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GEN. STEEDMAN'S TITLE.
How Hp Havrd Thomas and Came to
be Called "Old Chickamauga,
f Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
As we sat one night in 1875 in the
rattv old editorial rooms of The Toledo
Democrat and Hevald. of -which Steed-
man was "leader" writer and I manag
ing editor, I asked him for the story of
Chickaniauga, where he won his stars
and the soldier title of "Old Chick
amauga," of which he was so proud.
He told it as coldly as if it was a dream
to him :
"Why, my boy, there wasn't much to
it. I was in charge of the First di
vision of the reserve corps of the army
of the Cumberland, and had been sta
. tioned at Ringgold, or Bedhouse bridge
over the Chickamauga. 31 v orders
were explicit, 'to hold the bridge at all
hazard,' and prevent the enemy from
flanking Uen. 1 nomas. J. he enerav
disappeared from our front. The
sound of cannonading and battle to
the northward told me that the enemy
had massed against our centre, and a
great battle was on. .From the noise
of conflict I judged, and rightly, that
Thomas was sorely pressed. I felt
that my command was needed,
and yet could not understand
the absence of new orders. I
waited impatiently enough from daylight
till nearly noon, hoping for some word
from my commanding officer. Finally
I decided to risk my neck rather than
to see the Union army destroyed through
inactivity on my part. Calling a coun
cil of officers and men, I explained the
situation, read my orders, told thom my
decision, and that on my shoulders
should fall whatever of responsibility
attached to the disobedience of orders.
You know the inexorable military law is
to ask no questions, obey all orders,
and accept the consequences.' I knew
that if my movement was a failure, my
judgment mistaken, nothing less than
court-martial and death awaited me.
"But the battle was on, and every
fibre in me said I was wanted. "We
burned the bridge, and marched by the
cannon's sound to Thomas' aid.
Through corn fields, thickets, and oak
woods we made a fearful tramp, for no
man in the command knew the country,
and our only guide was the cannon's
boom. When I reported to Thomas he
was in despair at the loss of the key to
his position, which had just been cap
tured by Gen. Hindman's rebel corps.
The place was indicated to me by
a Hash of guns and a rattle of
canister on the dry leaves of
the tree under which Thomas and I
stood. It was a steep ascsnt, with a
densely -peopled crescent ridge, that lay
before ns. There was a forbidding
thicket and an oak forest between us
and the belttf riTzS that marked the
edge of a broad plateau on which the
enemy was jubilant with victory.
'There, there,' said Thomas, as the guns
flashed again. 'Now, you see their exact
position. You must take that ridge.'
My reply was : Til do it. In thirty
minutes after we reached the field we
were storming the rock
mauga. It was an awful
that slope, everv foot of
of Chicka
contest up
which was
planted with death.
"We went in with 7,500 men, and
only 4,000 reported for duty at the next
muster. We went up, up, up till we
reached the summit, and planted our
selves there to stay. It was a terribly
hot place, and we made the plateau a
lake of blood before we drove Hindman
back. I rode back and reported to
Thomas. I was bloody from head to
food. He clasped my hand and said
with great emotion : 'Gen. Steedman,
you have saved my army.' I got my
stars not long afterwards, and that's
about all there was to it. Yes, it was a
big risk I ran, but I was right, and I
knew it'
As he rode to battle that day, he met
Gen. Granger, who said feelingly:
"Steed, old boy it's going to be d d hot
in there. If anything should happen,
have you any requests to make of me?"'
The vein of sentiment was running
deep in the questioner's heart, but the
practical soldier responded in words
that have since been memorable
"Yes, Gen. Granger: if I fall in the
fight please see my body decently buried
and my name correctly spelled in the
newspapers," and he deliberately spelled
it.
Jean Franco! Millet's Poverty.
New "York News.
Speaking of Millet, a friend who wa3
in Barbizon during his latter days there
has told me some interesting stories of
him. One strikes me as being pecul
iarly pathetic. A party of artirts were
in the habit of making a night resort of
a wine shop of the most inexpensive
sort. They were all friends of Millet,
but he rarely came among them. They
tried to induce him to join them fre
quently, but he always found some ex
cuse until the landlord told them :
"It's no use, gentlemen ; he will not
come."
"But why not?" they asked.
Mine host looked embarrassed, and
after some hesitation answered apol
ogetically: You will excuse me, gentlemen, but
he is too poor."
"Too poor to drink 5 cents' worth of
brandy a night ! Then we will pay it
for him."
"Gentlemen," said the publican,
gravely, "no one need pay for anything
Mr. Millet will accept from me but
he will accept nothing which he cannot
pay for ; so he does not come to see us."
It was in such poverty that the man
whose pictures now represent fortunes
in commercial value drifted into his
grave.
Progress in Hponge fishing.
ExchanH.
The Greek sponge fisheries have been
very much developed within the last
two years, and at the present time there
are 723 boats, 183 of which are provided
with diving bells, employed in this bus
iness. The fishing season commences
in April and ends in August, the boats
whieh are provided with diving bells
going as far out to sea as Tunis and
Tripoli, while the others do not go be
yond the coasts-of Greece and Crete.
The value of the sponge taken during
the past season is put at .1)0,000.
Inter Ocean: It is estimated (hit
the United States will contain 150,0)0,
000 people fifty years hence.
Poetijy and 31nole.
Cr. Phrenological Journal.
Neither can the poetical gift be ex
plained on physiological grounds.
Nothing is more common than to find
persons of either sex, with the cranial
and phvsiological- conditions united,
which, according to popular belief,
should furnish the possessor with light
and heat div.ne in tropical abundance.
liut, however, mucu tae lustrous eye
may roll, the cheeks grow hollow, and
the Byronio melancholy be lmror
tuned to come at once and come to
stay, still the anxious friends are only
rewarded, in most instances, with the
nervous irritability of a poetical pa
tient, and the disgusting doggerel of a
future maniac. He may get dyspepsia,
"get up on his ear," get drunk, or get his
friends out of patience with him, like
a full grown poet, but the inspiration
of the latter he can never get.
On the other hand, it is not hard to
call to mind mighty monarchs in the
realms of verse, who might, with proper
training, have rivaled John C. lleenan
in muscular power. Burns "llobert
the plowman," "Love-sick Robin," "So
cial Bob," or "Banting Bob," just as
you want him could not only write the
best poetry of any man in his time, but
he could out-lift "for the drinks," the
stoutest stonemason in Ayrshire. Keats,
"the most poetical of all the poets,
could write "Hyperion," "Endymion,'
"Ode to a Dead Lrn " or whip a
batcher, just as he saw fit. Byron
could draw up from his soul-wells the
finest and sweetest draughts of poetical
nectar, or could "whip fellows," get fat,
or swim the Hellespont at his pleasure.
Bare Ben Jonson do you think ho
had no flakes of fat lining his ribs, or
oily chunks hung to his jaws? If so,
read a description of his elegant
anatomy and be corrected. Shakespeare
(no matter how vou spell him had no
cheeks hollow enough to hold a gill of
water, but the most obstinate must con
fess . that Mr. Shakespeare, deer
poacher, was a erood-sized poet, not
withstanding.
A Mtory of IVhlttler.
Harriet Prescott SpofTord in Harper's.
People come to him, also, in their
grief and trouble, and to more than one
tortured soul has he given peace. The
story is told of a friend of his early
days, m the time when religion held
men by cruder bonds than now, who
was pursued by the idea of the sin
against the Holv Ghost, and felt him
self doomed to damuation.
"And so thee really thinks thee will
go to hell ?" said Mr. " hittier, after
listening to the tale of torment.
"Oh. I am sure of it," cried the suf
ferer.
"Does thee hate thy fellow-men?'
asked Mr. Whittier.
"No, no," aid his jAihappy friend.
"Don't thee hate God, then?" came
the next question.
I love Him, was the answer, what
ever happen to me."
Don t thee hate God, who would
send thee to hell, and let others, who
thee knows have led worse 11a es, (?) to
heaven?" ,
No. I amWrlad of every ne thit is
saved, even if lam to be a castaway.'
"Now what does thee think the devil
will do with thee? How xan he use
thee one who loves the God that con
demns him to torment, one who loves
his fellow-men. and would keep them
out of the clutches of Satan how can
the devil employ thee or endure thee?"
For the first time in months the
wretched man laughed with his old
heartiness, and from that moment be
gan to shake off" his morbid terrors.
Horace ;relry a.ia danko Man.
New York World.
Horace Greeley, although he "took
the papers," was once' sought to be vic
timized at the well-worn dropped
pocketbook" game. The man who
picked up the book, plethoric with bo
gus money, right at Mr. Greeley's feet,
was compelled to go out of town im
mediately to his sick wife, and begged
the loan of mi iu advance of the award
which would surelv be offered if Mr.
Greelev would keep the book. Mr.
Greeley consented, and; only saved him
self by taking the $o0 out of the book.
The man remonstrated. "It will not do
to touch the money," he said; "you had
better give me $50 out of your own
pocket. lilessmv soul, my friend, ex
claimed the innocent Horace, "I never
carried as much money as that with me
in my life!" The man impatiently
snatched the book out of Mr. G.eeley's
hands and hurriedly left to visit his sick
wife.
A Professional A (ton in Suggested.
New York World. 1
By the way, why should not the prin
cess of Wales discover some Adonis
some exquisitely handsbme3'oung man
and have his portrait painted by a dis
tinguished artist and set in a diamond
mounted frame? This professional
beauty game, as at present conducted,
is very one-sided. If married men may
go into raptures over a professional
beauty and sit enthralled over her pic
ture, why may not married women have
a similar privilege In regard to profes
sional Adonises? What is sauce for the
married goose ought to be sauce for the
married gander, and the husband who
runs after the portraits of lovely women
can not fairly object if his wife should
run alter uie poiiraus oi nanusome
men.
Which of our enterprising artists will
start the enterprise of the professional
Adonis as a companion to the profes
sional beauty ?
Kl Madhi and III Followers.
Chicago Tribune.
The Rev. Dr. Dichtl, an Austrian
missionary priest who spent some time
in the Soudan, gives the following
description of the Madhi:
"He is aboat 40 years old, tall, and of
coppeiy-red complexion. An emissary
sent to interview him some time ago
found the Madhi at Abba, surrounded
by 500 or 000 followers, all of them
naked, with iron chain belts round their
waist, and with broad drawn sword3 in
their hand-. The Madhi occupied a
raised seat in their midst, and in his
right hand he held a prophet's staff.
The three marks by which he knew the
Egyptian government to be false iu
Islam were that they allowed Christians
to have churohes of their own, that the
afforded the;n protection, and that tuo
government levied taxes."
CANARIES FOR THE MARKET.
Where They Are Kalsed Methods of
Musical Training.
Philadelphia Times.
Most of the birds brought to America
are bred in the Hartz mountains, of
Hanover, a range in the famous Black
Forest of Germany. Here the industry
is carried on extensively by the peas
ants, who derive from it their chiej
means of subsistence. The majority of
them are so poor that the agents of the
two New York firms who enjoy a mo
nopoly of the importations are obliced.
. j .. i. u: r ii t
breeding season enough money to pro
vide the food necessary to rear'tho
young birds. One firm at the opening
of the present season thus laid out
about $10,000. The superiority of the
German birds lies in their training,
great attention being paid to improving
their song qualities. The canary is a
great imitator of sounds, and will learn
almost any thing that is thrust upon
his attention when young. He may ac
quire the chirp of the robin if he hears
no other song, or may be taught the
air of a popular song.
A dealer on Bidge avenue exhibited
a canary at the Centennial exhibition
which could sing Yankee Doodle, and
which he sold for $100. Another,
owned by the same man, rendered "Die
Lauderbach Maidchen" in an excellent
manner, l nave even known of a ca
nary that could talk. Its owner got it
when it was young and kept it where it
could hear no other bird sing, and finally
succeeded in teaching it to pronounce
its own name, the name of its mistress
and one or two other words. The Ger
man peasants take a Ivautage of this
faculty in teaching the young birds to
sing. One plan is to place .them- in a
large cage, partitioned so as to prevent
its inmates from seeing each other; any
fine singing bird, either a canary, a sky
lark or nightingale, is placed out of
Bight but within hearing of the young
canaries.
After six months of this imprison
ment the pupils, who have never seen
their teacher, will have become perfect
musicians. Another plan is to place
the young ones in a room barely light
enough for them to see to eat, where an
instrument called a bird-organ is played
for an hour or more each day in the
hearing of the learners, who listen very
attentively if they are not disturbed,
and, by practicing the notes heard, are
soon able to sing them perfectly. Birds
trrfined by this process are known as
Andreasberg rollers, and become verv
proficient in the "water roll," the bell
and flute notes and various trills.
After this course of training is com
pleted the birds are separated. Each
one is placed in a small cage, made by
the peasants from fir wood, and fast
ened together with pegs instead of nails.
They remain in these narrow quarters
until they cease to be merchandise, and
are finally domiciled in the homes,
where they become the pets of the family-
Gossip About Senator Joe Brown.
'"Carp"' in Cleveland Leader.
So Joe Brown is being denominated
the chain gang senator because he has
a lot of penitentiary convicts who work
in his coal mines in Georgia. They
cost him less than $20 a year apiece,
and I warrant vou they have to work
hard, for Brown was brought up to
labor. He was born in the Pickms dis
trict of South Carolina 02 years ago,
and when a boy used to haul vegetables
to the county seat, and had a team with
which he used to plow the garden plats
of the villagers. He has a brother in
South Carolina who now has a good
plantation, and is worth some money,
but nothing like that of the saintly ooe,
who is worth, 1 am told, perhaps $;,-
000,000, and keeps adding to his pile by
compound interest. Senator Brown
lives here at the Metropolitan hotel.
where he has three rooms aud an office.
He has a seat down near the speaker's
desk, and is the most patriarchal-look
ing of the senators. He has a darc
complexion, flat cheeks, and a long
beard of yellowish grav. He is not
fond of newspaper men, and will seldom
submit to an interview. He is now the
biggest man in Georgia, next to Bob
Toombs, but I believe that Toombs is
the better liked.
Toombs and Brown have been run
ning on dinerent platforms since the
war. iJOD ioombs would never con
sent to reconstruction, but Brown ac
cepted the inevitable at once and
turned the change to his own advan
tage. It is said that this difference of
opinion came once near causing a duel
between Toombs and Brown. Tho
challenge was issued, but for some rea
son the matter was adjusted without fir
ing. The actions of the two men in re
gard to this duel, if reports tell the
truth, show well the character of each.
Gen. Toombs, easy and confident, trust
ing to luck, made no preparations for
the fight. Gov. Brown did just the con
trary. He put all his papers in perfect
order, drew up a will, and then set up a
target and commenced practicing. Liong
before the duel was to have come off he
was ready for it, and i doubt not he
would have shot to kill. Fortunately for
both parties, for Toombs is a dead shot,
the quarrel was peacefully settled.
Hope for Sir. Hi rob.
Utica Observer.
Billy Birch, of the San Francisco
minstrels, has experienced religion, and
is confessing all of his former misdeeds.
To a reporter he admitted to have told
one story for five years ; and to have
dropped it men oniy because ne was
tired of it. Ihe public, he said,
laughed just as heartily over it the last
time he told it as on the first night.
The story was undoubtedly the one
about his uncle "Jim" Blackstone, of
Kirkland, eendmg him a bag of pippin
apples, and then going to New York
and remaining a week with him, in en
deavoring to recover the pillow case
that held them. There is hope for
Billy in this world if he perseveres.
Prof. Joseph Landon : To teach so as
to bring children frequently into tears
is not difficult to one who knows them,
but it is in the highest degree mischiev
ous
Boger A. Pryor says that they have
very peculiar uewspaper reporters in
London. When he told them ho had
nothing to say they left at once.
Vanderbllt's Vindication.
New York Cor. Chicago News.
A majority of the isew xork papers
seem to have united in the effort to
make W. H. Yanderbilt a social martyr
by their continued i n I senseless abuse
I think it high time that even Yander
bilt was given his rights, notwithstand
ing the fact that he stands charged with
the enormous crime of accumulating
$200,000,000. " Who wouldn't do the
same thing if he could ? Is there
mm mm J
human being on the eartn averse to as
cumulating money, and as much of it as
possible? Mr. Yanderbilt is compelled
to endure the most persnte" abuse in
silence, and I suppose he has become
used to it. I met a o-acs confidential
agent of Mr. Yanderbilt the other day,
and the topic of great fortunes came up
during an extended conversation. ' Jrew
people know Mr. anderbiltas he really
is, said the ex-agent. hven members
of his own family know him only on the
surface. - Let me tell vou that, he is
big-hearted man there isn't a stingy
hair in ' his head, and when I tell you
that he gives away $2 0,000 every year
I know what 1 am talking about, be
cause I have handled a good deal of it
myself. He is compelled to give his
charity in a manner as stealthy as a
tramp would steal a coat, because if he
made any display of it, or it was known
precisely from what source the charity
came, his life would be made un
endurable bv beggars. I know he
used to rficeive from twenty to 150
begging letters every dav, and it re
quired the services of a confidential
clerk to sort out these things from his
business and social letters. I don't
envy Yanderbilt his hundreds of mill
ions. He is not the happiest man in
the world, and if it wasn't for his
splendid constitution, and his habit
of always looking at the cheerful side
of things, he would have been in a
lunatic asylum or his crave long ago,
Do you think he cares much about
the newspaper criticisms?"
sotasmuch as ne did a lew years
ago. Ihe things that gall mm most
are the cartoons in the comic papers.
One of these fine davs certain New
York editors will find themselves fac
ing a lot of libel suits; and when Mr.
Yanderbilt thinks lie has just cause to
go for a man he does it without fear or
favor, and I never knew him to fail in
his purpose."
Ite Xot Too Fast,
Detroit Free Press.
Mr. Matthew Arnold greatly offended
the American portion of his Boston au
dience by speaking of "great, intelligent,
sensual, avaricious America." The por
tion of unmerchantable eggs and the
cabbages not already exhausted on the
lecturer for saying that Emerson was not
a great philosopher or a great poet, was
brought into requisition. But when the
lecturer explained that this phrase was
a quotation from one of Emerson's let
ters to Carlyle, the angry audience
wanted to take it all back, and naturally
felt a good deal abashed at not knowing
their Enierson any better.
They felt as did a class of college
boys who greeted with shouts of laugh"
ter what they thought was too "hifalu
tin" and gorgeous a composition that
one of their number was rending. After
about ten pages of the brilliant rhetoric
which provoked the.'r mirth, he ended
by saying: "Thus speaks Macaulay in
his immortal essav on history." The
boys didn't laugh for a week.
The late Dr. Kenealy, the Tichborne
claimant's counsel and subsequently a
member of parliament, was making a
speech before that body when he said
that something would, "like a dew drop
from the lion's mane bo 6hook to air."
As he was thought to be more or less a
"crank" this remark was supposed to
be some unusual idiocy of his own, and
the house roared in derision. The other
3ides of their mouths were as visibly
agitated, however, when they learned
that this ridiculous language was first
uttered by another Englishman named
Shakespeare.
How a litre or Trouble Was Avoided.
Kentucky State Journal.
A few days ago "a middle-aged coun
tryman walked into the office of a
prominent Newport attorney aifd took
a seat, when the following took place:
"I called in to see about gittin a di
vorce from my wife. "
"Ah; what seems to be the diffi
culty?" " Well, me and Jinuy are always
quarr'lin, and think it would be better
if she would go back to her folks and
I'd stay where I am. She ken take the
three children with her."
"On what grounds do you want a di
vorce ?"
"Well, you sea it's jist this way; Jin
ny's the most skeeriest woman of tramps
ye ever seen. And so when we go up
stairs to bed, she always jumps in bed
first, and then she wants me to lo k
under the bed for a man when I know
there ain't no man there. So ou see
that riles me and I get mad, and then
she gets mad, and then there s a fuss
and I don t have no jjeacrj and can t gat
no sleep, and I'm a hard workin' mau."
"You can't get a divorce on those
grounds, sir."
I can't T
"No, sir."
"Well, then, I know what I'll do. I'll
go home and saw the legs off the bed,
close up, so a man can't git under. If
I had thought of that sooner I might
hev saved all this time coinin' in here."
Government Photograph Shop.
New York Sun.
Immediately in the rear of the treas
ury department is a roomy wooden cot
tage, the purpose of which is often in
quired about. It is a photographic
establishment run .at public expense.
Nominally it is an establishment where
the photographs are taken of counter
feits and other engravings deemed im
portant to be preserved. t ,
I here is a considerable corps of
operatives, or artists, in this establish
ment, whose numbers would be less but
for the demand for photographs by
officials at the cost of the government.
Among the most constant patrons is
Secretary Folger, who has a passion for
that sort of thing. After Arthur, who
has no peer, the judge is the handsom
e t man in the administration, not ex
cepting Chandler himself consequently
the demand for his picture, in all sizes
aud attitudes, is great. He is a fre
quent sitter, and distributes freely his
pictures amoner his frends, with his
autograph, beside? laying away a good
supply lor future use. 1
There is being prepared at this gov
ernment shop a special collection of
photographs of the judge, full face, half
face, sitting, standug, and in almost
every position except standing on his
head. Formerly there was a demand
for Chandler's piciuie, but of late it has
fallen oil. V hi;e for nobleness of fea
tures Folger is much adm.red, for rea!
beauty Chandler bears off the palm.
THE LARGEST WALNUT LOG
Bronxht from France and Cut Into
i
Mherts for Veneering.
New York Letter. I
From an enormous walnut log in a
shed behind the veneer cutting mill at
156 Elizabeth street, recently, a huge
knife, weighing a ton or more, sliced
off sheets the thickness of heavy note
paper, forty-five to the inch. The log,
of which the past that was cut up was
as large a piece as could be handled
at one time, was the largest ever
brought to this country from a foreign
land. It was brought over in the steam
ship Katie, and dragged to Elizabeth
street by five teams of horses. The
top end which still lies in the street is
twenty-seven feet around and nine feet
turougn. wnen tne trunK was
whole it weighed 22,000 pounds, and it
is estimated that it will yield
nearly VU.UUU feet of veneer Half a
dozen men dragged a cros3-cut saw
through it for a whole day in the effort
to cut it in pieces small enough to
handle, and on the second day were
obliged to split it with wedges at the
risk of injuring it. It was expected
that a log of its size would have two
hearts, but only one was found.
Ihe log was bought by Mr. L. Ilirsch,
of 214 Centre street, when on a visit to
France last summer. Guided by re
ports of prodigious trees that grew in
the south of France, he found it at the
village of Perigeaux, in the northern
foothills of the Pyrenees. It was said
to be the largest tree in the country.
and was probably from 803 to 1,000
years old. Forty men and twenty-two
horses dragged it to the nearest railway
station, whence it was taken to Pans.
A special steam lighter was required to
take it to the Katie, its cost, when it
was landed in New York, was fully
$5,000. The wood, when polished, is a
deep black and orange, and its grain is
twisted in many peculiar shapes. Em
bedded in the trunk were found several
odd-shaped musket balls.
Oil on the Waters.
The Toronto Globe publishes the fol
lowing communication : In your issue
of the 8th inst. there is an article on
The Application of Oil to the Waters
of a Stormy Sea," and the wish is ex
pressed that some of your readers would
try the experiment and send an account
to your paper.
I tried the experiment about two
months ago on Lake Erie. I send you
the result. The day was stormy and a
very heavy sea running, and although
we were running with the sea, with our
engine full open, it would break over
the stern occasionally; and although
there was no apparent danger to us
from the boisterous sea, it it or-curred
to me to try the effects of oil on the
waters. I went into the engine room
and got an oil can with a spout on, the
t ame as is on the ordinary half-gallon
can used for coal oil. I went to the
stern and commenced to pour a small
stream of oil on the water. The sea at
once ceased to break, and for two or
three hundred feet astern the effects of
the oil could be plainly seen. The wave
would rush madly on, capped by a huge
breaker, but immediately the oil was
reached the angry breaker would sub
side and the sea would come on as large
as ever, but perfectly smooth and, as a
matter of course, harmless. The oil
used was a machine oil manufactured
roni petroleum. I think any sort of
oil would answer, but of course the
more oilv matter the oil contained the
letter result would follow. I have no
doubt at all as to the utility of o:l for
the purpose in question if it can be ap
plied in the proper place, but as to how
could be applied to a head or beam
sea I do not kuow; but to a sea running
after a boat it is very easily applied by
simply pouring it over the stern. First
opportunity will try the experiment in
head and beam sea, and write you
result. W. M. Aldekson,
Master Tug Walter P. Tnbbs. .
Tim and Trade.
friaries Dudley "Warner.
The world is practically divided into
two classes debtor and creditor. This
classification is no mora accurate than
that of saints and sinners, but it holds
true that some men are naturally
debtors, and others naturally creditors.
In the district school even, where the
stock in trade is slate-pencils, fish-
looks, and chewing-gum, tlnre are
certain to be two or three boys who
are capitalists, always making a corner
in their trousers pockets, while the rest
of the boys are borrowers. Now the cred
itors like this sys'em of months and
years. They watch the manner of
these artificial periods with interest, in
order to send in their bills aud extort
their profits. They have nearly mined
the glad new year taken all the
poet ry out of it. They have filled it
with mercantile and sordid suggestions.
They often poison the most tender ns-
sociations. The writer, who at family
prayers, daily and for years, heard his
grandfather say, "The bells of mortal
ity are sounding in our ears," grew up
with the impression that he vas say
ing, "the bills of mcrlality are 'sound-
iag in our ears. And it turned out
that they are.
Twonld He Cheaper.
Arkansaw Traveler.
A Scotchman who arrived in Little
lock while the ladies were going around
with the petitions with a view to the en
forcement of the temperance law, was
approached bv nn enthusiastic woman
who requested his signature. He did
not understand, and she explained that
an enforcement of the law prohibiting a
saloon within three miles of a church.
"I dona much aboot it.but I dinna ken
but 'twould be cheaper to move the
kirks than the whiskv shops," and with
this idea of public expenditure he re
used to sigu the petition.
EN ROUTE TO THE PACIFIC.
Munie of the I'npleaaantness of
Travel---Xcvsda Vot Advancing In
Wealth.
Edward Roberts in Chicago News.
It costs exactly $1 to get anything to eat
at the stations on the Central Pacific
road, and one is only given twenty-five
minutes in which to eat that dollar'?
worth of food. Phil Bobinson in his
latest book, "Sinners and Saints," ques
tions ' whether or not a Pullman car
conductor is a gentleman of leisure
traveling for pleasure. I question what
the mission is of table waiting gins at
railway stations. They certainly can
not wait on people to show their beauty,
for I rarely come across a pretty ait-
ress. Nor are tuey employed to teach
one manners, for they have none them
selves. It mnst be that tbey are in
vented to teach travelers patience. The
way they throw food at one, and the in
different air wtli which they take an
order makes one want to swear. But
he can't 6wear at a woman, and it would
do no good if he did. The Central Pa
cific girls take delight in being
surly. I never saw one smile,
and I also never saw any one
they pretended to wait on smile. It will
be a glad day when the road runs its
own dining-cars through to 'Frisco. I
should be content to eat in such cars as
run on the Burlington road to Pacific
Junction from Chicago even if I got
much less to eat than I do at the eating
stations. There would be at least one
satisfaction a mau could enjoy some
degree of regularity, which he surelv
cannot do under the present condition
of affairs. But in spite of hunger, and
notwithstanding the roughness of the
road, I had a good sleep while we sped
westward through the night, and Beno
was reached just as I got up. The only
importance Beno has is that it serves &a
a junction station for trains going off
the Central Pacific road to Virginia
City. I talked with a man who got on
our train, and who made his home at
this once blooming citv in Nevada.
"Virginia City to-day," he said, "lives
on its past reputation. A few years ago
it had a population of . 21,000 people,
and now there are not over 7,000 there.
And not that many would stay if they
could only get awav. Business is ab
solutely dead, and unless some new and
valuable discoveries are made, nothing
will save the place.
" Are the old bonanza mines worked
out?" I asked.
' Yes," he said ; " nearly so, if not
entirely. Levels are down 3,500 feet,
and the ore found won t pay hauling up.
Many people have lost their all in the
city, and those who put money into real
estate are hurt the most. It is abso
lutely impossible to sell a house or a
business, a.id the cost of living is
enormous. It seems to have been a
policy of the Central Pacific to destroy
lrginia City. 1 he ireight on ore to
'Frisco is $34 a ton. and on wheat $28
a ton, and is relatively as great on all
goods."
" Is Nevada a couutry for cereal
growing
' les; but a farmer can t raise wheat
and pay $28 a ton freight to get it to
market. Neither can we pay $34 a ton
on ore and make any money. The
truth is Nevada cannot advance in
wealth unless the roa I reduces its
charges and ceases its persecutions."
"Goth! It's a Telephone X"
Inter Cc .hii.J
A well-to-do but unsophisticated
farmer from one of the border counties
of Indiana was iu the city lately at
tending the fat stock slnw, and broaght
alo: g his wife and daujjhtars to see the
sights and do some shopping. Anion:
other places they visited was Mandel s
new store, and, after wandering around
the first floor for awhile, the party cam"
to a stop near t.ic elevator.
One of the daughters was first to dis
cover the cars moving silently up and
down, receiving and discharging their
cargoes of passengers. She jerked her
father's coat-sleeve t direct his atten
tion to the phenomenon, and, in a tone
that was audible to the clerks in the
neighborhood, asked:
" hat s that, paw that thing going
up and down, with ofys in it?"
The old man gave the etevator along
calm, deliberate, scrutinizing stare, and
exclaimed, w ith joy :
"By gosh I it s a telephone! the first
I ever see !"
A Few Health Aphorisms.
Popular Science Monthly. I
A change of air is less valuable than
a change of scene. The air is changed
every time the direction of the wind is
changed.
Calisthenics nray be very genteel, and
romping verv ungenteel; but one is the
shadow, the other the substance, of
healthful exercise.
Blessed be he who invented sleep,
but thrice blessed the man who will
invent a cure for thinking.
Dirt, debauchery, disease, and death
are successive links in the same chain.
- India's MasrnltnJe.
In attempting to assist the reader to
realize the magnitude of India The
Spectator says that it. contains some
50,000,000 more people than the whole
of Euroie. India has sixty-two cities
of more than 50,000 people, twenty-two
with more than a 100,000, while Cal
cutta contains about 8Gt5,000 souls.
There are hundreds of cities of 20,000,
even the names of which are generally
unknown to Europeans.
A FAN-SONG.
Edward Wick.
Fa a me to rest, for sleep-time sweet is com-
inor.
And oh! so tired I, and oh I so restlrs.
The grateful opiate of thy serenely smiling
Only can charm me into mouguis aisires
Ksj. Fan me, 1 ve, fau me, love, daylight it
dead, love
Dead its dark sorrow dead its wild jest;
Into the lan i of old bygones 'oisfled, love;
Fan me to rest 1
Love, do you hear the last lone bird-born solo
Drifting tnis-way-wara irom tne gnm
ereat beeches t
Render it o'er to me, and sing it low low
reaches.
Fan me, love, fan me, love, gone is the
day's love
Gone its weird hatreds yet I'm dis
tressed! To-morrow I've got fifteen dollars to raise
love;
F-f-f-fan mo to rest'
John llole O'ltHlly.
Leander Ric iarl on.
The other day I say John Boyle
O'Beilly in fie street. O'Beilly is one
of the salt of the eart'i it sen s ad
vantageous to be one of the salt rather
than one of the fresh of tae eath.
O'i'eilly is a roet, a - enian an e-sav-
ist, a fanatic, a philosopher, a luna 10
on the question of canoeing, a wit, an
orator, an editor, and auy:hing else you
mav happen to think of t at J have ex
cepted. Mr. O'Beilly is a charming
man in whatever walk of life he may
happen td be in for the moment.
O'lieilly can maks a very interesting
half hour for Dr. Oliver en-lell
Holmes, of Boston, with his conversa
tion, and he can also make a very in
teresting half hour for John Ju. Sulli
van, of Boston, with a set of lo-;ing
gloves. Hrt is one of the best fencers in
the country: ho can run like a deer, and
he can hit a blow that is like the kick of
a multicharge mule.
OBeilly was a youngster in tne
queen's army, and an informer swore
that he had induced many of his com
rades to be in readiness to turn Eng
land's arms against her in the cause of
Ireland. He was a r enian, fast enough,
but he says this was the work of a per
jurer. Anyway u neuiy was senien -eii
to exportation for life. He escaped
from the penal colony, was taken on
board a Yankee schooner, got into Eng
land, hid himself iu Liverpool for
awhile, and ultimately reached Amer
ica, lie finally became tae editor oi
The Boston Pilot, which is a paper that
is made up too largely of clippings;
but the editorial page of which always
contains matter that is shot as straight
from the shoulder as the bullet is shot
from the gun. Boyle O'Beilly works
hard, and has gained a literary reputa
tion. He is a young man, of dark eyes,
a closely-cropped head, a black mus
tache, short stature, and an expression
of perfect good humor. I would rather
have a Philadelphia newspaper read to
me than have him caress me with a
boxing glove.
French Characteristics.
Paris Letter in Courier-JournaL
It is a too general idea among us
that the French are insincere. We
have not found them so, and I think it
base ingratitude in any true-born
American to do their national character
such injustice. Can we remember tho
noble LaFayette and his chivalric fol
lowers who lent their strong right arms
as a bulwark in defense of our rights
and to aid us in the struggle for our
country's freedom, and not feel bound
by every tie of gratitude and sentiment
to their countrymen ?
I do not daro to say there is not some
insincerity here, for thoro ftrj protxl and
bad traits in every nation. John Bull
is a noble animal, but he is also tyran
nical and morose sometimes; Sandy leal
and clannish, but stubborn to
a fault; nans is nonest bus
a trifle too phlegmatic and unfeel
ing, and "Uncle Sam," with his many
fine traits, is known to be upon occa dons
a slippery individual. But it would be
neither fair nor wise to judge them by
the vulnerable spot in their natures, to
blow away all the grain, leaving only
the chaff. -
Take the French from a general point
of view ; kind and clever, chivalric and
hospitable, heroic and patriotic (for I
know not a s.nle l rencuman w no
would nt bleed and die for, hi coun
try's sake), and admire and reupect
them for what they are. We must not
judge t. em by oltaire, for he, ws noS
a typical lrencaman: he had their
head, but not their heart, and did more
harm than they even nuw see. Yet
their very respect for his memory
shows what beautiful na ures they have
ready to forgive and forget.
A (icriomin Leadluz a Charge.
Chicago Tribun.
The Bev. George Washington Nolley,
who died last week at Ashland, Va.,
aged 80 years, had performe I fifty-eight
yars' active service in the Metholist
ministry. He it was who led a charge
of the Confederate troops in the battle
at Brook Church, near Bichmond. In
the midst of the fight, as the story is
told in "Soldier Life in ihe Army of
Northern Virginia," a voice was heard
shouting, "Where's mv boy? I'm look
ing for my boy!" Soon the owner of
the voice appeared tall, slim, aged,
with silver-gray hair, dressed in a full
suit of broadcloth. A tall silk hat and
a clerical collar and cravat completed
his attire. His voice, familiar to the
people of Virginia, was deep and pow
erful. As he continued to shout the
men replied : "Go back, old gentleman ;
you'll get hurt here: go back, go
back!" "No, no," said he, "I can go
anywhere my boy has to go, and t ie
Lord is here. I want to see my boy,
and I will see him !" Then the order
"Forward" was given, and tho men
made one more for the enemy. The
old gentleman, his beaver in ono hand,
a big stick in the other, his long hair
flying, shouting, "Come on, brys!'' dis
appeared in the depths of the woods,
well in front. -
A Ills IMctlonary.
Demorest's Monthly.
The first part of a gigantic dictionary
of the English language is about to be
issued by the Oxford university. It
was commenced twenty-five yars back,
and more than 800 persons have been
employed in collecting material for this
mighty history of every world in the
English speaking language. The Chi
nese are said to have cyclopedias upon
which thousands of literati were at work
all their lives. This work is almost of
a similar character. It will give the
history and definition of 2 i7,()0u words.
There are to be twenty-four parts of
350 pages each. All the volumes are
very large, with three columns to the
page. The history, detinition and
changes in every word used in the Eng
lish language will be foun in this mar
velous and minute compendium. The
cost of this work will be over half a
million dollars, but Oxford university
will doubtless receive )mething from
the sales of these great volumes, which,
when completed, will be the most com
plete thesaurus in any language.
Inter Ocean: "While an American girl
looks with favor ou a duke or a count, the
English girl snatches up an American
plumber and has the best of the swap svery
ttma,