The Oregon scout., January 15, 1887, Image 1

The Oregon Scout.
vol. III.
UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1887.
NO. 29.
THE OREGON SCOOT.
An Independent weekly Journal, Issued ovoiy
Saturday by
JONES & CHANCEY,
I'ubllthers aud Proprietors.
A. K. Joints, I
Editor, f
J D. CrtANCTsr,
Foreman.
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H les of advertising made known on appli
cation. Coricspondonoo from all parts or tho county
solicited.
Addre-s all communications to A. K.Jonea,
Editor Oregon fccout, Union, Ur.
Lodge Directory.
GitAitn RONDK VAl.' KV LOIKIB, No. TA. A. V.
Olid A. M . Mcolx on tho second rind fourth
EaUrdsys of cacli mnnlli.
W.T. WIUGI1T. W. M.
A, LEVY, Sccrotnry.
Umon LonnK. No. SO. I. O. O. P. rtr-ru'nr
meet nit on r rlclay evening of cncli week ut
llielr hall In Uii'im, All brcthien In good
sluiidlnts' uro Invited to Httond. Ily ordor of
tbe loduf. O. A. THOMPSON, N. 0.
CIUB.8 MILI.EH, Bccy.
Church Directory.
M. E. Cnuncii Divine fervlcocvcrr Sunday
at II a. m and' p. in. bunday school at U p.
tn. Ii ayer mtetlnir every Tnur-iiay cvenlnif
atCx'JO. KEV. U.M. IltWlN.I'asior.
I'm snTj-nitiAN Ciu'iicji Hegnlar church
crvloo evi'ry Salibatli mornlnir and eviMiliip.
I'rayor mcot'in o th week on WpdnotdHv
evening-, babhuth rchnul cvi ry Salilinth at
10 a. m. ltuv. II. Vkiinon Kick, 1'iuior.
Bt. JonVs EriBCOrAfj Cuuitcii Service
every bunday at II o'clock n. in.
lUtv. W. 1L POWEX.L, Rector.
County Ofllcer.
Jndpc O. V. oodnll
Bherltf A.N. Hamilton
Clerk A. K. Nolll
I rr asurcr K. C. Ura'iiBr I
Fclinol Superintendent J. L. Ilindmuu
Burvei or M. Ans In
Coioncr S. Albomon
COMMIB8IONF.H8.
Jonn Clir'smnn .T. A. Rnmblo
Btatu Eenalor L. 11. ltinclmrt
HEP rSBNTATlVEB.
F. D. McCully E. E. Taylor
City Officer.
Mayor D. D. Itoes
councii.uk.
F. A. Pursel W. O. Tlc.'dlcman
J.S. Elliott J. U Tlioimson
Jno. Kennedy A. Levy
Jlecorder M. V. Utivls
tnihal E. E. ates
Tri'asiirer J. D. Carroll
Street Commissioner I,. Knton
ritOFKSSIONA Ij.
J. R. C1UTES,
ATTORNEY AT XJCW.
Collecting and probnte practice ppeolalllos
Oflico, two Uoois south of PcwtoQlce, Utlon,
Oregon.
R. EAKLN,
Atlcmey al Law and Nilary MIc.
Office, one door south of J. D. Eaton's store
TJuion, Oregon.
I. N. CROMWELL, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon
Oflico. ono door south ot J. 11. Eaton's store,
Union, Oregon.
A. E. SCOTT, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN ANtt SUKGKOft,
ITas permnnenllr kicated at North Powdor,
vlicrclio will amwer all culls.
W. R. JOHNSON,
CONTRACTOR AM BD'LBER
Main Street, Union, Oregon.
rinns nml fiiwcificntinni (or Dwr-lllnir.
Burn nnd Uridea lurnialied l'KEB OF
CHAMOIS.
Bridge Building a Specialty-
All kinds of Cabinet Work neatly execu
ted, ltepnirin; done nn short notice.
None but tlio best workmen employed,
And eutiniuclioii guaranteed.
Call and interview me.
FfiUIT AND SHADE
APPLE, PEAR. PLUM, PRUNE, PEACH
AP1UCOT. CUAUAPPLE, C1IEKUY.
SHRUBBERY AND SHADE TREES
Of well known varieties, suitable for tha
climnte. tint nUu furnish foreign sorts ut
orie-tlilrd the prire iiakrtl bv eimtcrn cuu
vnssrra. I ileMiro to well treed at priori
tbt peopU nu utlord to buy.
L. J. HOUSE,
Cove, Orejon.
V. B. REES,
Notary Public
AND
Conveyancer.
nPKIfTR Rffltn T 1
Union. Union Conniy, Oregon.
II. F. BURLEIUH,
Attorney nt Itr, al Kstato
uud Collocilny AkiiI.
Land Offlc Biislut-dd a Specialty.
Offloe at Alder, Union Co Oregon.
W. CAPPS, M. d;,
Saron and Homcopatbic Physiciap.
Union,
Oueqo.v.
Will no tonnypnrt of Eaatern Orecon
wlien Hollciteil, to peitorm operations, ot
(or consultation.
Medicine FuriiUlir.l Without lixtra
l,liiirj;e.
Otllco ndjoinine Jonts Bros.' Store.
Geo. Wniorrr,
l'leaiileut.
W. T. Wittoirr.
Cashier.
UNION, i : s OREGON.
Does i Genernl Tlnnkins; Buslncns. Buys
iiul sells cxcliaugc, uud discounts coin
niorcial paper.
Collections cnrefully attended to, and
promptly reported.
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buying tliionifh
W.T. witinilT, Agent Union, Ogn
Laundry Queen.
The Dest Washing Machine
in the World.
B. M. WAIT, Proprietor.
Walt Bros., Agents for Union County.
Tills machine in without doubt the best
In exigence, mid fi vch cut ho Mitfn-lion
wlierevi-r tried T'iIn nuicliiiiu in in stock
ut. I. It. HATON'S STOHH. lii'ie llioy vin
liu liniulu ul any tinio. Try thu Laundry
Queen.
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Tonsorial Rooms
Two doora south of .Tones Bros.' store,
Uuiou, Oregon.
J. II. Johkson, ' Pnor-BIETOB.
Hnir cuttinR, alinvinR and shnmpooiu;
done neatly uud in tho best btylu.
CITY -: MAT :- IAIET
Main Street, Union, Orejon.
Bcxso.t Bno.'s PnornnrroBi.
Keep constantly on band
BEEF, POItK, VEAU MUTTON SAO
BACK, IIAM9, LAUD, ETC
Miiiiiii Elossom
nrtwhat lii"ully mHrd lllttrrt. tlin faklnxot
wide::. In many tiiimirr. it only pn lcil fur ilrnk
I UK, I 11 r urrt'i- frum trulnllc .nniiilnin.. mil. utrlll
furliiii. ill l' ir.ulin loan Inlmit a. luauailuii. It
III ii.il fll in ciirliy -il t'Jt IIICAIAt 1 1 1:
-LiI anv tllara.H un.l'U ' a ultorileruil u-inuH.
SPRING BLOSSUffl "KSfia:
I V Kit Mtl
omplaints.
FIRST NATIONAL
Tlx CJrcxt I-YiMiPis llacon.
FratiL-ia Hii"on wivs botn in 15 U.
He win thus Shnksricnt'u's senior by
tliteo years'. His 'father was lord
keuper of tho great oral, an eminent
scholar, patron of art and literature.
Tho mothers of great men have often
been remarked upon, and Dncon'a
wns eminently worthy of her distill
wished son; an estimable lady, pious,
shrewd, uftvetionate, and, in thu best
sensu ot that age, accomplished;
learned n 1110113 learned women, tt cap
able authoress, yet motherly anion;;
mothers. Bacon was tho son of old
age; precocious, but not ephemernlly
bo, for his cenins went on expanding
through all his life. 1 1 is iinarjina
tion, UitTerin; from that of many other
men, deepened, hinhtened, widened
with his years. He had ampio access
in Ms father's home to books. A stu
dent of Cambridge at the age of 12, lie
win at H wiser than his teachers. In
157(5 ho entered Gray's Jnn on his
legal career. Next year he wns sent to
Paris as one of the suite of Sir Amias
Paulet, the English ambassador, lie
traveled on tho continent with tho
French court, nnd became familiar
with French, Italian and Spanish. On
his return to England he bote a dis
patch to the Quoen from tho ambas
sador, in which he is referred to in tho
most llattering terms. In his 24th
year he entered Parliament, and soon
exercised a remarkable ascendancy.
The author of many beneficial meas
ures, he wns at all times tho chosen
represintative of tho commons in
their conllicts with the peers and tho
crown. His wisdom, patriotism, nnd
eloquence were conspicuous. Careful
of tlie interests of the people, ho was
at the same timo loyal in hisallegianco
to tho crown. His powers of persua
sion were uniformly employed "in fur
thering and reconciling tho welfare of
all concerned. Jonson bears tribute
to his eloquence.
"There happened," he says, "in my
time one nobio speaker, who was full
ol gravity in his speaking. His lan
guage, where he could span or pass by
a jest, was nobly censorious. No man
ever spokt more neatly, moro weight
ily, or Buffered less emptiness, less
idleness, in whatheuttered. No mem
ber of his speech but consisted of his
own graces. His hearers could not
cough or look aside from him when ho
spoke, and had his judges angry or
pleased at his devotion. Nomnn had
their effect ions moro in his power.
The fear of every man who heard him
was that ho should make an end."
A IWissourian in Church.
A story was told tho other day in
Washington about Jim Green of Mis
souri, a "character" of the ante-bellum
days. Green always made a point of
the fact that, ho far as he knew, ho
had never been to church in his life.
Ho had been to camp-meeting once,
he said, but he did not remember that
very well, and ho really had no idea
what 11 church service was liko. Soma
of his colleagues in the senate labored
with him to got him to go to church
just to hear what ho would sny about
it when he got back. It took thioa or
four weeks of persuasion, hut
finally Green went to church.
When he got back to luncheon at
his hotei a I a run cirjlo of friends
sat solemnly awaiting his report.
"What chinch did you go to? wai
tho first question asked. "I don't
know, I'm sure," replied Green; "it
was n brown church up on Third
street." They gathered from this that
he had attended old Trinity Episcopal.
Well, what did you think of it?"
they continued. "Oh, I'm not a very
good judge of churches," f-aid Given;
"haven t I told you that I never was
in a church before in my life? I don't
know anything about them." "Oh,
well," they persisted, "what did you
think of t his one anyway?" 'Well.''
said he, "if you must haveit, I thought
there was tor. much reading of th
journal and too little general debate."
Aud this brought down the house.
Dcnclicr us lie Ifttw Is,
Tho Christian Iader describes a
recent visit of its editor to Plymouth
Church and writes ot its pastor tu thu
following strain:
Mr. Ueecher's manner in these dayo
is quiot but earnest. He depends on
th finer and nuber elements of at
tractionon ideas, art, dramatic
groupings, humor and tenderness.
The freshness of thinking and of state
ments which has bejn to remarkable
in his pulpit work for half a century,
is the chief charm still. Fertile, ver
satile, unspent, ho seenn as a man
of forty. Jc is not altogether clear
to us what constitutes the attrac
tion which etill draws to Mr. Beech
er that immese congregation
Many other preachers are as able,
facile interesting, magnetic an lie.
We were not greatly moved by him,
on this occasion; no one appeared to
he. His BentinieiitH were not novel.
While it whs plain that this was not
an ordinary man, it was not plain
that this was an extraordinary man.
i We suspect, however, that thf spec
' taclo of a man who has passed tho
j traditional bound of earthly file, sus
taining yet ny vigoroitnotigiitana arc
of expression and freshness of treat
ment the frame ear ed in the period ot
his iiiOt exuberant enthusiasm and
fiery eloquence, affectH the imagination
and touches the pride of his country
men somewhat as Victor Hugo, In
his vivacious old ase, held iu thrall
the hearts of Frenchmen.
Tlio CJreat. (Suns of KnJund.
England's big guns nro made of bars
such r-.s that just described, coiled
spirally, and welded into it solid
mass by the hammer. These rod hot
furnaces contain a straight bar; at a
word tho door is slightly raised, and
with huge nippers its head is seized by
loops made for the purpose. A
steam which draws out the glow
ing mass, and brings it to n
horizontal capstan fixed befor
tho door. A water hoso is turned
upon tho loop, and while it blackens
under tho chill a stalwart leilow,
wielding a heavy sledge, fixes tho loop
on a nut projecting from the capstan
wheel. Then the niachino revolves
with resistless force, curling tho hot
metal round and round on its drum
neatly and smoothly, nnd as easily
a one ot Jordan Marsh's girls would
wind ribbon. So tho coil is formed,
whether for tho breech piece- or the
body of the gun, or for its jacket,
ri-i.:. :.. : . .....1 fi., ., I..
is refined for welding under tho ham -
mcr.
You ought to seo this Woolwich
hammer. It weighs forty tons sheer
weight, and when it drops itfallsfoi ty 1
feet" on to a block that rests on spiles, 1
massive masonry and enormous
quantities of iron. Between two
great shafts this hammer is suspend
ed, a solid block, which, driven from
above by steam, nnd gathering impe
tus as it fall, strikes with a force of
many hundred tons. A veteran work-(
man has charge of t his massive ha in-,
mer. Ho starts and drops it by a
touch ol his thumb aud linger, i saw ,
an open faco watch laid down on tho
block; then ho dropped tho hammer,'
and ho stopped it just in time to break
tho crystaland nothing more. They
call this last operation of tho furnace I
tho "great heat," and about every J
monarch there is in Europe- hns seen
it just as 1 did. While I am wonder-:
ing what they thought about it, the
furnace to be emptied is ilaring with
impatience. Through tho cnterstices
of its great door blue, red and purple
flames aro leaping out. A huge crano
swings around a pair ofpinceis, at the
end of which a dozen Britons cluster.
The door rises a little, tho white light
blinds us, nnd, although 1 am at least
twenty yards away, tho heat burns
my face uncomfortably. Water is
thrown into the awful gap, and then
tho men perceive their prey. The
huge arms part and firmly close, the
door rises to its fullest extent, a
clash of the crano gear, a shout from
tho men and out it conies, easi
ly and softly, a monstrous coil.
Tho crano swings about and
places it on end upon thoanvil. Then
the hammer falls, shaking tho solid
floor beneath us, crushing the red-hot
mass inches down at a blow, welding
its coils together so that they can
never part. But tho inside hollow has
been knocke(Vut of shapoby this pro-(
ctss, so, when tho tube has been re
duced to its proper length, a solid
mandril is deftly slipped betwixt the
hammer and tho iron. .For two or
three blows tho contracted coil at
tempts resistance, but it gives way,
and the, mandril slips to its base, as
into butter. Then tho great pincers
nro used again, and it drops thu mass
on its side, whore again it is battered
and struck all iround. Tho irregulari
ties caused by nil this hammering are
afterward removed by the plane, as I
have already mentioned, and then
the gun is mad by other machinery.
Correspondence- Boston Herald.
Kentucky JBnys Now ami Fifty.
Years Afjo.
From tlio Spirit of the Times.
Uncle Grip, ono of tho old landmarks
of Lexington, explains tho difference
iu both appearance and conversation
of the young men fifty years ago and
now. "Yes," says he, "fifty years ago
us young men often met in our Ken
tucky jeans and cowhide boots, and
some barefooted, with 'Howdy, Jack,
how is all the folks at home? Father
well? Motherwell? Your crops good
this year?' 'Oh, yes; tho crops aie
fair to niiddlin' this year. Our work
is about done, but we must all go
ever and gi'-e Sain Anderson a day's
work to help him out, for lie has In en
sick and away behind.' So, yon see,
no boys sort of talked about funning,
possum huuling.oVc.
"Now, when young men meet, it's
'Halloo, there! Where did you get
that breech-loaning gun aud that Irish
hotter?' 'Why, Col. Thompkins
brought this gun from England; he
bought it for my birthday present.
Only cost 5250, and tho dog I gave
450 for, and ho is worth three times
that price.' Well, here comes Mnj.
Jone's youngest son.Tominy. Halloo,
Tommy! Did your brother's horse win
at Saratoga yesterday?' 'Yes, he won,
but I have a young Hmdoo.out of Col.
Clay's best mare (here he repeats tho
pedigree of dam and Biro thirty genera
tions back). which Jaingoingtoenterin
the Kentucky and American Derbies.'
Yes, and hero comes Gen. Smith's boy
Willie, with a trotter bred at Ash
land Park. 'Halloo, Willie!' 'Halloo,
hoys.' Now they talk gun, dog, race
horse, trotter, Ac. All those hoys
with Htaiiditp collars, fine clothes,
turncd-im toes to their bhocs, tight
panto, itc."
William B. Smith, cotton factor of
Charleston, S. C, is worth 52,000,.
000, and is the richest man in the
fltate.
A SMAKT IHSTIJCTIVIS.
A Krerlmtn ofthe (lld-Ylme DttectiT.
The death of Detective Georgo Eider
says a special Now York dispatch to
I tho St. Lotus Republican, has loosen
ed tho tongues of many of his old
1 comrades and caused many of his
! clover and daring exploits to bo re
called. In tho last year of tho war, a
timo when polico methods wero not
nearly as perfect as they have since
become, Elder's professional eyo no
ticed the suspicious movements of a
j quartet of crooks in East Fourth
street. Every evening lor several
months ho noticed that they left
tho city by train and did not ro
turn till next morning. Ono day
ho followed them to Bethel, Conn., but
they Mispected something and their
conduct gave no clow to their real do
, sign. Ono morning tho Bethel bank
was robbed of $SO,00(J in gold and
, ,lott-'9- 11,0 rj1",y had been danng
I 'y planned and well executed. It was
before tho days of combination safes,
and tlie bank kept its valuables in a
strongly built stono vault in the base
ment. Tno morning after the robbery,
when the cashier wenc down to open
tho vault, tho lock would not yield.
There was nothing suspicious about
tho exterior of the vault, but after re
peated efforts tho key was laid aside
and a locksmith sent for from New
York. The next day tho door was
forced open, and it wop seen that a
tunnel had been dug under tho vault,
and entrance gained by knocking n
stono Hag out. of the floor. In ordir
to delay the discovery tlie Ihieveslinu
wedged tho lock of tho door on the
inside. They had started their tunnel
m a privatu house a block away, and
had worked at it every night for two
months. Elder knew it was the work
of the men he had followed and, with
Detective McCord, ho had tracked
them down. Tho money was found
hidden in a hollow tree in the wood3
miles away. Joe Purely, Jack Wright,
and tho Adams, father and son, served
timo for the burglary.
Tho career of Georgo McDonald, the
Bank of England lorger, is a striking
instance- ol Elder's pertinacity m
tracking criminals. Elder detocted
him in three atteniptP at forgery hero
and drove him to England. Hu is
now a life prisoner in Millbunk. Tho
fust timo he caught Elder's eyo was in
Houston srcet in 187 1. Ho was in
company with a professional thief,
and, therefore, Elder took an instan
taneous mind photograph of his hand
BOino face and figure. Shortly after
ward extensive frauds werecommitted
on Duden Freers, and Arnold, Con
stable it Co., by means of a forged
check. Tho description of tho
plausible Gentleman who enrriod on
tho negotiations tallied with that
of Elder's now acquaintance.
Ho was arrested and tho goods
found in his houso, but by some trick
ho escaped conviction. His next at
tempt was to defraud Jay Cooko&Co.
of 140,000. Elder became acquaint
ed with his plan in advance and noti
fied tho firm. McDonald had ordered
5140.000 worth ofgoveinment bonds,
for which ho was to hand over timo
certified checks. Elder arranged that
tho parties should meet, and tho
bonds were produced hut not deliv
ered. McDonald oanio, butsow some
thing suspicious, and swallowed tho
checks. The hnv had no hold on him
for his attempt, but Eider said to
him: "Mark my words, McDonald,
you can't work your schemes here;
we'll find you every timo."
McDonald took the advice and
crossed tho water. Six months la'"i-.
when th" hank of England authorities
found that he had swindled them io
the tune of a quarter of a million
McDonald was on an ocean strainer
on his way to New York. Tho English
detectives did not know his nair.e,
and had no act urate dc-cription of
him. but they cabled over tho news
of his crime and his methods, and
that was enough for Elder. That ex
perienced detective had studied Mc
Donald's methods closely, and with a
feeling akin to admiration. IIu was
waiting on the dock when thu steamer
arrived and arrested his man. McDon
ald's stolen fori line fame on another
chip and wasscized. This time, thanks
to tho valuable assistance rendered
by Elder, there was no flaw hi tho
chain of evidence and McDonald was
extradited, sent to Euglai.d uud con
victed t. re.
Somo years ago, wl il in England.
Elder paid a virit to Milbank am!
asked to bee McDonald in his convict
dress nndclofoeroppotl hair, and with
out his line beard aud mustache, no
trace remained ot tho sleek and plaus
ible "stock broker" of former days.
After Romu minutes of desultory con
sultation tho convict threw up his
hands suppliootingly and said to Elder
with tjrriblo o,irnestnei: "They say
I have goto life sentence; what does
that mean?"
There was a Iongpanpe,and then tho
military govurnor said gently: "Jt
means that yau hove to resign your
self to staying hero for the rest of your
days."
"Oh, don't say that." pleaded Mc
Donald, "anything but that. Hay
twenty, thirty, or forty jenrs, hut
give me something to hope for. I am
a young man, and tho thought of
t nover ending captivity is intolerable."
Of cotirsu no aiminro could bo
given hinj, us under thu English law
no application for commutation of a
life suatence will ho considered by the
i home -Dartmeut until twenty-one
years after sentence- has been deliv
ered. In March. ISOO, when news reached
headquarters of the 52,100,000 Lord
bond robbery, tho first man thought
of by Captain Young was detective
Elder, Mr. Lord said to him almost in
tears: "I must have those bonds,
Elder, but I don't euro for the men. I
cannot afford to prosecute." After
months of ceaseless effort here and in
Europe, Elder found that Hod Ennis
and IjOW Pettingill wore concerned in
tho affair, and locked them up. 'Then
ho negotiated with them, under tlfo
authority of the district attorney,
and as a result $1,800,000 worth of
tho bonds were returned to Mr. Lord,
who made Elder a very handsonio
money present.
Tno un tiring efforts of Elder to break
up tho gangs of Brooklyn and Mott
haven (just across tho Harlem bridge)
counterfeiters, who for more than a
year Hooded this state with spurious
coin and notes, would alone win him
an enviable iicord. For months to
gether ho frequented their haunts in
disguise, playing tho part of boon
companion with them and their under
lings until ho won their confidence, uud
found out where they made the stu'I.
Their center of operations was u com
fortable frame house hidden in trees
on a lonely road near Motthoven.
Elder and Chris McDougal with a
posse of men waited in thu woods
near at hand all through one wot night
until tho chiefs of the gang had as
sembled, ami then surrounded tho
place. The counterfeiters were raptur
ed, and a cart load of dies and tools
and a big haul of false money was se
cured. Withal Elder was a well educated, re
fined aud cultured man, unassuming
in demeanor, and well liked by his
comrades. Ho was a fine specimen of
the old-tinio detective, a survivor of
tho good old days.
Jolly Llfo of Gon. Sherman in
Now York,
Lifo in Now York with Gcn.Shorman
is very jolly. His residence thero en
ables him to gratify two pet desires
love of tho opera and theatre and of
good dinners. The old soldier has tho
personal acquaintance of every Amer
ican actor and actress of prominence,
and is never moro delighted than in a
hit-and-miss interchange- ot reminis
cence and anecdote with his theatrical
friends. Ho is also growing fonder of
the good things of lifo, and it is stat
ed that by actual count holms dining
engagements already booked ho keeps
a memorandum book dated a year
ahead that provides for his presenco
at various dinners in Now York and
elsowhero until late in next Septem
ber. Thero aro a few vacantdatesleft,
as tho theatre agents say, hut they
are not likely to stay vacant a long
time, for invitations keep pouring in
and thu general hasn't it in his heart
to say no to any reputable friend who
seeks his dinner acquaintanceship.
Tho story has once or twico hitherto
gone tiio rounds which tells of adilem
ma, into which ho fell onto upon a
time in Washington, when, having
dressed to go out to dinner, ho gao
tho last touch to his toilet and opened
his door to go to the street, when ol a
sudden he discovered that ho had lor
gotten whero he really was to go. But
old Gen. Van Vliut hurried by just
then. ami Gen. Sherman philosophical
ly followed after, deciding by a bib of
off-hand social login that he and Gen.
Van Vhet were in all likelihood hound
for tho same table. Ho was right.
But there was not always such a
happy way open out of tho' tangle ho
was continually getting into by rea
son of his abundant dinner appoint
ments, and so it was that this winter,
coming to New York, ho hit upon tho
expedient of buying a blank-book and
posting up his dutej.
Tho Ensllsli Lnyo of Fiowom.
Henry Ward Needier in Die Now York Sun.
Changed indeed wai the whole con
dition of the public mind sinco my
last visit. But the fair heavens re
train tho name the same moist at
mosphere, pale-bluo skies, tho same
wonderful green upon tho fields, tno
same grand old trees and the profuto
ivy everywhere, on dwellings, fences,
climbing tho trees, overhanging walls,
running along tl.c borders of gardens,
and overywheie b-autilul. What
shall I say of flowers? The love of
flowers seems to bo a part of English
nature. I do not refer to the magnifi
cent conservatories filled with rare
plants from thu whole world, nor to
thu public parks, nor to the botanic
trardi-ns, nor to thu endless beauty of
the grounds about mansions, halls and
castles. Great wealth could easily
clothe acres with scarfs and garlands,
and almost prairie-scape of colors.
It is in lowly places that this in
tenco love of flowers bieal's out. Tho
cottages of laborers, tho hovels of tho
poor, aro bright with llowers. Tho
windows blush with beauty. Every
where and always wo saw in modest
places evidence of the great love of
llowers among tho poor nnd lowly.
This trait contrasts charmingly with
tho energetic, physical build of tho
Englishman, with his love of strength,
of hearty food, of endurance, pluck
and inusclo and combativeness. An
Englishman mov bo refined, learned
and of great intellectual quality, hut
liu is Hiuo to bo well set upon the
ground, us if, like a cathedral, the
towers iml spires shooting far up in
to the air needed to touch thu earth
broadly at tha bottom,