HOW IT STANDS SOW.
"What Hip Kiitslit IKmiiuikI nml Whnt
the ICailroiul Oflle-Inln Mill Cuit
cctlc. St. Lcrti. April a. Tho views of tho
Btrikinj knights upon tlio Goulil southwest
system and tlicir employers ns to tlio
menus by which tlio strike shnll be brouslit
to a close, despite tlio apparent agreement
arrived nt in New York, seems ns far npnrt
nscvcrnml a final adjustment U still in the
future. The kni Jits demnnd that all those
who struck shall bo taken back in a body,
nnd the railroad officials ha o determined
to re-employ only those actually needed.
No hope is now entertained, even by the
most sangnino, thnt a dual settlement will
be reached until theseneral executive board
shall have arrived from New York and con
sidered the situation. It is the opinion of
nome that this board will, luiuieiliately
upon its arrival, order tho strike off autl
the knights to make individual application
for work. Others, niter t hey shall become
fully acquainted with the condition of
nffairs. that some nrran-ioment will be
made whereby all the knights shall bo re
employed, arbitration committees ap
pointed and a linal adjustment of dillicul
ties arrived at. The lnn,v freight houses in
Kast ?t. Louis haw not yet been thrown
open for the kniijhtsare no less determined
to-day than they have been for a week not
to allow any supplies to behnndlod in that
vicinity either by wacon or by train. The
crowds nB-'einbled in tho railroad yards
hero this morning aro as largo as at any
timo since the beginning of the strike and
thoy seem determined that the roads shall
not resume freight trallic until their griev
ances shall bo arbitrated and settled. No
attempts have yet been made to run freight
trains this morning and no disturbances
bnve occurred.
Nkw Yoiik, April 2. Tho following dis
patch was received at the olllco of tho Mis
souri Pacific this morning:
St. Louts, April L'. .lay Gould, President:
While there may still be some trouble at a
few points, 1 think the worst is over, but
things may not ran smoothly for some
days. I have plenty of force to run trains
nnd do repairs and am gradually replacing
my forcewitli new men. About thirty men
nro nt work to-day. Business is fully re
sumed in the KniisnsCityyiirds anil a largo
business is being dono there. The total
loads moved in the system yesterday was
1,000, un increase of SOt loads over thy
day befo.ro. II. M. lloxti:.
110UUS HUTTEK MUST GO.
IleproiontiiUvo of tlio Hairy Inlercit
Itcibro (lie House Committee.
Joseph H. Ilcall, president of the iineri
can Agricultural and Dairy association;
Senator Sawyer of 'Visconsin; Representa
tives Gnllingcr of Now Hampshire; I,ymnn
and Conger, Iowa; Groat, Vermont; Hen
durson, Iowa; Ilitl, Illinois; Fenton, Call
' fornia: Perkins. Kansas; Springer, Illinois;
Scott, Pennsylvania; ex-Gov. Price of New
Jeisey; I). Wright, New York; Capt. It. S.
Walder, Virginia; the J Ion. George li. Cor
ing, G. W. llurchard, of Wisconsin; ami
others representing tho dairy interests of
tho United States were present at tho hear
ing given by the house committee on agri
culture to tho daiiytueu of the 1'niled
Slates in connection with the Scott bill to
tax imitation butter.
Joseph II. Heall, president of tho Ameri
can Agricultural association, said the Scott
bill oMirossed thedomands of the dairymen
of the United States as voiced by tho na
tional convention recently hold in New
York in a resolution ndopted, asking that
imitation but tor be placed under the, con
trol of the United States internal rovonuo
nnd be taxed 10 cents per ton. In urging
favorable action by this coinmitteo
Mr. Iieall said bo represented in
bis ollicial capacity 11,000,000 dairy
tanner-1. Thoro wero invested in cows,
lands and creameries in tho United
States S-', 000,000.000 that was going to
ruin by reason of tho sale of fraudulent
butler. Exports, of butter which might bo
increased under fair conditions wero rapidly
declining. In three years, Mr. lteall said,
unless the fraudulent sale of bogus butter
was regulated, the production of genuine
butter would bo stopped and the greatest
mid most benelicent industry of the coun
try destroyed. The question affected ail
tho northern and western states, where
dairying "as tho leadinginteresf, while con
sumers of butter everywhere wero being
btimlmgged and swindled. In conclusion
Mr. Peall said:
"We want imitation butter under a na
tional law, because every roguehas a whole
some fear of the police power 'if tho na
tional government. Wo want 10 cents a
pound, because it costs 20 cents per pound
to make good butter."
AFFAIKS OF THE UNION PACIFIC.
A INikIiIoii ot t'lieqinil llnriKlilp Occu
pied liy tliu Company.
lioston special to the Omaha Ileo: In
bis statement of tho affairs of the Union
1'acitlc, President Adams says that bills
and accounts payable to the company,
which constitutes its real interest bearing
unfunded debt, have been decreased during
the year and a half since Juno :10, 1SS 1, by
tho sum of So. 140, S77. 2U. During thosamo
the interest bearing funded debt has been
decreased by tho mini of $1,010,0.11.81.
The company now lias in tho hands of the
trustee, under the Union Pacific laud grant
mortgngo. an uninvested balance of
3'. 11,475. OH. This can ho applied only to
the purchase and cancellation of land grant
bonds of which S2, 700,000 are now out
standing. After their maturity- and pay
ment the balance of the fund "ill bo ap
plied to the extinguishment of the sinking
fund bonds, of which SI 1 -18:1,000 are out
standing. Tho trustee has purchased all
bonds which havo been offeied, on the ha
wis of 3-5 per cent interest to maturity. As
those outstanding cannot bo purchas.-d on
those terms, the above balance is held
on deposit in the trust company,
drawing interest at tho rate of 2 percent.
Tho company has $."5,823 53 l.-l-l invested
it United States bonds in the Thiiraian
net sinking fund, upon which it receives, at
the present market price of the socuril ies
in wlnclf the fund is by law invested, a re
turn of 2.2 per cent per annum. Itnccord
iuglv appears, tho statement says, that
taking the secuiities in the Thurman art
O.nking fund at their market value,
S!)23,213.2&, and including the uiiiiivort
d balance of the aiuking fund. $182,
1!I4.2'J, as well as the funds held by the
trustees (land grant mortgage, $U,HH,
175. 03), tho company has now no lens
than $l).300.2f3.17, which under the opcr
ation of the law or the terms of tho mort
gage, is so locked up as to return to it an
income only of 2.1 per cent per nimtini. ;
"It tuny fairly be questioned," the state
nient concludes, "whether any other 'or0
poration in the country occupies a position
of equal hardship."
Charles Smith, In for ono year for forgery,
and Robert Sell, in for threo years for
grnnd larceny, were released from the pen
itentiary lust week.
HOW AI10UT THE DIVIDEND 1
Tlil- It Wlinl Inlero-lx Stockholder
ol' Clio liilnii 1'aclllc.
Hoston 8pcint to tho Omaha Bee At
the annual meeting ot the Union l'acilic
stockholders yesterday, President Adams
made a short review of tho progress made
by tho road during tho year. Tho most in
toresting portitfu of his remarks was in an
swer to two questions propounded almost
simultaneously by Hastings, that if the
surplus last year was $2,555,11)0.5.", when
would tho stockholders receive any divi
dend? To this, several present cried out:
"Yes, Hint's tho point." The other was n
request for information ns to the existing
relationship between tho company nnd the
government. Mr, Adams, in reply to tlit
first question, said: "Sinco I took charge
of tho affairs ot this company, a short
tini"ago, my solo object has been to phici
it upon a sound linancial nnd Iiiixmicks
liasis. and to do tins, it was access, iry n
devote the entire surplus to the liquidation
of just claims against the company. 'J'hr
transcontinental war, which 1 have tried
to ptovent, and the growing competition
from rival roads liave, you Know, lull,
reduced our receipts Trolil through busmen
bv taking from us a large share of the tial
tic once entirely our own, but the luiiidini
tiD of the west and tho necessit ies of Hit
day have so increased our local busines
Hint if an equitable understanding cn n be
made with the government, 1 hope to l
able to talk with the stockholder!' in refer
enco to tlio subject of dividend-
within a comparatively shoit time." Thi
remark was greeted with applause. Ii
speaking of the relations of the government
and thecompaiiv the president said that
the present policy of the government was
disgraceful, disreputable and emharrass
.ng. Ho said that tho Thurman act had
not worked ns its trainer intended ; in (act
Thurman had acknowledged to him that
as long as it remained in effect it would be
a continual drawback and an oinliarr.i
meat to tho company. The bill now lieinj
prepared by the senate, which tho pulihr
behoved to be ouo ot the company s prepa
ration, neither ho nor any ollkvr or repre
sentative of the company had been allowed
to see, and if he only knew what its con
tents were he would be only too pleased, as
ho could then deeideonsoine deliuite policy
for fho future, while at present, his igmir
unco caused him to bo all at sea. Wh.it
the company wanted was to be treated ex
actly as any other creditors of the govern
meat, ami be penult ted to discharge, its
obligations by tho ordinary system of an
nual payments, and if they settle upon tin
time to bo allowed, tho company could
innnago its own affairs, like uny other cor
poratiuu.
WHAT JAY U0ULD HAS LOST.
HI Sun Announce Ono of the Serious
ICcmiIIn of the Strike.
As to the suspicion that Jay Gould
handled the strike in n way to turn it to
speculative account, his sou George Gould
said to a correspondent: "Tho actual
truth is that father has lost more than
millions by thin trouble. Not in money,
nor in tho depreciation of stock values.
That's not what I mean, lie's lost three
pounds of flesh. You needn't smile it's
so; and that is moro consequence than the
same number ot millions to him, because it
represents about tho whole gain in health
through his long yacht ing cruise. Lot me
give you tho whole story. On tho 1st of
.1. iniiiiry rather retired lrom Wall street,
few believed it, but it was so. His health
was impaired by many years of hard
work. It was in 18(13 that he came into
the st reel, and for the twenty-three years
he had been under constant strain. J lie
dissolution of the lirm of Connor A' Co., on
the lirst of January last, was bona tide.
l ather meant to spend the rest of his life
in pleasantly prolonging it. Mother ami I
insisted on it, and ho at length saw the
folly of not taking his ease. Tho south
ern trip in the Atlanta was the beginning
of what wan meant to bo years of recrea
tion ail laziness. Well, ho enjoyed it im
mensely, and accumulated fat to tho extent
of three pounds. He was delighted. Then
the news of tho row in Missouri was tele
graphed to him at Key West. We advised
him to loao tho settlement eutinly to
others, but lie would como right to New
York to take command. It was by build
ing up the Missoui i Pacific property thnt
lie had cleared ten millions, ami he wasn't
going to see it seriously hurt through inat
tention. Well, in a week ho lost his thre
pounds. I've never seen him moro annoyed
than when ho got on tho scales and found
it out. That was why, in negotiating with
Powderly, he insisted on making Mr. Hoxie
tho representative of the railroads. 'I o
that was due tho liilch of a day or two in
tho negotiations a delay on which lie is ac
cused of manipulating tho market. Tho
truth i3 exfictly as I am giving it to you.
Father was determined not to lose any
more weight. Ho wants thoso thrco pounds
back."
THE DAIKY INTEKEST.
Its ICeprcsentutl vet Appe'ir Hefore le
House Committee on Agriculture.
Washington dispatch; A large delega
tion of gentlomoii interested in the dairy
business appeared before the houso coin
mitteo on agriculture to-day on tho subject
of butterine and other imitations of butter
which nro being manufactured and sold as
genuine butter. Jamoa Hughes, president of
tho Baltimore produce exchange, ox Com
missioner of Agriculture Loring, Hepre
sentativo Scott and ex-Hepresentativo
Hopkins, of Pennsylvania, .1. V. Seymour,
of the mercantile oxchango of Now York, U.
F. Van Valkonburg, of tho Now York Dairy
association, W. II. Duckworth, of Now
York, ltohr, of tlioNew York Itntnil Grocers'
association, Commissioner Column and
Col. Little, secretary of tho Iowa Dairy
men's association, and representatives of
the Chicago Produce oxchango and of the
National Putter, Egg and Cheese associa
tion addressed the committee on tho sub
ject. All the gentlemen present favored the
bill prepared by tho American Agricultural
and Dairymen association and introduced
in the house by Kepioseutative Scott to
plnco all imitations of butter under the
control of the commissioners of internal
revenue, nnd to provide that such products
shall be taxed 10 cents perpouud and shall
be proporly labelled. They said these im
itations of butter wero sold fraudulently
nnd wero ruining tho dairy industry.
Unless somo meusuro of this character was
passed they predicted thnt tlio dairy indus
try would bo ruined within threo years.
Tin Ilciliictlon Works.
The new tin concentrating works at the
Etta mine, Rapid City. Dakota, started up
on the 1st, and worked to the entir satis
faction of the engineers in charge. Two
feets of tables were run nil day, and the re
maining three will be put in operation as
soon as a few adjustments of the muchluei y
enn bo made. Theso ure the firs, tin re
duction works ever built in tlr UiiiUd
States, and much interest attaches to
their successful operation.
AKOYVL COriiTSlIlP.
Victoria nnd Prince Albert Itoiv tlio
Oticon "T laighiniMVas Wooed. W on nnd
Married.
London Modern Society.
Loss loynl souls than ourselves may
haveforgotten that theQueen celebrnt
til tho forty-sixth anniversary of hor
marriage with tho Prince Consort on
Wednesday, February 10. That day
is Her Majesty's golden letter day; its
annual recurrence is a tearful joy to
her, and she is suspected then of ten
derly spreading out beforeher sundry
fnded mementoes of that happy day
mementoes which she has jealously
guarded for marly half n century.
Present-day lovers may derive
comfort from the knowledgothnt the
course of true lovo did not at first
run altogether smoothly, oven the
cat-0 of such august personages as
Queen Victoria, nnd Prince Albert.
The distract ions of ruling put mar
riage out of tlic royal maiden's head
for a time, it seems; but tho Queen
ha horselt said that she never had
any idea that if she married at all it
would be any one else than the Prince.
It was in l's.'lS that her undo Leo
pold a pitiful old profligate, to havo
been one of the guardians of a pure
voting girl urged her to fix upon a
husband. More sensible than most
nt her age, she thought herself and
Albert too young for marriage. More
over, her lover knew England very
imperfectly and she wisely reasoned
that this would not do fit all. In
the autumn of the folio wingycar Prince
Albert and his brother Ernest visited
the young queen. Poor young men!
They arrived nefore their clothes, and
had to appear in tho drawing-room
after dinner in their travel-stained
suits. Throughout October, Windsor
castle and its surroundings were tho
scene of love passages of ever-increasing
tenderness, and two illustrious
young peoplo had some difliculty in
preserving etiquette atthedancesthat
were given threo times a week after
dinner, lor inclination led them to
danco together oftencr than was expe
dient. There is a pretty story extant that
nt ono of tho never-to-be-forgotten
dances, the queen presented the prince,
who dared not venture to ask for
her hand, with a flower. Tho
significance of tho act was not lost
upon him. He wore a close-fitting
uniform, buttoned up to tho
throat; but wishing to wear tho pre
cious gift upon his heart ho cut a slit
in his coat with a penknife and placed
tho blossom in it. llow to let him
know that her heart had gono out to
him was a source of genuine distress
toller Majesty. He wouldn't pro
pose, so she must. And she did in
this way. ThoPrinceon one occasion
was t hanking her for the gracious re
ception she had accorded him and ex
pressing the delight his visit was giv
ing him, when the Queen replied shyly,
"If indeed your highness is so much
pleased with this country, perhaps
you would not object to remaining in
it and making it your home?" Tho
hint was unmistakable. What fol
lowed concerned only tho happy pair,
nnd Her Majesty lias never divulged
it; but tho sweetness of it can bo
imagined.
After the young people had had a
month together, Prince Albert returned
to Germany, and tho courting had to
bo continued through lovo letters. To
tell her privy councillors and Parlia
ment her love story was tlio Queen's;
next trouble; but shogotoverit brave
ly, seeking courage on theso trying oc
casions from a bracelet containing a
portrait of the Prince thnt she wore
clasped on her arm. When Her Maj
esty tremblingly made tho statement
in tho House of Lords every voice rose
in congratulation. Hut vexatious
incidents followed. A rumor got
abroad that tho queen's fiance was
a Koman Catholic, and it was not eas
ily disposed of. Greater unpleasant
ness still arose out of tho question of
the annuity to bo settled on tho prince,
for ho was portionless, like nearly all
tho Germans who havo como after
him. In tho end, 30,000 a year was
voted him.
Various snubs took off the bloom
nnd brightness of tho young man's
hopes considerably, but ho wrototo his
beloved, "All I havo to say is, that
while I possess your lovo they cannot
make mo unhappy;" and on arriving
at Dover ho was pleasantly surprised
nt receiving a 'warm welcome. Ho
reached Buckingham pnlaco on Sat
urday afternoon, February 8, nnd
found his bridestnndingwith her moth
er nt the door to bo tho first to meet
nnd greet him. Thefollowing Mondny
wns tho wedding day. Tho morning
wns cold, foggy and wet, but its in
clemency damped nobody's nrdor, tho
crowds in St. James' park being dense
indeed.
Tho wedding wns celebrnted with all
duo magnificence in tho Chapel Hoyal,
St. James', tho altar of which was
inndo to look something botweon n
florist's shop nnd a goldsmith's, so
great wns tho profusion of flowers and
plate. Four iinposingstntochairs wore
set, being one each for tho bride, bride
groom, queen dowager and duchess of
Kent, who, by tho way, gnvo herself
over to copius weeping and refused to
be comforted, tier behavior contrast
ing strongly with that of her daughter
who was quiet and confident, although
pnlo nnd anxious-looking.
Tho royal bride was robed in heavy
white sat in with orango blossoms, h
wreath of tho same gracing her head,
while a rich Honiton veil fell about
her .'nee, hut did not conceal it. The
renson for this, it has been said, was
that Her Majesty accounted herself as
belonging to the people and must be
seen by them. Since then tho sover
eign has nltered her opinion consid
erably upon this subject. Her jewels
wero tho collar ol the order of tho
Gartor nnd a diamond necklace and
earrings, nnd sho hud twelve brides
maids, Hor first net nftor tho cere
mony wns to trip across to tho other
elde of tho altar and kiss the Queen
Dowager; then, hand and hand, the
Prince and she passed down the nislo,
nnd tho Queen confessed that thoy did
not unclasp hands until Buckingham
Palace was renched.
Tho wedding breakfast was of over-
whehnin:: grandeur, nnd tho wedding
enke wonderful indeed, weighing ns it
did i!00 pounds in weight, measuring
threo vards in iuvn inference, nnd
standing fourteen inches high. It was
ornamented with a device in sugar of
Dritannia blessing the happv pair.
dog reposed at the feet ot tho sugar
Ptince, and a pair of turtle doves at
tho feet of the sugnr Queen. Numbers
of Cupids were placed around, ono of
them registering tho marriage in a
book; and several bouquets of white
flowers, tied with true lovers' knot
completed the adornment of tho cake.
The short honevinoon was to bo
spent at Windsor. Tho Queen's
traveling dross, like her bridal robe,
was of white satin. It was trimmed
with swansdown. Her bonnet was
also white. The dav which had been
gloomy, grew bright and cheerful in tho
afternoon, and Her Majesty had tho
line weather, which has since become
proverbial, for her tourney.
If apology bo needed for thus bring
ing back the past, wo will gladly make
one. nut iitst ns scanning old pro
grammes enables one to enjoy nlivsh
the delights of concei t, plav.or ball, ol
a quarter or h.tlf a cent ury ago, so
will these reminiscence- pleasantly re
fresh the memory of at least some of
our readers, while others will read for
the lirst time some anecdote or inci
dent connected with their sovereign's
early days.
Stories of .John 15. Cough.
From tho New York Star.
John 15. Gottgh believed that his end
was near, and ho had mado every
preparation for it. lie had engage
ments until somo timo in March, and
he said that if ho was spaied to fill
them ho woulil then bid farewell to tho
lecture field. Onlv a few davs before
he was stricken down ho talked for an
hour on this subject with a Star He
porter. The writer had not seen him
for several years, and Mr. dough
asked it ho appeared much older than
at their last meeting. hen answered
in the affirmative, he said in almost
pathetic tones:
"Yes, my career is nearly run.
fear when my engagements, which end
in March, tiro finished 1 will havo to
give up."
"You may live a longtimeyet if you
take sullicieiit rest," remarked the re
porter. "Rest is what would hasten theend,"
he said, "lor it is tho love I havo for
my work that keeps me alive. I do
not (ear death; but I do not want to
leave as long as I can hold my hand
against that diabolical foe, ruin. If
my strength holds out, 1 shall make
other engagements, and when I die, I
hope it will lie as the French sergeant,
at my post of duty, and then 1 could
say to my old foe, lhavo suriendercd
only to my God."
"You havo made a strong fight."
"Yes, and my antagonist has been a
cruel one. For every blow 1 havo
dealt I havo received two. No man
has had toenduro more than I. lhavo
been slandered from tho very day that
I enlisted in tho liglitagainst rum up to
tho present time, but I expect
ed it and havo nover once
been disheartened. Thousands of
attempts havo been mado to black
mail me, but none of them succeeded.
1 have no doubt but that plenty of
good people believe that I drank after
beginning my temperance work. Hut
I say now, realizing that my work is
nearly done, that 1 could not havo
led a more correct life than I havo
sinco that time. Not long ago whilo
conversing with somo friends, I was
seized with terrible pains in my left
side, and I screamed in my agony.
Ono of the persons present was a phy
sician, and he advised mo to take a
little biandy. I refused and ho said
there was certainly no harm in doing
so, as it would give mo instant relief.
I said I was satisfied that was so, but
that I preferred death. While it would
havo been no harm to me, perhaps,
harm would havo resulted to tho
cause of temperance. People would
have said that John Ii. (lough drank,
and it would havo been added that I
did not believe it wrong to take a
drink once in a while.
"Another thing that T havo never
dono is to break tho Sabbath day. I
havo nover traveled on Sunday, dud I
havo never hesitated in breaking an
engagement rather than do so. I
nover receive visitors on that day, no
matter who they are. If it is possible
I go to church twice, and always
walk; I would' not think of riding.
Now, don't understand that I think it
would be a sin to do so, but, as I said
before, I havo to bo careful, so as to
avoid giving tho champions of rum an
opportunity to injure my character.
It used to' bo no common thing for a
glass of whisky to bo sent to my room
at various hotels, and after I left the
place it would bo said that I had
whisky sent to my room. Not long
ago, at a hotel in an Indiana town,
two theatrical people ordered a negro
to carry a glass of whisky to my
room. In a few minutes ho returned
to tho bar with tho empty glass and
said that Mr. dough was voiy
much obliged. Tho actors thought
it wns a good joke, and thoy
told tho negro to carry mo an
other. In the course of a fow min
utes ho again returned and said that
.Mr. Go nub again was very much oblig
ed. Tho third was ordered with tho
same result. Whilo tho negro was bo
ingdispatched with tho fourth, tho re
port was current that I was drinking
whisky as fast as it could be sent to
me. This attracted quite a crowd to
the barroom. When tho negro return
ed ho was so drunk that ho could
hardly walk. Ho knee well that I
would not allow him in my room with
whisky, so ho drank it himself.
"Once in a Pennsylvania hotel a
man ordered the bartender to send a
cocktail to my room. When tho wait
er arrived at my door with it I indig
nantly ordered him away and then
followed him to the barroom. 'Did
you send that to me?' I asked tho bar
tender. He snid lie did, and I said,
'Don't you think you are a contempt
ible cuv'!' He turned red in the face
nnd pointed to tho man that ordered
it. Ho was tho nroprietorof asaloon,
and I simply naked him if it was uec-
rss.iry to answer my nvginn-iifs
against intemperance b i so tingto
such contemptible tricks as that. Ho
could not answer me.
"That story i;oing the rounds of the
press about Artcmus Ward, Nnsby
and the Fat Contributor coining to
my room and ordering four cocktails
and Ward drinking two of them, to
give the impression that I drank one.
is not correct. They innocently came
to call on me ono Sunday at t lie Tre
inont house in Chicago. I politely re
quested them to leave, as I did not re
ceive visitors on tho Sabbath. They
did so, but the Fat Contributor went
and had it published that I did receive
them. Not day wo all met at the
depot, ami Anna Dickinson, who was
present, excoriated tho Fat Contribu
tor, as did Art emus Ward.
"Not long ago a basket of wine was
sent to me C. (.). 1). Fortunately, the
express agent was a temperance man
and a friend of mine, nml he told me
about it. 1 sent for my physician
and instructed him to get thowino
and send it to the hospital. Suppose
1 had innocently paid the charges and
taken the wine out ? It would have
been cry difficult for mo to havo ex
plnined. "As for tho number of blackmail
letters 1 havo received, they aro too
numerous to mention. Hut I under
stand that every public man receives
them. Onco when ox-dov. Clatlin of
Massachusetts and tho lato Henry
Wilson were at my house I received
one. They both told me not to mind
it, as they each had stacks of them.
"Ono of the latest of tho experiences
I had of an unpleasant nature was
when I was on my way to Hoston.
There were two men sitting in the seat
in front of me, find ono of them said:
'John I?, dough was so drunk hecould
not lecture last night.' 'I don't be
lieve it,' said the other. 'It is a fact,
nnd I can prove it.' I jumped to my
feet, and, pointing my linger in his face,
said: 'You lie!' 'Who aro you?' asked
the man. I answered: 'John H.Gough,
tho man von slander.' This created
great excitement, and tho man left the
car.
"Hut this is only thedark sidoof tho
temperance advocate's career. For
that matter, it is sometimes un
pleasant to bo a public man. You aro
pointed at on tho street, and yon fre
quently hear people abusing you.
Only to-daya young Scotchmancalled
on me. He was a terrible drunkard,
nnd a few weeks before ho had como
to mo to ask for advice. I gave it to
him, and he promised to quit drinking,
lie called to-day to say that he did
not havo tho strength. As he was
going he said: 'Goodbye, Mr. dough;
I'm a gono laddie.' It. so alToeted me
that I called him back. I told him to
try it one week longer; that as he did
not have t ho strength, he should ask
God for it every time that ho was
tempted. IIo promised ho would.
Now, here was a well-educated young
fellow going to destruction. If I could
only save him! llow can 1 give in
when I see cases liko this?"
New Field Artillery.
Washington Special: den. S. V.
Henet, chief of ordnance, United States
army, is having twenty-fivo new steel
breech-loading field guns constructed,
to take the place of tho obsolete field
artillery with which our light batteries
are now equipped. While tho details
cannot bo given, it is sullicieiit to say
that tho new piece will bo rilled, of .'l.'J
caliber, taking a charge of nearly four
and one-half pounds of powder and a
thirteen-pound solid projectile, tho
shell being proportionately lighter.
With this gun ho expects to obtain
somo unusual results. Tho extreme
range will bo about (J, 000 yards, quite
as great a distance as modern require
ments deem necessary. Tin shooting
will bo of unusual accuracy. A six
root target, which can scarcely bo seen
at a mile and a half, with thisnewgun
and its improved system of sighting
canbostrtick six times out of ten, and
closer ranges produce sharpshooting
that is equally astonishing, den. Hen
et has not exploited the excellences of
his new rifle, but ho expects to show
the count ry at tho formal trial tests
that his department is not behind that
of any other nation inscientifioattain
ments backed by tho best mechanical
work in iron and steel. In the matter
of our const and harbor defenses, Gen.
Henet believes that this country will
profit by the experience and investi
gations of England and Germany, nnd
adopt somo system of iron ami steel
turret forts, armed with high-power
guns of thogreatost serviceablecaliber,
having a torpedo battery attached.
Ho behevon tho two blended will con
stitute the most effectual system of de
fense that the country will ever require.
Ills Iteconinieiidnt ion.
A young teacher, at the close of his
first te'rm of school, taught in the
backwoods, asked tho chairman of
tho school-board for a letter ot rec
ommendation, thinking it might bo
useful to him in securing another
school. Tho chairman cheerfully com
plied with tho request, and the teacher
left tho district with tlio following very
ilnttoring letter in his possession. Wo
givo it as it was written:
" J hiss is to Notili All Lonsorncd,
that tho bearer has tought our skool
four niunths tothoSatisfncshun ofall.
And that so for as wo no ho is A perfect
jentlemau, whitch he has been sence
coming into our midst, an1 that no
fault lias bin found with his skool
kceping whitch has bin orderly and
. . . i . r. i . . i i -I .i i t. . i . i
wnu vn me cuiKireu uas um luarucu as
Much as by any Provous Teechor who
has tenched in this Districk. Any
skool bord on the hunt of a reliable
nn' competent teechcr. will do well to
Hire him, ns lie is a good Teechor, nnd
a first-class jentlemnn, all of whitch i
testify to of my own free will."
iACJIAItlAII 1JIK.NB.
The opening by Queen Victoria of
tho eleventh Parliament ol her roign
is a circumstance a parallel to which
cannot be found since tho time ol
Henry VI.
The Dreams of (lie lMlml.
From the Philadelphia Uecord.
superintendent Hull, of tho Work
ing Home for Wind Men in West Phil
adelphia, saiel in a conve.sation upon
, this subject: "I have no greater
pleasure in life, now that I have lost
my sight, than in dreaming, for then,
atid then only, I catch glimpses of
tho world about mo. I am no longer
blind. MMio scales fall from my eyes
nnd 1 see like other men; see as I did
years gone by before tho terrible alllie-
ion cfimo on me nnd shut out the light
of day. In dreamland I never seem
to have been blind. I am nt the homo
to be sure, but instead of having only
my fingers and my ears to guide me,
I can see tho inmates, and what is
tit ranger yet, although in reality I
havo never seen ono of them, in my
dreams they all appear familiar to mo
by sight nnd not by their voices."
This curious er.petienco of Mr. Hall
seems to bo that of all persons who
have become blind after the early years
of life have passed. MMio blind whe
havo been so nlllieted from birth never
dream of seeing anything. The im
pressionsof theirdreatns are regulated
by tho impressions made and ideas
obtained by tho sense of touch, of
hearing, of taste and smell. One of
the most intelligent inmates of tho
West Philadelphia "Home," who
canto into tho world blind, says that
although he has read a great deal ho
never dreams of the things ho has rend
about, and never dreams of any
thing or person with which he h is nob
in some way come in personal contact.
Ho dreams of music, of the voices of
persons he knows, of such incidents ns
might happen at the Home, or somo
place in which ho has actually been,
but nover of incidents in other places
or other lands. Of tho landscape, a
picture, a tree, or a human being ho
never dreams. Even although ho lias
read descriptions of localities, of nat
ural beauties, of tho appearance of a
street or a city no idea of what they
look liko is formed in his mind, and
none conies to him in tho fancies of
his sleep. Curious and full of interest
nsare tlio dreams of the blind of every
condition there- is a class of blind
people whose sleeping impressions aro
of especial interest that class of un
fortunato people who becomo blind
when quiteyoung, at a period when ex
ternal objects and the outward world
generally had just begun to make- an
impression upon them. Sudi blind
people sometimes, but not always,
dream that they can eo; but in their
vision they see things with tltji eyes of
childhood, and they never in earn of
tiny scene or object except thoso in
tho memory from what they actually
saw before they became blind. A blind
man who wns stricken at tho ago of
fi years and nover visited the country,
dreams of seeing city streets, city
houses, or city parks, hut never of
country scenery, ofarailroad, or of a
river and so vice versa. As often as
not this class of blind persons dream
ns if they had never been blind nt all,
and at other times as if all memory of
blindness had passed from chein.
Cliarncteristles of tlio Great
American Came Now Fashion
able Heyond the Seas.
From tho Cleveland Leader,
i It is a fascinating game, because fn
it one's judgment, coolness and pluck
count for even moro than luck, though
somo old veterans assert that oven "a
fool can bet a good hand." Hut I
know that their assertion is tooswecp
ing. A fool cannot bet a good hand
so as to got all tho money that can bo
got out of it. To a veteran pokor
plavor any mistake of eye or notion is
nn indication to guide him, mid I'll do
fy a fool to take, though, a good hard
"blull." Hound thepoker-tableamnn
of anything like acuto judgment can
gauge his opponents admirably, be
causo moro opportunities to do so aro
offered. It is there that ono sees a
man as ho is, and avarice, renerosity,
boldness and skill show out lirst or
Inst, generally in tho way tho player
manages his hand. Oh, yes! thero is
no doubt but that if a man mustplay
cards for money tho noblest and best
way to play them is in a select pokee
group.
Tho camo is peculiarly an American
one. It fits in with the national tem
perament and 1 cannot imagine- a
model poker player without also
thinking of tho frothy methods in use
in ninny of our "business nflairs;
methods that ninko tho American a
"bull" or a "bear," as his inclinations
or interests dictate; that watorstocks
and bonds and pull up a poor weak
ling of a railroad until its rails nro
buried in a mass of debt and every
body "lets go." It all theso trans
actions "blull," pure and simple, is
the dictator and tho greater part of
thestock In trade, with an elegant as
sortment of cheek as a reserve fund
and an inclination to call on "aco
high." When tho call comes, if it
over does come, a man is often un
ready in apokergamoor "on 'change."
Our great speculators all play poker
and liave dono so for many years. If
as boys thoy had played the gamo
thoy would havo sat on tho ends from
wlienco limit bets on a pair ol "deuces"
or "trays" would havo como nnd an
air of innocence would have spread its
inys around when the other fellow
"dropped out," tho "deuces" went in
to tho deck and the pot was raked in.
Tho entertainments given by Mrs.
Secretary Whitney are said to rival
anything before seen in Washington.
It is estimated that her receptions
cpst $2,500 n week. Tho story goes
thnt Colonel Oliver Pnyno gave Mrs.
Whitney his check for naif a million
not many months ago, and told his
sister that the money was not for her
to keop, but to spend for tho enter
tainment of her friends. The recep.
tions given by tho Whitneys and tho
Letters nro a little ahead of almost
anything in the line yet seen in tho
National Capitol,
Ellen Terry, tho actress, gets $375
a week for the fifty-two weeks of hn
year, with a vacation whenever ah
chooses.