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didx't meax to do imoxa. And the President, Viewing the Matter In Tti Is Light, llestores Jllm to J 'fare. Wanhinctoii special: The president to dny rehiHtntcd Mulcenns Benton, Unitetl States attorney for the western district ot Missouri, nlio vim recently suspended for active participation In politics. Following is n letter froiatlio president in relerenceto the matter: KxticirriVE Mansion'. Warui-noton'. I). C.. Nov. 10, 1880. Hon. M. U. ltonton Denr Sir: Your letter of the loth inst.. nd dressed to the attorney-general, 1ms been submitted to me, mid carefully considered. Its Irnnk tone unil nil I know of your char ncter convinces mo Hint the truth is there in related, touching the. matters which led to your Hiispeiision from office. When I issued the. warning to olllco holders, to which vou refer as tin "order." 1 expected to bo much hurrnsaed by all manner of loose mid frivolous tales oriuinatini: in malice or disappointment, a deliberate de sign oil the part of political enemies to an nov mid embarrass mo conccrnins the in diligence by appointees under the present nduilniHlrntiou or the pernicious activ ity" in politic., against which my warning was directed. I Imped, hAwever, Mint by a careful consideration of the. spirit, as well as the IniigtinKO of such warning, those in good faith intending to respect it might not iMMiirioubt as toils mcauiin;ann wouui thenisclvi!s nniilv it to conditions unit cir cumstances which it wns impossible for me to specify. I did not intend to condemn the making of u political speech by n fed eral official to his neighbors and friends for miv time ami nlnco where it was merely incidental if the speech itself was decent anil fair but 1 do not mini; Mini nn oin del can enter, as a business, a political campaign, mid consenting to a long list of engagements lo youres pooiiuai iiu-i-iinga, uidelv separated and of daily on iiirenco, (ill such an engagement without neglecting his dut v. if he holds mi ollico wortli having, nor without taking with him in the canvass his official power and influence. Therefore, this course is condemned. The number of speeches that rnunot be properly mado cannot be ppccilh-tl, nor tlio time when, the. place where, or the circumstances in wlncli thev are proper, nor can their character bo prescribed. Hut a correct line of conduct can ho determined wiinoui (lilllcility. i believe, in the light of a desire to follow in the spirit of '.lie admonition given by divorcing the conduct of a citizen from the use of official mfluenca in political cam paigus illustrating at all times the truth thatollicml duty is paramount to partisan service, maintaining the dignity of ollico holding, avoiding any pretence of control over the political action of others by reason of official place, and teaching the lesson to the people that public positions ure not bestowed or held under u pledge of active partisan service. A printed list taken mini a newspaper and sulmiitte i to ino contained engagements to speak, mado by your consent, daily, for quite a long period, and not inireipienlly twice a day, in different parts, of tin; state of Missouri, and I was led toboliovethnt on mnny ot the days specified a court at winch you had duties to perform was in session. This seemed to tuc to present n enso of flagrant, delimit neglect of o Hi ci ii 1 duty and propriety, and ?ven with the explanation given your .ourso appears to bo thoughtless, nnd at least subject to criticism. Hut the state ment i i your letter showing that you did not permit campaign engagements to in teifero with the performance of official Jut.v, your satisfactory discharge of such duty during your term, and u belief in tlio truth of your allegations that you lion .'stly supposed you might properly do all that was actually done, havo induced mo to rescind the order suspending you from office, and to yiinstnto you to the same. Yours very truly, GnoVKiiCi.KVin.AM). TO TUB ATTOIINHV OK.NKItAI. Kxeciitivk Mansion, Washington. I). C. Nov. 17. 1880. To tlio lion. A. II. Gar land, Attorney General Sir: Having fully examined mid considered the statements contained in the letter of Maseenas E. Hon ton, which you submitted to mo at tlio limn of our consultation concerning tlio matter therein referred to, I I. live deter mined to rescind tlio order suspending Mr. Bi'iiton from the office of attorney of the United States for tho western .district of Missouri and to direct that he be notified of his reinstatement to that office. Very respectfully yours, GnovKit Cleveland. FOltFEITUllE OF T.AXD GIIAX'TS. JCor Consummating Which an Act Should be I'assed by Congress. At the meeting of tlio Iroquois club in Chicago on the 17th, W. A. J. Sparks, com missionor of tho general laud office, in speaking upon "The Public Lands tho People's Heritage for Homes," gave his views upon the proper policy to bo pursued by the government in regard to each class of public lands. Ho referred first to Innds that had been granted to railroads. He held that theobligationsof the government so far ns incurred must bo carried out. Tho effects of this doubtful and mistaken land grant legislation must not be so mag nified that, while requiring of tho govern ment u strict compliance with its part of the contract, the corporations shall bo al lowed unlimited license, to violate theirs. It was true that it takes two parties to make a bargain, and it was equally true that tho failure of one pnrty to tho con tract is a release of theobligationsof tho other. He was prepared to say t lint in grants amounting to 110,000,000 acres there has been no such compliance with the law by the companies as binds the gov ernment to any legal obligation hi respect to granted lands. ly the Northern Pacific railroad nlono neaily -10,000,000 acres of tho peoplo's heritagH for homes was being unjustly withheld. An act should bo pnssed declaring the forfeiture of grants, if only to the extent of portions of unconstructed road at the time fixed by law for their entire completion. Such an act, with ft meattuionf partial justico only, would yet be incalculable benefit, by restoiiug to tho people for settlement and free homes not less than 70,000,000 ncres, mid would leave to tho companies at their average piicenf lauds mom than enough to meet the legitimate cost of the entire construc tion of their roads. Great laud grants to private individuals, Commissioner Sparks said, were nearly all made for colonization purposes, mid are not binding unless the conditions involved hnve been complied with. His characterization of these grunts was almost equally sweeping willi th-it ot railroad lands. The manner in which ex isting laws operate in regard to swamp lands, pre-emptions, homesteads, timber culture and desert lands was unsparingly condemned by the speaker. IJ.fore re sliming his neat Commissioner Sparks briefly reviewed his courso in office, and declared that his efforts had been directed Holely to the prevention of the illegal con trol of lands, the recovery of those fraud ulentl.y held to which title has not yet pass d, and to the protection ot lands for actual settlement und benefit o! actual In habitants. a riEKD'a aottiuumi act. ronwiioiTH, N. II., Nov. 11. Daniel Crow ley, agvd 00 year, was arretted here to-night, charged with assault with Intent to kill. It It said that he heat his wife, an aged woman, and poured kerosene upon her clothing and set It on fire. The woman was terribly burned and will pmbal.lv die. Crow lev denied setting her afire aud says the was burned by accident. TUB CZAtt DISSATISFIED. lie Declines to Accept the Election of Prlne IFaldemar. JONDOX, Kov. 11. Kcmble advices froi Vienna savs that the czxt dvcllues to accep the election of Prince Waldemar, but will not oppose I'rlucc Nicholas of Montenegro. Pebtii, Nov. 11. After the election of Prlnci Waldemar to the Bulgarian throne M'Stcnlay the Austrian and German ambassadors at St Peterstmrg were Instructed by their govern meiit to I n mi I re of Kula the lininer.f the can dldatc she favored as Pi luce Alexander's sue eessor. If Kussin refuses to accept the elect on of Prince Waldeniaror to nominate nnothei tndidatc, It will be considered that sin en rrtalns designs against Bulgarian ludepen slice, nnd. In that event, Puglaud, German Austria ami Itnlv will arrive at an understand lug similar to the one that extends anion: them at the period of the Berlin congress. Bekmx Nov. 11. In political circles here I (s considered certain that Piliice Waldeinn will decline the lost of Bulgarian rulei I'rince Bismarck Is Inclined to favor the prints of Mingrelia as a candidate for the throne oi Bulgaria. He has au especially good mkmcI' reputation In Berlin as well as in St. Peter. uurir. Tiiinova, Xov. 11. Prince Wnldcmar )m ent a telegram to tne regents, expressing n grateful sense of the honor conferred on hn by the sobranje electing him prince of Bu garia. lie states, however, that the dceislo as to his acceptance rests with his father, tl. king of Drumaik, and adds that other diuh innv preveut his assuming tho niltrslilp o liufg;irla. 'I Tie prince's reply Is considered to prcsaet his refusal of the throne. Nevertheless tli Bulgarian deputation appointed to convey t Prince Wiildeinar official notification of' lit election bv the snbrnnje to succeed Prim Alexander depni ted to-d.n for Cannes, Prune, where the prince is sojourning. The sobranje telegraphed to the klng Denmark inking hi consent lo Prince Wald. mar's acceptance of the Bulgarian throu aud adjourned until Satuaday to await u r ply. The Danish papers generally advise Prim Waldemar to refuse the Bulgarian throti the Gazttte also savs that K ng (teoige Gieece will leave Athens if his brother, Pr.m Waldemar, accents tho Bulgarian throne. St. PmruMi. no, Nov. 11. Baron Mohrci iieim Is about to rctim to Paris to resume h duties as Russian ambassador to Prance O his way to tl.e French capital he will stop i Cannes" In order to have a conference wil Prince Waldemar. Prince Nicholas of Mingrelia, who Is favore by the czar as candidate for the Bulgaria throne, Is n Kussiau subject and a membi of the orthodox Greek church, lie is a son In-law of Count Abelberg and is said to b willing to accept the pot of Bulgarian rulei MUST CLOSE OX SUXDAr. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts on the SumUiy .nr. Boston special: Frank Doxtcr, of Wor cestcr, a barber, was recently convicted of keeping bis shop opon on Sunday, nnd np. pealed tho case to the full bench of tho sir prome court. The court this nftcrnoon gave an opinion in tlio case, overruling tlio defendant's exceptions nnd affirming the conviction under this decision. Barbers in the future will keepthoir shops closed on Sunday. The decision, as announced, re affirms the old statute forbidding the keep iug open of shops on Sunday, mid tho doing ot any work on that day, save work of ne. cessity or charity. Tlio matter will now bo taken to the legislature, and efforts will be mado to secure au amendment to the statute, which has been a dead letter Tor a long time. It probably would havo re muiiied so but for the effort of a portion of the barbers to secure tho closing of all barber shops on Sunday. Until the legisla ture takes action those who feel disposed to prosecute druggists, bakers and barbers for keeping open on Sunday can, under this decision, carry their point. No serious ef fort in that direction is, however, appro headed by anybody, except possibly in tlio case of oar hers. WHAT MIGHT JIA I'JS 11EEX'. Pittsburg dispatch: Upon tho arrival at Dubois, Pa., of tho mail train on tho Buf falo, Rochester it Pittsburg railroad to-day tho car inspector, while tho passengers wero getting on and off at the depot, discovered tlireo dynamito bombs mid cups fastened under the springs of the rear coach. The bombs wero carefully removed, nnd thcro were many pnlo faces among the passengers when they learned tho terriblo fato they hud so narrowly escaped. The trainstarts from Punxitutawmiey every morning, and it is undoubtedly at that place the bombs were placed liner tho springs, as it only makes short stops botween thero mid Du bois. It is twenty miles from tho place ot starting, mid how it was possible for the train to run that distance over short curves with that amount of dynamito nnd caps udder tho springs of tho conch is u mystery. Thirty-four persons wero ill tho coach. Suspicion points directly to no person as perpetrator of tho deed. The matter will be thoroughly investigated by the railroad authorities, and au effort made to bring tlio criminal to justice. "OAK rTKW." Washington special: The president's country home has been called by vari ous mimes, "Pretty Prospects," "lied Top," Annlostan'' nnd so on, but nono of them havo been sanctioned by its owner. To-day, however, tho president and Mrs. Cleveland decided to christen it "Oak View." Tills nnino is particularly appro priate ns thero Is a very handsome grov of ouk trees near tho house, while no or.j who bus driven by the spot can havo fulled to observe the magnificent view from it. It is expected that "Oak View" will bo ready for occupancy in ten days or two weeks. Tho president nnd Mrs. Cleveland do not intend to reside there this fall, nor do they nt present contemplate living thero per manently at all. Mrs. Polsoin will occupy the house as her home, mid it will always be available for the president and Mrs. Cleveland to go mid come us they choose. It will be an admirnble rest for the presi dent when ho wishes privacy, for he ean shut himself up for any length of time with out being intruded upon. DISCUSSIXO THE VLEVllO. Chicago dispatch: The National C.itlla Growers' association met this morning to continue the discussion of diseases and the need of legislation on the subject. Speeches were confined to ten minutes nnd a large proportion of the delegates took the floor. All agreed on the necessity of legislation for stamping nut pleuro-pneuinoula. A lengthy report from the resolution com mittee on actions which congress lind taken on tho subject under discussion wns pre sented by Dr. Gadsden, and it was supple mented by speeches from the Hon. James Wilson, of Jown; George II. Lnring, United States commissioner ot agriculture; Dr. D, H. Salmon, nnd Senator Shelby M. Cul loin. Various means of eradicating the di sease were proposed, and Loring exprsssed the belief that the appropriation ot $150, 000 by congress would be sufficient for the purpose. Jlls deductions were drawn from renorU of delegates ns to the extent of the disease in various localities. A resolution was adopted by a vote ot 118 to 38 declar ing that in the sense ot this convention Hatch, the present chairman of the agri cultural committee, was responsible for the lack ot proper legislation competent to grupple with the pressing need ot the great cattle industry of the nation. I'EAST OI' I.EADIXG DEMOCHATS. Many Distinguished Men Present The JPrrsl. dent .Vol Able to Attend. The fourth annual banquet of tho Iro quois club occurred at the Palmer house, Chicago, on the night of the 17th. Anion the large iiumler of rlNtinguished demo crats to whom invitations Imd been sent, the following are among the most widely known who accepted and were present The Hon. .lohii G. Carlisle, the Hon. J. B. Heck, tho Hon. Kdwartl S. Bragg and the Hon. ,1. Sterling Morton. The following letter of legrct was received: KxncfTivr. Minmox, Wisiiixoton, D. C, Nov. 1U. 1880. Kdwurd l'orinan, Ksq., Corresponding Secretary My Dear Sir: I regtet exceedingly that" my "official duties. just at the time unusually exacting mid im portant, prevent my acceptance of your in vitation to attend the fourth annual ban quet of the Iroquois club on the 17th int. 1 am much impiessed with the present im portance ot a thoiongh and timely discus sion by the people id the various questions which are related to good government and the prosperity of tho country, and which, because they are so related, concern tho welfare mid success of the democratic party. In the work which must bounder' taken, id presenting these questions to the judgment id our citizens in such u manner as to lemovu misapprehensions und aid u correct conclusion. 1 believe that the Iro qtiois club will prove a most effective In strumeutality. 1 loping that thenpprourh lug banquet will be I he occasion of pleasure as well as interest and usefulness, I am yours sincerely, GitovEit Cleveland. John G. Carlisle, ol Kentucky, speaker of tho house of representatives, made tho leading nddrcss ol the evening. The toast ho responded to was, "American Industries Their growth and prospeiity cunno. bo promoted by unnecessary or unequal tax ntion." Although the toast asserted u self-evident truth, began Carlisle, we ran not ufloid to ignore the fact that even in this ago ot philosopical speculation mid practical knowledge, theie are men in tho front ranks of literature, polities, and business who seriously contend that tho government can make its citizens rich and prosperous by taxing them. All taxation, Carlisle declared, no matter how it may bo disguised or in "lint manner its pay meat may be enforced, is ultimately a charge upon labor'. Ho emphatically stated that sub stantial equality in adjustment of rates ot taxation mid uniformity in the designation ot articles upon which it shall be imposed are not only attainable, but essential under the present system of taxing for protective purposes. A few have become very rich, but muiiv have becomo poor, anil the gulf between luxury anil penury is growing wider and deeper (lay by day. But with the power of taxation exercised only for the purpjise of raising lovenues for the support of (lie government theprinciples of substantial equality mid uniformity can lie recognized and imi forced. Carlisle con cluded in tho following words: "No mnt ter who may desert or who may falter, the great fight for reform will go on. This country does not belong to either monopolists or communists, nnd tho people will save it from both. The people in spite of all combinations and conspiracies will ultimately see that the true principles of justice and equality prevail in the legisla tion of the country. ICvcn to prevent tho I'Otitiuuauro of long prevailing, cxislinguud constantly increasing ovils, they will not rush from one extreme to another, but will proceed carefully, deliberately and reso lutely, to correct inequalities, remove un necessary burdens, and open paths that lead to peace and prosperity. While free trade is impracticable, industrial and com mercial cmaiicipiition can ami will be ac complished by wise and moderate measures of lelorm, without interfering with any private enterprise or injuring any public iuteiest. To this some of us at least are irrevocably pledged, not only by taxations and declarations of a political party to which we belong, but by a senso of personal and official duty which cannot bo disre garded without betraying the confidence leposed in us by the people, whether in public or in private life, I shall stand by that pledge, and, to the extent ot my abili ties and opport unties, contribute in every way to tho early and completo triumph ot revenue reform. MAXXIXO'S DAYS XUMUEIlED. Washington special: "Secretary Man ning impresses me ns one who is not long for this world," said mi Indinnu office seeker to day, after n. half hour's chat with tho head of tho treasury department. "They talk about Mr. Manning hoingin the best health he has been in for years. Well, I pity him if lie has over been sofceblo as now. Ho is unsteady, puffed nnd col ored about the eyes mid has an instability in his train id conversation' which lends a man to think ho is rapidly failing. I can tell, too, that he docs not take much inter est in his work. Very soon after theinaug uration I came hero and hud a long con versation with Mr. Manning. Then ho was thoroughly enthusiastic about treasury mutteis and I could see ho had his soul in the duties before him. Now he goes about it as though ho was forcing his mind anil his bunds to work. Ho doesn't like the position and is disappointed in it. Yes, lie may hold the office till tho next election. so as to keep up continuity of the cabinet, but I do not believe it. I do not belie vo he will bo alive then unless ho gets relief from his burdens. Kvidently tho nir, tlio water, the position, the whole surround ings do not agree witli him, mid I am of the opinion that lie will not bo with us many weeks. Mr. Manning's health is ruined." HA SO E OA TTI A:. Denver dispatch: Prominent cuttlemeu here nnd elsewhere in Colorado, also New Mexico, are signing .u petition to tlio rail road companies centering at St. Louis ask ing them to give their influence towardsthe establishment ot cattlemen's stock yards ut tho west sldo of St. Louis. It appears to bo tho unanimous feeling among western cattle-growers Hint the establishment ol yards at this point will tend to distribute shipments mid force Chicago, Kansas City and other dressed beet syndicates lo pay more reusonnolo prices for runse cm tie, present prices being so low as to make busi ness unprolllithlo, '1 no international Un n go association meeting represents ull portions oi tne range rotintry. Heverai new associations havo joined within u few days. Indications point ton largo meeting here In February. KALXOICV'S ATTITUDE AVPHOt'ED. Vienna, Nov. 15. Count Andrassy, In an interview today with Emperor Francis Jo seph, said that he (eared Count Kalnoky's speech before the delegations on Saturday would induce liussla to light Tho enifror refilled that his opinion was to the contrary, but that while he was pastlonately opposed to provoking a war he fully approved of Count KalaoUy's attitude on the Bulgarian question. SIXTY t'EltSOXS LOST, San Fbajjcisco, Not. 15. The steamer Oceanic which arrived to-day from Hong Kong and Yokohama, brlucs newa of tho foundering of the steamthip Normantore oil Pashlmk Japau, with seventy two persons on board of whom only twelve reached the shore. She waa laden with tea for .New York aud Canada. No date ot the occurreuco is given. WASHINGTON'S COLORED PEOPLE. .Notable Jscurors X. lio In Fln Style nt tilt Cnpltnl 'I li Poorer tintp Tlielr ot'lety. A Washington ioi rcpoiiiliMit of The C levi laiitl Leader vrit': More than one-fourth of t tie population of Wash ington city is colored, anil it is esti mated that there ate GO. 000 negroes in the District of Columbia. These are of all elassei. rich mul poor, educated and uneducated, patrician und plebeian. They number some of the best clement of the uegro population of the Tinted States, and among them arc the most noted colored men of the countn. Senator Bruce, though lie still holds on to his estate in Mississippi, lives nt Washington during the winters, und John Lynch, who was one of the pres idents of the hist national republican convention, leave li s cotton planta tions near Natchez in the fall and does not return to them again until the spring. Mr. L ueli was prosecuting tho study of the law hero during tho p:it winter, and the booksellers toll me lie bought main- books. Hois well edu cated and cultured, aud i worth. 1 am told, about S-10O.000. llriice Is alo rich, anil his little hoy. Uom-oc Conk ling Bruce will have a fortune houhl his father die. Fred Douglass does not live in Washington, but his home is so near it that he can reach it by tho street-cars, lie owns a cry pleasant residence on the hills above Cnmntown, one of the suburb of Wa-h.ngton. It is worth, perhaps SI". 000. l rom his windows he can see the eapitol anil the whole city spread out before him. nnd his home is a part of tho Van Hook estate, which wa- divided into lots ami sold on the condition that no colored man should be ever allowed to purchase them. Kepresentative Harris, the colored congressman from North Carolina, lives in a three-Moy brick house in the fashionable northwest portion of (lie city. His house is in the .same block as that of Senator Coekrell, of Missouri, and it is not a stone's throw lrom the Pendleton mansion, in which Secretary Kndieott lives. Representative Smalls, of South Carolina, boards here in Wash ington, but I understand he is wealthy and that his daughters have been edu cated in the seminaries of Massachus etts. John F. Cooke, the tax collector ot the District of Columbia, is said to lie worth S'iOll.OOO. and he has held his present olllee for lifleen years. John M. Langston, the ex-minister tollati, is rich, anil there are a large number of the Washington colored men who own line houses and valuable hinds. I went to buy a lot on the hills above Washing ton the other day. nnd 1 found that some of the best property of Washing ton city was in tho hands of n colored real-estate agent. Among his property 1 found a house which 1 considered a bargain, and upon asking for the own er I was told that lie was a colored bar ber. Ceorge W. Williams the first colored member who ever sat in the Ohio Leg islature, aud the man whom Arthur appointed minister to Ilayti. and Hay aid refused to confirm, tells me that there are a hundred negroes in Wash ington worth ifiVi.O Ml, at least lifly worth .10,000. and nearly u thousand worth So.OOO apiece. Much of the bet properly of Wash ington city is owned by colored men. They bought tho hinds when they wore cheap, and after the city changed its direction they held on to them. Now on almost any of the fashionable streets of n ashinglon vou muv see the cabin of u negro laborer bumping up against the mansion of a millionaire statesman, and a curious thing about it is that tho laborer is not any more anxious to sell his laud than the stntcmnu is his. Colored men who make less than a dol lar a day own lands here worth $1, 2, and$l per Miuare foot, and the col' oretl people of Washington havo churches costing from tfji.UOU to ,w, 0()0 apiece scattered throughout the most fashionable purls ot the ell v. Of courso t lie majority of the colored population are poor, but many of tho poorest of them lav up luouov. and 1 lived for a vear on meals supplied bv a colored caterer, a man who imd made a fortune at catering, and who supplied one hundred persons and moro with two meals a ua at. a mouth apiece. orniiey, tno famous cool; who went over to Kngland w.th Itevenly John- sou to cook term pin to please the pal ates of tut; Lnglisli lords and thereby gel them lo grant us a better treaty, was a colored man. lie tiled not long ago, leaving $100,000 invested in one of the best hotels in Washington, and his sons now carry on this business i hey have diplomatic and statesmen as boarders, and charge in some cases us high as $8 a day. J here are many negroes in Wash ington who use belter language than white people, of the same stMiidinir. They arc very particular about tho use oi tnnir words and the Jives ol the bet ter classes are a continuous .strain to ward improving themselves, A largo number of them tiro well educated, though tho majority of them of courso am ignorant. They have public and private schools here, and Harvard uni versity turns out a number of colored graduates of both fcoxos every year. Some of these become lawyers und doc tors, and there aro a great many color ed teachers of both sexes. It is not au uncommon thlnir to ride in tho street cars hero with well-dressed colored girls, who have Latin and Greek books in their arms, and whose drosses lit thorn us woll as do those of senator's daughters. The colored people indecd.drcss better in proportion to their moans than the whites, aud the butter class of colored girls at Washington aro as particular about their kids us their fairer s htors. Thero aro numer ous colored swells in Washington, and these wear plug hats, sport fancy canes and enjoy their lino clothes as well as the white swells. You muv see them In tho parks of an evening and on -Sundays they promenade with the fash ionable throng on Connecticut avenue. They aro not averse to hiring carria ges, either, aud they court their sweet hearts with ice-cream und seats ut tho theaters. There is as much caste In negro soci ety here nltiui.l : in W hie .-oeietv. The better edut atetl and U-tter bred have little to d( with the lguor.iet. m,d W.th thoe hot; blood the, tin not think so pure us theirs Thei have their balls ami their part'.e-. their i i -rarv soeiet'es and their oeial e'lib aiuf they enjov life in much the same wav a their Caucasian brother- The negroes foim the erant- ol Wiishmgtou. and colored girls com mand troui SIC to $L' a month as house servant-. Some of them are seaiustres.es and thev make the lel nurse In the world. The men net :is coachmen, footmen, cooks, waiters ami peddlers at the capital, ami mam col ored men have little places of business of their own. Some of these l.ttle store are in tumble-down house anil out-of-the-way places, where win would think no one ever came to buy, anil the person who will look will bud a many tpieer tilings about the streets ol Washington ns they will in those of a foreign citv. Wanted, Sensible Women. Speeiali.etl education doe. not nec essarily create companionable noi even sensible women: else, by parity of reasoning, would all professional men be personally charming and de 1 ghtful. which undoubtedly they are not. A girl may be a sound Grecian, a brilliant mathematician, a sharp critic, a faultles grammarian. cl lie wanting in all that personal tr.ct and temper, clear observation. ready sympathy and noble sell con trol ' which make a companionable wite and a Valuable mot Her. rsor is unprofessional or uupc cinli.od in struction necessarily synonymous with idleness and ignorance; while a good all-around education is likclv to prove more serviceable in the home and in soeietv than one or two su preme accomplishments Many of us make I he mistake of conlounilmg oil neat ion with acouiremcnts and of running together mental development ami intellectual specialization. I lit women of whom wo aro most proud in our own history were not remark able for special intellectual require incuts so much as for general charac ter anil harmonious working of will and morality. Tho Lady l anshawes and Kli.abotii Frys, the Mary Carpen ters ami rlorcnco riglitingales, whoso names aro practically immortal, wero not noted for their learning, but they wero none tlio less women whoso mark in history is iudeliable, and the rood thev did lives after them ami will never die. And taking one of the at least partlallv learned ladies of the past--is it her Latinity and her hook- isliucss that wo admire so much in Lady Jane Grey, or is it her modesty, her gentleness, her saintly patience. her devotion in a word, is it her edu cation or her character tho intellectu al philosopher or tho sweet and lovely and noble woman r fortingilly lie ficto. A Hit of Philosophy. An old negro f)crving tlio greed iness exhibited h a white boy' .said: "Come heah er ininit, mer son, an' lcniine tell yor or little story." The boy approached ami the negro continued: One day dar wuz er boy bout yor size gwiuo along do street, lie come tor or sto' whar dar wns or bar'l o' apples, an' he says, sas he, 4 mister, gui me er tippler Uo sto man looked til him or minit an 'plied 4 4 4 Think yor ken take jes one?' 4 4 4 Yas, suh.' 44 4 An yor won't tako but one?' 4 No, sail.' 44 4 Wall, go tor do bar'l dar an' git. yor one. 44 Do boy hopped up ter do bar'l an' iruntcr fumble or momr do annles. han'nn fust one an' don do uder, try- in ter git nor bigges' one' Artor or luting time lie tuck do bigges' one ho could lino an' hopped er way fnun do bar'l er gigglin1 an' er grinnin, case he had beat tier man, but when ho slunk his teeth in do apple ho fouti' tint all He inside wns rotten Don his jaw drupped an' llingin' de no count apple er way, ho says, savs he: 4 4 4 Mister, please salt, gin mo onn mo air 1 11 tako tier littles' one I ken line.' 41 wii, no, snys do man, j'cr ean t nab no mo . Dar wuz er tuna when 3 or could er got er good little one 'stead 'o er bad big one but dat time is past. Hotter think er 'bout dat, my son fur ' ono' o deso days it mout bo too lato fur yor too tako or Jcotlo one." Arkansttw Traveler. Don' I Jlo a (.'hump. If yon are a chump, conceal it. For policy's sake, for society's sake, for you rown sake. Uo a gentleman on tho street, no matter how hurried you are, no matter how worried you may be. Ho a gentleman in public conveyances especially. Don't insist on your rights at all" times. If you aro first in a street cur it is your right to take a vacant scat, or sit next the street in an open car. No body can dispute this right. The aisle may bo crowded full of ladies standing, or they may havo to crowd past you to get an inside place. You can insist on your rights and maku them do it, but you aro a chump. You may argue to yourself that you havo u right to tho best that is open when you enter the convey ance; that you pay your fare and uru entitled to u reasonable re turn for your money; that others may tako their chances in such places, etc. All true. No ono disputes whut you say or think. Hut if you are n limn you know you uro ucting the boor. 'You feel moan, and uo logic will drive away that feeling. Amer icans uro instinctively gontlutiiou and Indies. Jf they follow tho im pulses of that instinct they act be comingly and feel correspondingly belter, If they bold the impulse in abeyauco and reason out a dlll'oront course they may reason out an iticou trovorllublo conclusion. Hut it la not satisfactory. It is not creditable to tliem. (,ttcago Iews. lleun ought to lay the dilate up for the winter lu Egg Harbor. Wathlmjlan Critic. GASLIGHT AND BALDNESS. One of the ArcuiiiptitK for Adoptlu tlio l'.lcctrlc Light. The causes of baldness have ofto been sought for and guessed at, but i can not bo said that any satisfactory ci plauatiou has, up to the present tim boon given. It is now discovered by New York hairdresser, whosuys: 44Pc pie give all kinds of explanation for I dissipation, cutting tho hair to short, lotting it growtoo long, smoklnj drinking strong cotleo, worry, wenrin, high hats, wearing low hats, wearinj your hat indoors, not wearing it oul door, lato hours, ami a hundred othe things. Now you will notice thero ar no classes of men moro frequently bal than retail salesmen, bookkeepers, art olllee clerks in certain linos of businosi Why should baldness affect thorn mor than others? Because they habitual! "tand or sit nearly every eveninj under gaslights. Bookkeepers alway have a strong light right over tlie't head, or jut in front of them. So it clerks who have to work at niglil Uetail salesmen sell goods at night d roetly under two powerful burners, am most of tho time their heads are no far from tho llamo. Tlio artilicial hea dries out tlio hair, makes it brittle ant unhealthy, and iinally kills it at tl root. If you will pass your bant through your hair after you havo beci standing under a gaslight for a fe moments, you will see at onco how i is. Although you may not have no ticed the heat on your head, your hail if you've got any, will be hot to tlu roots You'll be surprised, too, a whut a distance from the I ght tho hni will absorb tho heat. Now thoro i nothing so bad for tho hail as getting i thy. That is why tho uso of water oi it is so injurious because it ovaporato so readily and takes with it the natura oil of tho hair. Your hair should b moist all the time aud with the oil tha is secreted by the little colls at tit roots. When tlio oil is continually an) rapidly dried out, as it is whon tli head is kept heated by gaslight, tho col dries up ami tho hair falls out. Pea pie who sit under the gaslight shoull wear some kind of n cool non-oonducH iug headgear to protect themselves, have an idea, too, that after tlio eled rio light lias been in universal use for i generation or two baldness will be a scarce as it was before gaslight anl night work got common together. Electrical World. Business Ability. Wo hear and read a groat ilea about coinmuroial honesty, but nin men out of ton, who aro not busincs men, uro pretty well settled in thel belief tluit business ability means tlu ability to get a customer's money awa from him without violating tho pena code. There aro tricks in all trades. Tak the sugar business, for instance. Did wi not read tho other day that tho suga: manufacturers wero adulterating thei. wares so copiously that there was ai upward tendency in I ho price of sand! What else is tho'moaning of tho slur that thu sugar business is Eomutimei pursued for generations hy tho sami family; that it's sanded down from sin to son? If the sugar manufacturers aro abov suspicion, why should au item go tin rounds of thu press to the effect tha when u grocer's son went to see tin workmen digging tho collar for hi father's now house, lie came back pah and breathless, exclaiming, 44Pathor father! Our everlasting fortune is mado. Tlio nion digging tho cellar have strttcl u sugar mine!" Almost everything that is bough' and sold is believed to bo adulterated. Kveu the honest milkman is not likt Ctesar's wife should havo been abovi suspicion. Not long since a Bostoi chemist was examining u bottle a milk in tho interests of science, when i exploded and neary killed him. Tlu milkman's explanation wits that tin milk came from u kicking cow. Toi thin, too thin. Tho diamond merchant speaks of hii goods being of tho purest water, an that's what may bo truthfully said a the milkman's wares. Not all the din monds wo see on the street cars, or oi tho stage, uro genuine. A great man of them might bo insured in tha Plat Glass Insurance Company. Many t young man who is not a bio to puy hit laundress has been unjustly censured for wearing a largo diamond stud oi his shirt bosom, if tho diamond wen genuine its lustro might be dimmed bj tlio unpaid laundry bill, but as usuitll) happens in such cases, thu young mat bought tho priceless gem of tho Orieni on credit ut u hardware store for 31 cents. Tho subject is too oxtonsivo to In elaborated in tho columns of a nows paper, for this is unmistakably the ag of adulteration, lioor can bo mado oul of unything. If u brewer wero to trj tho experiment it is oven possible that he might muko beer out of hops aud malt. Everything is liable to bo bogus. The only honest butter is tho gout Even tho stuff of 1 fo whisky is no. absolutely pure. It Is frequently adul terated with lemon peel. &c Then uro false prophets and falso profits. Money is counterfeited nnd occasional ly antique chestnuts uro palmed oil' on the public us this year's crop. The best udvico wo can glvo Is "Bo ware of Imitations," us the inonkoj buid to the dude. Texas Stftings. A Ureut Secret Out. Pretty girl. "An old woman told mo to-day that I ought to get some love powder, aud she said sho guessed you kept it." Druggist. "You can muka it your self by mixing half u touspoonful ot sugar with u a uilnuto quantity ot powdered starch." 44Yos, and how will I gjvo It to him?" 4 'You must invito him to a suppot which vou prepare, und slip it iuto lilj coffee." "Aud will that wake him want U marry me?" 'It will if tho coffee Is good and er orythlug elso woll cooked. Omith World.