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THE COLUMBIAN. THE COLUMBIAN. V 1 1 T Published Eveet Fridat, at ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA CO., OR., BT E. 0. AD Alls, Editor and Proprietor Advkbtisino Rates : One square (10 lines) first insertion. . $2 00 Each subsequent insertion -. 1 00 Published Evert Fridat, at ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA CO., OR., BY S. G. AD A1IS, Editor and Proprietor. Subscription Rates: On year, in advance 2 00 Six months, 1 00 Thrss months, " H A VOL. IV. ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, APRIL 11, 1884. NO. 36. i T'(! OF A M jl. v Jl .JLm JL-Oi.L n ONE LIFE. The Argosy. Her little white hand is resting On the arm that held it of old, And he thinks it is only the night breeze That makes it so soft and cold Her eyes into his are (razing Eyes ever so faithful to turn, Ana he thinks it the shadowy twilight That makes them so strange and aim. Her pretty face turns toward him; Ah. when did her face turn awavf And he thinks it the silvery moonlight That makes it bo faint and gray.- Oh. spirit that lingers and falters, Takti courage ana wbis-per "Gooj-Lyo." A lifelf why a life is nothing, When minions each minute die. With millions each minute dying. What matters one life or death? One fragile and tender existence ! One tremulous passing breath 1 A lifef - Why a IfrelTiiothing What matters tho' one burn dim? Alas for the folly of reason One life Is the world to him! THE BRIDE OF DEATH. A CONDENSED NOVEL, WITHOUT A MORAL. Evansville Argu?. ' Good-bye, Herbert." " Good-bye, Eurydice, and oh, Low Bweet the thought that this will be our last good-bye. for to-morrow night, darling, you, will be mine, mine to love and cherish and protect from all the chilling blasts of adversity. . Is not the thought a sweet one, Eurydice?" "Aye, Herbert, and yet " and a chill seemed t: shake the frail young form, and an anxious look came into the starrv eves. " And yet, what, Eurydice ?" Oh, Herbert, it is a dull foreboding that something is going to happen me. I know our future looks bright, but still the feeling will come, though I strive to keep it back." "Then why feel aught of fear, dar ling? Surely my strong arms can pro tect you?' "Yes, but you have said 'good-bye,' and soon I will be left alone, arid then, oh, HerWrt, how I -wish this night .was over. I caunot, oh, I cannot drive back the , feeling that some great harm is coming to me." But Herlert drew the fair young Lead to his breast und showered kisses on the golden locks and on the . quiver ing lips, and with the kisses peace seemed to settle in her heart and the frightened look passed away. 44 Good-bve, again, darling," said Her bert. "Good-bye, Herbert," she aid simply, and he was gone. Eurydice started slowly to her room. It was a cosy nest, and one meet for the radiant being who reigned there, but as she entered the old fear came back and her footsteps seemed clogged with lead. ' Rousing herself she seated herself be fore the long pier glass and commenced to slowly let down her coils of golden hair, and as she looked at the fair re flection she murmured: "Yes, I am lovely, and no wonder Herbert loves me so. Oh! fair face that hides a heart of lead.v Oh! if this anguish would leave. ' Oh ! if the morrow were only here My God, what is that ?" cried she, as a noise in the corner was heard. "Oh! has it come so soon?" and by a strong effort she rose to her feet and swinging half around faced this unknown something that was in the room. For a moment the dilated eyes saw nothing, and then as they rested on the unknown something, there was a low moan, the limbs suddenly gave way and the lithe young body sank with a "dull thud'" to the floor. A little crimson stream trickled from the half open lips, a quiver, and all was over and the spirit of Eurydice Boggs passed over the dark river. And the mouse, frightened by her fall, ran back into its hole. NEWPORT. Life.- Newiort is a city about which no two authorities agree.' It is claimed by one distinguished American writer that it is "the centre of refinement, fashion, intelligence and wealth." Another, equally eminent, declares it to be "shoddy, pinchbeck and greasy, with newly acquired and vulgarly used wealth." One noted English critic, who was feted there last year, says that "Newport is the heaven of the toady and the snob," while a Frenchman who had similar experience declares it to be "the Mecca of the rich who can' be worshipped for nothing but their wealth." A correspondent of The Lion don Globo says : '"It is the paradise of two sets of fools the gilded clique who spend' tens of thousands in the effort to outshine their neighbors, and the obsequious clique that beggars it self for the privilege of witnessing the pitiful contest." ONE WOMAN'S WORK Chicago News. The. queen of Madagascar is dead. Her whole life was spent in efforts to spread Christianity among her people. She alolis'ied ido'fitry; she was the friend of religion, learning, and the use ful arts. There is many a monarch on the European throne who cotild have been better taken than she; whoso lives have not been so prolific of good to their subjects. She has left a name and mem ory that would grace any queen in Chris tendom. . FASHIONS IN JfN'S HA TS. New York Tribute. It is a fact worthy of notice that the only article of men's dress in the fash ioning of which the wearer's taste plays no part, is the hat. The styles of hats are due altogether to the taste and fancy of the manufacturer, so that twenty-four hours before the new style is displayed in the hatter's windows no one but the 'finisher" knows what shape it will assume. CLEARING AN AMAZONIAN FOREST. New York Tim s. When, says a recent writer, it is de sirable to make a clearing in an Ama zonian forest a leaning tree is selected, and all the trees in front of it are cut on one side. Then the viues are severed and the leaning tree is cut down, bring ing all the trees near it to the ground with a crash. Soon the hot rays of the on fit the brash for quick detr"tion by fire. MADAME MODJESKA'S TRIUMPH. Her Own Account of Her First Sue cess In this Country at San Fran cisco. Philadelphia Press. "After a few months of country life I got very tired of the corn and potatoes, the pigs and the chickens, and went up to San Francisco to see if I could not get a chance to resume my profession in this country," 'How did you succeed V "It is a very funny story," said the distingished actress, laughingly, "and I never look back to it now without amusement. I had friends there, but they, like myself, were strangers to the language you speak and to the people I must approach. But I had determined to make a trial, so I met Mr. John Me Cullough, and ha was very kind and gentlemanly.. I asdlum to give me a chance to play. He" finally consented, and decided I should play Ophelia in Polish to Mr. Booth's Hamlet in Eng lish if he could get his consent. When he made the request to Mr. Booth he refused to play with me. He did not know me, and probably thought I was an enthusiastic amateur, and not an artist. I could not speak the language to convince him, and, therefore, I got no chance to play. "I determined to- learn English, and I did. I got a teacher at once and be pan learning the language as ' a boy does the multiplication table. I studied night and day. I would catch a few words and then repeat them over and over again until I had them secure, and then kept on to get the pronunciation right. It did not take me a great while, because I put my whole heart and soul into the work. When I could speak reasonably well, I learned to read Adrienne Lccouvreur, and it was only a few months from the time I first began to study English, before I went i to Mr. Barton Hill, manager for Mr. McCnllough, and asked for a hearing. He did not receive me very cordially, for he probably thought I was a novice who was stage-struck. I was so earnest in my request, however, that he finally 6aid : "Madame, if I consent, may I express my honest opinion to you? May I criti cise you frankly ?" "Yes, even remorselessly," I replied. "All I ask is that you will hear me." It was agreed that I should come to the theatre the next day. Can you imagine anything more disheartening than ap pearing for the first time to read the lines of a play in a theatre, with only one man for an audience, and that one a critic who starts out with the feeling that you are consuming his time unneces sarily ? This was my situation when I reached the theatre in San Francisco to read Adrionne to a doubting mana ger in a language which I had only just begun to learn. A chaii was sat upon the stage foi me to speak to and Mr. Hill sat in the stalls. There were no admiring friends in the seats, no other actors, no scenes, no properties, no audience to stimulate and aid me. Only the chair to talk to and the one unsympathetic man to judge. I had, however, determined to succeed, and with these dismal sur roundings I began reading the lines. As I proceeded I watched Mr. Hill carefully. I soon noticed that I had interested him, then he seemed aroused, and finally I made him cry. When I had finished I said, 'What is my fate ? Will you give me an opening?' 'Not only an opening,' said he warmly, 'but weeks, and as many of them as you want.' "Mr. Hill reported to Mr. McCullough and he asked me to read the play again and for him. The next day I repeated the same performance for Mr. McCul lough and -Mr. Hill that on the first day I had given to Mr. Hill alone. He was very kind to me and spoke highly of my advancement. They arranged at once for my appearance, and I began in Adrienne, Mr. McCullough appearing with me. I was successful from the start, and from that day to this have to thank the American people for their great kindness and consideration. I have met with much success in this country. This is the simple story of my beginning here in this country. Of course, I have learned much since my first start. We never cease to learn in this profession." "French Flat" Tenants at Home. J. D. Osborne in The Century The Parisians themselves are getting tired of their many-storied houses. ' The people of the provinces, and especially those of French Flanders and of the countries on the German and Swiss borders, say (it is a proverb with them) : "A Paris house is a hell." Life is one long quarrel in most of them. Tenants must put up with a great many an noyances, if they would not be con stantly in hot water. A French man once told me that a servant of ' the story below him complained that his foot man threw dust out of the window, and appeal el to the hall waiter to stop it. The servants of the higher stories heard the complaint and resented it. All of them threw bushels of dust out of the window upon the luckless Ber- ant of the first floor. Th.3re is more unhappiness, less hap piness, in Paris than in any other place on earth. There can be no happiness where houses are built as dove-cotes and families are huddled like pigeons. Did you ever read Dickens' description of a London rookery tenanted by Irish? It is a true picture of the incessant war fare waged in Paris houses. Better Than the Brukeman's "Yawp" Scientific American. A simple and effective device for an nouncing to passengers on cars and boats the name of the next station or landing, consists simply of a box con taining a revolving drum made of light material, and having printed upon or attached to its face the names of the several stations of the route, arranged in the order named. There is in the front of the box a window through which the names may be read as they are brought into position by the p awl and ratchet mechanism at the end of the box. A North Carolina man has invented a machine that will pack 100 pounds of bran in a fifteen inch space. PABTNERS IN A " EE3TE SB AW." Two Colored entlemen Who Had Taken Lesson In the Financial Art .of Self-Defense. .' Arkansaw Traveler.! Brocky John and Government Pate, two colored gentlemen of eminence, raised a crop of cotton together, and with the profits, moved to town and established a restaurant. When the first of the month came, John went to Pete and said: "What we g winter to pay off will" "Blame 'fl know." ?Whut we gwine ter eat ter mor'f "Blame 'fl know." "Wall," said John, after perplexed reflec tion, "how's we g winter run dis heah res terrawf "I doesn't know dat, nuther." "An' yer doan seem ter be much consarned Tjout it" "No, I'se restin easy. Dun got 'nuff ter eat fur one week, an' ef I al'ers feels as full as I does now, I doan want nuthin' ter eat." "Yer's a fool, Pete, dafs whut yer Is." "Oh, no, yerseTs de fool, 'case yer's bod derin' 'bout su'thiu whut yer hain't got. I'se gwine stay 'roun' an heah, ' money ur no money, I bet by de time de udder fokes gits 'nnff ter eat I'll be chawin' su'thin'." Yas, Pete, but aller our money's dun gone." "Dat's all right. We was de ones whut spent it an' we ain' got no room to complain. G- fn away an' study flosofy." Bjo i afterward John slipped into the house, tcoK the toe of a stocking from a hole in the wall and mused: "Thought times would git hard, so I jes put a little su'thin' aside for nryse'f." Shortly after John went out, Pete slipped in, took an old pocket from under a box, and said to himself, "sorter thought dat a dark an' rainy day would come 'roun' bimeby, an' thougUX I'd better look out for ole Peter. Ola Pete, lemma congraterlate you right heah, ain't a man ter fool 'way his time. Doan like ter fling 'spicions on a man's carackter, but it doan seem ter me dat ole John is er hones' man nohow." Fanny fern and Family. I told Mr. Derby, the veteran publisher, how delighted I used to be when Fanny Fern's bright meditations ufed to come out in The Boston Olive R ranch. "Yes," he said, "The Olive Branch paid her $3 for each article, with which he barely managed to support herself and her children in a miserable manner. I thought I saw merit auJ money in them. They were widely circulated, and The Home Journal used often to copy them. Her brother, N. P. Willis, the brilliant editor of that paper, associated with Morris, saw noth ing in Fanny's writings. He gave her no en couragement, an 1 sent her word that she had better go to making shirts; but Gen. Morris liked her work very much, and so did the as sistant editor, Jamej Parton. The latter gave glad hospitality to many of her fugitive paragraphs. This led to his acquaintance with her, and I think it was after he had married her that Willis was served up In ber novel as I Appoilj Ityaeinthe. He.- firct husband was Charles Eldridge, of Boston, but when he died she formed an ill-assorted marriage with a ! Mr. Farrington, whom she was obliged to leave. About the time that her writings at tracted my attention Robert Bonner made her the splendid offer of $100 a column for The Ledger. 1 went to Boston ani got her to collect her 'Fern Leaves,' which had a great circulation. She accepted a royalty instead of the $ 1,000 down," which I offered her, and she made $ 10.000 the first year. . "After she became famous and independent her brother, N. P., began to recognize her in a gingerly manner, and toward the close of his life, when he became sick and morbid, she went and took care of him and did all she could to comfort his declining years. She constantly contributed to The Ledger almost to the last day of her life. By the way, Fanny Fern's daughter, who married Morti mer Thompson (Doesticks), afterwards con tributed to The Ledger, and the Miss Eflie Thompson, who now writes for the same paper, is Fanny Fern's granddaughter." Dean Mtanley's Penmanship. A correspondent of The Manchester Ex aminer says that he once received from Dean Stanly the most inscrutable epistle he ever beheld. It was written upon poor blue pa per and in two kinds of ink, the latter por tion in black and the former in ink about the color of brown vinegar. Tho writing had a thin, scratchy look and suggested the thought that it had been written with an old pen with only one prong, or with the point of an old stocking-needle. There were no distinct letters as such, but a series of nerv ous pecks at the paper with something smeared with ink. "1 tried over and over again for several days," says the correspondent, "to decipher the missive, but to no purpose. I procured a magnifying glass, and was simply dismayed at the result. I held it up to a strong gas light, and tried to read the front through the back, and 1 he back through the front. I tried to read it perpendicularly, horizontally and from each of the four corners-diagonally and at last flung myself full length upon the hearth-rug, spreal the tanalizing docu ment upon the fender, and sought a friendly revelation from the glow of the fire, but in vain. As a last resource I took it to a clever schoolmaster, who, after looking carefully over it from beginning to end, some what dis couraged me by asking me who it was froi and what it was . about. He labored at it more or less for five weeks and then 1 gravely a&su.-ed me that the man who could read such writing was not yet born." 1 A UansicroDS Weed. Fannie Brigham Ward. Everywhere in Mexico one finds the poison ous weed toloacbi, though it grows most thrifty in the tropical lowlands of the tierra caliente. It is a harmless looking plant, much resembling northern milk weed, and quite too dangerously common in a land where suspicion rules and jealousy amounts to madness. It does not kill, but immediately acts upon the brain, producing first violent insanity, and then hopeless idiocy. A few drops of the tasteless fluid, mixed with milk or other food, does the diabolical work with inexorable certainty, and cannot be detected except in its effects. It is whispered that poor Carlotta had hardly landed at Vera Cruz, on her sorrowful mission to this coun try, before it was administered to her, and her deplorable fate is cited as one among many Instances. Of all the dangers in Mexico this is one of the most appalling. Any po litical enemy, -Jealous rival, or credo, may thus revenge himself, in a more fiendish man ner than with the stiletto, and without fear of detection. Chicago Verses. Philadelphia CalL Contributor: Your verses beginning, "Two little feet so small that both nestle in one warm buffalo robe," are declined. We never print Chicago poetry. "No, sir," said a practical American, "no bric-a-brac on the mantel for me I It's a nuisance. Where's a man to put his feetr Col ton: Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our Crtan to upon them. BRAIN-WORKERS' DRINKS. A Boston Bartender Tells or the Va rious Liquids Slost Affected by a X amber of Xotable Men. , 'Nelse" In St. Paul Pioneer Press. I asked a bartender the other day what were the peculiarities and favorite drinks of some of his patrons of note. He had quite recently been employed in one of the largest drinking establish ments in New York, and replied that every man usually had a favorite drink which he generally called for upon ranging alongside the bar. Whisky was called for nine times out of ten in one form or another, but fancy mixed drink of all kinds were extremely pop ular. V. "Here is Oscar "Wilde, for instance," he said. "He is very popular among the gay 'boys' of Gotham, and can drink most of them under the table and give them their choice of the liquor. He is one of the longestMieaded drinkers I know of the result, I think, of his calm, even temperament. Nothing disturbs him. He likes everything, although he shows a partiality to Vermouth cock tails. Champagne is also a great favor ite with him. He does not care for Mumm's or Delbeck, however, the for mer not being 'dry' enough and the lat ter too 'dry.' Something between j these two is his' choice, although he is not 'set' in the mat ter. He takes very kindly to American drinks, like all Englishmen, and is very fond of whisky and seltzer, and also gin fizzes. He can't go beer for some rea son. He is a great smoker, and is con sumirg the weed in some form inces santly. His cigars are of the best brand, and he pays exorbitant prices for them. The number of cigarettes he smokes in a day is enormous. He prefers the La Ferme and Egyptian cigarettes. The one great peculiarity about Wilde is that he smokes before breakfast, some thing rarely done by the most inveter ate smokers. Steele Mackaye is sharp, quick and decisive in his manners and drinks great quantities of the best beer to get fat. He don't get fat, however, and never will. I have seen him drink fifteen glasses of beer at one sitting and not turn a hair. When the number gets up into the twenties he grows excited and talks ferociously. He is not at all averse to fancy drinks of all kinds, es pecially to gin fizzes and whisky cock tails. He smokes 25 cent cigars when his friends are kind enough to give them to him. Edgar Fawcett, the poet and playwright, is the opposite of Oscar Wilde. He is far from being a scientific imbiber. His principal bad habit is to mix his drinks. Whisky and water is generally called for by him. He , is also partial to sherry and bitters, but will drink al most anything. He has a great ad miration for Oscar Wilde's poetry, and and when excited by sherry and bitters raves over it. Fawcett was Licng fellow's pet "before his death. He is also a smoker. Cazuraun, the well known adapter of French plays, is a lively little Frenchman, the possessor of a very red nose, which he has spent mints of money and years of time in coloring. He has very bright eyes, dresses in black, and talks rapidly when excited. He is particularly heavy on cordials, especially kimmel. Absinthe he also likes. He is a pretty heavy drinker, and will drink anything. He delights to stop and talk before dispos ing of the contents of his glass. A cigar or cigarette is always between his lips. Leander Richardson, the correspond ent and adaptor of plays, is very fond of beer and is gradually building out a Dutch front. He drinks immense quantities of beer when sitting up all night to write a letter. At the bar he names Santa Cruz sours, gin fizzes, claret punches, and champagne cock tails as his "pizen." A good cigar, either mild or strong, suits him. Law rence Barrett is rarely, if ever, seen in a saloon, and I doubt if he drinks any thing stronger than wine, and that only semi-occasionally with intimate friends. Bichard Mansfield, the actor, takes champagne with his meals to whet his appetite. George Biddle, the reader, likes wines of all kinds, but prefers sherry and claret." How He iot Kvcn. American Machinist. A good story is told of the well known engineer, William A. Sweet, of Syra cuse. Casually meeting a prominent lawyer one day, a brief conversation en sued, in the course of which Mr. Sweet happened to ask "the judge" what he thought of some question they were dis cussing, without really meaning to ask legal advice in the usual way. Soon afterward Mr. Sweet received a bill from the judge "for legal advice, $1,000," which he paid promptly without a word of complaint. Time passed on, and one day the judge, who was also heavily interested in salt manufacture, needed some me chanical advice about machinery which was not running satisfactorily, and asked Mr. Sweet to look at the machines and tell him what was needed. Mr. Sweet looked them over for two or three hours, and indicated tho cause of the trouble. When he went home he promptly made a bill out against the judge for "mechanical advice, $l,500,' and the bill was duly paid, furnishing probably one of the few instances on record in which mechanics ever got ahead of the law. Why Drivers Turn to the Bight. Henry Grady in Atlanta Constitution.! Major W. H. Smyth gives me th fol lowing origin of the Americau custom of turning to the right on tho road : Our ancestors drove oxen as a usual thing. In driving an ox team the driver walks on the left of the team, so that he can handle the goad or whip with his right hand. In meeting a wagon each driver would turn to the right, so that he could be between his own oxen and tliose of the other wagon. Anibuscartlntf the Professional. Philadelphia CalL A conph of pickpockets followed a gei.tleinu'.i for soine blocks with a riew of s.v..iling themselves of the first op ort ritv to relieve him of his parse. re :; uMcnly tui ued into a lawyer's of IV. ' .". h..t -hi.l we do now?" asked one. '. . ..it for the lawyei , said the other. CORN GATHERING SONG. Opie P. Road in New York Mercury. In general the negroes have greatly ; changed since the war, for many of them have gone to the ci ies and towns, or have become small farm irs, but on some of the large plantations of the south, where no social innovations have been introduced, they are very much the same, in dress and peculiar characteristics, as they were years ago when the tap of the overseer's bell was an order, imperative. These people preserve their quaint traditions, moral dialogues between animals, hi which the rabbit is always the Socrates. They have a song for each kind of work, whose author is unknown, but with ' whose words and tune all ara familiar. The following is the corn gathering song. It is impossible to give an idea of the effect with which it is rendered, and the serai-weird tune, I am convinced, could not be written by the most accomplished composer:! ; Come er bitch up da wagin an' dribs in de fid', j Time f er ter geder de co'n ; ! We'se Ikjuii' lur tor nab aim asn-cake maal Time far tir geder de co'u. ! De yaller man grabs wid mighty light han', Time fur ter s;o ler de co'n ; But de ole Guinea nigger am de bes' In de ban', j Time fur ter goder de co'n. An ar take off de rough shucks, pile up de co'n, i Jurany ho, jis' er talkiu' like er doan' kere; i We'se er gwinter bab sum fun heah as sho' yer am bo'n, Jurany bo, so early in de day. j De mules bit?s de co'n as we dribe er long de rows, j Time fur ter geder de co'n; ! How much da ksn eat u jIk ly uabber knows, Time fur ler geder de co'n. De young noun' pup s juffs de ar as we pass, Time f er ter geder de co'n ; An' he barks at de rabbit what hides in de grass, j Time fer ter geder de co'n. i An' er dribe ter de co'n crib an' opan up de do', ! Jurangy bo, JL' er talkin' lika er doan' kere: i We'se got tor git dun 'fore da col' win's blow, ; J urangy ho, co early In de day. j Cable, the Xove-liat. New York Cor. Chicago Herald A self -exhibitor now in New York is Cable, the highly successful writer of novels on the theme of Creole life in New Orleans. He has hit a new and rich vein in fiction, and is work ing it with much ability. But I think he is making a mistake in coming north in quest of personal adulation. He went at first to Bos ton, where there is a circle of mutual admir ers, to whom he revealed himself as a reader of his own sketches. They gave him the right hand of fellowship. That was as far as he ought to have gone. But he is trying New York. We, too, have a clique of self-chosen literary people, probably as numerous and unproductive as Bstou's, but they don't count for much in this big city. They have rapturously taken Cable in; but he is already finding out that then sponsorship is rather a damage than otherwise with the many thousands of cultured people who have ap preciatively read his works. j The tendency here is strong to make sport of pretentiousness, and that is why; by pos ing without a good excuse for it, he is in danger of bMng popularly underestimated, lie is a pleasant enough fellow to look at, reads with a fair mastery of the peculiar Creole dialect, siug3 some Creole songs in a nasal falsetto that would insure ridicule be fore a promiscuous assumblagj, an 1 alfects the Byronic stylo of dress. He is the present Bunthorne of our aesthetic women and almost as femin:n3 men. But he is a genius, after all is said, and he has an observing eye. "Do you know the oddest thing that has struck me in New York V be said to ma. "It was an undertaker's wagoj, all sombre and black, but drawn by a sp itted, calf-skin horse, like a circus steed." What he thus described has for several years been a metropolitan in congruity. ! Where fiotham's Italians Congre- sate. i New York Letter in Chicago News. The Mulbery street colony numbers about six thousand souls, and they live in quarters not larje enough for six hundred decent , peo ple. It is a province to itself. The careless stranger never wanders into it a second time. Twenty-three stores and restaurants do the principal business, but there are also three hotels (f), and two banks, two printing offices, four butcher shops and four bakeries, to say nothing of the steamship agencies. Four Italian physicians and two Italian lawyers fling their shingles to the breeze, while an Italian newspaper retails the gossip of the colony and reprints Italian news from the daily papers. During the day all is garlic and business, and the odors of both bang heavy about the streets. At night the place is as secure from intrusion as if fenced in by a giant wall. Men have gone into that quarter after dark and have been beard from never more. A policemau will not venture there alone, and when an arrest is to be nnde a patrol wagon with a squad of husky olQcors, is sent down. It is as much as a man's life is worth to go within a block of the quarter's boundary. What do these people do for a living) Well, they are the bootblacks, inatch-pe Idlers, fiaiit-venders, chestnut-roasters and rag pickers of New York, and many of j them keep cigar stands. 1I Ice Her Great-flireat-dirandmother. Buffalo Courier. j A few days ago Miss Jennie Hazen, of Angola township, was passing a second band picture dealer's store in Buffalo when she noticed among some old paintings a picture that was a striking likeness of herself, j Look ing at the reflection of herself in the window and then upon the old j aiming, the resem blance was wonderful. Tho young lady, who is only 16 years old, returned home to Angola full of her discovery, insisting that some one had been painting her picture and arranging her as a fright (the girl of the painting was dressed in the style of the last century). In cited by curics;ty some of the family went to Buffalo and upon 6eeing the picture were as amazed as Miss Jennie. . Their bewilderment was increased by de ciphering the name Jennie on the back of the painting. It also bore the name of the artist, "Richardson, Philadelphia. " The painting was bought for f 3 5 , and was sent to the young lady's grandmother in Erie. Mrs. Dr. M. J. Clark, who recognized it as the portrait of her gran imothor, Jonnie Elizabeth Mc Michael, an intrepid Philadelphia girl,' whose adventures during the revolutionary period were told at hundi-eds of firesides by the grandfathers and grandmothers of the pres ent generation. Two KrljEht One. Inter Ocean "Curbstone Crayons. nJ "My little 3-year old girl went down to the lake for the first time last summer. As the waves came rippling in over the white sand she clapped her hands and said, 'See the lake laughing !" I had never thought of the hing in that c jnn action, but it does laugh, you know. The same night my 6-year-old boy, watchinj the lamp-lighter light the lamps in front of the house, turned to me with 'Papa, who lights the stars!" New York Palladium: Honor and profit do not stay long in the same sack. NEW YORK SKY PARLORS. Danjrer from the Many-Storied Valid tnjrs of the Metropolis Chicago Tribune. It is a tall city house that rises more than sixty fe?t from the ground. In New York plan have recently bean sibmitted to the building department for a fi.teeu-story fiat house which will be 182 feet high. It will be surmounted by a oupola forty feet higher. The rage for the conveniences of flat life ha stimulatad the erection of these lofty buildings in New York until the safety and health of the city are threatened. Capitalists, in pursuance of their inalienable right to do as they will with their own so ion? as they keepi within the laws, are going ahead to multiply these sun-excluding, fire-inviting traps until publio pcilijy, in thapewoa of soma of it3 lead ng citizens, has been driven to remonstrate tfnctvforrn an or ganization to change the law. since it is only th3 law that will restrain the spirit of money -making. These citizens have prepared an act for the consideration of the legislature entitle I: "An act to regulate the height of dwelling houses. " They hare fort fied it by a careful report in which the evils that are the certain result of t'ae extravagant height of modern uat houses are set forth in the most con vincing style. The chief of the New York fire department states that seventy-five feet is the maximum point at which men can get practical control of a fire.- Within two years there have been erected in that city more than 103 buildings j the lowest of which is fire feet h gher than thi-i maximum, and of thes ) sixty-six are intended . for the residences of human beings, who are thereby exposed to the dangers of a most horrible death. It is .not in the bindings alone that life is in danger. If one of these enormous structures ever tikes fire "no living man,' says the board of underwriters, "can stay in the street dividing these buildings; if he should attempt it he would promptly cease to be a living man " Th?se are the objections of accident, but there are others which, though less catastrophic, are not lew proJuctire of misery, and perhaps through diseas? cause as much loss of life. A building 155 feet high on a sixty-foot 'street throws a shadow at noon 110 feet high on the opposite building; 142 feet in height throws a shadow ninety-eight feet, and so on. Residences in the vicinity of one of the monster modern flats g t but very little sunshine even in the longest summer day. They be come gloomy and unhealthy. The street in front remains damp, and. de prived of the disinfecting help of sun shine, gets to ba a nidus of disease. So thoroughly is thi3 understood, says the report, in Italian cities, where the streets are mostly-narrow, that the better classes seek the higher rooms for resilience. Travelers know full well, from sad experience, thai what we regard as the most desirable rooms have been the foyers of pernicious fevers; that, too, in. a climate where th ro ii far morj sunshine than we here enjoy. l'aris, which has the best apartment ho'iscs in the world, regulates - the height of these build ngs in the strictest manner. The free admission of light, sunshine, and air to all parts of the capital is one of the object i of its build ing laws. On tha widest avenues of Faris the maxima oa height permitted is but sixty-five feet seven inches, while on our 6ixty-foot streets buildings have been erected twice and almost three times as high. The time has come for regulation of a similar kind in New York, and accordingly it is proposed that no apartment-house shall be more than eighty feet in height, and that the maximum on streets not more than sixty feet wide shall be seventy feet. Uncle Esc It' Wisdom. The Cantury.l A very stubborn man is often wrong, but seldom dishon2St. A crank is a fool, with more brains than he knows waat to do with. The man who is always anxious to take tha chance i, invariably takes one chance too many. Take all the luck there is in the world, and you couldn't make a half dozen genuine s tccesses oat of it. There are plenty of people who know how to make mo aey, and how to waste it, but few who know how to spend it The symptom of patience and lazi ness are so near alike that it would bother many people to tell which dis ease they have the more of. There is nothing that shows strength of character more than eccentricity if it is natural, aud nothing that shows weaknes-i more if it is artificial. What the ojuntry wants the most just now is less relig.on and more piety, leis advice and more example, less poli tics and more patriotism, and less pedi gree and more pluck. The Clitneae In Mexico. fC'iica'ro lis all Mexico will soon have an opportunity of wrestling with the Chines i question, for late advices state that the almond eyed Celestials are swarming into the land of the Monteumas along the rail road lines. At present, however, they are a necessity. No hotel can ba run without Chinese, for there are no Mexi can cooks, and the hotels are too small to employ American cooks at wages de manded. As jet they have not gone to work in railroad building nor into the great mining camps, except at restaurant-keepe: s and laundrymen. The working classes of the country have not felt their competition, but there is likely to be bloodshed when they do. There is a demand al the capital for legislation restricting Chinese immigration by overland route.t and absolutely prohibiting it into sea ports. Hhaketineare'a Antozraph. It may be of interest to those who make the subject a study to know that there are oaly five genuine signatures of Shake3peare known to be in exist ence. One is in the London library, the other in the British museum, one attached to his will at Doctor's Com mon, and two in possession of private collectors. C0HTEDEKATE 00TT0IT. Its Demoralizing; Influence upon Army Orarers, and upon Polities. "Oath" in Cincinnati Enquirer. 1 "Give me an idea of that cotton business during the war!" "After we' got Into the strict cotton belt," said Gen. Herron, "in the state of Tennesree, and further on, the price of cotton had so enormously advanced by cutting off the sup ply from America that it may Tx said to have been as valuable as gold. There was a pressure from every part of the world to. set at such cotton aa our armies relieved. Tlie blockade of tha southern ports presented the Confederates sending it out, and the Con federate government seized a great deal of then own cotton as the capital to conduct the war. The moment we captured Nash ville, and pushed up and down tho rivers to the south, there came into our camj, pro Tided with abundant money and with -el! tho presents and inducements that sharp traders carry, men representing Manchester, New York, Rouen, Saxony, and a sing'e bale of cotton was quite a prize. The tendency was greatly to demoralize the officers of the army, and you can attribute some of the demoraliza tion in our pol.tics to that very co'.ton-buy-Ing, which first tempted some of the officers out of their honesty, and finally threw them Into politics and the lobby at Washington. "Now I will give you an instancj on the other side.- After the capture of V.clburg Gen. Grant sent me up the Yaz x river witli an expedition to capture Yazoo City, 'i be Yazoo lies In a bottom, and is a magnificent cotton land all the way up. The ' rebils bad fortified Yazoo City, and it was necessary for Grant's operations to drive them off to tha east and north, lest they might reinforce he Confederate at Jackson, Miss., against whom another expedition had been sent. 1 went up to Yazoo City and captured th place and found there about 3,000 bales ol cotton, all. marked as tha property of tha Confederate states. Soma of it was in boats, but most of it in warehouse. While I pursued the flying Confederates off to tha east I left orders to have that cotton put on steam boats and sent down .to Vicksburg aa tha property of the United State When I re turned from the expedition it was all ready, ana I took it down to the river and tume J if over at Vicluburg to the chief quartermaster. There were something over twenty.nina hundred bales: Years passed by, an i tha southern claims business started up. Curiosity led me to examine Into the settle ment of that particular prize of cotton, and I found that our government had paid for twelve thousand bales, or more than nine thousand more bale than I had eLeeX" Patience and Prrseveraaee of tho Chinese Holdlrrr. Hong Kong. Cor. Philadelphia Pre. The Chinese are Rood soldiers. Patient, obedient and long-suffering, they share with other Orientals a certain con'.eaipt for death. Their officers are stolid, determined and ath letic men, who are accustomed to boast of their endurance. They may not be capable of many brilliant strategical movements, but they make up for that defect by cunning and determination. They fix a certain objct in then minds and go for it, no matter how oog it takes them to accomplish It. The campaigns against the Pantbays in the southern portion of the empire and the Kash garians in the northwest are notable exam plea of this peculiarity of Chinese officers, and suggest the great difficulty which tha French will have in overcoming the pertinac ity of purpose which seems to take no thought of time. The Pantbays were Mo hammedans, who tried to af-rt their inde pendence. The Chinese army left i Vkiu and moved along so leisurely that the PancLays enjoyed for many years the belief that they were to be permitted to enjoy their freedom unmolested. One fine morning, however, the Chinese army appeared in Yunnan. "They warmed upon the Pantbays in such num bers that very few Mohammedans were left in the country. Again, as regards Kashgar, the Chinese troops performed a similar feat. Yakoob Beg, a bold Turkestan adventurer, carved lor himsol ' with his sword a kingdom out of the northwest of the Chinese empire. lie reigned for years, and established himself ap parently so firmly upon hi throne that be was recognized as an Independent sovereign by the government of India, whic iftent him valuable presents and distinguished em bassies. All these years, however, the Chi nese soldiers were moving against him slowly but surely. They would halt in their march when they came to a fertile spot, erect their tents, put atdde their weapons, and - go out into the nVUs and sow them with grain. Then they quiet.y waited for months until the crops had grown. Reaping the grain, they would replenish their supplies and re sume their march. In this way, year after ! year, they marched and sowed, and reaped and marched again, until at length they ap peared In Kashgar in irresistible force, slew Yakoob Beg, destroyed his army and retoolc the territory. It was one of the nicst re markable campaigns, not only for tha length of the siege, but for the patient determina tion which it displayed on the part of men and officers. flow Tom Ochiltree lias Chanced, National Republican. "There's nothing changes a man like beln j elected to congress," said an ancient friend of Tom Ochiltree in "A'illard's tha other night. "He and I used to be inseparable when be was in Washington befoi e. It was Tom' and 'Joe' between us then. He's a membsr wksse vtjtwv atftrt Via a I Yf t Vi wui fos aavs w sAi aao voaaav aa-? u.i 1 . He used to wear a muslin shirt with pink 1 and b us horse-shoaa on it as bij as trade dollars. He would take otz bis coat ana vest, ana toe people would , gather crowds to look at the resplendent shirt while be would play billiards. He never comes into the billiard-room now, ani the other day when I went to bis room I had to send up my card first he waa being dressed by four colored boys, body-servants, be called 'era. One was shaving and another1 waa putting on soks, and ho was ordering the other two around the room for a shirt with more starch in it and a stiffor hair brush and a bottle of perfumery and a tnaai-' cure set and an embroidered pocket handker chief. He just sat there and let those four boys dress him." Why the Ioc Htares. From the French Gentleman (in barber's chair, notices a dog who site close by him regarding him with fixed attention) What is that dog staring at me that way for? ' Barber (indifferently) Th it dog Li always there. You know, if I happen to cut oC a piece of an ear - Gentleman Well f Barber O, well he eats it. lie Pelt lie Conld Celebrate, Chicago News. An editor was once Heard to Remark that although he Had Lost Eleven Dollars al Poker, had been Indicted for Libel, and Suffered excruciating Agonies with a Soft Corn, he was still in a Mool to Piously cele brate Thanksgiving in EpL !t and in Truth, having just Learned that tie EI:"-f a Loathsome Contemporary bad Fallen . swn a Flight of Stair and Broken hi Le;.