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ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, APRIL 11, 1884.
NO. 36.
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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;.