill
i There there befell the wooing of Pi im V'an
Bill.
I Down yonder In the cottage that 1 nestling In
the (hade
; Of the walnut tree thut seen) to love that
1 quiet little glade
Abidi a pretty inuiden by the bonny name of
Hue
j As pretty as the black eyed flower and quite
aa uiodeat too.
' And lorera came there by the aeore, of every
age and kind,
' But not one (the utory guea) waa quite to Hu-
alv's mind.
Their nigh, their protivtntlona and their
pleading made her ill
Till all at once Ukiii the eeene hove Penn Vun
Bill.
: He came from old aluntuua, and be rode a
broncho mare :
Bo hud rather howd'y'do and rough and
tumble air;
HI trouaera were of buckskin and bis cout of
furry start:
Bis hat waa drab of oolor, and Ita rtra waa
wide enough;
Cpou each leg a atalwart boot reached just
above thu kmt.
And In the licit about hi wulat bl weapon
carried he ;
A rather strapping lover for our little Husie
till
Ehe waa hi choice, and be was her, was Penn
Yan Bill.
We wonder that the ivy aeck out the ouken
trco
Aud twine her tendril round him, though
acarrcd and gnarled ho be.
Wewonder that a gentle girl, unused to world
ly rare.
Should chooae a muu wbone lite baa been a
coiMtunt crap with bear.
Ah, 'tis tho nature of the viuv, and of Ihw
maiden, tx
So when the bold Moutuua boy cume from hi
lair to woo
The fair Kentucky blomom felt all her heart
tring thrill
Responsive to the purring of Penu Yuu Bill.
lie told her of hi cabin lu the mountaiu fur
away.
Of the vutumount that bowl by night, the
wolf thut yawp by day;
lie told her of the grizzly with the automatic
Juw,
He told her of thu Injuu who demur hi vic
tims ruw ;
Of the jawlutwk with hi tawdry crust aud
whisker In hi throat.
Of thu great goHh-uwful aurpentaud the Rocky
mountain gout.
A book a big a hhakeKpvare'sor a Webster'
you could fill
With the yarn thut cinunuted from Peun-Vun
Bill)
Lo, a tboae niigutly prodlgie the westerner
relates,
Her pretty mouth full wide ugape her eyes
get big a plate;
Aud when he speak of Varmint that in the
Itockies grow,
Bbe shuddered and she cling to bilu and tim
idly erica "oh!"
And then auy be, "Dear Susie, I'll tell you
wbut to co
Ton bo my wife, and none of these 'ere thing'
dure pester you!
And abet She answers, clinging clone aud
trembling yut, "1 will.
Aud then hu give her one big bus, doe Peiui
Yan Bill.
A Taunt, ye poet lovers, with your wUhy-
washy biysl
Avauut, ye solemn pedant, with your musty,
bookish ways I
Avaunt, ye smirking dandle who air your
etiquette
Upon thu gold your father worked so lung
and hard to gel I
How empty Is yuur uothluguesa beside the
sturdy tale
Which mountaineers dullgbt to tell of border
hill und vule
Of snake that crawl, of beast thut yowl, ot
bird that flap and trill
In the wild egregious altitude of Penu Yuu
Bill.
Why, over all those, mountain peak hi honest
foet have trod
So blgh above thu rest of u be aoeuied to walk
with Uisi.
He's breathed thu breath of heaven, a It
floated, pure and free.
From the everlasting snow cap to the mighty
western sea ;
And be' heard that awful silence which thun
der iu the cur,
"There 1 a grcut Jubotah, aud hi biding
place I here!"
These these the uolemu voice und these the
sight that thrill
In the furaway Montana of Peuu-Yuu Bill.
Of course ahu bud to love him, for It wua her
nature to,
And abu'll wed him lu the summer, if all we
bear be true.
The blue grass will be waving In thut cool
Kentucky glade
Where the black eyed Susan cluster lu the
pleasant walnut shade.
Where the dove make mournful music and
the hs'ust trill a aung
To the brook that through the pasture scam
per merrily along ;
And apoechh pride and rapture Ineffable
shall All
The beatific bosom of Penu Yuu B1U.
Consolation.
Oh, don't be discouraged though borne to de
feat Upon the cold wave of the desolate tide!
It always must happen that some shall be beal
While other In grandeur to victory ride.
I've been there myself, and I know how it feeli
To sense the cold chill of an awful despair
When late In the evening the ballot reveals
You're left while your hearties opponent ii
"there."
I know bow the morning once dawned on my
grief
To think he should win after all 1 had said.
I called him a liar, a mgne and a thief.
And after election 1 took to my bed.
The sun will shine on a It ever haa done,
Thu monnls-unia Unpens) the dark shadow!
of night.
Cheer up, my gisxl friend. Yon'ra not weep
ing alone--
Just think of the many who lost In the fight.
Be glad, If you can, for the fellow who won;
Rejoice in tl e Joy of tin Ir prosperous trip.
Yon did all y n o uld, made an elegant run,
So now In t'efeat ks p a aliff uier lip.
Nebraska State Journal.
Overproduction Ia Ultimatums.
Lord Salisbury is suffering from a se
vere attack of ultimatum upon the
brain. His condition is the cause of
grave buaivi w oiwi iwcign hj..-
ment.
There are now five British ultima
tums out, addressed respectively to
Asbsnti, Belgium, China, Turkey and
Venezuela,
The irrepressible anxiety displayed by
foreign governments, especially by the
impecunious republics of Ceutrul uud
South America, to have a British ulti
matum presented to thrin, is easily ex
plained. The present value of a British
ultimatum in the autograph market is
500. It is rumored thut the ultimatum
dispatched to Venezuela, which appears
to be loet, has been seized by oruer of
tbe courts at the instauoe of an English
creditor of that republic. Therepoit bus
created consternation at Caracas.
Truth.
A Philadelphia Joke.
The Ohio river in some section is
down to six inches, aud the humane so
cieties have appointed agents to carry
water to tbe fish so that they will not
grow thirsty. Philadelphia Bulletin.
STORIES OF THE DAY.
.1 1 Tt.. bin, , nf Mrii.li.
' lng Jim Stewart' llurae.
I Major Juinrs Hlewart of Carthage,
O, a retired tegular, who comuianded
Battery U, Fourth urtillcry, talks about
two occasion when ho was shocked and
'saddened. His horse, Tartar, was of
blooded stock, ami horse and master
, were much attached to each nl her. At
tho second Bull Ruu battle a solid shot
plowed through the rumps of high strung
, Tarter, gouging out pounds of flesh nnd
cutting off his tail snug to tho body.
I The wounded animal frisked about light
briskly for a minute uud then settled
dowu and carried his rider until the
buttle lulled, seeming to know that tho
commander could not spare time, in
that iron und leaden hail, to chango
horses. Ho had bled to weakness, but
quickly olsycd every summons of tho
rein. When Stewart dismounted uud
saw the ghastly wound hu was, to
use his own language, ''as hocktd
as if I'd hist nil arm." Ho supposed
thut his favorite riding horse would die
or have to bo killed. When, the uext
morning, Tartar slowly nud witli a
wobbly gait walked to bis master whilo
be was sipping coflco und munching
haidtack uud raw pork, uud gently hid
bis head upon his shoulder and groaned,
the artilleryman put his arms about his
neck and kissed the brown mime. "I
cuu't kill him," said Stewart. "Wo
will leave him here to die iu his own
way mid time."
When Battery B und the other troops
moved out on tho retreat to CYntervillo,
, the major, then a lieuleuuiit, ou u new
animal, took a tearful glance at his dis
tressed war horse, said "Goutlby, Tar
tar," and passed on in silence. Between
sundown uud daik that uiglit Tartar,
jaded und broken, stiaggled into camp
aud sought out his iiius.it us if. to report
for duty. He wus tenderly petted aud
given an extra feed of oats. Tho next
morning Stewart summoned the sur
geon, hud Tartar examined, and never
I wus a boy gladder over red topped boot
or unythiiig else than Tartar's muster
when the doctor told him that tho horse
, would be ready for service w ithin a
month or six weeks. Tartar followed
the regiment through Washington to
South Mountain uud Anlietain, sticking
close to the horses during tho battles,
.....I .. I..... t..( um.u n.,wlir t.i aturl
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from Bakersvillo buck to Virgiuiu, late
in October, he was the proudest horso iu
tho Army of thu rotomuo as he again
took charge of Buttery B's commander.
The story of Tartar's mishap spread
throughout the army. Thousands of sol
diers visited the battery ou purpose to
sco him. He fared liko u priuco. Noth
ing wus quite good euungh for him. II
often luippoticd that tho battery passed
troops resting by the roadside. Tho ap
pearunceof "Fighting" Jim Stewart und
bobtuiled Tartar was ulwuys it signal fur
a variety of comments thut put every
body iu a happy fruuio of mind. -
Tartar never just relished the begin
ning of a battle ufter his Bull Huu ex
perience. Ho didn't try to sulk, grab a
root or dodge behind a tree, but he did
a goiMldeal of prancing, especially wlfcn
shells and solid shot shrieked und
whistled iu his immediate vicinity, but
after a few minutes ho seemed to be us
much interested iu what wus going ou
as any one in the command.
Stewart rode Tartar till the war end
ed and for several yours afterward.
"You may laugh, gentlemen," said the
major to a cluster of comrades who hud
gathered ubout him at Detroit during
tho national encuuipmeut "you may
luugh, gentlemen, but it touched mo to
the heart wlieu that poor, wounded
dumb brute came up to mo thut morn
ing, laid his head ou my shoulder uud
grouued. I ll uduiit that u tear skuted
over my hurd cheek."
"Let mo tell you of another time
when I experienced u choking sensation.
It wus that first day ut Gettysburg. Just
before we wero ordered iuto tho light 1
bud been talking with Colonel Lucius
Fairchild of the Second Wiscousiu. Both
of us were iu good spirits. We knew
trouble was coming, but were coiilideiit
s greut victory for our uruis wus coining
also, Tho order toadvuucocuine, und we
sainted uud separated. Thut hot after
noon, mudo hotter by the thunder of
hundreds of cannon and tho continuous
rattle of uiuskutry. while I wus getting
the battery through Gettysburg with us
little delay us possible, tbe other folks
being close to us, I heard soino one shout
my name. Looking in the direction from
which the sound caino, I suw Colonel
Fairchild standing ou a porch waving
his handkerchief." Then I saw thut one
of bis arms was gouo. 1 can t tell you
bow shocked I wus, nor how my heart
crowded up into my throat wbeu I re
called our pleasant visit of a few hours
before und thought thut forever and
forever iny deur frioud would huve to
get along with one urm. I want to
thank yon folks up in Wisconsin for be
ing good to him. Had him for your gov
ernor for a long time, didn't you?" Yes,
major, aud secretary, of state. The na
tion had him for a consul, a consul gen
eral, a foreign minister. Ho bus beou
what no other American bus or is likely
to be commander in chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic and command) r
in chief of the Loyal legion. Colonel
J. A. Watrousiu Chirago Times Horald.
Haul of Texas.
The Victory Brigade mission hold a
rousing meeting last uight iu their hull,
311 Tremont street. One new convert
testified that ho had a touch of the ex-
twr ence of tlie Atiostie rum. jiu sum
that he went to the hull with the inten
tion of ridiculing tho meeting uud the
brigudo, and he hadn't been there long
unlil he was struck with conviction, anil
he arose to testify to tho saving power of
Christ. Ho said that he entered the
building with five or six companions,
and he culled ou them to know if he hud
u it expressed the intention of ridiculing
tbe meet ing, und one of tin in responded
that he hud so expressed himseif. Gai
testou News.
A HaliJ Crusade.
A novel crusude is proposed by some
women in Brooklyn. It is to lie directed
against the practice some mothcts aud
nurses have of leaving their babies in
baby carriages in the street outside big ! C(JU,,ies, with or without children, 00
stores while they are Inside shopping. ,jU(!ie ma0 nd 60 single female adults,
Tbe crusaders are moved to act by si v- j f0 gei t,.,) according to their avoca
eral consideration. First and foteniost ' tj(lUg m , t0 ,llt.r i(J.ui requirements,
of thee is the fuct thnt the exposure and Bllj pr0Ti,ie fr each other's necessities
.L. ...A ll..l.Ul,li.. Tin,, . M 1 1
uie iieim an ouu u-.,..- -
tneDaoies interior w in run,., v,
leetiug crowds. Lastly the reformers
think that such treatment of itfuuts bus
. 1 J ,.m . 1 1 w 1,A ehi tdrell and I
ubu cue. ,..v..v ,
their mothers. New York Sun.
HE IS AX 0M) TIMER,
GENERAL GEORGE WALLACE JONES
SOON TO ISSUE HIS MEMOIR3.
The Oldest Living Ks-ftenator Waa la
Congress With Clay, Webster, llentnn,
Corwln and I'nlk-lIU Dueling Day Aa
Interesting Character.
Word has ri itched Washington that
George Wallace Jones of Iowa, the old
est retired United States senator living
and tho ctiiiteiuiMirary of James Monroe,
I ji,h Ouiucv Adams and Andrew Jac k
sou, 1 about completing his long ex
pected nutiihingrapliy ivid will have it
ready for tho press iu a few weeks. The
announcement will bo received through
out tho country with lively interest, for
the epochs covered are so fur buck as to
be fresh and new to readers of today,
and Joms is known to possess a greattr
fund of personal reminiscences of pnh
lie men und things of national nolo iu
the long ago than anybody else now
surviving.
Unlike Senator Sherman's new book,
dealing with statesmen both living uud
dead, Jones' forthcoming memoirs,
which promise tobc equally Interesting
will treat altogether of statesmen passed
away, except himself, and ho is stil!
very much alive. Though nearly lit
ears old, a "last leaf" iu point of agr
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GS.Sr.HAL OKolKiK WALI.ACK JONES.
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strength, and his menial vigor is quite
unimpaired. It is hard ill theso hitter
days of tho century to conceive that
there is a national character still above
ground who served as a drummer boy iu
the war of 1812, who hud thu honor of
naming two states back in the thirties,
who enjoyed an iiuimnte ucquuiiitunce
with all the presidents since Mudisou,
who rodo beside the Murquis do Lafay
ette when that hero toured through
America iu 1S'.'4, who sat iu tho lower
branch of congress with Polk and Bull
and Lincoln before they gained promi
nence, and iu tho upjier house with Clay
aud Webster und Bet toil nud Houston
aud Corwiu, and who bore a pint iu
most of tbe great political events of our
first half century ns a republic. But
Jones is just such a figure. Ho has donu
all those things, nnd iu his book ho will
Bkotch tliein out in a touch uud go man
ner that cannot fitil to charm the pres
ent generation.
Jouos, liko most other public men of
that time, wus a great believer iu the
"code" uud figured iu seven diHercut
duels, although a principal iu ouly one.
Tho most notubloof those duels was that
between Cilley of Maine aud Graves of
Kentucky, iu which Jones acted us Cil
loy's second. Tho meeting occurred ou
the outskirts of Washington, near the
Marlboro road, uud grew out of a do
bate iu congress, Jones wus induced to
j net ns Ci Hoy's second by Fraukliu
Pierce, thou a congressman. Rifles wore
chosen ns tho weapons, and three rounds
were fired. On the third round Cilley
fell (lend with a bullet iu his bruin. The
soiisatieu that ensued in congress and
throughout tho country wus extreme and
resulted eventually iu tho enactment of j
stringent laws placing dueling on the
sume level as murder.
Funr days after retiring from the sen
ate, on March 8, 18."!l, Jones was ap
pointed by President Buchanan as min
ister to Bogota, NewGrunudu (now Co
lombia). Ho remained there until No
vember, 1801, when he wus recalled by
tho Lincoln administration and shortly
afterward confined as a suspected seces
sionist of great influence in Fort Lafay
ette, Now York. Since theu he bus
lived chiefly ut Dubuque, Iu.
A signal honor was accorded him by
the people who kliW him best on April
12, 1804, tlie occasion of his ninetieth
birthduy, when tho state of Iowa gave
him a public reception nud banquet at
IJos Moines, presided over by the gov
ernor and attended by both houses of the
legislature, the executive council, the
supreme judiciary and the most distin
guished citizens of the state. He is now
residing ut Grouse Pointe, Mich., ten
miles from Detroit. In a recent letter to
friends In Washington ho says:
"I huve been importuned for many
years by friends and correspondents all
over the country to write my biography,
but hitherto I resisted their rutreutios,
thinking thut the play would not bi
worth the cundlo. Lust Dooeinber, how
ever, a year ago I came here (Villa Si
Vrain, Grosse Pointe), ou a visit and
my granduicce extracted from me, no
lens voleus, the promise to spend tho
summer of 1805 with her aud her hus
band in writing my life, they agreeing
to furnish me wtb stenographers, typo
writers, reuders and all other conven
iences to that end. Accordingly I set to
work und now we huve nearly U00 page
completed and made ready in proper
style. I am in perfect health, and have
been since 1821." Atlanta Constitu
tion. T J promote Social Concord.
The lutest addition to the philan
thropic, associations of the metropolis is
the Society For Pmiuoting Social Con
cord. The objit-t is a very laudatory
one, and I noto thut the promoters have
obtained tbe ben i sou of tho bishop of
Durham, Canon Scott-Holland and Dr.
Clifford. It is proposed to establish
either in Western Australia or New Zeu
land a pioneer settlement to be culled
the Model Co-operative community,
which will consist of about 200 married
Jn llie mailer oi iinmi, ciouiiuk aim uuu-
ital)(,u. tlllg p,()W.r comniuniiy ;
,honld ,irlVe a success, others will be
e.tablisl:ed from time to time in various
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puns oi me ioi.o a tuuu uu v.u--
itsuces will cermlt
MONUMENT TO FIELD.
Public Sentiment la Favor of a Memorial
la the Children's I -scire at
j Everybody ny, "Lot the children
build a monument in memory of their
poet, Kngeiie Field. " There is but one
; opinion. Artists, educators, teachers,
( mill uud women of letters and of ulTuirs
in general are unanimous iu support of
tho idea. The children, too, have taken
up the project with as much enthusiasm
; as they would if they had conceived it
themselves. Hundreds of little ones
j whom Kugeno Field first introduced to
I the fairyland f .( ry are putting
their candy money iu "littlo tin bunks,"
; so that tiny may have a sliure in the
i memorial when it is built.
It is the general opiuiou that the
memorial, whether tablet, statue or
I monument, should lie placed in a park,
and Lincoln park, Chicago, is favored.
, Harriet Hosmer, the gifted artist
whose genius udomed the Illinois state
building during the exixwitinn, has sev
eral ideas iu mind.
"Now if I were to suggest right off
hand, "she said, "I would say some
thing liko this: First, nothing in mere
portruitorc, nothing like u bust or ex
; act representation. Something ideal is
; what we want something poetic. If it
is to bo a largo statue, it wyild be sym
bolic to have a child guiding his pen,
or if it were to lie smaller a child writ
ing the name 'Kugeno Field' on a stone
or laying a laurel wreath upon bis
name. 1 think Ihellnest thing would be
to have a life size figure of the poet sit
ting in a chair a chair supKrtcd by
the winged innses. Huve him silting iu
an uttitudo of deep thought, as if wait
ing for an inspiration, ami a little child
at his knee touching his pen. And have
it iu bronze." Chicago Hecord.
NEW IDEA FOR WOMEN.
Mr. Cotton Want Government llemgnl
tlon for Her Mes.
A new idea was advocated before th
Federation of Woman's Clubs at At
lanta a few days since. Mrs Sullie
Sonthnll Cotton of North Carolina, one
of tho bruiniest women in tho congress,
put forth tho idea uud championed it in
a strong speech.
She spoke for tlie recognition of wom
eu by the government iusome such sub
stantial way as men are recognized iu
tho schools nt West Point and Annapo
lis. Of course she did not want to make
soldiers uud sailors out (it the women,
but she wanted to niuketheiii relatively
as useful to their sex aud their country
iu some capacity suited to their talents,
uud she wanted the government to pro
vide for (hem to lie (ruined.
The idea is one that has not been ad
vocated to any extent, aud, put forward
in the strong manner iu which Mrs.
Cotton prestutcd it, it created wide in
terest. Mrs. Cotton is a native of Virginia.
Sho moved to Nortli Carolina very early.
She married Hubert R. Cotton of Tar
boro, N. C. She is the mother (if six
children aud wus the lady manager of
the World's fair for North Carolina. She
lives on a fuiiu, is devoted to domestic
duties and is not an advocate of woman
suffrage. At lantu Const it utiou.
UNPARALLELED SPECTACLE.
Th Combination of the European Power
A gal nit the Ottoman Empire.
Never before iu Europe or in the
world bus there been a politico-military
combination of such magnitude as that
of tho six Christian powers which huve
takeii joint action in tho case of Turkey.
The holy alliuuce of 1HI5 wus a foeble
thing iu comparison with it. The pow
ers now acting together for a special
purpose have more soldiers under urms
than there are nblebodied iuhubitauts in
the Ottomaii empire. Tbe army of Sen
nacherib tho Assyrian, or Alexander the
Macedonian, or Ciosur the Roman,
would looksmull ulougside the millions
who uiurch uudor the flags of the six
powers thut confront the Turk. The
armies of the middle ages, or of later
centuries, the armies of Napoluou Bona
parte, the armies that fought in our own
great war, were fur inferior iu number
to the armies which staud ready at this
time (o draw the aword against the sul
tan. No military combination ever before
existed upou eurth the niugnittido of
which can bo compared with that of the
six Christ inn powers recently formed.
The thing is not likeby to lust long, but
while it lusts it is u spectacle without a
purallel in history. New York Sun.
EDMUNDS ON THURMAN.
A Tribute From due Ki-Renator aa to the
Motive of Another.
"Thurniaii's most noticeuble chirrup
teristiu in the senate," says ex-Senator
Edmunds, "was hi command of pure,
stroug English. He was powerful iu da.
bate, never mincing mutters, but culling
things by what he considered their right
names. He wusbruve in bis convictions,
and wus always worklug for whnt ho
thought the good of his country, nud nut
for hire. Although I did not ngreo with
bim upon political mutters, I could not
help liking hiui for his earnestness.
Wbut he did wus done because he con
sidered it right
"Although ruther reserved to stran
ger, he was a genial man among bi
friends, and being remark''' ly well
versed in history, literature und luw,
wus a most interesting companion. He
was pintlculur'y foud of French litera
ture, nud used to keep some standard
work iu thut language iu his desk In the
senuto, which lie would reuil during
long, dull sjieeches. There are iniiiiy ad
dresses made iu the senate thut are not
worth listening to. Iu such a cuse some
of us would send out for something to
reud, aud Thurinau's book wos usually
a French one. "New York Tribune.
Intereollrglate Debating- League.
During the wotk delegates from
Brown, Wesleynn, Bates, Host on uni
versity and Boston college, met iu Bos
ton and formally organized the first
New England Intercollegiate Debuting
league. Bowdoiu and Tufts have signi
fied their intention of joining the union,
and Williams w ill probubly enter iu the
ueur fulure. Not only hnve the students
of those colleges been intensely interest
ed iu the mutter, ns shown iu the vari
ous muss meetings which huvo U ii held
recently in most of them, but the re
spective faculties huve also tukeu a bund,
and it is to a great exteut due to the
-j,.,,! !(,
interest shown - by several
of ,, ,i,e .uthusiafio
of pruM)BW. h.ue see
lh;,V,)IH,. lnd -n,,lU it crowned
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wl(h ,ncceg- Dartmouth.
DUNRAVEN'S CHARGE.
Nothing so serious as foul play was
inggested over here. His complaint
amo simply as the casual crankiness of
a bud tempered uud exasperated limn.
As we all know, we raced with Lord
Dunroveii und he returned home, and
since his insolence bus reached tho poiut
to which it has developed in Eugluiid,
we leuvo it to Tho Pall Mall Gazette and
all self respecting Englishmen to see
that he is properly horsewhipped over
there, as ho ought to be. They owe it to
us. New York Sun.
Dumaven's churgo is a charge of ras
cality agaiust the gentlemen of the De
fender syndicate and agaiust the New
York Yacht club. The churge that Mr.
Vanderbilt, Mr. Morgan and Mr. Iseliu,
the syndicate, would stoop to such ac
tion is as insulting as absurd. They uud
the gentlemen composing tho New York
Yacht club are safe from injury by alle
gations of uusportamuulike action. Dun
raveu seems determined to compel Amer
icans who sympathize with him in de
feat to snbstiinto contempt for sympa
thy. Utica Herald.
If ho believed thut a club of which he
was a member had been guilty of rob
bery and conspiracy, he ought to have
promptly uttered hi belief and given
bis substantiating facts without waiting
until he had reached tho other side of
the Atlantic. According to his own
statement, Dnnraven is a coward. Any
further racing with Duuruven is out of
the question, for lie hus barred himself
from the society of gentlemen. But the
New York Yacht club ought to demand
thut its "honorary" member, Lord Duu
ruven, snbs'nntiute or withdraw hi
charges of cheating. Biughuuitou Republican.
A FORMIDABLE YACHT.
Will Be So Dullt Thai II Can Be Trail.
formed Into m War Tewel.
F. W. Morgan of Chicago ha just
let the contract for a steam steel yacht,
resembling a modern torpedo boat of
the Ericsson type, nnd to built that it
can iu a fow hours be transformed iuto
a formidable war vessel for servico ou
the great bikes. It will be schooner
rigged, with two polo masts, supplied
with an outfit of sails, to be used iucaso
tf uccident to tho machinery, which will
fdve the yacht a spend of four or flvo
miles au hour. The vessel will be built
of steel, divided by five steol watertight
bulkheads iuto six compartments and
its dimensions will be: Length on water
line, HO feet; on deck, 130; beam, ou
water line, 17 feet 4 iuches; ou dock.
18 feot8 iuches.
The bow will project six foet beyoud
the deck, sloping out aud down to the
water line. From the water line the
fore foot is cut away, so as to give it the
rum shape siiuilur to the bows of the
United States cruisers Minneapolis,
Now York and Columbia. The eugiue
will be of the triple expansion type,
with cylinder 13, 19 and 80 Inches
diameter by 19 inches stroke. This will
turn a bronze screw propollcr, 5 feet 6
iuchos iu diunieler.'UOO revolutions per
minute uud give the yacht a speed of 18
miles per hour.
In building the vessel special care
will be taken to have it couform to the
requirements of the navy department,
as well as the Inland Lloyds. ' The ob
ject is to build a ship thut in a few
hour can bn turned into a war vessel iu
casn of trouble with Canada, It will be
built at Racino. New York Horald.
Talking Through a Stream of Water.
"I have a most remarkable telephoue
iu my house, " remarked a resident of
tho western addition. "1 noticed thut nt
times I conld hear vtry distinctly tho
conversation in the next house. Sudden
ly it would bo broken off short iu the
middle of a sentence, and I could not
hour another word It would become
audible ugain just as suddenly.
"By a eerie of experiments I have
found out thut the sound is conducted by
the wuter running through the pipes.
When the wuter is turned on iu my
house, I can hear all the conversation in
any of the nxmis next door in which
there is miming water. When I turn off
the water, ull sounds stop suddenly.
"I told my neighbor of it, and we
huve put it to practical use. When I
wish to speak to him, I tup ou the win
dow, he turns ou tho wuter iu his house
uud listens while I talk to hiui over (lie
wator pipo iu an ordinury tone of voice.
When I have finished, he turns off the
wntor in his house aud I turn it ou iu
mine and listen. In that way we can
carry ou long conversations with us
much ease as if he were iu the room
with ma Still our houses are about 20
foot apart "San Fraucisco Post.
Quick Shipbuilding.
A specimens of rapid construction
the seveu gunboats which the Thomsons
of Clydebank built for Spain to bo used
against tbe Cuban insurgents are note
worthy even nmoug the famous feat ot
modern British shipbuilding. They
ran go from 100 to 800 tout' displace
ment, w ith speedi from 12 to 13 kuots,
and curry maxim rapid fire gnus, the
largest being the 8 inch. The con
tract was signed July 11 lust, nud tho
first vessel was launched Aug. 24 aud
ready for delivery Sept 11, or iu exact
ly two months from the signing of the
cou tract. Indeed the work on her was
not really begun, it ia said, until July
23, so that she was completed iu cveu
weeks and three days. Meanwhile tho
other sis were going along at the same
pace, for it appears thut they were all
completed by Oct 1, ten days short of
the contract time, although the lust of
them wns launched as lute as Sept 20.
The launching of one after another of
the enormous new battleships withfu a
year of their laying down is another iu
stauce of speed in British shipbnildiug,
but the finishing of those mousters w ill
be a lung tusk. New York Suu.
Obo of Eugene's Trick.
A story that bn been written about
Fiold concern tbe trick he played on
two carloads of Kansas City uiercbnut
who went away oua time ou an excur
sion. Each car wns to go by different
route, aud the cars separated at au early
boor lu the morning when everybody
was asleep except Gene Field, who wus
aloug to write op the trip. Just before
the curs parted company be carried all
tbe shoes from one sleeper iuto the other
and carefully exchanged them. Then bo
took the shoo from tho slueiier that bud
a double supply and carried them into
tbe sleeper whore nolssly hud nuy shoes.
The next morning there was a bluo
streuk two ways across Kausus. Every
tuan iu both sleepers was miles aud
miles away from hia own shoes.