ELECTRICITY.
Spirit tit tlio morning rnv.
IVrr.ntj over KnMcrn liHK
Wn-re 1 lie lurk' tlltlie imimlelny
Thrills tlm ro.r' n-cnteil fjirii) ;--SI'Tit
of tlio tnornlin: ray;
iJbt, thine essence I11N.
prmon of tlie tvli!illn;r t lowl,
Wlirn ifd llu'litnlnm Hy,
AVlicli the ftnrdv (Mil: Islxtu wl.
And tlio ttlM nlglit mourn? nlotitl,
In thy u lulling clinrlfil-elontl
Death mid llitlit drive by.
Afd thy incpcneo lightly prliiss
Where, Mile Ieo-cnlVlniiii, '
"Where tlie welnl An mm Mux
'(inlnpt (lie nk lier llamlnir tvlnirs
Through long twllllil'it gloom.
fn the lnnpuM wintlicrn moon's
i-I'ver h am, II1011 tl!l ilnd hide,
A here tlif lore-lorn nlplit bird croons
'lo llic lotti", on tin- lido
01 slow tropical lagoon.
Willi llio cnotne tlimi llct flccnln;:
Jn Kill t Ii'm tjmrry onvcrim old,
(Veined llilck ivllli lrgin gold).
And thy lingers hit If t unfold
lolet ondu, ttlicii otor tin mold
AurU'o cioudtil f ky I it weeping.
Through tlie blue, bright mas of nlr
Pitying m end tialcli tlieo Hying
To nsswige hoiiiii heart's ilesimlr
With Love's ines.'nge from'lhc dying'.
Or, through Micll plroun colonnades
I-'nr beneath old Ocean's tides,
Where the Marllcil. fh mermaids
Wieathe Willi pearls tlielr Miltilng hralds,
S.vlft thy fcnlilli! preteni u glllo.
There Tinth N'nture rfiimn nil iiiikmIs:
Thoti dost Unott her Mnr-strottu places,
Sim '.lorMs, arid bleak fiillllides
When; etennil ilnrknc hrooih
O'er Illimitable space.
Thou has "ern life upnard climb,
Kroiu tlio Una faint (-park eternal
To tho prophet's chant roilillnio;
Chaos knew thy force Mipcrual
Aeons ore the bit Hi of Time.
Atxi Katharine Vttijip, in the Current.
THE COIINfi R03I.K.
Thoro'a tho cottage at Harlem,"
Nell Raid, in a timid tone, as if she
half expected to he annihilated for the
Miggcstion.
"Good gracious, Noll!" Fannie
cried.
"There's Hid coal cellar," said Aunt
Sue, imitating Nell's voice lo porfoc
lion. Hut tho touch of sarcasm
roused the exceedingly small pttili.
tic spirit Noll possessed.
"1 don't consider the suggestions
parallel at all," she said, blushing
little. "1 know tho cottage is very
small, bnt It in habitable."'
"Habitable!" erietl Fannie. "Von
couldn't swing a eat in tho whole
houso!"
"Wo will let the cats exist, without
(-.winging, then," said Nell, stoutly
"fseo Iierel Wo can I live hero any
longer?"
"No," Aunt Sue answered rue
fully, "not for the present, at any
rate."
"Our worthy guardian having ah-
condcd with all tho proporty he held
In trust from our father, ineludin
vour $'.'0,000, Aunt Sue, wo must look
for some means of existence more
humble than this big house and ;''000
a year income."
"Oh, Nell!" and hero Fannin's blue
eyes overflowed, "how could hoi1"
"1 can't toll, mv dear sister; but. lie
did. That's the important question.
Now, as wo can't pay tho rent of this
houso any longer, I propose wo take
possession of tho little cottage at Har
lem that we own, hirnish it nut of this
house, sell tho tables and chairs re
mefnlng over, and look out lor some
work. 1 suppose we can do (some
thing," she added, doubtfully.
Something of Nell s courage inspired
Aunt hue, lor she suddenly straightened
up and said:
"Heforo llrnthor James, vour father.
my dears, made money ami took me to
his home, (iod bless him! I had to
work for my bread. 1 made caps, and
1 could teach vou girls now."
"Millinery?1' said Fannie.
'No; cups for the army and navy,
and boys wore them then, too; more
than they do now."
"We'll decide about that later." said
Nell, seeing l'liunio s face fall again,
but now wo must go over and see about
tho house How much money have
you got. Aunt Sue?"
"Ninety-feven dollars."
"And you, Fannie?"
'Two dollars and sixty-live cents,"
paid Fannie, after deliberately counting
the contents of her poitemonnaie.
"And 1 have over-'O. Quite enough
to move, j on see, independent of tho
sale of tho furn, lure. We don't owe a
cent; that's n blessing. 1 will take
lane over this morning and set her to
cleaning, If you will see about the car
pets and furniture; decide what is bust
to lake, I mean."
"Vou and Aunt .Sue arrange it,"
Fiinulosald, wearily, leaving tho mom.
"Poor Fan!" Nell mi d, her whole
tone of voice changing, as she looked
afler her sister. "It is harder for her
(hau anybody."
"I don't see why," said Aunt Sue,
ralhcr sharply; "she has gone about
looking like a ghost ever since that old
scamp Norris ran oil', but 1 am sure ho
tool; vour money and mine as well as
hers."
"Oh, Aunt Sue. are vou blind? Don't
vou sou that Mr. Norris is Fred's
father, and Krod, has also mysteriously
vanished; and, oh, didn't you see long
auo that Fred was In lovo with poor
Fan, and her great blue eyes brighten
cd for him as they did for no fine else?"
"I novor thought of that. Fan novor
said u word."
"How could she? l'red, never ac
tually proposed to her, hut ho surely,
mi rely wanted to, and so intended,"
"I'd liko to hang Ins father."
And after this ouorgotlu declaration
Aunt Suo joined Noll in a ramhlo over
thu house, deciding upon tho host dis
position of tho handfomo appointments
Many a hotirt-wronoh went with tho
decisions lo soil objects endeared by
years of associations but too largo or
handsome for tho tmy homo they pro
posed to occupy. Fannie helped by Ills
and starts, but, as Noll surmised.' tho
girl had u hoiirlauho to carry that far
surpassed tho pain of puoinikQy lots or
change of fortune.
She was a tall, stood, r blonde, vcrv
pretty, and of a gentle, lov.ng d spo
sition, nov-r poisosing tic energy of
brown-eyed Nell, whose beaut v was
not nearly so great but who made up
for a snub no-o and a lug mouth in the
sunny disposition and :i ijii.uk viv.-ic.U
that was very attractive.
Fred. NorrN, the son of the KUardi
an who had so foully betrayed Hie trust
of the girls' dead father, "hail brought
his liainNomc face and winning man
ners often to lite hoiisj over which M fn
Susan Dorrimer presided, and had li ft
no power of persuasion untried in his
endeavor to win protlv Fiinnic' lb-art.
He was partner in his father's law of
lice, whin ng his own w:iv to fortune,
and no thought of the blonde's patri
mony tempted him. It was pure, true
love" that softened his voice for Fan
nie's ear. shone in his etes when they
rested upon her and brought him often
to her s cle.
And the love he coveted was givon
him, thoti!li no words had vet been
spoken, when Herbert Not ris suddenly
lied, and twenty-four hours later Ins
son was aKo missing.
Jt was a blessing, Nell said, that they
chose the spring weather for their jour
ney, as the cottage in Harlem was cer
tainly not tempi ng. as it stood, for a
winter residence. It made a largo hole
in the money realized from the sales of
the furniture to put the old house in
repair, it having been empty for a long
time. And eeu when it, was newly
painted and papered and brightened by
the prettiest of furniture it looked very
narrow and poor, contrasted with the
homo whero tho girls luul lived from
childhood. The piano had to stand all
askew to fit it at ail in the little parlor,
and tho easy chairs and lounges looked
ail out of proportion. But Nell work
ed busily, and gradually tlio "Hitting"
becanie a frolic; and oven Fannie was
interested in wedging bureaus into im
possible recesses ami finding accommo
nation for the contents of the great
vans at, Hie door.
"dust imagine, wis have a snare
room, cried acII gloelullv ; "here is
Aunt Sue's, hero ours, hero one for
servant, it wo ever again indulge in
such a luxury, and hero a magnificent
apartment, handsomely furnished, to
let : ah i lie riiiiinsii and iriuiKs can
go to the attic or loft, or whatever vou
choose to call the sky parlor, dining
room, pantry and kitchen! Fan, seri
ously, 1 like it. It is ours, that is one
good thing, and wo can have lots of fun
cooking and cleaning."
"Fun !" said Fan, dolefully.
"ics. fun! Come, J m going to
give Jano her wages, now wo arc all
lixod nieelv, and o will get dinner
Ain't you glad now we learned to cook
at Uncle Koilnoy s.' How we hated it?
I an sighed over the memory of two
years spent with their mother's brother
on a cozy iNew r.ngland farm, whin
their father was in hurono trying lo
bring health back to his wife, who died
under Italian skies. Hut Nell would
not let her mope, and the summer days
were coming to make the cottage gar
den a new Interest, and a long walk to
tlie boat or ears only a pleasant country
stroii.
i nero was a nine inonev lo nut m
the bank for a rainy day, when Aunt Sue
obtained employment at her old trade
and the girls undertook cmbroidurv for
a large dry goods establishment. June
had conic, when one morning Aunt Suo
received a letter asking her to take :
hoarder.
"A boarder!" cried Kaniiio, aghast
"the man is crazy!"
For tlie letter was signed "John
Harris." So it was a man.
'He is an invalid, and wants per
fect (piiet in a private family. Ho of
fers 10 a week. Fan."
"And he'll bo .?.'!) Worth of bother.
Just imagine a sick man to fuss over."
"Ten dollars a week," said practical
Nell. "It would m arly keep tho table
for all of us."
Diseusiod in all its bearing, tho pro
posal was finally admit ted to have its
advantages. The old family physician
was given by the writer for reference.
and there was tlio snare room "fa rlv
yawning witli emptiness," Nell said.
so .Minn Harris was graciously ner-
niitteu to tauo up his summer residence
in llio little cottage, lie was a white
haired old gentleman, who stooped
badly, and had large, soft eyes, as blue
ii" i auino m iitvii. I'lom mo uay oi ins
i i. .i i .. .
arrival his devotion to Aunt Sue was so
marked as to excite the mischievous
raillery of the girls, in spite of the lit
tle old maid's blushes and protesta
tions. Was Aunt Suo in the summer house.
stitching upon her caps, John Harris
was sure to lie found, reading aloud the
interesting portions of the dally news
paper. as she m the kitchen stirrinir
cake or rolling pie-crust, John Harris
was certainly leaning against the win
dow-sill, making sage remarks upon
tho beans or tomatoes in the wee vege
table garden. Did Aunt Suo remark
her love for a llowor. behold the next
day a wagon from town with a whole
garden ready to bo transferred to the
soil of Harlem, under John Harris'
directions. He was vcrv kind lo tho
girls, but their youthful charms ovi-
denllv faded before Aunt Suc'.s mature
ones.
It was a pleasant Milliliter, in suite of
Fan's heart-slekness and tho many pri
vations that were now a duty. Poverty
Rad not bitten deeply into the nest-egg
at the bank, thanks'to the supply of
work and the board of John Harris.
Upon the plea of poor appetite this in
valid was constantly sending orders to
tho city for supplies of dainties for the
table that aided materially in lessening
mo euunary expenses, anil he set the
iris to embroider inr such a, id o of
handkerchiefs with initial letters lhat
Nell declared he could never want an
other if ho spent the remainder of his
existence blowing his nose.
He liked carriasro exorcise and
hated to bo alone. ( ho Kent an onen
barouche at tho livorv stable, and the
whole four rodo ove'rv pleasant duv
along tho country roads. Ho insisted
that a servant was needed for Ids
multitudinous wants and Jane was
reinstated, to her own profound satis.
faction.
Hut the urowning act of kindness
cniuo when the Ootober winds were
swooping round tho little cottage and
u lire in tho sluing room rate looked
cheery and homelike, Tho Dorri-
mors were oxiieollng everv dav to
loar Mr. Harris niiuouitce Ids inten
tion of rctnrn'ng lo the city; but he
lingered dat after day, as if loth to
leave the cottage. One Mustering
day, when ho had been In the city
sinco early morning, ho caino homo
after dusk." Nell thought there were
two pa rs of feet on the stairwav, but
concluded she must have been mis
taken when Mr. Harris enter d the
sitting room alone. 1'annio was sit
t ng near tho w ndow, and the old
man took a seat very near as he said:
"I heard some news in town to
dav." Fvervbody looked interested.
Herbert Norris d cd n Hngland
two months ago. Dr. CJarner was toll
ing mo about it. Ho has n son, n no
ble fellow, who left llio c ty after he
did to try to find him and persuade him
to restore the monct ho had taken.
Hut when he did find him he ascertain
ed that ho had taken nothing! Tim
money, his own, trust funds, every
thing, was invested in unfortunate
speculations, and it was to nvo d ruin
and disgrace the man lied. II s son
stayed by him, working for linn, striv
ing to mr.kc him return and face tho
consenuences of his imprudence, but
his heart was broken, and he died.
uied in poverty ami gnei: nut h s
son came home to face the bi scry and
disgrace from which Ids father lied.
Ho brought his clear bra'n anil legal
knowledge to bear upon tlie coinpl ca
tions, and he has succeeded in getting
all'airs into training. It may bo mouths
before there is any result, but l'red.
Norris faces tlio world to-day as an
honest man. free from any complicity
in his father's disgrace. Hut ho is
vert- sad, very lonely. 1 Hunk if he
had a few loving words to cheer him
on, tlio thought Hint he had not alto
gether forfeited a love ho strove hard
to win, the hope that success in the fu
ture might mean a wife's love, a happy
home, ho why Fan!"
For Fan had risen from her scat, her
cheeks glowing, her eyes radiant.
"Where is he?" sho'said softly.
"in my room. 1 will call him
down."
Hut l'red. lingered in tho hall till
Fan. went out, softly closing tho door.
They came in presently together, and
Aunt Sue. anil Nell gave the young man
a cordial welcome.
When they were all seated again
John Harris said suddciily:
"Miss Dorrimer. had you ever a
brother John, who went to Calilornia
many years ago --a scapegrace boy,
who deserted homo and friends in a
spell of gold lever, and never came
homo again?"
"I had a brother John," Susan an
swered softly, "who was very dear to
inc. lie went to California, but ho
wrote now and then."
"Vou know nothing of him now?"
"I wrote lo h.ni last spring, but I
think lie never got t!.c letter."
"Why?"
"Hoeaiise I- (tho girls did not
know) I told him of our trouble (it
was so hard for the girls to loose every
thing, j on see), and I am sure ho would
have answered if ho had received the
letter."
"Is he rich?"
"I don't know."
Hut I do. and I will tell you. For
years and ears ill-luck crossed him
everywhere. He made money by dig
ging and was robbed. He grew r.ch in
business and was burned out. When
ever prosperity came misfortune follow
ed close at its heels. So he was asham
ed lo wr.te home and record his fail
ures, hoping at some time to have a
(lill'erent tale to tell. lie was right.
The tide turned and he made a fortune.
i good round sum. safelv invested.
Then he heard of trouble at home and
ho thought how pleasant it would be
to have a home, llaeheloras ho was,
he craed home-love and life. lie
thought tenderly of the blue-eed
sifter he had left, a slip of a girl, of the
nieces he had never seen. bo ho ar
ranged his business and caino to New
l ork. lie took one man into his confidence--his
brother's ojd physician
he caino out to the humble cottage
Hero the speaker was interrupted,
Sue was in his arms, sobbing:
"To think 1 never know you!"
Nell was executing a species of war
dance around tho at m chair in which
John Dorr, nier sat, and Fan was bend
ing over tho wh le head, her hand .solt
K caressing the snowv locks.
Heforo tlie winter came they wero
all in the old homo again, the cot tauo
being by unanimous vote rota ned for a
summer residence,
when the now year
ran was
dawned. -
married
i It kugo
AViev.
Hud to Nominate Himself.
"If a man is in polities in Chicago,"
said a veteran worker on Friday, "and
wants a tiling done he had better do it
himself. When wo were down at
.Springfield at the State convention, 1
had an agreement with a man on the
West Side that 1 would nominate him
for a iiioiuber-at-largo of the State
committee and ho was to nominate me.
After 1 had nominated him accord ng
to the programme and my ward wa
called in its order ho went back on me,
and I had to nominate mtsolf. It's
rather awkward for a fellow to nom
inate himself for an otllco, or to veto
for himself, but there are t.ines when
the best of us have to do it." Chi-
cwjo Inler-Occan.
She Was Kelinble
A female of an uncertain ago was
asked by a comus taker
"How old are you, madam?"
"Thirty years," she replied.
'That's what you told mo last census,
ten vears ago.
"Well, I'm not one of those kind of
women w ho toll one story one lime and
another story another. Teautt Sijl-
llli.
A Pitf.zlejl Widower.
Young Man: "I want to ask
you a
quest Ion.
"Widower: "All right, ask away."
Y. M.: "You have boon married
three times, tell mo which wife did you
ove mostr
W.: "You bite throu sour applus,
nne alter another, ami thou tell
mo
whloh Is llm bweti6t," 2rw
iugs.
otf, i
JS'i
PERPETUAL MOTION.
A Drrnm of sciolism nml Xot of
Science A Hobby of Harmless
( rniilCN.
Scieneo has made progress chielly be
cause the majority of men are so con
stituted as to bo capable of lealiz ng
the force of di monstrat'on, remarks
The A'o) York. Tribune. Were noi this
perceptive faculty general the world
migth still bo disputing as to what two
and two make when added together,
and there would have been no consen
sus of opinion upon am- of these gen
eralizations from experience which wo
call natural laws. Hut while most
men arc able to realize demonstrations
there are some always who do not pes
seas this power, and these peculiar peo
ple furnish the paradoxes, as Prof. Do
Morgan ued to si vie them: tlio
cranks, "as they arocommonlv termed
There are manv who become convinced
that the circle can be squared, and who
are fascinated he the alurenients of
perpetual mot on, or seek w tli
childlike faith tlio philosopher's stono,
To-day the quest of tho last-named il
liision has nearlv ceased, but the circle-
squarcr still nourish and make life
wearv for mathematicians and the sec
retaries of learned societies, while the
enthusiasts who are sure they have
solved the problem of perpetual motion
continue to be numerous and confident.
and say and write bitter th ngs about
the hide-bound men of science who re
fuse lo hear of the d scoverv of new
laws of nature and niechan'cs.
The last paradoxcr lo discover per
pjtual motion has jut been revealed
in Spri'iglield ().. bv The (It. c-Itcpttb-lie
at that town. He is a Frenchman of
venerable veaiv, but full of tiro and of
course, qtiitn certain that he has dono
the trick. Unfortunately an accident
has happened to some part of the ma
chinery, so that a conclusive demon
stration can not yet be given. The
(ilnbc- lle))iij)lic amply sets forth the in
ventor's belief in tlio" genuineness of tho
discovery, and therewith prints tho
opinion of scientific authorities upon
the problem, it is hardly correct, how
ever, to speak, as our esteemed contem
porary does, of perpetual motion as a
"dream of science." It is in truth a
dream of sciolism, not ot science.
Science knows and has long known,
that the problem is insoluble in prac
tice, and the reasons for this conclusion
are at once so simple and so conclusive
that a remarkable degree of cranki
ness is needed for the creation anil
maintenance of a belief in the possibil
ity of success. If a man should appear
who declared that he had solved tho
problem of carrying himself in a bask
et, il is doubtful whether tho most con
firmed perpetual-motion crank would
give in his adhesion to the .statement.
Hut perpetual motion isho elleet iden
tical with carrying one's self in a
asket.
No doubt seekingporpetiial motion is
in iiuiocenl way of wasting time, com
paratively speaking. It is decidedly a
better way than making dynamite
bombs, for instance. Tho Springfield
Frenchman certainly has not discovered
perpetual moiion, for perpetual million
: i ...,.:i,:it, .. 'v.. :... i.... i...
i-iin iiums;,jtfiuli, in iiiLiuiiui; iii;itlll
mav lia e done so is to assert that action
and reaction may possibly not beenual:
mil so on, indefinitely; and this is non
sense. No doubt the poor Frenchman
has derived a great deal of pleasure
and .satisfaction from li s hobby, and
no doubt he will go on tinkering with
it to the end ot the chapter, lor jmra-
doxcrs ot hi.; kind are utterly incapa
ble ot being set right, as is obvious
when one considers that their peculiar
mental condition d. sables them from
th nking in straight lines. Probably
time will never come when there will
bo no cranks of this harmless eharae
tor, and they are interesting studies so
long as they are presented for what
they really are.
Four (treat Iiealists.
j-our realistic novelists ot genius,
two of our greatest painters of lower
life, and several of our best writers in
niiddle-ohuss comedy, nourished almost
contemporaneously. Tlie co ncidencc
is sutliciently striking to suggest, an in
tercsting topic ot discussion, isut, so
far as tlio modern novel is concerned,
a remarkable combination of circum
stances favored its growth. Civiliza
tion was descending, and, as facilities
of coiuinunieaton increased, spread
from town to the country; the middle
classes, who since tlio Revolution had
become social factoiv, wero eager to
hear about themselves; in a peaceful
country, where wealth rapidly accumu
lated, there grew up a miscellaneous
reading public; a new mode of ex
pression was required for a ehangod
form of society; prose was most eon
genial to tho taste of the ago, and a
good prose stylo had been lately per
teeted. Ill .success in other directions
turned the attention of two men of ge
nius to the novel; Fielding and Smol
lett, I. ike Cervantes and LeSage, failed
as dramatists before they exlored the
fresh field wh eh was opened for the
display of their powers. As the now
weapon was perfected, its width of
range became more and more apparent.
Life everywhere at every period, human
nature in its most varied aspects, well
within its sphere. With extraordinary
rapidity novelists annexed field afte't
field; to De Foe's realism of fact was
laid Kiehardson s realism of character:
to the rich and aried pictures of real
life which Fielding and Smollett painted,
were added Sterne's subtle analysis o
lighter. -hades of feeling and (iold.s'niith's
domestic idyls; by her sketches of so
ciety Miss Hnrnev opened out a sphere
in wh oh women w riters have peculiar
ly excelled; lately, llio romantic- school
spread out before tho eyes of tholi
leaders an, ever-widening rango of his
torical fiction and novels of incident ot
of passion. As puiutors of tho man
ners, satirists of follios.or censors of the
morals of mankind, novelists usiirnod
the functions of the Add sonian essay
ists and tho Johnsonian moralist. Ex
cept during tho br llinut reign of I'oote,
they encroached upon tho domain of the
drama. Mure technical skill is required
for the stage, while drnmntints nru ex
eluded from many sources of interusl
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iiikii imiisiim. nit eiupiov. mt
Quarterly lteuietc. '
CASTLE GARDEN'S SAGE.
A Mnn XVIio Hum ltocolc(l Immi
grant i for J'orty "Vciirn i nsts mi
JCye Over the Taut tr llio
ISlircau.
Persons who visit Castle Garden arc
likely to have their attention attracted
by the appearance and demeanor of a
venerable man whoso history is coeval
' w th that of the board of emigration
itself. The other clerks in the bureau
for information look chipper and natty
in their blue uniforms, but the old man
;lresse. in sombre broadcloth and wears
a tilo that was popular in Robert Km
met's t me and suggests stiongly tho
17th of March.
James O Callaghan has advanced far
into tho last quarter of a century of
existence, and he has been in the ser
vice of tlio commissioners of emigra
tion since tho board was organized in
1817. He claims to havo held ollice
continuously for a longer period than
any clerk now in the public service, and
lie says that during these forty years ho
has never had a vacation, ho has never
been a witness in a court of justice, and
has never been called upon lo substan
tiate his allegations by nllidavil. He is
clean shaven, has bright, clear-cut
features, and looks as young as a man
twenty ears Ids junior. li s memory
is clear,' although ho is a little uncer
tain as to dates.
"You have seen a good deal of tho
.lark side of life in vour time?" sug
gested the reporter as the. actogenariaa
took a seat in a pensive mood.
Yes, and a good deal that was
bright and cheerful, too," he respond
ed. "Wonders have been done for tho
immigrant since tiie state took the mat
ter in hand.
Vou are conversant witlt the busi
ness ot the board since it was organ
ized?"
1 have served steadily under everv
board that has held olllee since the or-
;nn zatiou, on May o, 1817. All the
orgiiial commissioners, with their
clerks and attendants, have passed
iway, and I am now the last rose of
summer left blooming alone. I can re
member distinctly the enthusiasm with
which Mayor llaveineyer, who was the
'irst president, entered on the duties of
his ollice. The immigrants in those
days wore looked upon as the lawful
prey of .shipping agents, bonrding-hou.se
runners, and miscreants who grow rich
in the dishonor of unprotected females.
I'ho board had to light an organized
horde of land-sharks, well sk lied in
their trade, amply provided with
money. Tlio breaking up of the pow
erful r ng that, existed forty years ago
s due mainly to the labors ot Mich men
is llavcmever, liiihan t . erplanek,
Charles H. Marshall, Gregory Dillon,
Robert H. Mintiirn, Ctrus Curtiss,
George W. Hlunt, Ambrose C. Kings-
ami, Capt. MeArdle, John A. Kennedy,
Andrew Carngan, and Kl jali F. Purdv,
who was known as the 'Old War Horse.'
The board was established not a day too
oon, for just at that tunc several
causes combined to swell the tide of
immigration to these shores to enor
mous proportions."
'What were tlie-e causes?
"The first Irish fain no of 181(5; the
d'scontent and signs of revolution in
Germany about the same time; tho stir
made in the rast by the Mexican war,
and finally the gold fever, which broke
out in California immediately after
ward. Prior to IS 1.1 immigrat'on was
comparatively small, but during the
years from IS 1.1 to 1S.11 Ireland sent
hero over 1, ,1(1(1,111)0 of people, and Ger
many nearly l.'.MO.OOO. For the first
seven or eight years after the board's
existence Ireland sent more 'mm grants
than any other country. Then Ger
many took tho ascendant and main
tained it up to the breaking out of the
war. when Ireland came to the front
once more. Since the war tho Ger
mans have been coming more numer
ously than ever before, and ollieial
figures ind cato that the total imniigra
1 on from Germany exceeds that from
Ireland considerably over half a in 1
I on, the arrivals from tlie two countries
since tlio board was organized being,
in round numbers. (I.OOII.UOU."
"How does ocean emigrant travel
compare now from a sanitary point of
view with what it formerly was?"
"Since tlie great .steamship lines
have been established travel across tho
ocean has lost nearly all its terrors. It
was d ll'erent when the unfortunate
emigrant engaged a bunk in the hold
of a packet ship. Now the voyage is
made in eight or ten days then'it took
six or eight weeks. Tim steamship
lines feed their passengers, while tho
packets supplied onlv water, and
w retches who happened to bo unpro
vided with sufiiciciit food or cooking
utensils wero committed to a watery
grave after perishing trout starvation.
Ship fever, cholera, and small pox wero
to be found aboard almost every ship.
During tlie first year of the oxistento
of tlio board twenty thousand persons
perished in tlie hospitals on Staten
island and Ward's h-lnnd from diseases
contracted at sea. For some vears
afterward the deaths at sea numbered
nearly two thousand. It was coolly
calculated when a ship weighed anchor
in the Mersey that per cent, ot the
passengers would never live to see
Sandy Hook."
"Under what llag did the packet
diips sail?"
More than half the trallie was con
lueted in American bottoms, and 1'ng-
land took the next place. Tho princi
pal American lines were Tapscot's,
Collins & Co.. Charles H. Marshall
Co.. and the Hlack Hall Hue. Williams
t& Onion represented the heaviest JCng-
Itsh interests, uio cost of passage
without food or bedding was usually 5
st limg, and the unfortunate people
were huddled together like negroes in
slave-ship."
"How do the immigrants of the pres
ent day compare with thoio of fortv
tears ago?"
"Those now arriving are far more in
telligent, more solk-r. mid more eleanlv.
and near? all of them have definite
plans and are provided with more or
loss menus."
"Your board hn moved its bond-
quarters froiii time to time? '
"Nell. yes. at periodical intervals:
hut I think its moving days are now
snftM. its first otllco was in Uio old
nluishomo in City Hall park. It uoxt
took quarters in Franklyn street, below
; Church; its third abiding place was in
the basement of the city hall, and after
the fire in that buildingcluringtho cablo
I celebration, in 1S5S, it took temporary
possession of an old church at No. 81
Anthonv street (now Worth), which
was lilted up for its use ponding nego
tiations to obtain possession of Castle
Garden, where it moved shortly after
ward." "Was there not some opposition to
tho leasing of Castle Garden to tho
emigration commissioners?"
"There was opposition of tho most
bitter kind which nearly culminated in
bloodshed. For many years tho gar
den had been the favorite place of
amusement for the wealthier cla-ss of
citizens and some people of over-nice
sensibilities thought it looked liko des
ecration to give it over to tho immi
grant. The potentates nnd grandees
of Europe had been accorded tho free
dom of tho city within tho gorgeous
amphitheater, and its roof had echoed
the voices of such men as Lafayette.
Kossuth, Thackcrav, Rachel. Jenny
Lind, Catharine Hayes, Hosio. Grisi,
and Sonntag. When tho commis
s;ouer.s took possession an angry
throng of 1,00d men patroled the river
and the moat in boats, and there were
10,000 ashore. They threatened to
burn down the building, and a force of
LMO aimed policemen were kept on du
ty two weeks to protect it- Police Su
perintendent Kennedy narrowly escap
ed assassination.''
An olliecr attached to tho department
informed the reporter that tho old vet
eran was recently rewarded for his
long term of service by having his sal
ary cut down from $50 to $10 a month.
Xcw York Mail and Jlxprcss.
A Giraffe's Memory.
The funniest thing I over saw or
heard of in connection with the memo
ry of animals happened ono year when
I was out west with a traveling meting
eric. You've heard, of course, how el
ephants will remember an insult twenty
years, some say longer. Well, this lit
tle incident concerned agirafle and gi
raffes, are not generally credited with
much sense, anyway, to say nothing of
memory. Hut this, one showed a groat
deal of the latter quality, anyway. Wo
had got as far as Rock Island. 111.,
w here we had to cross the Mississippi on
an old ferry, that being boforo tho big
government bridge was built there.
Everything went all right until wocatno
to this giraffe. Ho wouldn't go on tho
ferry. Coaxing, scaring, pushing, beat
ing did no good, lie simply lay down
on the river bank and "would not.
budge. While 1 was working over liini
the ferry made another trip. When
she came back up gets Mr. Giraffe asi
spry as you please the first time I urged
him and inarched straight on lo the fer
ry. Several people who had been on
the boat tho tlip before a-ul soon the gi
rall'e's queer capers on the other side of
the river were waiting to see what kind
of luck I had. Well, the boat was fifty
feet or so from the down shore when
that girall'e happened to turn his head
toward the landing and see those peo
ple. He gave a giraffe trumpet, and.
before I knew what he wasdo ng, jump
ed over tho rail into tho water, it took,
three-quarters of an hour to pull h in
out. Now, what do you think was the
matter with that girall'e? I discovered it
while the crowd was gathering around
tho rescued animal below the dock.
Among the people was ono tall, slim
young follow the girall'e seemed to havo ;i
part eular aversion to. When ho saw tho
young man near him ho began to trem
ble violently, and made desperate ef
forts to break away. 1 questioned the
young man. and found that a year be
loro he had crossed on tho ferry-boat
with this menagerie Thero was a gi
rall'e among the animals on the lower
deck, and his head had stretched away
up to the passenger deck of tlio forrv.
where the young man was sitting witli
some friends. As tho giraffe's long
neck had eomo twisting around in his
direction he had been cruel enough tt
take a quid of tobacco and throw it
down tire giraffe's open mouth. No
doubt it was the .same giraffe I had witli
mo then, and no doubt, too, ho recog
nized his tormentor tin; instant h seyes
fell on him. Xlw York (.omvurvial
Adctrtiser.
Sam Jones' Daughters.
In speaking of parental dutly Mr.
Jones says; "J have got girls in tho bud
now; in two or three years more thoy
will bo full blooming young ladies on
the carpet. I don't know how you par
rents feel about it, but I am loss con
cerned about getting my daughters off
than any follow you ever saw. 1 will
board them and take euro of thorn as
long as they aro good girls, and if they
nover marry it's all right; but I tell
you what it is, 1 don't care how badly
I wanted my daughters to marry, f
would not push them out in certain cir
cles of society. If you havo a boy
that wants a wife, ami kow a girl just
liko your daughter in every way.
would you want vour sou to marry her
a dancing, giddy, godless, Christies
ill. would
your .Now, honor bngut.
Vou say: No, Jones, L
would you?
give it up.
to marrv a
God knows
I want mv boy
better girl
than mv wifo
raised.
If you had a sweet,
and a fellow had a ru
bor, would you liko to
him? Let mo say this
nica
daughter.
shnilii
ot vour
see her marry
: If I want to
marry my daughters well 1 would try
to have them taught how to balco bread,
fry chicken, and do all raaiinor of do
mestic duties so well that when pcrsoiiH
came in our house they would say my
wife was the best ho'uso-keoper "they
ever saw, when in fact it was our daugh
ters' work. Thou there will bo faonin
first-class boy come here, f00 miles from
home, and marry her. I went COO
miles to got a first-class wifo from Ken
tucky, and 1 got her, too.
"1 put young men on notice. I toM
my wifo that when any boys came trout-
house to ask them in the parlor and
treat thorn liko gentlemen, and thon go
out and hunt up littio Paul and Bob to
come in and see thorn, but to loll the
v.sitors that my daughters wero up
stairs st inlying t'lioir lessons. Boys, if
you want to see Paul and Bob, just raclf
arouud. Atlanta 'onstitulion.